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.
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.
During the hour-long discussion, Mark Fidelman (harmon.ie) will ask our global panel of SharePoint experts about the relevance of the SharePoint community today, its future viability and what needs to change to equip members to make continuous, systematic improvements to their organization’s SharePoint-based social and collaboration projects.
Many people believe the SharePoint community is unequaled in its ability to share expertise, connect with people tackling common issues, and find solutions to issues others have already solved. But a growing number of people are starting to question the future viability of SharePoint community, arguing it’s overexposed, delivering less value than it once had, and is destined to languish.
SharePoint is all about collaboration...and the most common
business collaboration is a group of people working together on a project. There are project documents to be filled out
and files to organize. Once the data is in SharePoint, it needs to be
made accessible to team members. Join SharePoint
MVP Laura Rogers this Wednesday at 11:00 am to
hear her present one of her favorite topics – Tips for Better Project
Management.
