Perhaps one of the most useful features of lists and document libraries in SharePoint and SharePoint Online, Office 365 is the ease with which lists and libraries can serve as a centralized, managed storage option for important content. This capability is a big plus for organizations plagued with “too many storage options” syndrome. Most of […]
A Transformed IT Organization Can Contribute Positively to an Adoption Plan for Office 365
Does a successful campaign to persuade enterprise users to adopt Office 365 depend on a new type of internal IT organization? Industry experts like Dux Raymond Sy, a SharePoint MVP, and Cyrielle Simeone, a Product Manager at Microsoft believe this transformation is a necessary, highly positive step. Dux and Cyrielle present a case for why […]
Structure SharePoint Capabilities to Provide Users with a Platform they can Adopt
SharePoint, one can argue, falls into the category of a feature-rich office automation computing platform. Perhaps feature-rich is an understatement when one considers the panoramic range of functionality SharePoint is capable of supporting. But this expansive range of capabilities can, and often does run counter to stakeholder efforts to hasten user adoption, and with good […]
Are SharePoint Social Features a Useful Method of Motivating Users to Increase Adoption?
As a report titled SharePoint 2013 Clouding the Issues, which was published by AIIM, points out, despite the popularity of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Document Management (DM) applications for large organizations using SharePoint, 26% of respondents reported very low usage of the platform by so-called “active users” — only 1 in 5 users in […]
Use a Page of Links to Add Context Sensitivity to Enterprise Subscriptions to On Demand Training Content
SharePoint-Videos.com offers two types of subscriptions for large communities of SharePoint users — Group ID and Multi-User. More information on this topic can be found on our Multi-User Licensing web page. But to ensure these subscriptions deliver the intended benefit, stakeholders should develop a useful perspective on the important differences between training SharePoint end users […]
Asif Rehmani to Present on No-Code SharePoint Solutions and SharePoint Adoption at SharePoint Fest-NY
We’ve devoted this blog, since January 1, 2014 to providing our readers with an ongoing series of examples of our notion of the broad value proposition for SharePoint stakeholders. This general overview of the benefits to communities of SharePoint users, inherent to a decision to implement specific SharePoint features, has been complemented with some specific […]
SharePoint-Videos and Critical Path Training to Present a Full Life Cycle SharePoint Training Solution on April 3, 2014
On April 4, 2014, between 3 and 4 pm, EST, Marshall Butler of Critical Path Training, and Asif Rehmani of SharePoint-Videos will present a new option for SharePoint stakeholders in need of a successful method to hasten user adoption of the computing platform. Anyone interested in learning further about this opportunity should visit Full Life-Cycle […]
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 […]
Encouraging Communities to Brand Content Contributes Positively to SharePoint Adoption Efforts
On the first day of SharePoint Conference 2014, MSDN’s Channel 9 Video service broadcast SPCtv A Talk with Microsoft IT on SharePoint, Adoption and Governance. The conversation was led by Karuana Gatimu and included Christian Wylde, Sean Squires, Pam Green and Carrie Doring. Squires, Green and Doring are all members of Wylde’s internal-facing “Social Collaboration […]
Low Levels of User Adoption Continue to Tarnish the Success of SharePoint Implementations by Large Communities of Users
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 […]