Month: January 2013

Smart Information Asset Management for Project Managers on SharePoint - Part 2 External/Internal Project Staff
Smart Information Asset Management for Project Managers on SharePoint – Part 2 External/Internal Project Staff
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External and internal staff for temporary projects is often made up of third party consultants or specialists from other offices within the organization. Professional services organizations are similar. Users are brought together for a limited amount of time at a premium cost to get the job done quickly and properly. It is common that there is a high degree of fluctuation of this type of staff. Considerable savings can be achieved by ensuring these users are brought up to speed on the tools and information assets they will need to conduct their work as fast as possible.

Smart Information Asset Management for Project Managers on SharePoint
Smart Information Asset Management for Project Managers on SharePoint
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In the past few years SharePoint adoption rates for medium-sized businesses and Fortune 500 organizations has spiked. SharePoint 2010 provided a robust foundation for growth and there is no indication that the recent release of SharePoint 2013 will put an end to that. SharePoint is flourishing and with that the volume of information assets stored in SharePoint are at an all-time high. It is understandable that information workers need some time after the deployment of SharePoint to adapt to this new technology. In some cases modest success can be achieved by simply relocating the day-to-day data used by users and departments to SharePoint, but many things can be done to drive SharePoint adoption amongst the workforce.

Best Practices for Getting the Most Out of SharePoint Conferences
Best Practices for Getting the Most Out of SharePoint Conferences
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A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of a speaking at Live360 in Orlando Florida. At the conclusion of the event, the organizers held a Q&A session with all of the attendees. The attendees could ask technical questions to the expert panel or provide feedback about the conference. There was some great discussion about how the conference could be improved and how attendees could get the most value out of the event. I have attended many conferences both as a speaker and as an attendee, and thought I would share my thoughts on how to get the most out of a conference or SharePoint Saturday as an attendee:

What's New in 2013
What’s New in 2013
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The short video, presented by Nintex VP Product Technology, Mike Fitzmaurice covers what’s new in Nintex Workflow 2013, with a focus on mobile. The video also covers the Nintex Windows 8 app available in 2013.

What Does SharePoint 2013 Mean to the Power Users?
What Does SharePoint 2013 Mean to the Power Users?
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Recently, we have been gradually exposed to SharePoint 2013. I mean sure, you might have been one of the 10,000 attendees at the Conference in Vegas but have you taken the time to sit down and analyze what a migration to SharePoint 2013 would mean for you? Previously, I have covered in a SharePoint 2013 migration series the different features and supported scenarios to help you get started. In this article, I want to focus on what SharePoint 2013 means to the Power Users.

The Definitive Guide to Automating Content Migration
The Definitive Guide to Automating Content Migration
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Today’s organizations are adopting Content Management Systems to reduce cost, increase efficiency, and improve customer service, but migrating digital assets into a new CMS can be a significant effort. Too often organizations begin a migration without fully understanding the challenges they face—resulting in slipped deadlines, reduced scope, and even project failure.

The Sheriff is in Town at #ESPC13
The Sheriff is in Town at #ESPC13
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Microsoft SharePoint is many things to many people. It presents a frontier of opportunities and collaboration, but also of dangers. SharePoint can be a mammoth task to secure; and trying to secure it without content compliance and security solutions is an impossible task.

External Collaboration in SharePoint Online 2013
External Collaboration in SharePoint Online 2013
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I have seen the future and it’s SharePoint Online 2013. I am not totally biased because I love Office 365. A lot has changed since the BPOS days. SharePoint Online 2007 was a start for Microsoft in the Enterprise Cloud business. The platform was descent and many customers were able to create Intranet portals. There were some issue such as no search over multiple site collections and no My Sites. The next step was Office 365 and SharePoint Online 2010. The gap with the big on premise brother became even smaller. A couple years later we get another update: SharePoint Online 2013 and the gap is almost gone. The new online version comes with a set of features that enables external collaboration with customers or partners.