Those Famous Words….

Steve DalbyI am sure you have all read them as your twitter account draws you to an interesting site of someones personal interests or role in life…. they are of course

Welcome to my Blog site

Now don’t get me wrong, you are all more than Welcome to read through some of the items I will be adding and maybe get to follow me around Europe as I travel and do what I hope are interesting things and share odd pictures, but…

I want to entertain, indulge in some strange ideas and collect your comments as we enter the sometimes rather obtuse world of SharePoint and it’s rather cool ways of ensuring knowledge is collected and make relevant to the reader just when they needed it.

Pure Knowledge, Nothing more-Nothing Less..

After all this is what your company paid out the money for… now to make it happen.

SharePoint Project Case Study

The London Borough of Bromley Intranet… a bulletin!

The PDF version can be downloaded from here:

Introduction: This short briefing document outlines the basic attributes of a SharePoint Implementation project managed in its entirety by Steve Dalby (steve.Dalby@sei-is.be) as Project Manager, Technical lead and Business Analyst. The complete project took 2.5 years and was delivered in phases that included a migration from SharePoint 2003 to MOSS 2007. Here are some of the highlights. Continue reading ‘SharePoint Project Case Study’

100 Million Items in a list and SharePoint 2010 Conference Las Vegas.

First day yesterday and I did have to twitter everyone to say that Microsoft does have a winner in SharePoint 2010 although they do seem to have forgotten a few things. 

Missing things tend to be small things that annoy when building sites and lists rather than large things that stops a coder delivering functionality… a typical example is the failure to provide a cascading Look-up field… which if you are not familiar would allow you to include a field in a SharePoint form that provides a drop down choice from another list within the same site.  Continue reading ’100 Million Items in a list and SharePoint 2010 Conference Las Vegas.’

Powerpoint presentation through sharePoint to anyone…

Powerpoint driving a browser presentationI mentioned in a previous blog how we are able to understand the integration of Office desktop products and SharePoint 2010 from the Office 2010 information, whilst most of the really cool SharePoint stuff is embargoed until after the SharePoint conference in LA. 

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SharePoint Intranet Specification

Sei-IS was asked to advice a large organisation on using Moss 2007 for their Intranet service. The brief was to deliver Web 2.0 functionality wherever possible on an Intranet that currently showed 28,000 pages listed with nearly half a million files including several thousand videos.

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Implementation of SharePoint 20-10 might have got easier

Collaboration ChairsThere are people much better than me at following the blogs and internet traffic on SharePoint and Office 20-10 (to be pronounced, Twenty Ten) but whilst most of the detailed SharePoint information is due to be released at SharePoint Conference in October my reading of the office 2010 information is starting to strongly hint at some real collaboration functionality between these two ‘joined at the hip’ products.

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Knowledge Relativity

Steve looks at the problems of Data Storage and Knowledge Relativity that could be a solution for managing corporate data and saving back-up and storage Budgets.

The problem that most people face is that they don’t actually know what knowledge is, they have a great idea of what information is, organisations have Terabytes of it sitting on hard-drives costing money to support and protect.  So how does one select the bytes that are knowledge and those that are not?  The answer is relativity to the data… but let’s gets back to that later.

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Taxonomy… then Governance

Governance wordsA Content Management System (used for Intranet or Internet sites) is one breed of web site and a Knowledge Management System is another. 

Lets consider them both and look at the differences that add value to the corporate Intranet.

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SharePoint the Font of all Knowledge or expensive “must Have”

SharePoint has various faces, the “must have” of the corporate world or the “let’s build our Intranet on SharePoint” all with the objective of it becoming the ‘Font of all Knowledge’ for my organisation.

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