Content Wrap-Up For December 2013
Blog PostsI hope everyone had a good holiday break. For the most part, I worked right through the holidays, with the occasional family activity, in prep for what looks to be another hectic Q1 in 2014.
Tag: Content
Guest MVP’s Choice of Content to Highlight
Blog PostsFor me personally the content that I would like to highlight is all of the content on the European SharePoint Community site.
Displaying Corporate News with the Content Search Webpart
Blog PostsWhat is the most important content of a Corporate Intranet? Of course it’s the menu of the factory canteen and the Corporate News. Although it would be worthwhile to have a close look on how to implement the menu, I will focus on the Corporate News in this blog post. If you create a corporate intranet you’ll probably use several site collections. In most cases the Corporate News is going to be displayed on the intranet’s home page and the news items are stored in a generic list or in an announcements list.
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.
How to Organize Content Sources – Best Practices
Blog PostsWorking with search for years has given me a lot of experience with Content Sources as well as a lot of questions about them, like “should I create one huge content source or would be better to split up to smallers?” or “can I amass my small content sources into one big?” or “how to schedule the crawls for each of my content sources?”.
SharePoint: Your organization’s Content Hub
Blog PostsWhen SharePoint is installed in the enterprise, its usage is usually limited. Not in importance, but in functional scope. For example, one business area might use it for document management, and another for collaborative content development, and yet another for creating a Web site. It doesn’t take long before other business units jump on the bandwagon, so to speak, with the goal of using SharePoint as the platform of choice for the content management applications that are important to them. Before long, the enterprise SharePoint infrastructure has become a complex beast that hosts a myriad of applications owned by business units across the enterprise. Each of these applications often has, in turn, its own unique external processes and integrations that allow it to share data and work seamlessly with other systems. Consider now that the immense investment of time and money needed to address such requirements is something that occurs in nearly every content-oriented project across the enterprise. You’re solving the same problem over and over again.
SharePoint: Your organization’s content hub
Blog PostsWhen SharePoint is installed in the enterprise, its usage is usually limited. Not in importance, but in functional scope. For example, one business area might use it for document management, and another for collaborative content development, and yet another for creating a Web site. It doesn’t take long before other business units jump on the bandwagon, so to speak, with the goal of using SharePoint as the platform of choice for the content management applications that are important to them. Before long, the enterprise SharePoint infrastructure has become a complex beast that hosts a myriad of applications owned by business units across the enterprise. Each of these applications often has, in turn, its own unique external processes and integrations that allow it to share data and work seamlessly with other systems. Consider now that the immense investment of time and money needed to address such requirements is something that occurs in nearly every content-oriented project across the enterprise. You’re solving the same problem over and over again.
The Definitive Guide to Automating Content Migration
Blog PostsToday’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.
Think you don’t need a Document or Content Management Strategy? Here are a few signs You Do
Blog PostsYour business is running along okay, but you know there is room for improvement. You see small signs here and there. Margins are still acceptable– but slowly deteriorating, customer satisfaction is not improving. You’re sensing that your organization may be on the brink and you need to take some action—but what? Look a little deeper at the symptoms and root causes. It could be time to consider a document management strategy.
SharePoint 2013: Business Connectivity Services – Consuming OData in BCS using an App External Content Type
Blog PostsAs most if not all of you already know, SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013 has been released to preview/beta and is available for download from Microsoft’s download centers. In this article I will briefly introduce some exciting changes that has been made to the SharePoint 2013 Business Connectivity Services framework. I’ve written a bunch of articles on BCS for SharePoint 2010, and now it’s time to continue that track and introduce the new features available in SharePoint 2013.
