Monthly Archives for May 2008

Ready Steady SharePoint!

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - May 16, 2008

Selling SharePoint (document management system / collaboration platform) to customers is not easy. There are two approaches you can take when selling SharePoint: It works the way you business does [:)] – Microsoft’s approach I believe that SharePoint really is very good platform but it is not an out-of-box solution.…

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Is Groove ready for widespread usage?

Misc - Toni Frankola - May 7, 2008

For about two years we have been testing Groove internally. My first impressions were great. Groove offers the ability to share files and collaborate among various teams, inside and outside your organization. Groove key advantages: File sharing / Collaboration Unlimited extensibility It works on any network connection (it knows how…

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Your corporate intranet ?= Web 2.0 + Wikipedia

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - May 2, 2008

When talking about intranet portals from end users perspective, the most important “feature” for them is content. Yes, a Silverlight photo gallery is very cool but employees are visiting intranet to find more information about company, to perform their jobs better ([:)]), etc… While consulting customers on intranet solution architecture,…

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Word cannot publish this post – part 2

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - May 2, 2008

I already wrote how trilled I am with the ability to publish SharePoint content directly from Word 2007. If are looking to create a blog site that will allow all users to contribute you will need to setup user permissions correctly. By default, Blog Posts list requires approval, but contributors…

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