On February 20th harmon.ie hosted a joint webinar with Mark Miller. Mark is a Senior Storyteller, founder and editor of the EndUserSharePoint.com community, and the voice of the SharePoint end user. 138 participants from different parts of the world joined the discussion about what social means in the everyday work environment and in SharePoint.

With the launch of both MS Exchange Server 2013 and Microsoft SharePoint 2013, Microsoft has introduced the new ‘Site Mailbox’ concept which allows “access to both Microsoft SharePoint 2013 documents and Exchange email using documents and Exchange email using the same client interface.”¹

In our previous blog posts, we’ve shared best practice tips for Delivering Consumer-Grade User Experience, how to tackle the everyday business user question WIIM (What’s In It For Me?) and how Providing guidance will encourage users to use SharePoint regularly.

One key area of driving SharePoint adoption within the organization is to actually gauge your SharePoint implementation and measure its success.

In our previous blog posts, Part I and Part II, we’ve shared best practice tips for delivering a consumer-grade user experience and how to help business users get 'What’s In It For Me?', when it comes to adopting SharePoint.

To encourage people to embrace and get actively involved in collaboration projects, here are some road-tested tips for how to encourage better guidance and build communities focused on supporting business needs. 

In our previous blog post we shared best practice tips for delivering a consumer-style user experience to jump start your enterprise SharePoint adoption process.

Typical business users are less resistant to changes when new tools mimic things with which they are already comfortable. But no matter how much you can imitate the consumer experience, workers always ask themselves, WIIFM (“What’s In It For Me?”) when asked to change the way they work.

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.

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