I’m very tempted to start this post like a dodgy wealth-guru infomercial. You know the ones with lots of imagery of people living the dream of financial freedom. I am thinking a montage of a resort, a large yacht anchored …

The secret to understanding governance Read more »

I’ve written this post to document a dumbass thing that I did and the error that it caused. Hopefully it might help someone googling in desperation sometime… The popularity of the “Tribute to the humble leave form” series over at …

SPD workflows: “ERROR: request not found in the TrackedRequests” Read more »

A quick bit of background. My last 2 trips to the USA were particularly fruitful in meeting many like-minded SharePoint pros, all of which are well known and highly regarded. Some close friendships were made and what was really cool …

Who wants to spend 3 days with me and the gang? Read more »

I listened to Steve Smith talk about user engagement on the SharePoint Pod Show today and found myself nodding in strong agreement with many points that he made. So while in that mood of stakeholder engagement and how to achieve …

Core Principles for User Engagement – a must read …er… explore! Read more »

Hi all Some time back a publisher sent me a self-help SharePoint book pitched at end users. I figured that I don’t really represent an end user and the best way to review it would be to make Mrs Cleverworkarounds …

SharePoint book review – Seamless Teamwork by Michael Sampson Read more »

Quick note: This is another of the sort of posts where I cannot help but feel that some readers will wonder what I have been smoking. It is not essential, but reading the “one best practice” series will provide a …

SharePoint Governance – Debategraph style Read more »

I’ve been busy on a number of fronts and some of the fruits of that work will appear soon enough, but I thought that I would pop up to let you know about a forthcoming book written by Brett Lonsdale …

New book preview – SharePoint 2007 Developers Guide to the Business Data Catalog Read more »

Hi I have been very busy on a number of fronts – which is why the blog hasn’t had much attention lately. I’ll be back soon enough though – once I get a few big jobs done. For those of …

Listen to me blab on about crap 😉 Read more »

Today I presented a session at the Perth SharePoint Users Group. I was a little unsure whether my non-technically focussed content would be of interest to the geeks but the turnout was terrific and the feedback has been brilliant. (The …

Perth SharePoint Users Group wrap Read more »