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Jan 21

Steps to a Great SharePoint Intranet; Office 2013 Pricing; Cloud Computing is a Priority. Really.

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SharePoint Daily LogoYawn. Wake me up again in about 5 minutes.  -  Dooley

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3 Steps to a Great SharePoint Intranet (CMSWire)
SharePoint is great, but not everyone knows how best to use this formidable platform to build the system that they want. Take the humble Intranet. SharePoint is possibly the best tool for the job on the market. Yet you wouldn’t believe the number of poor, deserted, or frankly unusable SharePoint Intranets I’ve seen over the years. How to build a good one? Well that would take a very long article indeed, but here are my 3 tips to set you on the right path. Continue reading this entry »
Jan 07

SharePoint Internet Sites; Skipping Office 2013; Microsoft in 2013 Predictions

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SharePoint Daily LogoWhat do you mean I have to work 5 days this week?  -  Dooley

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Prediction 2013: An Explosion of SharePoint Internet Sites… and a Grain of Salt (CMSWire)
Microsoft has crafted the latest edition of its Web Content Management platform to make it more appealing as a solution for building public websites. SharePoint has long been the go-to platform for intranets and document management solutions for small to large businesses. But now SharePoint 2013 is poised to make dramatic inroads as a WCM for internet sites. Continue reading this entry »

Jan 03

Driving End User Adoption in SharePoint; Deadly Sins of Cloud Computing; Is Windows Phone 8 Doomed?

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SharePoint Daily LogoMust. Have. Coffee.  -  Dooley

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Driving End User Adoption in SharePoint – SharePoint’s Purpose is to Increase Your Productivity (AIIM)
If you look at the overall budget to implement a best practices SharePoint 2013 or 2010 implementation, is 5% of it around driving end users to actually use SharePoint? I was in a meeting the other day with a client (and this is something that I hear quite often) who said, “We really promoted SharePoint when it first was released but since then have really not put much effort into that area, really more into supporting SharePoint.” Continue reading this entry »
Dec 10

SharePoint Alternatives; IE10 for Windows Phone 8; Cloud Computing Makes Work More Accessible

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SharePoint Daily LogoIs it really Monday already?  -  Dooley

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SharePoint – It’s Not Your Only Alternative (CMSWire)
Yes, Virginia, there is life beyond SharePoint. This time last year I was working in an IT Strategy role and attending the SharePoint conference in Anaheim, while an Enterprise Architecture colleague from our ECM team was at the OpenText conference. We were both attending with an agenda: we were working for a steering committee attempting to make some strategic decisions on technology platforms. Continue reading this entry »

Oct 24

Measuring SharePoint Projects and Governance; Microsoft’s Profitable Products; Surface Gets Bad Reviews

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SharePoint Daily LogoDoes anyone want a cold? If so, you can have mine. I’m REALLY over it.   -  Dooley

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How to Measure SharePoint Projects and Governance Organization (CMSWire)
Measuring SharePoint business value is not always an easy task; it can be hard to measure the value of an intranet or how much a collaboration environment really improves the way we work. Nevertheless, there are ways to do it — some are pretty easy while other ways may require a bit more work to get it right. Continue reading this entry »

Aug 07

SharePoint Cloud Migration Advice; No Windows 8 Boot to Desktop; Wozniak Wrong on Cloud Computing

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SharePoint Daily LogoWhatever.  -  Dooley

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Q&A: SharePoint Cloud Migration Advice (RedmondMag)
SharePoint can be a heckuva product. For some it’s even better in the cloud, where you don’t have to worry about servers, licenses, NICs and all the rest. You can let your hoster handle all those worries. At least that’s what Errin O’Connor, founder and CEO of EPC Group.net, believes. He recently spoke with Redmond magazine Editor in Chief Doug Barney. Continue reading this entry »

Aug 06

SharePoint Powers Social Applications; Office 2013 Info for CIOs; More Free Microsoft eBooks

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SharePoint Daily LogoI’m not sure I would want my pets to be able to txt me. It would probably be constant messages that they want more food.  -  Dooley

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Microsoft SharePoint Powers Social Applications (CMSWire)
In the world of Social Enterprise vendors, everyone wants to be a “platform.” Subsequently, it’s rare to hear an ISV talk about the platform it uses to create a social application other than its own. And yet, Microsoft SharePoint often comes up in discussions of all sorts of Social Enterprise applications. Several companies are using the sharing, collaboration and workflow capabilities of Microsoft SharePoint to provide the basic underpinnings of their social applications. Continue reading this entry »

Aug 02

Build a SharePoint 2013 Web Part; Outlook.com: Fighting for the Workplace; Free Microsoft eBooks

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SharePoint Daily LogoMicrosoft is building a robotic “big brother” to watch over you at work.  -  Dooley

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How to: Build a SharePoint-hosted Client Web Part in SharePoint 2013 (Dot Net Mafia)
I am extremely interested in the new SharePoint 2013 App model so I have been doing a lot with them lately. The latest thing I was trying was building a SharePoint-hosted Client Web Part. I have found that there is not a lot of information out there yet on how to use these so I wanted to share some of the things I ran into.  This post on MSDN is good to help you get started with the setup of your app. Hopefully this info will help you get started. This post assumes you have installed Visual Studio 2012 RC as well as the SharePoint development tools. Continue reading this entry »

May 31

You Don’t Want SharePoint; Office 365 for US Government Released; Windows 8 Preview Ships Today

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SharePoint Daily LogoInstalling Windows 8 means no class action suits against Microsoft.  -  Dooley

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The Art of SharePoint Success: Transition – Why You Don’t Want Users to Adopt SharePoint (CMSWire)
Let’s not beat around the bush. Why don’t you want users to adopt SharePoint? For the same reason you don’t want them to adopt the .NET framework or the Windows Server system. It’s a base technology platform and people shouldn’t even notice that it’s there. It’s the solutions that you build on top of the platform that you want them to adopt and this week I am going to explain how to make sure they do, and why a number of popular approaches fail. Continue reading this entry »

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