Finding the Right Flavor of SharePoint
Blog PostsIn case you missed the marketing messaging, Microsoft is “all in” on the cloud, and is pushing fairly hard on their new offerings, from Office365 and SharePoint Online, to Yammer and SkyDrive Pro.
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.
Highlight a Cool SharePoint Tool
Blog PostsOf course I would naturally highlight Beezy as the coolest SharePoint tool, because it helps user adoption in any SharePoint deployment. However, taking into consideration the audience and my background I will highlight AutoSPInstaller, from @brianlala and other developers.
Guest MVP’s Choice of Content to Highlight
Blog PostsOver the last few months there have been three different hot topics in the SharePoint world. SharePoint and Yammer integration, the decision to retire some of the existing certification paths and the new development model.
MVP Takeover – David Martos
Blog PostsDavid Martos was selected as ‘MVP Takeover’ for the month of October. David tells the European SharePoint Community about himself and what content and information he found or finds useful. Read on to find out more!
Is Yammer confusing the SharePoint Roadmap?
Blog PostsIt’s amazing to watch the confusion followed by crazy mudslinging that’s going on in the market these days. The big acquisition a year ago by Microsoft has endorsed enterprise social in a big way. I’m personally looking forward to the big battles ahead of head on SalesForce.com with Chatter, and Jive Software as well as Microsoft Social with CRM and SharePoint and more building on the Yammer social roadmap. Looking forward to following this in my new role. Microsoft has made big bets, and over the course of the next year I hope and expect to see a clearer road ahead.
Does Social Media Equal Collaboration?
Blog PostsI ran across an interesting article by Rachel Miller summarizing research gathered by her company, All Things IC, and simply-communicate.com, a community for internal communications professionals, that asked an important question for those of us in the broader information management space: What does your organization call internal social media within your company?”
The Rise of Enterprise Social Networks
Blog PostsThe following white paper was released this week and available for download from Microsoft: The Rise of Enterprise Social Networks. This 26 pages whitepaper from Mark Fidelman is a good read to help you help understand the business value of Enterprise Social and how to get started :
SharePoint and Enterprise Mobile – Transformational Yet Most Struggle and Don’t Know What To Do…
Blog PostsThose who listened to my keynote will understand that I am very passionate about SharePoint and Mobile. The mobile revolution of BYOD is here. In fact, 67% of the people who use a smartphone for work and 70% of those who use a tablet for work are choosing the device themselves. They aren’t necessarily thinking about whether their enterprise will support it.
SharePoint Social Versus Yammer: What Makes Sense For You?
Blog PostsIn my second Social 101 session presented this week at the Worldwide Partner Conference (#WPC13, www.digitalwpc.com) in Houston, I tried to shed some light on the confusion between social features in SharePoint 2013 and Yammer. My session directly followed that of the Yammer team, who stood by throughout my session (I suspect to ensure that I didn’t say anything crazy).
Dell Software is Ready for the International Launch of the SharePoint App Store
Blog PostsIt’s been an exciting week for Dell Software and many others who have gathered in Houston for the Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference. One of the many exciting themes of the conference has been Microsoft’s announcement that the US Office and SharePoint App Stores will be supporting an additional 22 markets with localized Office and SharePoint storefronts.
