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Report on which web2.0 technologies work for the enterprise

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:38:33 +0000

I thought that this article was topical given that I am writing on how organisational culture and behavioural style impacts the sorts of collaborative tools that individuals and organisations gravitate to and find useful. The reports cover 11 common Web 2.0 technologies that can potentially find value in the enterprise: microblogs, prediction markets, social networking, [...]

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Root Causes of Communication Fragmentation: Organisational Culture

admin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:39:45 +0000

This is the second article in a series of articles which examine factors causing the sort of organisational inefficiencies that lead people to use products like SharePoint. My first article in the series examined individual learning and behavioural styles and their impact on communication and how those same learning and behavioural styles still manifest themselves [...]

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Root Causes of Communication Fragmentation: Learning styles and behavioural styles

admin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:38:35 +0000

This is the first article in a short series that will be looking at factors causing the sort of communication problems that underpin the motivation to implement a product like SharePoint. When you think about why you want to implement SharePoint, it tends to boil down to an improvement in efficiency brought about by improved [...]

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New article posted to EndUserSharepoint

admin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:27:24 +0000

Hi all I recently wrote an article on how learning and behavioural styles affect the way SharePoint collaboration features are used in deployments. It is called Learning styles, behavioural styles and “collaboration” and can be found over at EnduserSharePoint.com regards Paul

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I’m a twit too

admin — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:16:13 +0000

I’m always a little slow on the uptake with anything new (Nintendo Wii being my first games console in 10 years being a case in point). But what the hell - let’s have even more information flowing into my PC for my poor old grey matter to process Therefore, for those of you into [...]

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One million and counting…

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:34:55 +0000

Hi all I know statistically it’s meaningless and is hugely subjective, but it looks like I have ended this week (and this month), having finally cracked the million hits mark. Of course, the significance is about the same as when you think its cool when your car speedo clocks over from 99,999 miles to 100,000. But [...]

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Free open source WCM for WSS

admin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:23:35 +0000

I have to say, Perth is home to some great SharePoint Talent. MVP Sezai is one prime example and Jeremy Thake is another. But there is also another colleague of mine who you may or may not know - Tommy Segoro, who is one of those mild-mannered guys who simply gets down to it and [...]

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Is Azure Death Magnetic?

admin — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:51:41 +0000

Microsoft and Metallica have more in common than people realise. Don’t believe me? Then here is my CleverWorkarounds "check the facts"(tm) campaign to prove it! Fact Microsoft Metallica They were both cool in the 80’s They released some groundbreaking stuff in the 80’s DOS 3 Ride The Lightning album Master of Puppets In [...]

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I bet it seemed logical at the time

admin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:04:14 +0000

Oh how times change! I am reading a good book at the moment called "Competing on Analytics - The New Science of Winning" and I hit one particular quote that I have to share with you. It’s one of those statements that makes perfect sense at the time, but is kind of funny when you [...]

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(ab)using ISO9001 for fun and profit

admin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:01:18 +0000

I don’t know if you have ever read ISO9001, but it is about as exciting as getting a root canal or trying to listen to a Ricky Martin album with a straight face. But hey, if they were actually interesting, ISO compliance wouldn’t be such a billion dollar industry. Does anybody else use SharePoint for [...]

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