After the completion of the Rollout Phase, the project enters the Connection and Discovery Phase where My Site and social computing expand from the core user base further out into the corporate enterprise.
The Connection & Discovery Phase is marked by further adoption of social computing and the new tools that My Sites offer end users and business groups.
In this post, I am going to explore the Connection & Discovery Phase including its goals, metrics, and change activities.
iPad users don’t need to be denied SharePoint access as iPad apps like Coaxion, harmon.ie: Sharepoint Mobile Client, Colligo Briefcase Pro, and others are becoming available in the App Store. However, while these apps add a lot to user experience and productivity, they are but one element in a comprehensive iPad to SharePoint security strategy.
While the latest iPad is certainly getting corporate attention, Jeff Webb, head of consulting for SharePointXperts, told me a story about riding the DC metro train and watching a (three letter acronym) manager reading email on an iPad. The retina display meant that Jeff could read his access code and email from a few feet away.
via The Mobility Hub – Will Kelly – ISO: True End-to-End Security for iPads & SharePoint.
Publishing Visio drawings (*.vdw files) to SharePoint 2010 using Visio Services is one of the best things to come out of SharePoint 2010. I’ve dealt with large scale Visio drawing libraries on past contracts and know firsthand how cumbersome it can be to share Visio drawings with other people who don’t have access to Visio on their PC. Besides, Visio Services are another tool to democratize project management data because accessing Visio drawings via Web browser is a much friendlier than through Adobe Acrobat much less the Visio application itself.
Visio Services can also refresh the data and recalculate the visuals of a Visio drawings hosted on a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 site refresh connections to various data sources and to update affected data graphics and text fields.
In a new series of articles, I am going to explain a Social Computing Deployment Process. As the roll out of SharePoint My Sites and social computing tools progresses, a certain maturity needs to happen for the business and end user community to realize the benefits of social computing within the enterprise. This Social Computing Deployment Process includes the following phases:
In this article, I will walk you through a potential rollout phase for moving an organization to a more social SharePoint.
The mobility of the iPad and Microsoft SharePoint don’t have to be at odds when your organization is deploying iPads to employees. There are a growing number of apps available in the App Store that can help iPad users access and navigate SharePoint sites.
via Top iPad apps for accessing SharePoint | TechRepublic.
The forgotten player is the success of Microsoft SharePoint is often the guy on the project team who makes SharePoint work for the team from a combination of their prior experience and seeing the potential in SharePoint to solve some sort of existing project-level problem whether it be dealing with project management, collaboration, or communications. Organizations who take a few simple steps to create a culture of SharePoint champions are going to reap the benefits in their business without a heavy financial outlay.
Here are some things organization can do to foster a culture of SharePoint champions:
Today’s model for enterprise collaboration isn’t just about PCs and Macs anymore. Collaboration needs to extend to tablets, not only because of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), but because tablets are playing an increasing role in many businesses. You need to implement a strategy and appropriate technology choices to help your organization extend enterprise collaboration to tablets — whether they be BYOD or company-owned — without a loss of communications or productivity.
via Extend enterprise collaboration to tablets | TechRepublic.
My luck with picking SharePoint 2010 books is continuing because I just read SharePoint 2010 at Work by Mark Miller who assembles a veritable “Best Of” EndUserSharePoint.com writing. This book is a keeper! The book chockfull of practical SharePoint knowledge in multiple facets of designing, developing, and deploying SharePoint 2010 inside the corporate enterprise. The book is actually a compilation of articles written by SharePoint 2010 practitioners who work in the industry.
The SharePoint Maturity Model that leads off the book should be required reading for anybody deploying Microsoft SharePoint 2010 today. As I’ve often said, it’s not that SharePoint is bad, it’s the implementation. The SharePoint Maturity Model (by Sadalit Van Buren) homes in on one of the biggest issues I’ve encountered with SharePoint through multiple contracts as a technical writer and that is that too many times when it comes to SharePoint that organizations don’t really know what they have and focus on projects that may not bring a suitable Return on Investment. Organizations need to have a cohesive way to analyze and understand the SharePoint platform as a whole that makes this article required reading in my opinion.
I am a sucker for practical technology books especially about Microsoft SharePoint so Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating and Implementing Real World Projects hits my sweet spot with its well paced projects that take readers through all the stages to create and implement a SharePoint project using out of the box features. It puts me in my mind of the excellent SharePoint 2010 for Project Management book by Dux Raymond Sy.
The projects based approach to this book is a real selling point especially since you don’t even need to be a fully trained SharePoint developer/administrator in order to follow them and the create the projects. The book’s projects run the gamut from a project management solution, a basic FAQ solution, to a resource scheduling solution. Project complexity grows as the book progresses but each project sticks to the format of Identifying the Business Problems; Gathering Information; Designing the Solution; Building the Solution; and Managing the Solution.
One of the hidden gems of Office 2010 is that it now includes OneNote 2010 – the latest release of Microsoft’s simple yet elegant note taking application. Formerly, you had to purchase OneNote separately making it a special software request inside many corporations and not standard issue. Now that it comes with all versions of Office 2010, my first hope is that it helps slay the useless tradition of taking meeting minutes, but before that comes collaborating with OneNote.
OneNote can serve as an effective backchannel for collaborative note taking, whiteboard session captures, and capturing the myriad of bits and bytes that comes with running a technology project.
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