Answering Your CIO’s Concerns About Yammer
Blog PostsHow to convince your CIO about Yammer and answer his concerns
Category: Social
When we focus on Social in a Microsoft context, we are talking about SharePoint, Teams, Teamwork and Yammer. Social can be a private network that helps employees collaborate across departments, locations and even business apps, it can be your company’s private network, your Facebook and Twitter handle, however various other applications are used to help you and your team stay on top of it all. With SharePoint and other Microsoft technologies, this is a broad subject which is constantly evolving.
Therefore, the Social category is broad too, many different subjects are touched upon and this section is full of handy tips, tricks and advise. Check out some of the Step by Step blogs or learn with our eBooks, How To videos and Webinars.
Our Actions Speak Volumes in Enterprise Social
Blog PostsPerhaps 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.
Telling the Hybrid Story for SharePoint and Yammer
Blog PostsI’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
Top 5 Twitter Accounts They Would Recommend the Community to Follow
Blog PostsTwitter has become a one-stop-shop for all things SharePoint where you can find information and interact directly with its curator.
Top 5 Twitter Accounts They Would Recommend the Community to Follow
Blog PostsGiven my history with education and the friendships that have built up over the years I had to include this one.
Balancing Governance And Social
Blog PostsBack in 1997, between working full-time, attending business school in the evening, and trying to get my own software startup off the ground, I began working with a developer on building out an integrated instant messaging (IM) client for my startup’s collaboration platform.
eBooks & Blogs from European SharePoint Training Week
Blog PostsAs part of European SharePoint Training Week, we have a range of superb eBooks and insightful blogs by some of the leading experts in the SharePoint industry. Contributors include; Edin Kapic, Asif Rehmani, André Vala, Thorbjørn Værp, Geoff Evelyn, Bill Ayers, Eric Riz, Christian Buckley, Paolo Pialorsi, Mikael Svenson, Liam Cleary and Oliver Wirkus
What’s next in Yammer/SharePoint integration – November 2013 Updates
Blog PostsMicrosoft has recently rolled out new elements of their integration roadmap between Yammer and SharePoint /Office 365 (For background, here’s the announcement.) There’s a lot to it, including new mobile clients and the ability to launch new discussions directly from documents in SharePoint Online. But let’s focus on email integration and Yammer Enterprise.
Knowing How Is Not Enough
Blog PostsAs a SharePoint consultant I am faced with technical decisions every day. These decisions are usually centred on how we should implement a specific functionality in SharePoint or how to approach a problem from the technological perspective. Sometimes, however, I can’t resist thinking that in the overall scheme of things our technical expertise is not enough.
Developing Your Governance Strategy for Social
Blog PostsAt my first European SharePoint Conference in Berlin, I presented a session on SharePoint’s social media scorecard, discussing where the 2010 platform performed — and underperformed — around core social collaboration features in comparison to direct and indirect competitors. In the couple years since that event, its amazing to look back at how much not only the technology has advanced, but also at how the messaging around the social organization has begun to take hold. Microsoft has put social at the forefront of their strategy (along with cloud, mobile, and BI) as more and more organizations are recognizing the ability of social tools to drive adoption and engagement.
