A study on the use of SharePoint in UK Higher Education Institutions was recently published. Many of its findings make for interesting and encouraging reading. http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/ceis/re/isrc/themes/rmarea/eduservsp/ The study also identified a number of critical success factors for SharePoint implementations: identify what customisation is required and manage those customisations: any significant alterations to SharePoint 2007 require [...]
UK HE survey highlights critical SharePoint success factors
26 February, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Enterprise Content Management
6 February, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Cloud2, the provider of the leading enterprise intranet solution, Hadron 8020, partners with Kodak and AvePoint to provide end to end content addition to SharePoint. As enterprise intranets become more powerful and critical to organisations, the need to move legacy content, whether from paper of file servers, into SharePoint has never been greater. This process of ‘content [...]
Documents vs Knowledge
24 January, 2013 By Leave a Comment
OK, I admit it, I’m a bit geeky. I find far too many things interesting and have a long standing interest in the relationship between information (including science, structures, architecture, etc.) and technology especially interesting. As SharePoint experts we spend a lot of time thinking through Information Architecture and structure issues and how to address [...]
SharePoint Saturday
12 December, 2012 By 1 Comment
As previously, SharePoint Saturday (8th December, Nottingham) was a triumph for the UK SharePoint community. The organisations was flawless, the delegates interested and eager, the speakers (amongst whom we count ourselves on this occasion) were informed, interesting and willing to share. One of the things I love about SS and the SUGUK activities is [...]
SharePoint 2013 part 3 – Document, records management and search
26 November, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The big news with search is that FAST search, formerly an ECAL feature with additional licencing is now included in standard SharePoint search. This brings several benefits: thumbnail preview of search results, improvements in the search algorithm and results as well as a new Query engine that tries to work out what it was the [...]
SharePoint 2013 part 2 – Improvements in User Experience
25 November, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Part 2 of my notes from SharePoint conference 2012 Las Vegas: A new, slicker user interface in SharePoint 2013 is very welcome, with inline editing of pages and list items. This will result in a dramatic improvement in the overall end user experience. A more visually appealing Links Web Part provides a significant improvement over the good old [...]
SharePoint Conference 2012 Las Vegas – SharePoint 2013 Part 1
15 November, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The past 5 days at the SharePoint conference 2012 in Las Vegas have passed in a blur with over 10,000 attendees from 85 countries, 2,000+ partners exhibiting, hundreds of SharePoint sessions with around 20 running simultaneously. The conference was at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, spanning 60 acres with over 3,300 rooms. My [...]
Microsoft Surface – my first impressions
13 November, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Having ordered a new Microsoft Surface a week ago, with anticipated delivery of 2-3 weeks, imagine my delight when it arrived last Friday within a week of placing the order. Surface comes with pre-installed with Windows RT, Office Home and Student 2013 RT, Internet Explorer 10 and Skydrive. Surface is powered by a quad core [...]
Managing emails
11 October, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I expect most people have email challenges today, since this useful tool is both over used and abused. Here are some tips for managing email.
Intranet Names
10 October, 2012 By Leave a Comment
We believe it is important to create a brand for an intranet (or whatever your communication, collaboration and content platform is); something that both reflects what its purpose is and also lets users refer to it in an easy and unambiguous way. An intranet brand probably should be sexy and evocative. It shouldn’t really [...]
