According to content posted on the Titus, Inc. web site, the report on SharePoint published in September of 2013 by AIIM, SharePoint 2013 – Clouding the Issues indicates low levels of adoption as a major hindrance to the success of SharePoint implementations for large communities of users. If you have a stake in the success […]
InfoPath 2013 Will Be the Last Desktop Client for this Application, What are Businesses in Need of a No-Code Forms Engine for On Premises Systems to Do?
On February 5, 2014, Gayan Peiris, a Microsoft(R) SharePoint Technology Specialist based in Australia published a very short post to MSDN’s SharePoint Blog. The title of the post is “Update on InfoPath and SharePoint Forms”. The one sentence in the post sure to be “heard round the world” reads as follows: “In an effort to […]
SharePoint Administrators, Developers, Designers and Architects Require An Immersive Training Experience
In contrast to SharePoint end users, administrators, developers and architects require an immersive training experience. These SharePoint users benefit from a curated presentation of content, rather than an in-context, on demand training experience. SharePoint-Videos.com offers subscription options for groups of SharePoint users. These options can be found on our Multi User Licensing web page. SharePoint […]
SharePoint Online Becomes More Useful for End Users when an In-Context On Demand Help System is Added to It
When I logged in, recently, to our SharePoint Online computing environment I noted something new. A rectangular shaped box popped up on the upper right hand corner of my computing screen, with an arrow pointing to the question mark character to be found at the end of the ribbon. The message in the box is […]
The Dark Side of SharePoint Adoption Campaigns
SharePoint-Videos.com hosted a webinar titled “Conquer the Chaos Of SharePoint End User Support” on Thursday, February 6, 2014. Over 200 people attended this hour long presentation by Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT. Some of the questions submitted by attendees presented the familiar problems often accompanying the dark side of SharePoint adoptions. So it makes […]
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 […]
Consumers Still Have a Need for EDM, ECM and BPM Solutions
SharePoint-Videos.com offers a series of products designed to support SharePoint communities as they work to maximize the value of the computing platform they’ve opted to implement. More often than not, the method used to extract this value is to implement SharePoint as either an Enterprise Document or Content Management solution (ECM or EDM), or as […]
An Example of How to Measure End User Progress In a SharePoint Adoption Campaign
Many of our customers are using our End User Video Tutorial sets. These customer are using either our SP101 or SP131 End User Video tutorial sets for SharePoint as a method of presenting their communities with a very direct presentation of the computer techniques they will need to use, on a daily basis, as they […]
SharePoint Adoption Strategies Benefit When Users are Trained to Implement New Methods
When an organization’s computing infrastructure already includes SharePoint, it makes sense for the IT Department, and even Line of Business (LoB) units to evaluate the suitability of SharePoint for any of a wide range of enterprise objectives. The key ingredient, regardless of the plan, will likely be user training. We market a help system for […]
Some Sources on Why Cultural Transformation is an Important Foundation for Collaboration Within an Organization
On February 13, 2014, we will host an online course, “Making Enterprise Social Real in Your Organization with Yammer and SharePoint”, to be led by Ms. Naomi Moneypenney. Just in case readers are skeptical about the importance of having a useful cultural foundation in place, internally, prior to embarking on a campaign to implement collaboration […]