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Collaborating With OneNote 2010

February 21, 2012 – 7:30 pm

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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Saving & Sending Word 2010 Documents

February 17, 2012 – 3:56 pm

There is more to sharing Word documents than the ancient tradition of attaching them to an Outlook email. Now Word 2010 makes it easy to share your Word documents over the web or SharePoint without you having to leave the application and creating too many steps between your documents and their recipients

Click File. The BackStage View appears. Click Save & Send to access Save & Send options. Here is a breakdown of options that are available:

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Book Review: SharePoint 2010 for Project Management by Dux Raymond Sy (O’Reilly Media)

February 15, 2012 – 8:00 pm

I’ ve long been a believer that project teams can get a lot more out of SharePoint team sites if organizations decentralized SharePoint team site development and management to the team level. SharePoint 2010 for Project Management by Dux Raymond Sy is just such a book a must read for project managers and team leads who want to centralize their project information.

The book leads readers very methodically through building a Project Management Information System (PMIS) from SharePoint 2010 right out of the box without the need for third party add-ins much less a professional services agreement. The steps that Dux Raymond Sy lays out in the chapters of the book only require your IT/IS group to set you up with the appropriate roles and privileges and then following the steps in the book can take you to PMIS nirvana. He goes into enough detail where even first time and novice SharePoint users can get a PMIS up and running.

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Book Review: MOS 2010 Study Guide for Microsoft Word

January 26, 2012 – 7:18 pm

After having a great experience reading the MOS 2010 Study Guide for Microsoft Office SharePoint, my next read was the MOS 2010 Study Guide for Word. Microsoft Word has always been a bread and butter application for me as both a technical writer and freelance writer. Things have been a bit slow lately, so I am taking advantage of the time to shore up some old skills and learn new ones.

The book’s tendency to overlap screen captures became a bit annoying after the first 100 pages. To a novice Word 2010 user, this space saving move could lead to a minor bit of confusion. Take the screen captures on page 143 of 317 (iBook edition) which borders on abstract art not clear and concise communications. While I am on the subject of screen shots, fading out the bottom and right sides of them while certainly a special effect made it almost look like a rendering issue on the screen. There were also a few places in the text where the pagination would cut into the middle of a procedure that was also a bit disappointing considering the state of epublishing tools today. These lapses in production detracted from the overall writing of the manuscript and exercises.

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Book Review: MOS 2010 Study Guide for Microsoft Office SharePoint

January 21, 2012 – 1:45 pm

Part of my 2012 learning plan is to build up my SharePoint 2010 skills. It’s a popular platform in my local employment marketplace. I’ve worked with it a lot in the past with a lot of OJT learning. Besides, I am a believer in SharePoint and hope to see it play a part of my near to mid-term professional future. I purchased the MOS 2010 Study Guide for Microsoft Office SharePoint by Geoff Evelyn from iTunes Bookstore to get the SharePoint fun started.

Using Office 365, I went to work through the exercises in the book using SharePoint Online to help sharpen my skills and learn some features like tuning the site search. While I know this book is written as a study guide for the SharePoint MOS, I am disappointed to see only a bare minimum of coverage on planning a SharePoint site. In my travels, I’ve seen multiple SharePoint implementations suffer from lack of planning and the planning issues drifted across all levels of the project including the stakeholders who were to manage the sites.

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Microsoft Office 365 for Project Managers

December 27, 2011 – 4:41 pm

The launch of Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft’s new collaboration tool suite that includes SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Lync Online, Office 2010 Web Apps, and Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus brought a lot of headlines because anything cloud is hot right now. Nevertheless, project management features were absent from the marketing push unless you knew where to look.

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SharePoint Evangelism Focused On The End User

June 30, 2011 – 4:35 pm

As much as Microsoft SharePoint can help an organization and their business processes, it is also one of the most misunderstood applications and platforms out there. Working with SharePoint in commercial and federal government environments has reaffirmed this perception of mine time and time again and I even consider myself a strong proponent of the product. Much of the SharePoint body of knowledge available in print and online is directed towards power users, administrators, and developers. I think this is a real disservice to SharePoint as a platform and productivity tool because its gospel often sputters on the road to reaching the end users who have to use and often need it (whether they know it or not).

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Why Johnny Can’t Collaborate

June 20, 2011 – 8:00 pm

As a technical writer, I am a believer in online collaboration. A collaboration platform includes document versioning, document security, and an audit trail that can benefit just about any organization’s document development life cycle. However, the fact that remains that too often is “Johnny can’t collaborate.” Online collaboration starts off with the best of intentions but seems to collapse like a house of cards when it hits a technical, political, or business process snag.

Platforms like SharePoint, Office 365, and productivity applications like Microsoft Office 2010 and even Adobe Acrobat enable project teams to collaborate on their documents online without having to email back and forth.

Here are some reasons why organizations can’t collaborate.

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My Thoughts about Microsoft SharePoint and the iPad

March 24, 2011 – 9:42 pm

Two of my favorite professional reading topics lately have been Microsoft SharePoint and the iPad. I am staying abreast of SharePoint technologies because my current contract is due to end in July and documenting a major SharePoint implementation is still high up there on my “technical writer bucket list”. I am a big iPad user and enjoy following its advances into the corporate enterprise.

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My Technical Writing Process

March 13, 2011 – 1:05 pm

Many of my previous technical writing assignments placed me in organizations that had formerly placed little or no effort in technical documentation and needed to have technical documentation in place to support a major technology initiative, product launch, or a major audit.

One of the things I always try to do is to attack a new technical writing effort methodically – either at the client’s direction or behind the scenes – because I like a smooth running writing project.

Here is a high-level overview of the elements in my technical documentation development process:

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Tag Archives: SharePoint

Collaborating With OneNote 2010

Saving & Sending Word 2010 Documents

Book Review: SharePoint 2010 for Project Management by Dux Raymond Sy (O’Reilly Media)

Book Review: MOS 2010 Study Guide for Microsoft Word

Book Review: MOS 2010 Study Guide for Microsoft Office SharePoint

Microsoft Office 365 for Project Managers

SharePoint Evangelism Focused On The End User

Why Johnny Can’t Collaborate

My Thoughts about Microsoft SharePoint and the iPad

My Technical Writing Process

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