Announcing #SPJam on 5/21:  The Future of SharePoint, Yammer and Mobile in the Social Enterprise

With Microsoft’s recent announcement of the Yammer integration roadmap, several questions remain as to how to best move forward with your social enterprise strategy.  Many community members applaud the integration while others believe it's a mistake. Which solution will your business choose for enterprise social and how will you prepare? 

Social SharePoint Tweet Jam (#SPJam)

Last Tuesday, Michael Miller, Asst. Information Systems Director at the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) took the stage at the Gartner Portal, Content, and Collaboration Summit in San Diego. Attendees packed the large conference hall to hear Miller describe MoDOT’s five-year journey to adapt and thrive in these tough economic times, using SharePoint. This journey was not an easy one, considering that Missouri is the 7th largest highway system in the nation, and that MoDOT is responsible for over 33,000 miles of highway, as well as the state’s bridges and railways. 

Last week, Greg Clark, Principal  at C3 Associates  and our own David Lavenda teamed up to deliver the AIIM webinar – “How to Use SharePoint Well – And When To Recognize You Need a Bit More.” The webinar looked at when SharePoint provides a good standalone solution and when you need to look to third-party vendors to provide the key missing pieces.

Gartner Research has just released a report highlighting six areas cited by Gartner clients as ‘functional shortcomings’ in Microsoft SharePoint. The report, entitled "Ecosystem Partners That Can Help you Mind Six Gaps in SharePoint" identifies the shortcomings and profiles vendors of tools that can plug them.

When it comes to SharePoint, why do so many people subscribe to the fallacy, 'Build it and they will come'? Clearly, communication is not enough.

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

One of the big themes that came out of #SPJam is the need for the SharePoint Community to focus more on the business side of things, and not just on its technical implementation.

"SharePoint sucks." According to Allin Consulting Senior SharePoint Evangelist Richard Harbridge, that’s the conclusion reached time and again by people frustrated by their SharePoint user experience. Of course, the reality is that SharePoint doesn’t “suck,” but its implementation is riddled with challenges and decisions that impact the user experience and overall platform usability.