Activity Streams Are Not the Killer App by , for

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Expert blogger David Lavenda wrote an interesting piece for the Fast Company blog which essentially paints activity streams as the email-killer. While Twitter provides a sort if activity stream,... read more

Search, Metadata, and Bye Bye Folders by , for

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Inspired by a recent project. Explained to my (almost) 12yr old. Guess who "got it" quicker.   read more

Stop Complaining and Improve Your Search by , for

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Upload a single document into a brand new system, and search is going to be fairly simple. One document, one possible search result. Easy. Likewise, upload dozens, hundreds, thousands of doc... read more

How should a “Perfect” Search project be run? by , for

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It was Friday evening, and Charlie was meeting his friends for a drink. They all worked in IT and had, between them, years of experience, especially in the area of enterprises and enterprise sea... read more

Why giving the users what they want is not enough - the Importance of communication by , for

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As you are all most likely aware, giving the users what they want is not the right thing. Why? Because, often, the users don’t know really what they want. Consider the following exampl... read more

SharePoint Adoption and Search by , for

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 Last week, I had the privilege of being on a panel at the Gilbane Conferencewith Chris McNultydiscussing SharePoint Adoption. Our moderator, SharePoint guru Marc Andersonran the session as... read more

Changing the "We did not find any results" on the search page by , for

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When you do a search in SharePoint and it doesn’t return any results you get something like this. We did not find any results for wwwww. Suggestions: Ensure words are... read more

Google Confuses Search & eDiscovery; May Cost Billions by , for

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  Google is a company run by engineers.  Steven Levy’s great book “In the Plex” (http://books.google.com/books/about/In_the_Plex.html?id=V1u1f8sv3k8C) documents h... read more

I Hate SharePoint Search Refiners. by , for

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(EDITS: See Michael Pisarek's comments and follow up blog post below. I think the post still has merit with values changed, although probably not at the top of the to-do list in implementati... read more

Enterprise Search Server and a Backbone ECM/DCM system.. by , for

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Dear experts... I have  (some would say) a newcommer question.. A possible customer asked me yesterday - can you explain why we need a ECM system, when we are about to implement a e... read more