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10 Ways to Make Users Hate SharePoint
Whilst at the SharePoint Summit in Toronto this week, the organiser of the Toronto SharePoint User Group (TSPUG) decided to have an inpromptu speaker set. They asked bunch of conference speakers to...
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Plea to the Entire SharePoint Community Globally – Time Zones
I don’t know about anyone else – but I battle every single day to get the time zones figured out across the globe. It is an absolute mission to determine when webinars are being held from the four...
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We’ve Installed SharePoint – We Have a Successful Platform; right? Wrong.
This happens all the time. If I had a penny for every time I heard that…. There are still plenty of misconceptions about SharePoint in the world. The subject line of this blog is one of them. Merely...
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SharePoint 2010 User Adoption Kit
Fantastic new kit available from Microsoft Two lovely big downloads full of useful tools. Check it out right now! Filed under: User Adoption
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The SharePoint Galaxy
Galaxies. Billions of galaxies made up of dust, gas and billions of stars. It’s this huge, immeasurable, overwhelming concept that leaves you full of wonder. You dream of travelling to new worlds and...
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Communication
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that is has taken place” - George Bernard Shaw. How are you communicating to your business professionals? Are you telling them you will...
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SharePoint – It’s not About Technology; It’s About People
The “soft” side of SharePoint has been dismissed in the past as unimportant to the business of installing it for a company. Thankfully that mindset is slowly but surely changing because it’s the soft...
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BlogTalkRadio Interview
Gary Vaughan interviewed me on SharePoint User Adoption today. Listen to the recording. Filed under: SharePoint 2010, User Adoption
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What Does SharePoint Sound Like?
Conferences are for coming up with new ideas to make life more fun! Enter “What does SharePoint sound like”. And we’ve got a few more cool ideas in the pipeline, watch this space. A ticket to the...
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New Book : The SharePoint 2010 Handbook
Paul Beck rallied up a bunch of SharePoint peeps and made us each write a chapter for The SharePoint 2010 Handbook – and it’s just been published!! Order now! Many, many thanks to Paul for initiating,...
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What is Change Management?
When rolling out SharePoint to an organisation, the words “change management” will often follow in quick succession. But you do you know what that means exactly? The End of Business has a great...
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What if you Succeed With Your SharePoint Adoption Plan?
Have you ever asked yourself that question? A lot of time is spent trying to figure out how to get people to use SharePoint. But what happens if you actually succeed? What will you do if you get every...
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Building Your SharePoint Site? Remember Your Audience
Someone recently took me on for putting versioning in my document names on our website. As a SharePoint professional, I know this is not good practice. However, remember who the audience is. The...
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How to Get Business to Take Ownership of SharePoint
For the first time in 5 and a half years, I heard a SharePoint IT Project Manager say that SharePoint should be owned by business. What a refreshing conversation! He is one of the very few IT people...
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How Coca Cola used SharePoint – A Case Study
72000 employees in 431 facilities around the globe; 55 000 vehicles, and 2.4 million coolers, vending machines and beverage dispensers – can you imagine managing the content that would be generated?...
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Thoughts on SharePoint 2013 After the Conference
It’s no secret that when SharePoint 2013 showed itself, I was horrified. I absolutely hated it. And in fact, I hated it so much that I decided I would rather leave the industry than be forced to...
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Building a User Community
It’s not an easy thing to get a community going and to be self-sustaining. It takes very long term and dedicated effort to maintain the momentum. Kathy Sierra has written a wonderful blog on building...
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Journey to Learning a New Version of SharePoint – Part 1
For business users with no prior SharePoint experience, using SharePoint for the first time has it’s advantages. You don’t carry any baggage of previous versions with you; it’s a clean slate. But...
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“We’ve Got SharePoint, Now What?” 10 Questions You Need to be Asking Yourself
Companies are getting SharePoint every day and tend to hit a brick wall with the question of “what now?” Here are 10 starting questions to get the ball rolling: 1. Why do you have SharePoint? Because...
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SPChat Transcript: SharePoint End User Training with Veronique Palmer Follow Up
The SharePoint Community kindly invited me to do a chat on end user training. The time flew so fast that I didn’t get to address all the questions posed. This is a follow up to the ones I missed :...
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How Successful is Your SharePoint Deployment?
AIIM has released their latest report on SharePoint 2013 as well as a cool supporting infographic on deployment issues in SharePoint. Defining a SharePoint Strategy is absolutely critical to the...
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How Do You Ensure Continued Adoption After the Initial Rollout of SharePoint?
Many organisations err in thinking that merely installing SharePoint and telling business “here it is, go use it” equals a successful implementation – and then are mystified as to why nothing happens...
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“SharePoint is a Mess! Let’s Upgrade, That Will Fix It”
No, it won’t. If you are not extracting business value from SharePoint with the version you currently have – merely upgrading to the next latest greatest version is not going to solve your problem....
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Finding the RIGHT first project (aka solving the SharePoint “bad hair day”)
Veronique Palmer:I wholeheartedly agree with Sarah; she has some great advice to share with you on user adoption. Originally posted on Sarah Haase: If your SharePoint implementation is the equivalent...
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The Woes of SharePoint Permissions so Eloquently Explained by @EllenVanAken
I believe it is safe to say that the highest volume of support calls in SharePoint Land is still around permissions. Ellen van Aken wrote a great blog series that showcases why this is such a tricky...
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Internal vs External Energy
Have you wondered why your intranet adoption plans are failing? Among the myriad of critical success factors to be covered, have you thought about sources of energy? External energy is all the ra ra...
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Newbie to SharePoint and the Bug has Bitten? 11 Next Steps
Just when you thought you hated your job and were trapped with nowhere to go, SharePoint falls into your lap and your whole world changes. That first month of SharePoint excitement can carry and...
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Trying to Establish Your Intranet’s Complexity Level?
Hopefully one of your considerations in building an intranet takes the company’s collaboration, communication and documentation maturity level into consideration so you can adjust the complexity level...
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“We Bought SharePoint to Improve Collaboration”
This is a common answer when asking why the technology has been chosen; or the other common one, “so we can do social”. The thing is though, that no-one stops to ask the obvious question – what does...
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Right SharePoint, Wrong SharePoint
What do plumbers, electricians, car mechanics and consultants have in common? No matter which one you go to, they will tell you the other previous one did it wrong and you have to do it again from...
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5 Tips for Bosses Sending Their Staff to SharePoint Training
Dear Mr / Ms Boss, Thank you for empowering your staff in such a cool way. They will learn skills here that they will be able to use for the rest of their lives. However, there are some things you...
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8 Pains Felt by Business Users Learning Technology
It’s not easy to find an IT person with the patience to teach end users a new system – any system – and most especially SharePoint. These are direct quotes I’ve had from students when they’ve been...
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What SharePoint Level Are You On?
There are endless SharePoint jobs around town from end users to architects. As SharePoint becomes more and more pervasive in business, it makes its way onto KPI’s / performance appraisals / career...
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New List and Library Considerations
There should be some sort of thought and planning process taking place when creating lists and libraries to store data in SharePoint. While there are many questions one can and should ask, if you are...
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5 Signs You Have a Bad SharePoint Implementation
Veronique Palmer:We whole-heartedly agree with this. Originally posted on SharePoint Basics and Beyond: Microsoft SharePoint is a very popular system for building collaborative intranets in...
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5 Ways to Help SharePoint Help You
It’s all too easy to blame technology for everything, but it’s all driven by us in the end. Here are some tips to getting the most from SharePoint: 1. Understand your computer Do you know what a...
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Got Your SharePoint Feet Wet? What Next?
People new to a company are often shown where to upload things to SharePoint and how to capture tasks and timesheets, but not much else. Some people however get bitten by the SharePoint bug quickly...
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Coping with #SharePoint
Any job will have challenges, where it is difficult to stay positive, and remain excited about what needs to be done. Working with SharePoint is no different. Here are a few tips to support a positive...
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What is an Intranet?
An intranet is an internal website that companies use to manage communication, information and documentation. It is only open to employees of that company. Intranets are built on various types of...
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Why You Need an Intranet
It always surprises me as to how many SME’s have no intranet in place, when they have 10, 20 30 or more people working for them. How does anything get done? It is so inefficient to work using POP...
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“When You Give SharePoint Stuff, It Just Works”
I love this quote, (thank you Christine), it is so true. SharePoint is an incredibly smart platform – but it needs to be fed the right things so it can work properly. What are you feeding SharePoint?...
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Team Work vs Collaboration
What is the difference between team work and collaboration? Are they the same? If not, how are they different? This is a great conversation to have with your team when designing SharePoint, because...
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Two Steps to SharePoint
People are (usually) great at adding content to SharePoint. They are not so great at telling anyone they did. There are 2 steps to SharePoint – add content, then tell someone about it. People won’t...
View ArticleYour New Year To-Do List
Welcome to 2017! We hope you had the chance to get some well-deserved rest and are ready for action. It’s the start of new year and a planetary abundance phase. Things will be taking a dramatic...
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SharePoint Beginners Are Everywhere
It’s very easy to forget where you came from and what your first years was like learning a new technology. Us veterans in the industry need to remember this. Most clients are 2 to 3 versions behind...
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New Exam for Business Users : Microsoft Service Adoption Specialist
A new exam was launched in April for all the Office 365 / SharePoint user adoption specialists out there. It’s so great to have a non technical exam available again for business users. Here’s the...
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Are Change Management / Managers still relevant in Office 365?
As is always the case with technology implementations, the last thing on most people’s minds is training and change management. The more modern the technology gets, the worse this gets. People think...
View Article10 Ways to Engage Employees Using SharePoint and Microsoft 365
Building an intranet is one thing, getting your users to engage with the platform is a whole other thing. Here are some innovative ways to boost employee engagement. The trick is to build things that...
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10 Engaging Ideas to Launch Your SharePoint Site
Let’s share some ideas on launching that beautiful site you created with your team or your company. We don’t want to let all that hard work go to waste now do we. 1. Define your goals First things...
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The AI Frontier – Managing AI Impact across Corporate Departments
Depending on how you look at it, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around for hundreds years already. Yes, you read right – hundreds! Eye-watering amounts of money have been spent on this...
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