Heard about the SharePoint adoption gap? Perhaps you’ve even experienced it for yourself. You thought that after deploying SharePoint, the hard part was over. It probably wasn’t long until you realized that it didn’t radically change the way users worked. You’re not alone. According to Forrester Research, nearly 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies have SharePoint. And yet, only 11 percent use it for daily document exchange. For many companies, SharePoint exists only to host an Intranet portal.

Don’t be shy: how many of you are reading this blog post from an airport, elevator or even a public restroom? Well, if you’re nodding yes (or at least pausing to think about the question as you snake through TSA security), you’re not alone.

It's been exciting week here at harmon.ie HQ. A few days ago, we launched the first-ever product to bring SharePoint document collaboration and social interactions to the iPad – and the response from the mobile business community has been overwhelming.

Hey, corporate America, ever feel like you are too connected? Well, hate to break it you, but harmon.ie is about to fuel your iPad addiction.

harmon.ie is going mobile and unveiling the first-ever product to bring SharePoint document collaboration and social interactions to the iPad – “harmon.ie for iPad.” In plain English, that means the mobile business community can easily join 1 million harmon.ie social email users to securely share documents, get real-time document and colleague status update, and connect with colleagues anywhere, anytime.

We knew we were cool but now it’s confirmed. Gartner has named harmon.ie one of 5 “Cool Vendors” in the “Cool Vendors in Social Software and Collaboration, 2012”[i].

Today, Joel Oleson (aka SharePoint Joel) shares his perspectives on the SharePoint user adoption challenge, and what you can do to overcome them.  Specifically, he talks about:

If you've ever managed an event or project involving multiple people and moving parts, you know that email is a horribly inefficient tool for collaboration. Your inbox gets inundated as people respond to the call for papers and you have to deal with a ton of event logistics, ranging from venue options and shirt sizes to speaker forms and schedules. 

If you’ve ever managed an event or project involving multiple parties and moving parts, you know firsthand that using

The transformation from traditional business to social business is incredibly difficult. As is the case in any organizational metamorphosis, making technology decisions must take worker behavior and corporate culture into account, since people and culture are by far the biggest obstacles to change. 

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