Essential SharePoint
Susan Hanley is a consultant, author and Microsoft Office Servers and Services MVP. She specializes in helping organizations build effective portal and collaboration solutions using SharePoint. She is the co-author of Essential SharePoint 2013. You can find her speaking schedule, white papers, books and conference presentations at www.susanhanley.com.
For Your Reading List: Re-Imagining Productive Work with Office 365 by Michael Sampson
Michael Sampson’s latest book, Re-Imagining Productive Work with Office 365, is a “must read” if you are currently using or planning to use Office 365. Michael is a brilliant author and approaches his overview of Office 365 not from...
07/14/2016
The Future of SharePoint is All About You
Microsoft announced major changes to SharePoint in San Francisco on May 4. The changes are significant from all perspectives, but most importantly, for business users. The new SharePoint is focused on people experiences – with...
05/04/2016
A SharePoint Conference and a South African Safari: Two great ideas to consider for June 2016
On June 20, 2016, the Eventful Group will host the annual Share Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. The value of the South African Rand against the US Dollar makes this a great time to consider attending this unique,...
05/01/2016
How to Ensure that Users are Prompted for Document Metadata in Office 365 and SharePoint 2016
In Office 365 (SharePoint Online) and SharePoint 2016, when you upload a single document to a library with metadata, you are not prompted to enter the metadata values unless at least one field is required. This article describes...
03/16/2016
5 Tips for Improving Document Findability in SharePoint
One of the best features about SharePoint is search – but did you know that there are several ways you can improve search results without touching a line of code? These five tips can help your users find what they are looking for more...
02/10/2016
5 Key Lessons from Award-Winning Intranets
The intranets that won the Step Two 2015 Intranet Innovation Award shared 5 key characteristics that every effective intranet should include. They were all: fit for purpose, built iteratively, measured, aligned with but not...
10/30/2015
If you measure it, they will come!
It’s always much easier to talk about measuring the value of technology investments when you are talking about systems such as general ledger or accounts payable – where the value can be measured in terms of improving a business...
08/21/2015
New activity logging and reporting for Office 365: Improve compliance and gain insights
In a blog post on July 8, 2015, Microsoft announced new activity logging and reporting capabilities for Office 365. These new features will begin rolling out starting this month and will be available in the reports section of the...
07/09/2015
Mobile First. Cloud First. People First. Welcome to Ignite 2015.
On May 4, 2015, Satya Nadella and other Microsoft executives announced upcoming capabilities coming to Office and Windows that are designed to reflect Microsoft’s focus on “mobile first|cloud first” and delivering consistent user...
05/09/2015
The future of SharePoint and Collaboration: Choose Your Own Adventure
This week, Microsoft published two blog posts that talk about the future of collaboration. The first, published on April 15, is called “The rise of dynamic teams.” This post is a bit of a “think piece” that talks about the rationale...
04/18/2015
5 Key Approaches to Overcome Barriers and Ensure Success with Enterprise Social
While enterprise communities can help drive change, getting people to transition to using enterprise social networks (ESNs) requires an investment in change management. This article recommends 5 key approaches to help drive adoption...
04/06/2015
The Design Lesson We Should Take Away from “The Dress” – Usability Testing Matters!
By now, pretty much everyone in the world has weighed in on the color of “the dress” originally appearing in a post in Tumblr. It’s amazing how this one little post basically blew up the internet, but there is a really important...
02/28/2015
Microsoft, Privacy, and the Cloud: Pick all Three
In a blog post today, Brad Smith, General Counsel and Executive Vice President, Legal and Corporate Affairs for Microsoft announced that Microsoft has adopted the first international standard for cloud privacy (ISO/IEC 27018:2014)....
02/16/2015
Yes, Virginia, there will be another SharePoint on premises!
In a blog post on February 2, Julia White, Microsoft’s general manager for Office Product Management, defined a plan for the evolution of SharePoint, answering the question that a lot of customers wanted to know: With all the emphasis...
02/04/2015
Get a First Look at What to Expect at Microsoft Ignite! – the place to be from May 4-8, 2015
Earlier today, Microsoft published the first look at the session line up for the upcoming Ignite conference in Chicago from May 4-8, 2015. Ignite is a combined event that is bringing together people who may have attended the Microsoft...
01/28/2015
Tips to Help Content Editors Create Better Content for SharePoint Pages
Sometimes content authors need a little help to create great content for SharePoint. This article includes a dozen helpful hints for writing SharePoint content and five tips for using images to help improve user experience.
01/21/2015
5 New Year’s Resolutions (Tips) for SharePoint Power Users
5 Helpful SharePoint Tips for Better User Experiences
01/11/2015
12 Key Strategies for Unlocking the Secrets of SharePoint User Adoption
This article summarizes 12 key strategies for SharePoint user adoption.
08/29/2014
Measuring what Matters: Using SharePoint Analytics to Provide Clues about Business Impact
This article explores an approach to use to think about how to use system and business metrics to provide clues to help identify and improve both the adoption and business impact of SharePoint solutions.
07/11/2014
Insights from the Microsoft SharePoint Conference
There was an overwhelming amount of information to process at the recent Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2014 in Las Vegas. This conference continued the themes of the last SharePoint Conference in 2012: cloud, mobile, and social....
03/10/2014
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