Blog Entries By Vanessa Williams

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Why can't SharePoint be more like Montage? or Netvibes? or FlipBoard?

Montage is an online app from the folks at Microsoft Fuse Labs. It reminds me of FlipBoard, which is an iPhone/iPad app that essentially turns feeds from Facebook and Twitter into a glossy magazine... read more

Stepping Outside the SharePoint Wheel

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On the web, I use Google for search, and Facebook, Delicious, and Twitter for social. I have a WordPress blog. I have two web sites – one hosted in the Linux stack and one in ASP.NET.   Why do ... read more

What does it mean to be a SharePoint expert?

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I do a lot of SharePoint consulting, so I’m often asked what it takes to become a SharePoint expert. I believe answering that question goes along with the question, What is SharePoint? To me, S... read more

Action required: Serious ASP.NET security weakness impacts SharePoint also

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Microsoft reported a security vulnerability last week in ASP.NET, which is the platform that SharePoint runs on. If you have SharePoint 2007, WSS 3.0, or SharePoint 2010 server running on the Inter... read more

Using SharePoint 2010’s Social Bookmarking with MOSS 2007

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One of my clients is upgrading their My Sites to SharePoint 2010 prior to upgrading collaboration sites. So their users will be living in two versions of SharePoint for a while. This seems like a p... read more

That’s not a SharePoint problem

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As a consultant, I get to see SharePoint used in lots of different ways. Some good, others just cause. Regardless of the scenario, one of my favorite refrains for both clients and fellow consultant... read more