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SharePoint, eContent and the GRC Challenge (CMSWire)
Every time an employee innocently sends a forgotten password to a co-worker over the system, every time an HR staffer forwards a resume to a hiring manager, every time a website content writer posts a new blog entry with an old brand mark — there’s a question of violation of GRC rules. The Shattered Web: Just a few years ago, the term “eContent” would have been dismissed as a typo. Today, it’s a term that almost every organization has to deal with. With the enterprise moving online to a greater and greater extent, companies are finding enhanced efficiencies in electronic documents and collaborative workflow — creating a new kind of management challenge. Suddenly, Web 2.0 and 3.0 realities have come up against compliance requirements for privacy and risk management.

Microsoft Cloud 2.0 (SYS-CON Media)
Extending back-end legacy applications through integrating them with Social Media is an exciting new trend known as “Social Business”. IBM provides a great introduction in this white paper Technical Strategy for Social Business (9-page PDF) which explains how open standards are evolving so that social media can pull event data from enterprise applications, for example an alert generated from Cognos published to a user's ‘Activity Stream‘. This means that the Twitter-like experience that has become so popular for public use is being leveraged for enhanced corporate knowledge management.

Microsoft’s Biggest Mobile Failure and Success: Android (Seattle PI)
Back in 2007, when Apple released the first iPhone, anyone could have told you it had the potential change the mobile business as we knew it. The intuitive, visual and app-centric platform was in stark contrast to the text-based, bland and bulky smart-phone systems from Nokia and Microsoft. But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in an interview with CNBC (embedded below), laughed at the iPhone, balking at its $500 price tag and writing it off as a business option because it didn’t have a keyboard. “Right now we’re selling millions and millions and millions of phones a year; right now, Apple’s selling zero phones a year. In six month’s they’ll have the most expensive phone by far ever in the marketplace. And, we’ll see,” Ballmer said with an amused grin. “Let’s see how the competition goes.”

How Office 365 Can Improve Your Business (Business News Daily)
Office 365 is not just another flavor of Microsoft’s venerable Office software suite that tweaks the old standby and moves it to the cloud, say the authors of a just-published guide to this productivity package. The killer app that Office 365 brings to the small business toolkit is collaboration. Office 365 wraps familiar Microsoft tools such as Office productivity applications in a cloud service package that includes SharePoint’s document management functions, Exchange Online’s email, calendar and contact features, and Lync Online, a communications service that integrates enterprise voice, instant messaging and Web-, audio- and videoconferencing.

Last Rodeo? Gartner Says Windows 7 Could End Era of Big Migrations (Redmond Channel Partner)
On their own merits, Gartner Inc.'s forecasts this week were interesting: Windows 7 will 1) run on 42 percent of the global PC installed base by year end, 2) account for 94 percent of OSes shipped on new PCs in all of 2011, and 3) be the shipping OS for 635 million new PCs by the end of this year. Even more interesting was an assumption included in the analyst firm's news release announcing the research. "Gartner's forecast assumes that Windows 7 is likely to be the last version of Microsoft OS that gets deployed to everybody through big corporate wide migration," the release stated.

Why Microsoft, Google and Facebook Want Your Email (ReadWriteEnterprise)
Tally up the total number of searches on Google, Yahoo and Bing and you have about 3.5 billion searches per day. It's estimated that Twitter has about 300 million accounts and Facebook claims more than 750 million active users. As impressive as those numbers are, though, they're a drop in a bucket compared to email – which is estimated at 294 billion per day. That, says Jeff Hardy, is why Google and Microsoft really want your email. Not because of the numbers, per se, but because of what the numbers represent.

 

Around the Blogosphere
Image Slideshow with CQWP in SharePoint 2010 (Me & My SharePoint Designer)
This post is a follow up to the past 3 part series ‘Display News pages with CQWP’. In the last post (Part 3) I wrote about how to slide the news items one by one from right to left with the Content By Query Web Part (CQWP) and with help of jQuery. In this post I will show how to use a similar technique but we’re now going to create an image slideshow that reads images from an image library in SharePoint. To achieve this I have used a slideshow plugin that support many types of effects, it also supports stuff like pause on hover, auto fit, click triggers and much more.

Unsung Hero Winners Announced (Chris Johnson)
We received tonnes of incredible and inspiring nominations for your unsung heroes of the SharePoint community. We sat down, read and re-read them all over and over … and finally have a list of the winners we can announce! We decided we couldn’t just award 10 prizes, so we lifted the cap to 13 given how amazing these folks contributions are.

SharePoint Strategy – a Piece of Cake? (PointBeyond)
A light-hearted look at the reasons for defining a SharePoint strategy… Imagine walking into a fabulous cake shop and being told you’ve £100 to spend. That’s going to buy you a whole lot of cake! But what do you do? It could be tempting to just get stuck in and start eating. The cakes are there and ready to eat. But how do you choose which ones to have? You may tuck into one that looks delicious, only to find it contains walnuts, and you don’t like walnuts. Or you may start eating a lemon cake, get half way through and before you can actually finish it you get so tempted by a chocolate cake that you move onto that one, then onto a strawberry one, and so on.

Should You Embrace SharePoint’s Full Set of Capabilities? (T3chnicalLead)
In The Executive Perspective: Top 7 Things You Must Consider for SharePoint 2010, Scott Jamison makes some excellent points on how to ensure that your SharePoint implementation doesn’t simply get used as a company file server: “If you’re going to invest the time and effort to deploy SharePoint, along with the cost of servers and storage, then you owe it to yourself and your organization to invest in governance, a good information architecture and training.”

SharePoint: How Long Should You Spend on Requirements Gathering? (EndUserSharePoint)
Estimating how long a project will take to complete is a complex task, with hundreds of books and articles having be written about the various techniques and methods of getting it right. I'd like to look at a different slightly angle, that of how long you should spend on requirements gathering in any given project. The answer of course varies from project to project. The simple answer though is as long as possible! However, clients normally want a bit more precision than that. Experience has taught me to aim for 30% of a projects total development time to be spent on analysis. Not all of this time needs to be upfront, some can be done along the way. But the total should be in the region of 30%.

How to: Share SharePoint Online Sites with External Users (Office 365) (Corey Roth [MVP])
One of the coolest features unique to SharePoint Online is the ability to share sites with external users. I’ve noticed the functionality was there throughout the beta but I believe I hadn’t actually been able to get it to work until GA. Even then, it took checking a number of settings before I could actually get it to work. You can share content with external users by using the new Share Site menu item in the Site Actions menu. When you start with a new out-of-the-cloud site collection, you will get a screen that looks like this.

 

Around Bamboo Nation
SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: Using the Silverlight Client Object Model in SharePoint 2010 to Create a Silverlight Web Part (SharePoint 2010)
Introduced with SharePoint 2010, the Client Object Mode helps developers design client applications that access SharePoint content without installing code on the server. The Client Object Model can run directly on client machines without having been installed on the SharePoint server. An article on MSDN tells us that the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model supports "three new client APIs for interacting with SharePoint sites: from a .NET managed application, from a Microsoft Silverlight application, or from ECMAScript (JavaScript, JScript) that executes in the browser." In this post, we will explore and utilize the Silverlight Client Object Model.

 

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SharePoint Developer - Chesterfield, MO
As a Senior SharePoint Solutions Developer with the EMS team you will lead the technical design and development efforts of SharePoint-related engagements. Your high level of technical expertise in development and delivery of web based applications will help you successfully design, develop, troubleshoot, debug, and implement software code for web based applications and sites. Your deep SharePoint solutions experience will allow you to effectively integrate web applications with other enterprise systems. Your responsibilities will include participating in troubleshooting issues and reported errors and providing technical support on escalated issues. You will also coordinate knowledge transfer from development partners to in house development team, and mentor and lead junior staff members.

SharePoint Project Manager - Tulsa, OK
The role of the Project Manager is to plan, execute, and finalize projects on time and on budget. Coordinating efforts of team members, vendors, and consultants to deliver projects according to plan is essential. The Project Manager will also define the project’s objectives and oversee quality control throughout its life cycle. The project will include implementation of SharePoint 2010 to include records management capabilities, evaluation of a content management tool, content migrations from 2007 to 2010 and review of all existing customizations.

 

Microsoft Updates
Plan for SharePoint Workspace 2010 (TechNet)
When you plan a Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010 deployment, consider your organization’s needs and objectives, especially in the context of the deployment options that are discussed here. The following references may also be helpful: For information about how to deploy SharePoint Workspace 2010 after planning your objectives, see Configure and customize SharePoint Workspace 2010. For information about how to deploy SharePoint Workspace 2010 for a Microsoft Groove Server-managed environment, see Deployment for Groove Server 2010.

 

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