Usability Revisited by , for

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Several months ago, I wrote about how we had begun working to improve the user experience in SharePoint. I ranted about some of the things I don’t like, some of the things our users don&rs... read more

An Important Event and A Shameless Plug by , for

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Earlier this year, I met Jill Hart at BZ Media’s iPhone/iPad DevCon East in Boston. Jill is a usability consultant, and is a passionate expert on the subject of User Experience. When I fir... read more

What Are You Building by , for

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We all know the “Field of Dreams” quote: “if you build it, he will come” but we need to stop and remind ourselves that “he” is a baseball player. Here in CT,... read more

Not so ... FAST by , for

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""What a seamless integration with SharePoint..." "It's really, really fast (duh)..."   "See those Refiners on the left? That tells you who edi... read more

User Experience? by , for

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Why is it that something with as many functions, uses, applications and game-changing design features as an iPhone is ultimately easy to understand, and something like SharePoint ends up weighed... read more

Procedures in an Amorphous World by , for

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As we were preparing to roll out a new SharePoint solution, one of the users asked us for some screen shots to aid in preparing procedures. I resisted this request because documenting a procedur... read more

Managed Metadata Services -- Mediation for Knowledge Planners by , for

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  I can always tell when I'm about to stretch the limits of what I've come to know as the SharePoint homestead or "KM System." That's when I leave SharePoint... read more

What Makes Search So Tough? by , for

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As we look toward 2011, one of the top projects on many of our clients’ agendas is enterprise search. Candidly, search capabilities have been available for many years, and nearly every org... read more

Portals - Good to Great using Qualitative Analytics by , for

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User's interactions are not clinical. What does this mean? As much as computing's beloved ones and zeros can create amazing online solutions, they fall short of being able to accurately... read more