Employee Engagement Should Be a Social Business Goal by , for

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I am convinced that social business technology can be a major part of a company’s efforts to increase employee engagement. The connections seem very clear to me. 4 Key Engagement P... read more

Getting Paper into SharePoint: Five Key Things to Consider by , for

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Microsoft SharePoint has gotten a lot of attention over the past few years, and has served as a powerful catalyst for the benefits of enterprise content management (ECM), which include not just... read more

Driving Organizational Behaviours by , for

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When establishing an ECM environment, one of the key considerations is organizational behaviours. How the organization will function. This should be based on a core set of ECM principles and the... read more

Connecting to the User Profile Service Proxy by , for

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Step 1. Set up the Application Discovery and Load Balancer Service Application   Before any farm can provide services to another farm, the consuming farm must be able to use the App... read more

Seen but not Heard by , for

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We have heard this before, probably as children. In days past, grandparents might be heard to say, “Children should be seen but not heard”, especially around adults who are trying to... read more

Now, Teach Them to Fish by , for

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About a year ago, I wrote a blog entry called “Window Dressing” that talked about how we rearranged the landing page for one of our Board committees so they didn’t have to navi... read more

Does your My Site matter? by , for

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The simple answer is yes, but to how much it matters depends on your organization. If you are a small group of people that all work in the same office it might not matter as much but if you orga... read more

Stepping Outside the SharePoint Wheel by , for

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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. &nbs... read more

SharePoint sucks, eforms, the cloud and iPads are awesome. What are you thankful for this year? by , for

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As we approach Thanksgiving here in the United States, I’d like to look back on the year to share with the reasons why I’ll be observing this holiday. (And this year, it ain’t... read more

Self-Service BI Hits Primetime with SharePoint & PowerPivot by , for

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Last year at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, Donald Farmer, Microsoft’s Principal Program Manager for SQL Server Analysis Services, pulled me up on stage to do a 5-minute... read more