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For February, 2012

Feb 29

Leap Day Crashes Azure; Businesses Reinvest in Enterprise; SharePoint as a Social Business

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SharePoint Daily LogoHappy Birthday to all the Leap Day babies out there. This day only happens once every 4 years. Make sure it is a good one.  -  Dooley

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SharePoint as a Social Business Hub: Tips to Transform (CMSWire)
As we learned in last Wednesday’s Social Business TweetJam, creating a social business requires a unique combination of people, process and technology. For SharePoint users, the technology is the easy part, but getting the people and process in place can be challenging. While many enterprise platforms like Microsoft SharePoint are plagued by low user adoption, it needn’t be that way. In an effort to promote better SharePoint adoption, we consulted some of the most experienced and influential SharePoint experts who made our Top 25 Most Influential SharePoint Thought Leaders in Social Business Today. Continue reading this entry »
Feb 28

The Focus of SharePoint Planning; Microsoft Matters to the Enterprise; Will SharePoint in the Cloud Work for You?

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SharePoint Daily LogoI’ll admit to liking a good lobster dinner, but I am glad this guy was set free.  -  Dooley

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SharePoint Planning: Focusing on 4 Key Areas (CMSWire)
In the early days of SharePoint, the emphasis from experts and Microsoft’s marketing teams was on how easy it was to deploy and begin using the platform. And they were right. Teams found that they could (and still can) quickly set it up and build simple solutions to meet their specific needs. But those that pushed the platform for its simplicity often left out one little detail: planning. Continue reading this entry »
Feb 27

Supplementing SharePoint as an Enterprise CMS; Windows 8 Consumer Preview Details; Windows Phone Dead?

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SharePoint Daily LogoUh-oh. Sounds like somebody’s got a case of the Mondays.  -  Dooley

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Forrester: Where SharePoint Lacks as Enterprise CMS, Supplement and Integrate (CMSWire)
With SharePoint firmly established in the enterprise, and companies looking to deploy an enterprise content management system across the company, many businesses are being forced to answer the question as to whether they should replace their enterprise CMS with SharePoint, or integrate the two. If SharePoint hadn’t been so widely adopted across the enterprise, this might not have been an issue, but according to other recent Forrester research, some 63% of an enterprise survey group said they were using SharePoint as an enterprise CMS, a figure that is substantiated by studies from others organizations such as Gartner. Continue reading this entry »
Feb 23

SharePoint 15 in 2012?; HTML5 Does It Again; Mobile Privacy Deals

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SharePoint Daily LogoMoonlighting hasn’t been the same since they recast Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd.  -  Dooley

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Microsoft SharePoint 15: A 2012 Release Target, an App Marketplace and More (ZDNet)
Since Microsoft announced the launch of its invitation-only test program for Office 15 in late January, things have been relatively quiet. But that doesn’t mean folks like me — and others — aren’t out there scouring the Internet for interesting tidbits. One of these people, “SharePointaholic” Bjorn Furuknap, a senior solutions architect and founder of USPJ Academy, an online SharePoint education company, has gone the extra mile. Continue reading this entry »

Feb 22

Huddle Challenges SharePoint; Enterprise Mobile Device Security; Office for iPad? Maybe Not

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SharePoint Daily LogoDid you know Facebook can predict how well you do your job? Now if it could only do my job for me…  -  Dooley

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Huddle Launches Intelligent Sync Tool to Rival SharePoint (TechWorld)
British cloud-based content collaboration firm Huddle has launched a private beta programme for its new intelligent file synchronisation tool, which the company describes as a Dropbox for the enterprise. The new patent-pending technology allows everyone in an organisation to securely access company files, and intelligently syncs relevant documents onto their desktop and mobile devices using algorithms linked to workers’ actions in Huddle. This means that workers can access the files they need without consuming large amounts of bandwidth. Continue reading this entry »

Feb 21

Best SharePoint Sites of 2011; The Cloud Over Microsoft; SkyDrive for OS X Client?

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SharePoint Daily LogoWhat do you expect to happen when you eat at a restaurant called Heart Attack Grill?  -  Dooley

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Top 10 Best SharePoint Sites of 2011 (MicrosoftFeed)
SharePoint is one of the most successful products ever launched by Microsoft. Creating a branded SharePoint site involves understanding both traditional web design techniques as well as topics that are typically reserved for developers. Things like creative design, the experience visitors have navigating your user interface, ease of use etc.; these are all important branding considerations. Here are the top 10 best SharePoint sites of 2011. Have a look! Continue reading this entry »

Feb 16

Successful Records Management in SP2010; Microsoft-Amazon Cloud Deathmatch; Microsoft too Secretive

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SharePoint Daily LogoMicrosoft ”accidentally” blocks Google.com. Again.  -  Dooley

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Five Policy Considerations for Successful Records Management in SharePoint 2010 (Information Management)
The funny thing about the essential policy decisions to successfully implement a records management program is that none is directly dependent on the technologies supplied in SharePoint 2010 (such as the records repository or managed metadata). The essential policy decisions that underlie a solid records and information management (RIM) program are technology independent.  Before launching into the decisions themselves, here are five level-setting concepts for those of you who may not be familiar with records management. Continue reading this entry »

Feb 15

Avoiding SharePoint Sprawl; Submitting Your App for Windows 8; Microsoft’s Cloud Push

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SharePoint Daily LogoSomething as small as a balloon can take out the electricity to entire towns.  -  Dooley

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Managing SharePoint Security, Permissions the Hard Way (CMSWire)
Organizations deal with a lot of confidential information every day, information that is typically managed using business applications, like SharePoint. That means that properly implemented and managed security is critical to these applications. With SharePoint, you can implement effective security, but managing it with the tools you get out of the box isn’t the easiest. Here we look at the challenges you will face managing security and permissions within SharePoint and discuss why you should make it a key element of your Information Architecture plan. Continue reading this entry »

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