As promised in my last post I will elaborate some more on the “PMO Team Site”. - When do you use this configuration? - What are the benefits of this setup? - What is the Site setup? - Using traffic lights for status - Ways to display information

Source: mydigitalworkplace.wordpress.com Posted by http://ellenvanaken.wordpress.com/ 20 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes ago

There were no big Microsoft-based announcements for SharePoint this year. 2011 was really about proper planning and implementation practices for SharePoint 2010.

And of course, it was about the partner ecosystem and all the good stuff it brought to the SharePoint platform. Here are some highlights, mixed in with a discussion about social business with Jared Sparato.

Source: www.cmswire.com Posted by admin 31 days, 1 hour, 24 minutes ago

In a world of Intranet turf battles, the easy answer is… well, uh… IT, HR, Corp Communication, Marketing, and so on, but in this social world isn't it really the end user should own its destiny?

I reference an article from 2001 "Our intranet doesn't need an owner. It belongs to all of us -- and to none of us.

Fortunately, that freewheeling approach is picking up surprising support from managers, consultants, and intranet users." Amazing that 11 years later, we are still trying to move in that direction.

Social Business would dictate that it isn't owned by any department if the platform is governed and setup properly.

The personalization and needs of all should be surfaced in a way that it serves the user. Join in the poll. I've created a poll to see who you think owns the Intranet. I'll replace your results with this best guess.

Source: www.sharepointjoel.com Posted by admin 46 days, 2 hours, 18 minutes ago

Any time I write about or discuss SharePoint and I dare mention any of its weaknesses instead of focusing solely on its strengths some SharePoint zealot suffers great indignation at my gall for criticizing the ultimate, perfect technology.

(Sarcasm: /ˈsɑr kæz əm/ Noun.

1. harsh or bitter derision or irony.

2. a sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting remark).

Source: www.intranetblog.com Posted by admin 54 days, 2 hours, 56 minutes ago

Many organizations are finding that leveraging the full suite of capabilities SharePoint offers requires introduction of a new requirement – that of dealing with, managing and exploiting taxonomies. Of course taxonomies are not new, but there is some confusion about where managed metadata services and the term store end and true taxonomy management begins.

There are also some misconceptions about the process of deriving and applying taxonomies in SharePoint.

The following are five areas of confusion that we have seen in our engagements and research.

• Myth #1: SharePoint now has taxonomy management
• Myth #2: Taxonomy is used as metadata and metadata is an IT problem. Therefore taxonomy is best left to the project’s technical resources.
• Myth #3: Librarians are the best people to handle SharePoint taxonomies.
• Myth #4: SharePoint taxonomies need to be comprehensive and finely grained.
• Myth #5: Taxonomies managed in the in the term store can be used everywhere in the SharePoint application.

Source: www.digitallandfill.org Posted by admin 128 days, 3 hours, 9 minutes ago

WICly News #2 Intranet news for the week: 2nd September, 2011

The second WICly news is now out! Highlights of this edition include:

• Find out which WIC group member claimed the prestigious 'Contributor of the week' title based on only one article!
• Find out how you can keep up-to-date with latest intranet events and conferences
• Got a good story to tell about your intranet experience? Maybe you could present at a conference coming soon.
• Read about a real and very practical example of the future of work in the digital workplace age

Source: cibasolutions.typepad.com Posted by roowright 155 days, 14 hours, 15 minutes ago

Are you considering SharePoint for your enterprise? For what purpose? And what's your definition of enterprise anyway?

I have not built any solutions on SharePoint 2010 yet, but I have evaluated deeply, and indeed am currently doing so again, both from an internal social media perspective and an intranet portal perspective. SharePoint 2010 has many improvements over MOSS 2007, but in the end I believe that is just detail. The overall picture remains the same, there are considerable benefits and dis-benefits to large enterprise deployments of SharePoint.

Source: www.cmswire.com Posted by admin 185 days, 2 hours, 44 minutes ago

Among Social Business and E2.0 practitioners, there has been some debate about whether or not Microsoft’s SharePoint product is (or can be used as) an E2.0 solution.

Regardless, within the world of social tools, SharePoint is impossible to ignore, and for as long as IT departments are able to dictate to their business organisation the tools that must be used, it will continue to be a major market segment.

Source: www.headshift.com Posted by admin 227 days, 3 hours, 8 minutes ago

The Worldwide Intranet Challenge (WIC) LinkedIn group now has over 10,000 members which makes it the largest LinkedIn group about intranets. This article provides a list of the most popular discussion topics.

Source: cibasolutions.typepad.com Posted by roowright 255 days, 3 hours, 43 minutes ago

SharePoint is many things, but out of the box, beautiful isn’t one of them. The boxy design and shades of blue isn’t ugly per-se, but do little to inspire adoption and enthusiasm.

It used to be said that it was too hard to make SharePoint beautiful, but the following selection of examples show otherwise...

Source: www.steptwo.com.au Posted by admin 257 days, 2 hours, 37 minutes ago