Vanessa Williams

Vanessa Williams

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Solutions Architect

Bio

I'm a consultant working primarily in the SharePoint space. I do a lot of portal and web site implementations using SharePoint , so I'm interested in topics such as: web content management, web content strategy, performance, and web design and development. I'm transitioning into being a more generalized "web professional", because these web-related issues aren't unique to SharePoint. I've been working with SharePoint since 2004, so I have both a broad and deep knowledge of the product. I'm the author of three books in the For Dummies on SharePoint, including my latest release, SharePoint 2010 For Dummies. I've been working with the 2010 platform since October 2009 as technical lead for a project in Microsoft's "high touch" Technology Adoption Program for SharePoint 2010.

Latest Blog Entries

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

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