I will be delivering another session at the Silicon Valley SharePoint User Group this Month! I am looking forward to seeing you at this free event… Please RSVP So we can best prepare and to make sure we have enough food, please RSVP by sending an email to Don Lamure at don.lamure@perficient.com Session Description In …
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I’m starting to line-up a few speaking engagements for 2013. The first I am confirmed for is the ARMA meeting on February 28, 2013. The topic will be The value of Information Architecture and Content Taxonomies; defined, value and approach. More information to come; as I learn it… Hope to see you there! Tweet
I would like to thank all those who worked so hard to make the SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley event successful. There were many great speakers, lots of vendor support and a good turn-out of “information hungry” SharePoint folks. As promised, I have added the presentation I delivered to my library for you to download and …
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I am speaking at the SharePoint Summit 2012 (Toronto) Conference this year! I am delivering 2, 3 hour tutorials on Monday, May 14th. Tutorial 1.3 – Architecting Information for SharePoint 2010 Regardless of the industry your organization is aligned with, if your goal is to use Microsoft SharePoint 2010 as an Intranet and/or Document Management …
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Seth Early, from Early & Associates, wrote an interesting article about the purpose and use of a Reference Information Architecture. He then describes, in part, additional information architecture steps required to ultimately derive a physical SharePoint implementation model; content model, site structures and navigation elements. One area Seth touches on this article is the need …
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I had the wonderful opportunity to speak at the San Francisco SharePoint User Group last night. It was held at the Mindjet office, downtown San Francisco, and we had a great group of attendees. I started the meeting by asking where they would like to start; An Intro to IA or IA Applied to SharePoint. …
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Peter Morville created a movie/presentation describing the evolution of Information Architecture. Very well done Peter… http://prezi.com/aafmvya6bk7t/understanding-information-architecture Tweet
Recently I wrote an article about why I don’t like the use of folders in SharePoint Document Libraries. Some comments left on that article prompted me to describe one approach to using sub-sites instead of folders for managing documents. The specific comment I am referring to indicated they were managing thousands of clients documents, categorized …
06-13-2011 – Updated based on post comments. I am asked on a regular basis how I feel about the use of Document Library folders. To be honest, I always tell people “avoid them”. This response always stirs up controversy so I though I would write this article to help you better understand my thinking. Before …
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CSF – Simplify the Contribution and Management of Content Many Intranets I have seen over the years have been implemented with the focus being on a single consumer audience. This model may work well for an Internet (public facing) site; however, I contest it is a model that doesn’t work well for Intranet implementations. First …