10 Key Things You Need to Know About SharePoint 2013 Community Sites
The new Community site template in SharePoint 2013 provides some really cool capabilities to promote and encourage collaboration for organizational communities. I considered two alternate titles for...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 vs. 2013 Feature Comparison Summary for Business Users
Recently, I was asked to document a summary list of the key differences between SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013 from the perspective of the business user. Clearly, the modern UI of SharePoint 2013...
View ArticlePractice Safe Search: 10 Essential SharePoint 2013 Search Hints
A recent Nielsen Norman Alertbox post talked about how most "users are incredibly bad at finding and researching things on the web." The article mentions that most users have learned to limit their use...
View ArticleSharePoint Governance: To get started, it’s important to have the right...
Just like pretty much everything else when it comes to successful technology solutions, the focus of governance planning for SharePoint needs to start with the business outcomes you are trying to...
View ArticleWhy We Are Disabling Reputation Settings in SharePoint 2013 Discussions Lists
Even if you don't enable "community features," SharePoint 2013 Discussion Lists have a much improved user experience over SharePoint 2010. However, if you enable Community features in a team site or...
View ArticleThe book is launched! Essential SharePoint 2013: Practical Guidance for...
Essential SharePoint 2013: Practical Guidance for Meaningful Business Results is finally available in print! As with the two earlier editions, I'm responsible for pretty much all of the "non-technical"...
View ArticleSharePoint Trick: Link to an Image Thumbnail
I am working with a client where we have a SharePoint list and each list item is associated with an image in an image library. We can easily create a link from the list to the image itself using a...
View ArticleEssential Intranets by James Robertson: Essential reading for intranet...
I was lucky enough to get a copy of Essential Intranets by the always brilliant James Robertson to review. If he hadn't given it to me, I would have bought a copy, and you should too, because this...
View ArticleHashtag Helper: 7 tips to get more value from hashtags in SharePoint 2013
The organizations I'm currently working with are seeing some tremendous value leveraging the social capabilities of SharePoint and Yammer. I'm going to share some great stories about how they have...
View ArticleInsights from the Microsoft SharePoint Conference
There was an overwhelming amount of information to process at the recent Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2014 in Las Vegas. This conference continued the themes of the last SharePoint Conference in...
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