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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If you have ever exported your a MindManager map to Microsoft Word, you may find it to be a somewhat disappointing experience. There’s just not a lot of options for formatting, including/excluding topics, etc. Well, this has changed! There is a new MindManager add-in product on the market called OPTi-Word which provides a whole bunch of …
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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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Peter Morville created a movie/presentation describing the evolution of Information Architecture. Very well done Peter… http://prezi.com/aafmvya6bk7t/understanding-information-architecture Tweet
As you may already know, I use Mindjet’s MindManager extensively; for project discovery, assessment, SharePoint design and project management. All of these document artifacts could be accomplished using Visio, Word and Microsoft Project; but my primary tool is MindManager. I still use the Microsoft Office suite extensively; but these alone can be somewhat limiting in …
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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 …
SharePoint 2010 workflow resources. If you have any suggestions, please leave me a comment! Blogs Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog Paul Galvin’s SharePoint Space Books Professional Workflow 4 in SharePoint 2010: Real World Business Workflow Solutions Author(s): Paul J. Galvin, Udayakumar Ethirajulu, Chris Beckett, Peter Ward, Mark Miller SharePoint MVP offers practical WF4 guidance for …
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CSF – Focus on Solving Business Problems/Needs It is critical that you focus on solving business problems, not rolling-out technology widgets. As I have indicated in other articles, you must detach the non-technical user from the technical details. Simply rolling-out a site, blog or wiki doesn’t necessarily solve a specific business problem. And, if we …