Perhaps someone in the SharePoint product management team decided the real market for SharePoint are organizations with a burning need for collaboration. Discover SharePoint, Microsoft’s promotional web site for SharePoint (which includes a set of videos which each appear to comply with Section 508 U.S. Federal regulations), does a great job of presenting these features, but offers scant information on SharePoint’s capabilities for enterprise document and content management. For example, Store, Sync and Share Your Content, presents One Drive for Business. The features presented are hard to differentiate from the features of any other shared document library in SharePoint itself….
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A Hybrid Training Plan for All Segments of SharePoint Users Within a Community is a Best Choice
SharePoint stakeholders with large communities of users should implement separate, but complementary methods of delivering required training content to all user segements. Immersive training methods, including, but not limited to any of the annual site subscriptions we offer to SharePoint-Videos.com, together with an in-context, on demand Help System for SharePoint, like our VisualSP™ product is an optimal solution, with a substantial potential for payback. Administrators, developers, designers, architects and power users usually capture the most benefit from an immersive training system. End users, on the other hand, benefit most from an in-context, on demand training option. The best way to…
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A Training Portal Can Be a Useful Feature of a SharePoint Adoption Strategy
The Productivity Hub is not available for SharePoint 2013, but SharePoint communities looking to add a training portal feature to a farm can incorporate the features required to deliver a lot of the benefits with our SharePoint End User Video Tutorial Sets. It may be useful to describe where a training portal makes sense. After all, most of our content is attractive to SharePoint communities in need of an in-context, on demand system of exposing training content to SharePoint users. But we think it makes sense to build a training program for SharePoint users responsible for so-called “higher” level tasks:…
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Wrapping Up Our Commentary on Our SharePoint 2010 Search Webinar
This post is the last installment in our series of comments on a webinar published recently on SharePoint 2010 Search. A subscription to SharePoint-Videos.com is required to view this webinar. Joshua Noble notes that the search engine for SharePoint 2010 is configured to analyze the first 50 results to any search query. Users who require that the search engine analyze in excess of 50 results will need to instruct the search engine to analyze more results via a setting in the Search Refinement panel. The maximum number of results that the search engine can be instructed to analyze is 500….
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Successfully Implementing Business Connectivity Services is a Key Contributor to Better User Adoption for SharePoint 2010
Rehmani Consulting, Inc. offers a unique set of video training content on Microsoft’s Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for SharePoint 2010. This set, SharePoint 2010: Business Connectivity Services, includes approximately 1.5 hrs of technical training content on 11 different topics. The target audience for this training set are SharePoint Administrators, Developers, Architects and Information Workers. Either individual viewing, or enterprise (unlimited) viewing rights are offered for this set at a cost of $195.00 for individual viewing and $1995.00 for unlimited enterprise viewing. As well, any subscriber to our web site has unlimited access to each of the video courses included in…
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If SharePoint Sites are not Used Then SharePoint Adoption by Users will not be Likely
Rehmani Consulting, Inc. has recently debuted a help system for SharePoint, VisualSP™ which adds a tab to the SharePoint 2010 Ribbon for Team Sites. The VisualSP™ help system provides users with direct access to a wide range of task-specific training content; for example, videos, documents, slide sets and images. With in-context access to training content for SharePoint readily available, organizations that have implemented VisualSP™ will have taken a step forward in their efforts to hasten SharePoint user adoption. After all, if users are not using SharePoint there is little likelihood that they will adopt it. Our view on this topic…
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Providing Users with Access to a Wide Range of Task Specific Training Content within a SharePoint 2010 User Interface Makes Sense
Rehmani Consulting, Inc. has recently debuted VisualSP™, which is a system that provides users of SharePoint 2010 with access to training content directly within the SharePoint 2010 user interface, from the Ribbon. Training content in a wide range of formats can be offered to users from this system; for example: MS Word documents Power Point Slides Acrobat PDFs Video It makes sense to ensure that users can access training content in any of several formats. In fact, different types of training content are useful for different purposes. We have spent a considerable amount of time discussing video training content for…
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Providing End Users with In-Context Access to Training Content for SharePoint 2010 Contributes to the Success of Adoption Strategies
Rehmani Consulting, Inc. has recently introduced a new product, VisualSP™, which is available to organizations committed to delivering high rates of user adoption for SharePoint 2010. In fact, VisualSP™ provides a method for users to access technical training video classes on SharePoint procedures directly in-context, meaning from the SharePoint 2010 ribbon, itself, without recourse to any other external training content resources. Any campaign designed to hasten end user adoption of SharePoint 2010 has to address the need to keep users processing daily computing needs within the SharePoint 2010 work space. In fact, users cannot adopt a process that they rarely,…
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Familiar SharePoint Story: Slow User Adoption Rates
harmon.ie builds software tools to facilitate cross platform data communication for enterprise software; for example Microsoft® SharePoint® and Lotus Notes from IBM® . The company focuses on a specific area of need that it claims is pervasive: slow user adoption rates of purchased software that should enhance collaboration between silos within a business but, somehow, falls woefully short of the mark. harmon.ie cites Forrester Research as an authority with an opinion that supports harmon.ie’s business premise. The specific piece of research from Forrester is Forrester’s September, 2011 study, “The State Of Workforce Technology Adoption: US Benchmark 2011”. harmon.ie claims that…
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