5/11/2012
This in-depth article explores how to make parent-child list relationships in SharePoint 2010 - both at the list level and the user interface form level.
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Tags: Portals, SharePoint, Websites
4/27/2012
The Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010 and Groove Server 2010 technologies are designed to address a common business problem: the need for offline work capability and for offline collaboration. This article first explores the differences between offline work and offline collaboration and then explains how the technologies can be used to solve the issue.
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Tags: Collaboration, Portals, SharePoint
3/29/2012
Let’s consider two kinds of portals: one is a place where stuff is, the other is a place where people exist. Most portals start out as the former, and they tend to stay that way. If you are creating a portal that is a place where people exist, then you need to lead with identity...
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Tags: Collaboration, Portals, Social
1/27/2012
The sound of crickets on an otherwise silent night can invoke an empty, alone feeling—a pleasant feeling that it's just you and the crickets. But this feeling is deadly to your website or collaboration portal. Things like calendars, discussion boards, press release pages can be important communication and engagement tools, but neglect will start the crickets to start chirping.
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Tags: Portals, UX, Websites
1/10/2012
A large French company is banning internal emails and switching to a community based collaboration tool and instant messaging. Good for them and I hope more companies plan to follow their lead.
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Tags: Collaboration, Portals
6/7/2010
I get a LOT of emails from a variety of industry sites that I opted into, but I admit that many go unopened. Well, this morning from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, I received one with the title "Does SharePoint Destroy Intranet Design?"
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Tags: Collaboration, Portals, SharePoint, UX
11/20/2009
In a previous post we introduced the Northridge SharePoint Site Governance Lifecycle, which we identified as having five stages. In this post we will focus on the second of these stages: standing up new SharePoint sites, one of the most common activities to take place in a SharePoint intranet, but also a key governance topic.
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Tags: Portals, SharePoint
11/13/2009
As Northridge has developed various SharePoint-based business solutions for clients, and assisted clients in a consulting capacity with SharePoint strategy and governance, we have developed a model that we call the SharePoint Site Governance Lifecycle.
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Tags: Collaboration, Portals, SharePoint, UX
9/30/2009
2009 and 2010 will be remembered as the time when the words "search" and "Microsoft" became closely associated in the minds of enterprise technology customers, vendors, and developers.
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Tags: Portals, SharePoint, UX
8/19/2009
A paradigm shift is underway for how .NET solution developers work with identity and authentication. The shift is not only in the tools and recommended design patterns for validating user identity (authentication) and managing role-based permissions for what a user is allowed to do (authorization).
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Tags: Portals, UX
7/8/2009
When organizations adopt the Microsoft SharePoint platform, there are often at least a few people in the group who are very excited about the prospect of using the SharePoint wiki feature.
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Tags: Collaboration, Portals, SharePoint
7/18/2008
Historically, SharePoint has been a strong collaboration tool used heavily for corporate intranets, but with the new version it has become much more of a community building tool with robust content management features added.
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Tags: Collaboration, Portals, SharePoint