Collaboration is regarded as a working practice whereby people work together to a common purpose to achieve a desired business benefit.
Collaboration enables individuals to work together to achieve a defined and common business purpose. Generally, it exists in two forms:
Synchronous, where everyone interacts in real time, as in online meetings, through instant messaging, or via Skype, and
Asynchronous, where the interaction can be time-shifted, as when uploading documents or annotations to shared workspaces, or making contributions to a wiki.
Therefore, this category is full of advice and the best technology to use for ‘collab’ projects. Check out some of the Step by Step blogs or learn with our eBooks, How To videos and Webinars.
Versioning issues and inaccessibility are two of the biggest roadblocks to making your documentation useful. Setting up a single source of truth can help you to avoid the confusion that comes from having multiple versions of the same document living in multiple locations. And it ensures that all team members have easy access to the… READ MORE
Grow and enhance your skills with the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Community. Joining the ESPC Community, gives you access to the online resource centre at sharepointeurope.com, providing the best, free content on SharePoint, Azure and Office 365. Topics covered include Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, SharePoint Framework, Office 365 Groups, OneDrive, PowerApps & Flow, Security,… READ MORE
Whenever people start using new technology at work, they are not just simply confronted with a new tool, but foremost with a new way of working. Rather then just telling people about functionality (what does the app do?) we focus on how Office 365 apps are used for a specific productivity scenario. A work scenario describes what apps… READ MORE
Motivating employees to change behaviour Resistance to change is what you’ll get without a proper change strategy for your collaboration platform. Collaboration software implementations traditionally were an IT project. And IT people tend to be more ‘what’ people. Tools is what they do, and what they like. They get excited about functionalities and features. But unlike… READ MORE
GigJam was first demonstrated during Worldwide Partner Conference 2015 where it gained traction. It showed that you can connect multiple systems on a ‘Gig’ and work with peers to collaborate on those Gigs. This looked (and indeed it is) simple without the hassle of building integration channels, using delegations (if supported by the system) or… READ MORE
Looking for the slides for the recent Jasper Oosterveld webinar on External Collaboration with SharePoint Online and Yammer then look no further!
The unveiling of our 2011 keynote speakers continues as we release two more fantastic and inspiring videos direct from Berlin, offering valuable insights and visions from our keynote presenters.
Thousands of diversified organizations in vertical markets including technology, pharmaceutical, retail, finance, education and federal agencies all have the same problem: how can you possibly manage the information explosion – and risk – inherent within SharePoint’s collaborative tools? SharePoint offers tremendously powerful social computing tools, but administrators remain rightfully worried about the holes that such capabilities open.
