When it comes to putting a bookmark in your browser, a couple of things that I often point people toward are Know Thy User: The Missing Element in SharePoint Solutions (User Centered Design for SharePoint) by Marcy Kellar (@marcykellar), which is one of the best presentations I’ve seen, and then SharePoint in Plain English, which is still one of the best videos created to help people understand just what SharePoint does.

Personally, I’ve been doing a lot of writing around the broader subject of collaboration, and will have a couple whitepapers out later this year on the topic. The article A Holistic Approach to Successful Collaboration (CMSWire) provides a good overview of what I’ll be writing about for the next few months, and hopefully helps organizations who are at a crossroads with how to move forward with continuing to build out SharePoint, and add social collaboration solutions such as Yammer and other tools.

On the topic of Yammer, I wrote two articles which received a lot of attention from within the community, as well as from Microsoft. A Perspective On SharePoint, Yammer, And Microsoft was an attempt to organize my own thoughts around where the product team is heading, and to clarify some of the themes and marketing messages I saw coming out of Microsoft. Overall, its still a very positive message for Microsoft, but I do have a ‘Part 2’ article coming out later this year. The other article is Yammer: One Year Later written for Microsoft’s partner channel at DigitalWPC.com and released the week of the Yammer acquisition anniversary. In my mind, both are required reading for organizations trying to figure out how to move forward with their social collaboration planning.