Month: February 2014

Gamification - Use the Force of Games to Become a Superhero! Part 1
Gamification – Use the Force of Games to Become a Superhero! Part 1
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I salute you fellow heroes…

This time I will tell about one of my favourite topics ever nowadays. Gamification! This is the first part of an article talking about what Gamification is all about and how it can be used in classic Intranets (in example on SharePoint) to amplify end user engagement and boost productivity.

Our Actions Speak Volumes in Enterprise Social
Our Actions Speak Volumes in Enterprise Social
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Perhaps the most under-appreciated feature of enterprise social is the very richness of communication that it affords. It allows us to not only see what people say, but also observe many more aspects of what they actually do. And, of course, those may be two very different things.

SharePoint Mobile: Web Site, Native App, or Something In-Between?
SharePoint Mobile: Web Site, Native App, or Something In-Between?
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One of the things we struggle with as SharePoint developers is that we have worked long and hard to master the techniques of server-side SharePoint development and keep up with the rise and fall of technologies and products like Sandbox Solutions and SharePoint Designer. We built up our portfolio of custom web parts that we could compose into solutions for our clients. Maybe we started mixing a bit of AJAX and JavaScript in there to spice up the user experience.

Analyzing SharePoint Solutions with MSOCAF (Microsoft SharePoint Online Code Analysis Framework)
Analyzing SharePoint Solutions with MSOCAF (Microsoft SharePoint Online Code Analysis Framework)
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If we have to audit a SharePoint environment or we are working for a customer in which we are required to deliver solutions with a high standard of quality and the use of best practices in terms of the components being developed, it is very important and recommended to make an exhaustive analysis of these components in order to detect any problem or issues on them before doing any deployment to pre-production or production environments. One of the options we have to perform this analysis is to use the free tool MSOCAF (Microsoft SharePoint Online Code Analysis Framework) provided by Microsoft.

Telling the Hybrid Story for SharePoint and Yammer
Telling the Hybrid Story for SharePoint and Yammer
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I’m sitting in the Metalogix EMEA office in London (#TheYoo) for a few days before heading over to SharePoint Saturday Stockholm (#SPSsthlm), here to participate in a sales training activity and to visit with some of our customers, and I thought I’d talk a little more about my upcoming sessions at the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas in March, and the European SharePoint Conference in Barcelona in May