Category: Blogs

Governance the #1 Challenge to Managing SharePoint

According to Gartner 66% of SharePoint Customers do not believe they have adequate governance. (Based on a recent Gartner survey) Governance can be defined as a set of defined roles, responsibilities, policies, and procedures that will help your company to proactively manage your information technology… Continue Reading “Governance the #1 Challenge to Managing SharePoint”

Microsoft’s Social Secret Sauce from #WPC12

I’ve been anxiously following the news of WPC in Toronto this week. The keynote didn’t hold too much… then we had an explosion of Yammer and SharePoint 15 news… Jared Spataro Director of Product Management for Microsoft presented at the world wide partner conference… Continue Reading “Microsoft’s Social Secret Sauce from #WPC12”

The SharePoint on Yammer Social Experiment Continues with Early Success #SPYAM

If I had to make predictions I would have said we would have a good crowd using Yammer. It’s been exceeding my expectations. At the end of day 2 we have more than 350 invites with 245 participating. This network is active. At work… Continue Reading “The SharePoint on Yammer Social Experiment Continues with Early Success #SPYAM”

Social Experiment: SharePoint Community Platform Pilot Based on Yammer

We have come a long way in our use of various networking technologies. I’m especially proud of how we leverage Twitter and we keep each other up to date not only on what we are doing in our jobs and careers, but day to… Continue Reading “Social Experiment: SharePoint Community Platform Pilot Based on Yammer”

10 Reasons Why SharePoint and Yammer Really Make Sense

Have you heard the news? Microsoft to Aquire Yammer – How could Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft say: "Yammer adds a best-in-class enterprise social networking service to Microsoft’s growing portfolio of complementary cloud services." When Yammer was announced as a possible acquisition for Microsoft, I… Continue Reading “10 Reasons Why SharePoint and Yammer Really Make Sense”