SharePoint 2013 Analysis & Reviews

Are you ready for SharePoint 2013?

In this third installation of my four part series giving a 35,000-foot overview of some of the major changes expected in SharePoint 2013, we will be looking at some of the new features that will specifically affect SharePoint designers.

The days of Microsoft SharePoint being only a locally installed software product are over.

In less than a few hours, we'll be coming together on Twitter (under the hashtag #eimchat) for our next Tweet Jam -- SharePoint: Supporting the Information Worker.

It's been a lot of fun trying out the new version of SharePoint so far. Microsoft has done a great job this time, putting out a ton of documentation, training and videos as soon as this preview version became available. There's a lot to read, but it has also been great trying everything out and digging in a bit to see the new functionalities in action.

SharePoint 2013: Topic Du Jour
We might be at least a year away from seeing the first real implementations of SharePoint 2013, but that doesn't mean people aren't interested in how it has improved (or not).

Whether we are pleasantly surprised at SharePoint 2013, wondering about SharePoint customization, or thinking about the headache that a SharePoint 2013 upgrade will create, there's no shortage of opinions to go around.

Deep Dive into Web Experience
Web Experience (WEM) was also a prime subject this week: Acquia acquired Mollem for social content moderation, Bridgeline Digital released WEM for franchises, and Sitecore invested in Komfo, adding social media marketing tools to its platform.

Reminder: SharePoint Tweet Jam
August 22nd at 1pm EDT, 10am PDT is the date for our SharePoint Tweet Jam. The panel keeps getting bigger and the questions will incite a great discussion. Get the details here.

Most Popular

• SharePoint 2013: 7 Features Users are Going to Love
• Partnerships New and Old: Preservation in the 21st Century #saa12
• iPad Mini to Trigger Content Battle Among Small Tablets
• 35,000 Foot View of SharePoint 2013 for Administrators
• Does Social Media Really Matter for Financial Services?

Editor's Picks

• SharePoint Business Governance Strategy: An Overview
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• Altimeter: Content Marketing is Key to Converged Media Imperative
• Webinar Redux: Rethinking Web Engagement - Leading with Content Marketing

Around the Web

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• Sep 04 -- Content Marketing World Columbus
• Sep 13 -- Henry Stewart DAM Conference in Chicago
• Sep 30 -- Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco
• Oct 29  -- DOCUMENT Strategy Forum Connecticut 2012
• Nov 14 -- Forrester's Customer Experience Forum West Los Angeles

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• Project Manager (CMS Implementations) at Ektron, Inc.
• Director of Engineering -- Mobile in Portland at New Relic
• Project Manager in Atlanta at Bridgeline Digital
• Internet Marketing Analyst in California at Facebook
• Senior Software Architect in Munich at Talend

Our SharePointpalooza continued this week with the debut of a new series on SharePoint governance, a few perspectives on what SharePoint 2013 holds in store and something anyone contemplating the switch to the latest version can relate to: the SharePoint upgrade headache.

We also heard further reports from the archival front and were asked if your workplace was a circus, who would you be?

With each new release of SharePoint I become like a kid in a candy shop, ready to find all the new and exciting goodies that have been made available. SharePoint 2013 has been no exception.

I always like to put events into a solid sports analogy and SharePoint lends itself to this in a unique way. SharePoint is somewhat akin to the New York Yankee teams of the past couple decades: this product has been a consistent leader, though it has had some ups and downs in the enterprise collaboration space, and continues to hold its place in the echelon of enterprise productivity tools that will continue to lead well into the next many “seasons” to come.

Are you ready for SharePoint 2013?

This is the second in a four part series that provides a 35,000-foot overview of some of the major changes expected in SharePoint 2013. With this piece we will dive into what will be new for developers.

There's a changing of the guard at NewsGator. JB Holston is moving up to Chairman of the Board and  ifridge & Company founder Daniel Kraft is taking his place as President and CEO.

With SharePoint, it really can be 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014 all at the same time.

Over the years I’ve been faced with some very challenging intranet projects but none of them come close to the challenges of upgrading software on the office computer. 

We're a week away from our SharePoint: Supporting the Information Worker Tweet Jam and there is a fine list of panelists who will be taking part.

This week it was all about new markets and marketplaces. Elcom set up an office in San Francisco, eZ Systems appointed a VP of Americas, Microsoft debuted a new Windows Phone Dev Center and Liferay officially opened its portal app marketplace.

Think Engagement, Not Marketing
Sitecore also provided tips on engaging the empowered customer, and we learned how gamification may just be the secret sauce of customer engagement. 

SharePoint on the Brain
SharePoint 2013 remains a huge topic of discussion -- if our Top 10 Hot Articles list is any indication. Here's a sampling:

• SharePoint 2013: 7 Features Users are Going to Love
• 35,000 Foot View of SharePoint 2013 for Administrators
• Will End Users Buy Into the New SharePoint 2013 Interface?

The August Tweet Jam
Our August 22nd SharePoint Tweet Jam will take a step back and look at how to best use SharePoint to support the Information Worker. Mark your calendars, it will be interesting. And don't forget our SharePoint 2010 poll, voting is still open.

Most Popular

• SharePoint 2013: 7 Features Users are Going to Love
• Digital Forensics for Archivists #saa12
• Discussion Point: SharePoint 2013 is a Serious WCM Contender
• Gartner: Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP Dominate Sales Force Automation MQ
• Find Your (Corporate) Greatness

Editor's Picks

• 'Epic Hacking' Incident Brought About by Apple, Amazon Cloud Security Flaws
• Leveraging, Locating and Retrieving Content: the ROI of Taxonomy
• Social Business: We Have the Tools. Now What?
• NewsGator Releases Social Sites 3.0, Talks Future of Social Software
• Ektron Partners with HubSpot for End-to-End Customer Experience Solution

Around the Web

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• Ten Creative Hacks to Tap into Opportunity
• Building a Social Media Marketing Agency from the Inside
• Partners Still Critical for Software Vendors

Featured Events (all events | post your event)

• Sep 04 -- Content Marketing World Columbus
• Sep 13 -- Henry Stewart DAM Conference in Chicago
• Sep 30 -- Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco
• Oct 29  -- DOCUMENT Strategy Forum Connecticut 2012
• Nov 14 -- Forrester's Customer Experience Forum West Los Angeles

Featured Jobs (all jobs | post your job)

• Product Designer in San Francisco at Pinterest
• Senior Sales Manager in Hungary at Liferay
• Regional Sales Manager - West Coast at Elcom
• Visual Designer in San Francisco at Dropbox
• Software Developer in Vancouver at Metalogix

SharePoint 2013 sure looks pretty from 35,000 feet above.

This week continued our exploration of all things SharePoint with the nitty gritty of what administrators can expect from the next version, features that everyone will love and the timeless question, "What's in a (Metro) name?"

We heard reports on the evolving field of archives from the SAA 2012 conference and were exhorted to all aspire to greatness. 

Earlier in the week, in new research published by AIIM, we saw that while there has been widespread deployment of SharePoint, enterprises are far from completely happy with it. In this final look at the research we will see what the main issues are and how enterprises intend to deal with them going forward.