The agenda for the digital workplace is becoming established from an architectural perspective, but what are the things we need to preserve from the employee \worker point of view? Here is our take on a manifesto for employees, contractors and freelancers. We originally released this last October as a text version inspired (like so many) by [...]
Summary Document-based collaboration has always been at the heart of what SharePoint is about and by 2010 most of the functionality was there. 2013 consolidates these strengths and brings some refinements, such as Sky Drive and improved navigation, without any large innovations. Where 2013 really wins is the integration between social and more structured collaboration, [...]
Summary There’s much to like about SharePoint 2013’s social enhancements. The most immediately visible change is the introduction of the newsfeed, giving the microblogging capability that was lacking in 2010. The second headliner is a new type of site called “Community” that brings together existing social elements and adds badges and levels too. These, [...]
Summary If you’re looking at SharePoint 2013 as a content management system (CMS) for publishing pages in your intranet, then the main improvement is the ability to publish content across sites more easily. Improved moderation for two-way communication will also be a welcome addition. However, the out of the box tools for managing news [...]
The new SharePoint has been released as a public preview, along with hopes by the Microsoft team of “leapfrogging expectations” (see the launch blog post). Is it worth holding out for the full release? Do the new features make it compelling to those planning a social intranet? Summary SharePoint continues to offer a very versatile basis [...]
With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft introduced some very flexible tools for representing metadata on intranets. However, getting value from this requires that business units take ownership of it, and the available documentation tends to focus on the “how” rather than the “why”. ClearBox therefore presented a workshop at IntraTeam 2012 on SharePoint metadata: what business users need [...]
Communication vs. Collaboration Imagine if you went to buy a new sofa, and instead of entering a showroom you were taken straight into the workshop. Inside there are rolls of fabric, wooden frames of part-built sofas, others that look nearly finished but you can’t quite tell. You pick out one that you like only to [...]
This is part 2 of a day-by-day blog of Intrateam 2012 see also: Day 1, Day 3 Tony Byrne – Latest Trends in Collaboration and Social Computing Within Larger Enterprises Tony (@TonyByrne) of the Real Story Group (RSG) began by saying: If you throw in blogs, wikis etc. at the organisation and people don’t use [...]
Here is a quick checklist that you can use to rate your phone book ‘maturity’. Count your points for the following: 1) 1 Point if all your employees are in one phone book 2 bonus points if contractors are too 2 bonus points if you have supplier contacts 2) 1 Point if all employee data comes from [...]
I’m at IntraTeam 2012 in Denmark and will be blogging my take on the highlights (apologies to the speakers in tracks I miss). see also: Day 2, Day 3 Today’s pre-conference workshops featured: Jim Ylisela on Writing for the internal Web Jim (@jpyjr) reckons our employees are getting rapidly cynical as intranet content falls [...]
