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For August, 2011

Aug 31

Is the Legal Industry Ready for SharePoint?; Mobile Safety in the Cloud; Mango: Ripe or Rotten?

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SharePoint Daily LogoThe first few days back from a vacation are always busy but I am so beyond ready for this week to end. Can we move the holiday from next week to Friday of this week instead? Maybe I should take another vacation.  :-)  –Chris

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Is the Legal Industry Ready for SharePoint? (CMSWire)
Or maybe the more appropriate question should be: is SharePoint ready for legal? The latter is one that I am constantly asked by my clients. Part of the problem in answering that question is that I tend to be a little biased toward SharePoint as the end all be all for an enterprise platform. I’ve built my career on working with SharePoint, and you could say that I’ve been drinking the Kool-Aid for a while now. But as a consultant, my job is not to tell you what the best product is; it’s to tell you what the best product is for your firm’s needs. But before we talk about feature comparison, let’s gain some perspective. Continue reading this entry »
Aug 30

SharePoint In-house Social Tools; Biggest Collaboration Challenge; Microsoft CRM Cloud vs. Salesforce

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SharePoint Daily LogoA few weeks ago Chris Wright asked me to help promote his survey on the State of the SharePoint Community. Before I had a chance, several deadlines for the SharePoint Conference and my vacation hit. In the shuffle I completely spaced and never included the links. Sorry Chris, hopefully this will give you a bit of a push in getting more results. More details on what Chris hopes to accomplish are available at NothingButSharePoint.  –Chris

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If You Must have In-house Social Tools, Go with SharePoint (InfoWorld)
I’ve spent the past week working with and deploying the various social networking tools in SharePoint 2010. It’s jam-packed with everything from individual blog sites and profiles to simple I Like It and Tags & Notes options at the top of every page. Microsoft believes that by adding these features, IT can keep folks on its intranet and thus increase communication and collaboration within an organization. Continue reading this entry »
Aug 29

SharePoint 2010 Performance Management; Quad-Core Windows Tablets; Who’s Speaking at BUILD?

By Chris DooleyNo Comments

SharePoint Daily LogoI’m baaaack. OK, first I have to get a bit of whining out of the way. I take off one week and we have an earthquake, catch the edge of a hurricane and I got a really nasty cold (thanks Emily).  I’m starting to think vacations are a bit overrated. So, did I miss anything good? You guys need to help me get caught up.  –Chris

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The 5 Teams You Need for Effective SharePoint Governance (CMSWire)
In this article, I give you some practical structure and tactics you can use to achieve effective SharePoint governance. In football, how effective and successful will a team be at winning if it doesn’t have structured sub-teams? Imagine a football team with no defensive line, offensive line or special teams. What if sometimes the quarterback played the role of wide receiver, linebacker or kicker? How effective would that team be? What if the team had no planned plays, never practiced those plays and had no coaches or clear direction? Continue reading this entry »
Aug 19

Creating a SharePoint 2010 Deployment Plan; Windows 8 Teams Announced; What’s Next for HP?

By Chris DooleyNo Comments

SharePoint Daily LogoHappy Friday!!! It has been quite a while since I had more than a long weekend out of the office, so (after a being threatened by my manager) I have decided it is time for a week of vacation. Right now my plans include sleeping late and staying up late and maybe an afternoon nap or three. Sounds nice, doesn’t it? SharePoint Daily and I will both return on August 29th. Have a great week and I’ll see you then.  ;)  –Chris

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Three Steps to Creating a Successful SharePoint 2010 Deployment Plan (Search Content Management)
Smaller organizations launching SharePoint 2010 often take a very casual approach to the deployment process. They purchase some licenses and install SharePoint without any real plan for its long-term use, letting the deployment evolve over time. While that might work fine for a small company, such a laissez-faire attitude toward SharePoint 2010 deployment can have severe long-term consequences in an enterprise environment. To avoid trouble, enterprise-class organizations would be well-advised to develop a comprehensive strategy long before the first SharePoint license is purchased. Continue reading this entry »

Aug 18

Things to Consider Before Moving to SharePoint 2010; Another Office 365 Outage; Windows 8 to Feature App Store

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We’ve Got SharePoint…Now What? 4 Next Steps (CMSWire)
It is now a well-known fact in business circles that SharePoint has become the standard for portals, document management, search and BI. While there are many ways to configure and implement a SharePoint instance, the question of how to compile and engage a team still remains. Furthermore, questions of what best practices and standards should be part of an implementation are seemingly never asked, or answered. In speaking with executives and teams about their SharePoint projects, many of our clients have similar stories to share — that senior executives choose SharePoint for the new corporate portal or to house document management, and then announce to their “team” that SharePoint is coming to the organization, without doing their planning or diligence on the “team” itself. This strategy has obvious issues, which, can be overcome with the right level of mid-implementation planning, training and consulting. Continue reading this entry »

Aug 17

Customizing SharePoint; Amazon Launches Government Cloud; Will Microsoft Counterbid for Motorola?

By Chris DooleyNo Comments

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Customizing SharePoint: Start with the Solution or the Business Problem? (CMSWire)
Before you begin adding customization tools to SharePoint to create a solution for your business, you must understand your company’s business problem. In this article, I cover a few important areas you need to address before you look at technology. One of the most powerful features of SharePoint is the ability to combine out-of-the-box features to build a solution. With a little training, you can create sites, workspaces, libraries and even charts and reports. Combining these, you can develop solutions, such as corporate intranets, FAQ Sites, Knowledge Bases and even Project Management solutions. All of these solutions have the potential to provide a tremendous amount of value to the organization. Continue reading this entry »

Aug 16

Things Executives Must Consider for SharePoint 2010; Windows 8 Beta Coming Soon; Mac vs. Windows Security

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The Executive Perspective: Top 7 Things You Must Consider for SharePoint 2010 (CMSWire)
SharePoint 2010 is a popular tool for creating Intranets, customer portals and almost any web-based solution. It’s a powerful product that can address an impressive number of business solutions. With all of the power SharePoint has to offer, and the money you’ll likely spend on deployment, it’s important to get certain things right. In this article, I’ll cover the top seven things that executives must consider when deploying SharePoint 2010. So if you’re thinking about SharePoint, or are revisiting a stalled deployment to give it a kickstart, read on. Continue reading this entry »

Aug 15

A Quick Start to SharePoint Success; Choosing Google Apps Over Office 365; The Cloud Changes Everything

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Migrating Documents From a Legacy DMS to SharePoint (Law Technology News)
There’s been a great deal of interest in converting legacy document management systems to Microsoft SharePoint in the legal industry and beyond. Compelling reasons for doing so include reduced costs, robust API, broad third-party support, as well as tools for integrating SharePoint with other firm systems. To date, the discussion has focused principally on the suitability of SharePoint as a DMS, on the compatibility of SharePoint with common third-party add-ons — such as those for standard forms generation, metadata stripping, or document comparison — on security, and on the need to support ethical walls. While more remains to be done, significant progress has been made in addressing these concerns. Continue reading this entry »

Aug 12

Day One at SharePoint Saturday: The Conference; All in the Cloud by 2016; Cloud Email Security

By Chris DooleyNo Comments

SharePoint Daily LogoSharePoint Saturday: The Conference got off to a great start yesterday. There was a steady stream of people all afternoon in the exhibit hall. Everyone that I talked to had very positive comments on the event. I will again be hanging out at the booth 109 with the Bamboo Solutions team. Hope to see you there. –Chris

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Developing an Information Management Strategy for SharePoint (CMSWire)
In this, the month of everything SharePoint at CMSWire, we’ve started looking at SharePoint in some detail and with some interesting results. Last week, Jed Cawthorne, a Senior Strategy Consultant for enterprise content management, looked at uses for SharePoint. Here we will look at some of the challenges with deployments in the enterprise. This may, at first glance, be a no-brainer, but scratch at the surface of SharePoint deployments, and problems — and hopefully solutions — start to appear. Continue reading this entry »

Aug 11

SharePoint & the GRC Challenge; Windows 7 — The End of Big Migrations; Microsoft’s Biggest Mobile Success: Android

By Chris DooleyNo Comments

SharePoint Daily LogoSharePoint Saturday: The Conference. Be there. That is all. –Chris

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SharePoint, eContent and the GRC Challenge (CMSWire)
Every time an employee innocently sends a forgotten password to a co-worker over the system, every time an HR staffer forwards a resume to a hiring manager, every time a website content writer posts a new blog entry with an old brand mark — there’s a question of violation of GRC rules. The Shattered Web: Just a few years ago, the term “eContent” would have been dismissed as a typo. Today, it’s a term that almost every organization has to deal with. With the enterprise moving online to a greater and greater extent, companies are finding enhanced efficiencies in electronic documents and collaborative workflow — creating a new kind of management challenge. Suddenly, Web 2.0 and 3.0 realities have come up against compliance requirements for privacy and risk management. Continue reading this entry »

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