Tag Archive for 'Sharepoint'

Power Day Plus

All projects require a specific level of Business Change to be successful and SharePoint is no exception.  In fact it could be that as SharePoint touches nearly every employee then it is a greater part of the critical project timeline.

We have found that training is the best way to ensure that the investment $, £ or € in your SharePoint project is successful.  However to ensure that the message gets home ot your users we combine this with a medium amount of floor walking to visit the user at their desktop and ensure that they understand what and how SharePoint does.  This ensures that the key messages are delivered in the context of the user and their way or working. Continue reading ‘Power Day Plus’

Effective SharePoint training

I have been training for many years and never does it fail to impress me how much people want to learn and understand about the subject being taught.  Well most people… sometime my students are dragged into class by their managers and have a week of learning when all they can think about is the work sitting on their desks when they get back icon sad Effective SharePoint training Continue reading ‘Effective SharePoint training’

SharePoint the shape changer

 

3D shapes icons thumb SharePoint the shape changer

Has your project changed the shape of your business

Training has always been a key attribute of a business change program.  This is mainly due to the fact that change is based on new processes or new IT applications and systems being released. 

With any SharePoint project the training and business change requirements at the end should not be ignored or treated as a ‘nice to have’ if you want SharePoint to change the shape of your business. Continue reading ‘SharePoint the shape changer’

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’

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 chairs Implementation of SharePoint 20 10 might have got easierThere 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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Taxonomy… then Governance

Governance Taxonomy... then GovernanceA 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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Those Famous Words….

steve dalby 128x128 Those Famous Words....I 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.