The Seattle Foundation is making the greater Seattle community a vital and healthy place to live, driving positive change on a range of local issues by working side by side with donors. Founded in 1946, The Seattle Foundation is your local, definitive resource for giving. We provide the reliable insight and tools you need to [...]
Read More
The Seattle Foundation
Still here…
Hi guys – I’m still around, but fighting a few more "CKS:EBE on SharePoint 2010" issues than I expected (in what little spare time I have). In particular the rich RSS feed (a critical bit, don’t you think) doesn’t appear to be working correctly.
Don’t worry, though, you haven’t been forgotten, and I’ve got a couple cool post subjects already on tap.
GL Hearn
At GL Hearn we fully recognise that our business has a social, economic and environmental impact. We have established policies to ensure that our business operates and respects all that it affects. We are committed to maintaining high standards in all our activities and we concentrate on business ethics, clients, charities, the environment, diversity and [...]
Read More
Atrion
Established in 1987, Atrion is an IT Services Provider that designs, deploys and manages business-driven information technology solutions for AlwaysOn performance. With a dedicated focus on our clients, we accelerate business productivity and growth with full-scale customized technology solutions including: consultation, project management, training and education, telephony, software and application services, equipment procurement, local and [...]
Read More
Girl Scouts of Western Ohio
Girl Scouts of Western Ohio, the fifth largest in the USA, serves nearly 53,000 girls in a 32 county area throughout western Ohio and southeast Indiana. More than 14,000 trained volunteers work to provide services and deliver the Girl Scout Leadership Experience to girls. Four regional Girl Scout Centers are located in Cincinnati, Dayton, Lima [...]
Read More
Project 2010 SP1 and more
A lot of exciting things happening in the world of Microsoft Project! It’s been a year since we launched and we’re seeing great customer and partner momentum with Microsoft Project 2010! I thought I would share just a few of the recent exciting news for Project 2010:
SP1 for Project desktop and Project Server will release at the end of June 2011. You can find more detailed information on the team blog. Beyond fixes, we’re shipping enhancements that include:
- Multi-Browser Support for time entry in Project Web App
- Improved synchronization of Project tasks to a SharePoint task list on-premises or in Office 365
- Time-phased support for manually scheduled tasks
- Improvements to project scheduling in Project Web App
eWeek Microsoft Project 2010 Top 10 Features. This is great to see as it highlights features across Project 2010 desktop and Project Server 2010! You can check it out at http://bit.ly/lpQVIY.
New Project 2010 Podcast on PMI. There is a great new podcast on the Project Management Institute’s Knowledge Center site. Margaret Loosemore, a Senior Product Manager on my team, gives an overview of all the great new features in Project 2010. I highly recommend checking it out here.
Microsoft Project for the Masses. A must-read whitepaper written by Innovative-e that outlines how project management can be effectively implemented without the need for complex configuration and/or processes for specific scenarios. It includes a great whitepaper and other great artifacts like videos, templates, etc. You can download from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=53cd717f-939d-4f41-921a-feb3aa9353aa&displaylang=en.
Microsoft Project Conference 2012 on March 19-22, 2012. If there’s one event you have to go to, it’s next year’s Project Conference 2012! The entire team is looking forward to this event where you’ll have an opportunity to meet the team in Redmond, the greater Project customer and partner community and share best practices. Phoenix in March is also a nice touch… nice, warm weather! While registration is not open just yet (it will be soon), you can get on the mailing list at http://www.msprojectconference.com. If you’re a partner looking for sponsorship activities, shoot me a note.
Tagged: customer, desktop, detailed, exciting, happening, information, it’s, june, launched, microsoft, momentum, more, news, partner, project, recent, release, seeing, server, share, things, thought, were, world, yearBIWUG on SharePoint Governance and the past, the present and the future
BIWUG is announcing another session about SharePoint on Thursday October 27th 2011 in the Microsoft Belgium offices.
Agenda
18:00-19:00 Welcome with snacks
19:00-19:15 Introduction
19:15-20:15 SharePoint Governance (Speaker Patrick Sledz): Stop thinking about features features features when talking about governance.
When designing governance for a SharePoint implementation, a lot (not to say all) energy and words go out to technical stuff, SLA’s and not to the things that define the business value. And the business value is not only a perfect technically tuned and performant SharePoint farm (if that even exists).
20:15-20:30 Break
20:30-21:00 The past, present and the future of BIWUG
During a seemingly quiet period, a lot has been going on behind the scenes. The result of all this secrecy will be revealed in the second part of the evening.
21:00-21:30 SharePint!
Of course there is also an opportunity to network, socialize and discuss the matter explained the previous hours… therefore SharePint!
Location: Microsoft Belgium Corporate Village – Bayreuth Building, Leonardo Da Vincilaan 3, 1935 Zaventem
Registration is now opened on the BIWUG site www.biwug.be
Presenting SharePoint 2010 – to pie or not to pie?
I recently found an interesting discussion about the SharePoint pie – to pie or not to pie? Most of you have probably use the image depicted below in presentations to potential customers – but is that such a good idea?
Here are some of my ideas about this:
- The SharePoint 2010 pie makes sense to talk to technical people who have worked with previous versions of SharePoint – also check out this one – Making sense of the SharePoint 2010 pie
- It is probably not the pie that matters but the story behind it – the translation to the business context of a specific customer which makes a difference – an excellent article about this is Effectively communicate the power of SharePoint to a business audience
- I haven’t found a comparable compelling graphic yet to explain such a diverse product (or platform) such as SharePoint – so I will probably still be using it for quite a while.
- The terms used within the pie such as composites, insights are probably not known with business users but they are commonly used by all SharePoint professionals so it makes it for customers sometimes a little simpler to compare consultants and their sales pitch.
Please leave a comment with your idea about this or fill in this poll
The Sanity Point is Now On SharePoint 2010
It’s About Time!
I’m pleased to announce that The Sanity Point is now at long last running on SharePoint 2010. Specifically, Search Server 2010 Express. I confess, this took a lot longer than I had planned.
Though the big stumbling blocks had to do with migrating my content, and getting the Community Kit for SharePoint – Enhanced Blog Edition (CKS:EBE) to work correctly, I can’t totally blame the tools. My life has been pretty busy these last few months, so my troubleshooting time (along with writing time) was quite limited. Still, look for a post describing my new environment and the actual trials and tribulations of getting it set up in the near future, as there are definitely some "gotchas".
In the mean time, thanks for your patience, and I’ll see y’all at Tech-Ed in Atlanta!
*UPDATE*
There is apparently yet another glitch with CKS:EBE. Sometimes, post links aren’t working. It doesn’t happen consistently (otherwise I would have caught it). Please bear with me as I try to work out this last kink. Thanks for your patience!
