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One of the greatest aspects of my job is that I am able to regularly take a deep dive into some of the difficult questions of the day, sometimes providing research and insights into the social networking and enterprise collaboration questions on the minds of analysts and executives alike.
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Blame it on the Consumerization of IT, the "bring your own device" movement, the seemingly inescapable trend of all things moving toward the cloud, or the cyclical move from single-vendor solutions to best-of-breed (a cycle that seems to repeat itself every five to seven years).
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In a series of surveys last year of more than 1,000 SharePoint administrators and business professionals, much was learned about how people "perceived" their organizations to be handling their SharePoint governance strategy. The data showed a large gap between those perceptions and what governance actually looked like inside businesses.
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As a SharePoint MVP, active member of the global SharePoint community, an experienced project manager with knowledge of SharePoint business user topics, I am often asked "What are the best practices for SharePoint governance?" There really is no right answer to this.
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A lot of thought goes into the decision to move part or all of a company's resources to the cloud, but one thing often goes ignored: governance. A governance strategy is never static -- it evolves and grows as your business needs change.
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The nature of how we collaborate has evolved. Two decades ago, much of our transactional data was transmitted via Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) through very expensive Value Added Networks (VANs).
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Interested in increasing SharePoint end user adoption and productivity? Gamification might be for you. On a tour of SharePoint User Groups (SPUGs) across Europe in October 2012, I was able to present on the topic of SharePoint productivity at the Finland SPUG held in Helsinki.
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If you go to a SharePoint conference, chances are high that Christian Buckley will be there. An active member of the SharePoint community, Christian travels the Western United States and the greater world spreading the SharePoint love. Find out how Christian found his passion in this interview.
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It's easy to become overwhelmed with the seemingly instant rise of the social revolution. Knowing what your role should be and which tools you should be using can seem daunting.
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On day one at the SharePoint Conference 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Chris Plescia and Jeff Schumann from Nationwide Insurance provided a detailed view into their company's successful efforts to develop an employee portal and social platform based on SharePoint and Yammer.
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When I paired up with fellow SharePoint expert Geoff Varosky (@gvaro ) last year for a presentation at SPTechCon Boston, we decided to create a fake company as part of our effort to create use cases and working examples without having to rely on the Microsoft-provided generic company Contoso.
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Think you're not getting the most out of your SharePoint deployment? That's because you probably don't have the ability to experiment. If you've seen one of my recent presentations, you know that I've been pointing people toward CloudShare as a tool for SharePoint experimentation.
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On September 8th, I found myself on the road again, far from my home in the Seattle area, participating as a speaker at the annual SharePoint Saturday Cape Town (#SPSCPT) event in South Africa.
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One of the major complaints about SharePoint is that, while it contains the potential for expanded business productivity and automation, within many organizations it has become yet another file share.
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