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The Art of SharePoint Success: Strategic Lenses - Enterprise CMS & Collaboration (CMSWire)
Happy New Year and welcome back. In our last article we began to explore a series of "strategic lenses" which I use to help clients understand and articulate their SharePoint related goals. We discussed value, knowledge management and intranets. In this article we’re going to wrap up on strategic lenses with Enterprise Content Management and the "C" word — Collaboration! This is article number nine in the intellectual odyssey which is the Art of SharePoint Success, a four point framework for ensuring organizations generate long term, measurable returns on SharePoint investments. There are four elements to the framework: 1.Governance; 2.Strategy; 3.Architecture; 4.Transition.

Enabling the Admin (AIIM)
SharePoint has been a great success and can now be found in most companies throughout the United States and the world.  With this great success have come great challenges. Now an organization might have thousands of sites, each with its own set of needs. The issue is how does one manage such a proliferation of content in an effective manner. This has been on my mind recently and in fact I am doing a session at the SHARE conference in April in Atlanta on this very topic (http://www.shareconference.com/us). Sure, there are lots of tools out there to handle deleting sites and handling permissions but there is one point that is so often overlooked.

Windows 8 is a Big Risk to the Consumer PC Industry (ZDNet)
The consumer PC industry is in the doldrums, with sales down at bothersome levels and a near-tangible lack of enthusiasm in the air. The Ultrabook is launching in full force, and while that is intended to reignite consumer passion it alone is not going to do the trick. Windows 8 will launch in the consumer market with great fanfare this year, and how the average PC buyer will react to an OS that is such a radical departure from past versions of Windows is a big question mark.

The "Why" of Expanding Cloud & Big Data Definitions (Cloud Computing Journal)
My father would tell me that during his time in the U.S. Navy, "we weren't encouraged to ask why we had to do something." Creating and enforcing a strict command-and-control policy is critical in getting a military organization to function. Too often, this mindset permeates companies as well. Even in its milder forms, it often leads to groupthink and/or a passive-aggressive "acceptance" of corporate initiatives and their execution.

Android, iOS Will Comprise 74% of Smartphones Purchased (eWeek)
More than 70 percent of consumers who intend to purchase a smartphone over the next 6 months will purchase an Apple iPhone or a handset based on Google's Android operating system, according to a Yankee Group survey. The researcher, which polled more than 15,000 people, learned that more than 47 percent of U.S. respondents own a smartphone, and 58 percent of those surveyed said they would buy a smartphone as their next mobile handset.

Top 9 Candidates To Succeed Steve Ballmer (RedmondMag)
Despite hedge fund manager David Einhorn's call for Steve Ballmer's head last year, there's no evidence to suggest the Microsoft CEO is going anywhere in the near-term. But if the company's fortunes were to go into a tailspin, anything is possible. We're not even entertaining the possibility of a Gates comeback; that's simply not going to happen. Nor does it appear likely that former Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie would ever come back to step into the shoes of Gates and Ballmer. With that in mind, here's our short list (in no particular order):

 

Around the Blogosphere
Correctly implementing Ribbon in SharePoint 2010 (Waldek Mastykarz)
SharePoint 2010 introduces a new User Experience designed to make it easier for users to accomplish their tasks. One of the biggest improvements is the contextual Ribbon, which increases discoverability op options by displaying only options relevant to the current context. The main idea behind the Ribbon is that it’s always available and within reach. This applies not only to Office client applications but also to SharePoint.

O365/SPO + Azure + AuthN - How to Authenticate with O365, SPO & MSO (Andrew Connell)
In my previous post in this series I talked about how authentication works with Office365 (O365) & SharePoint Online (SPO). You first authenticate with Microsoft Online (MSO) and then your browser passes along the SAML token with each request to site collections in SPO. The first thing we need to do when accessing SPO programmatically is to understand how we authenticate with MSO and get the SAML token. Thankfully Microsoft provides a sample to help with the authentication piece. What you need is to make sure you have the Windows Identity Framework Runtime installed first. The main class that Wictor Wilen provides for authenticating to MSO is MsOnlineClaimsHelper. This class takes three parameters in the constructor:

Where Not to Begin with SharePoint (EndUserSharePoint)
Whether you’ve just unwrapped the Christmas packaging off your shiny new SharePoint 2010 deployment, you’ve downloaded a trial version, or maybe SharePoint has been in place for a couple years but not really utilized and you’re trying to build a business case for a much broader deployment. Where to begin? I’ll tell you one place not to begin – Human Resources. I’m not trying to beat up on HR, but it seems that every organization, when deploying SharePoint for the first time and thinking about building a business case, seems to focus in on some of the most common HR activities, such as automating expense reports, or maybe vacation requests. My money says that this is exactly where most of you started. And that’s fine when you’re learning the platform, doing a proof of concept, or experimenting with workflows. But don’t go that route and expect to wow anyone.

A Quick Visual Tour of Office365 for New Users (The Scribble SharePoint Blog)
Office365 is Microsoft's cloud offering - featuring SharePoint, Outlook, and Office Web Apps. It's huge product with many features, and I will be covering it more and more on this blog over the next few weeks. In this post I simply want to give you a quick tour and overview of the key components. What follows is screen shots of the main areas, which will hopefully give you a good feel for what is available.

Why Can’t Users Find Stuff on the Intranet? An IBIS Synthesis–Part 1 (Clever Workarounds)
There was an interesting discussion on the Intranet Professionals group on LinkedIn recently where Luc De Ruijter asked the question: What are the main three reasons users cannot find the content they were looking for on intranet? As you can imagine there were a lot of responses, and a lot more than three answers. As I read through them, I thought it might be a good exercise to use IBIS (the language behind issue mapping) to map the discussion and see what the collective wisdom of the group has to say. So in these posts, I will illustrate the utility of IBIS and Issue mapping for this work, and make some comments about the way the conversation progressed.

 

Around Bamboo Nation
A SharePoint Newbie’s Take on Password Change Web Part (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Hello, Bamboo Nation! My name is Jeff Kim and I'm one of the new(er) technical writers here at Bamboo Solutions.  Having recently started at Bamboo, I can definitely say that I recognize SharePoint is a huge product with great scope for businesses all over, and that learning the ins and outs of such a product is a daunting task indeed.  The good news is that I have the luxury of a great set of managers and co-workers who are helping me to understand more and more every day, and the more I learn, the more I realize how powerful SharePoint can be ... especially when combined with the products we create here at Bamboo.  In light of this ongoing realization, I have decided that the best way I can serve our community is to provide what I hope to be a fresh take on each of our products from a perspective that you may not be used to hearing: a technical writer's.  As I help to produce new documentation for our many products, I will attempt to chronicle my thoughts and opinions on them, perhaps even revealing a juicy little tip or tidbit that will help you utilize the product in a way that's just a little bit more efficient or fun.  As I learn about our products, I hope you will, too.  Many of you are probably already familiar with our products, but if you're new to SharePoint or Bamboo Solutions, think of this as a first look at some of the great tools we offer.  Feel free to leave comments regarding our Online Documentation or about our products in general!

 

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SharePoint Architect - Arlington, TX
The SharePoint Architect is responsible for the development of technical specifications through analysis of functional and business requirements, coordinating the high and low level design effort on projects impacting our SharePoint environment, providing guidance and mentoring on technical issues, helping to define and document development standards and providing architectural oversight on projects to ensure that systems conform to AmeriCredit's architectural standards. This employee has contact with other Company departments.

SharePoint SQL DBA - St. Louis, Missouri
Designs, documents, and guides the use of data and database changes for complex, enterprise-wide (internal to company) database integration. Analyzes needs and requirements of existing and proposed systems, and develops technical, structural, and organizational specifications. May create standards and/or do modeling to monitor and enhance capacity and performance.

 

Microsoft Updates
Managing Enterprise Metadata in SharePoint Server 2010 (ECM) (MSDN)
Learn the core concepts of SharePoint Server 2010 managed metadata and how to use it. Managed metadata is a hierarchical collection of centrally managed terms that you can define, and then use as attributes for items in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This topic introduces the core concepts about managed metadata, and then describes ways to use managed metadata. The final section presents several benefits of incorporating managed metadata into your SharePoint Server 2010 solution. This topic includes:

 

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