This a third and final post to this blog on the first of several webcasts published from presentations held at Microsoft’s Tech Ed Europe 2014 event, which was held in late October 2014. The ultimate method of managing projects, per Raphael Ax and Alexandra Ciortea, two Microsoft Field Engineers leading this presentation, is to use […]
Microsoft Project Pro for Office 365 is presented at Tech Ed Europe 2014
The voluminous set of webcasts published from Microsoft’s Tech Ed Europe 2014 event includes a number on Microsoft Project and Office 365. So Office 365 stakeholders with an interest in tying together a project management platform like Microsoft Project with Office 365 will probably want to spend sometime sampling the content. One of the webcasts, […]
Implement a reliable enterprise social computing effort now to avoid having to do so later
Back in January, 2013, Gartner published a press release titled Gartner® Says 80 Percent of Social Business Efforts Will Not Achieve Intended Benefits Through 2015on the low likelihood of “social business efforts” succeeding by 2015. But the same press release makes clear the inevitability of success for these same efforts at some point in the […]
If improved collaboration is an objective for SharePoint implementation, consider supporting it with external data
Many organizations implement SharePoint to promote better collaboration between Lines of Business (LoBs). The notion is SharePoint newsfeeds, rating systems, and tags for items/people/events/whatever, will all contribute to better efficiency across an enterprise. Efficiency means not only a lower cost of operation (as the result of substantially less duplication of effort), but higher levels of […]
Yammer discussion groups may constitute an attractive option for organizations looking to migrate support communication into a more efficient medium
In a course on enterprise social computing, which is exclusively available to any/all subscribers to SharePoint-Videos, Naomi Moneypenny makes a case for Yammer groups as an alternative method organizations should explore as they consider ways of migrating support communication out of email and voice, and into a more efficient medium. Moneypenny makes numerous references to […]
An understanding of the broad benefits of social computing helps stakeholders pick best opportunities for successful implementation
Naomi Moneypenny, CTO of Synxi presents four broad benefits of social computing in a video tutorial titled Improving collective effectiveness with Social Enterprise Networks. This video tutorial is exclusively available to any/all subscribers to SharePoint-Videos. The four benefits are: Decentralize Alignment Transparency and Engagement Each of the above terms is, of course, an abstraction in […]
Microsoft Adds Another Reason for Organizations to Choose Office 365 – Document Conversations
Microsoft acquired Yammer in June, 2012. But to date, Yammer appears to have exclusively appealed to organizations with a deep commitment to nurturing collaboration. Some organizations fit this model, while others clearly do not. One can argue this ‘on off’ characteristic of consumer appetite for Yammer presents both a challenge, and an opportunity for Microsoft […]
A Brief Glimpse of How to Use the Expanded Newsfeeds Available with SharePoint 2013
In a video tutorial titled Enterprise Social Capabilities, Dux Raymond Sy, SharePoint MVP, PMP and a widely acknowledged subject matter expert on SharePoint, recounts an interaction with an unnamed contact, probably from an IT organization, on the topic of the “social” features of SharePoint and whether or not it makes sense to permit end users […]
Use VisualSP, the Help System for SharePoint, to globally deliver project-specific materials to teams
SharePoint is a useful computing platform for collaboration requirements like project management. VisualSP™, the help system for SharePoint, can be used to globally expose materials specific to projects to team members. This application should be attractive to organizations where: project team members are new to SharePoint computing and project management, nevertheless, needs them to adopt […]
SharePoint 2010 is a Scalable Collaboration Tool
Often an audience will respond with references to a sort of Facebook on an Intranet when asked for a snap reaction to the concept of online collaboration. For audiences that use SharePoint 2010, the concept of online collaboration should also invoke even richer images of pooled corporate data, freely liberated from business silos through the […]