This was an interesting use case. I manage the Boston Office 365 User Group's twitter feed, @Bos365. As we look to promote our non-profit events and content through Twitter, I sometimes just want to tweet the same thing a couple of times. Twitter is instant, and your tweets can get buried pretty quick, I wanted... Continue Reading →
Before you make SharePoint Public – 2 more times
I wanted to quickly share on two more options for you to listen in on my session Before you make SharePoint Public. SP24 is reairing all of their sessions, this Wednesday and Thursday, May 14th - 15th. My session will be run Wednesday night, at 9pm EST. I hope you can make it. Check out the wrap up... Continue Reading →
What I Learned at #SPC14
This was my first year attending SharePoint Conference, and it was a real blast. I picked up a lot of good nuggets from my trip, here's a highlight of my favorites: Pahhhtttaaayyy College was a long time ago, but it appears I still got it, or so I thought. My team from Boston spent a... Continue Reading →
My Chat with Jared Spataro on Socializing Outside of SharePoint
Yesterday there was a Facebook chat with Jared Spataro on enterprise social and SharePoint. He took questions on the social features within SharePoint, some general questions around social in the enterprise, and of course what can we expect in the upcoming version of SharePoint. I love the social aspects in SharePoint 2010: tagging, newsfeed, my... Continue Reading →
A long list of SharePoint blogs, and a new SharePoint Social App
In an effort to keep myself up to speed with what's going on across the SharePoint world, I compiled every SharePoint blog I could find into a Google Reader Bundle. I also created an Android app which reads this same list. Below are the blogs this feed subscribes to: Andrew Connell [MVP SharePoint], http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/Default.aspx Boston SharePoint Salon, http://www.bostonsharepointsalon.com/... Continue Reading →
SharePoint 2010 Web Parts and Their Features
Below is a list of all of the "out of the box" web parts that comes with SharePoint 2010. The column on the right highlights which Site Collection Feature you have to activate to enable the web parts. Some web parts will require additional farm solutions like SQL Reporting. Business Data Business Data Actions -... Continue Reading →
Is it too much to ask for a single cloud instead of a storm?
If I may, I would like to take a few minutes away from SharePoint (it won't be long) and talk to the techno-savvy-geeks out there who want more from the cloud. As I move more and more into the cloud, I am more and more hesitant, and I'm curious to see if you share in... Continue Reading →
Google+, a business collaborative tool, almost…
After reading the article Google+ and the Enterprise, and the experience I've had, I tend to agree with the statement "if Google+ can create an effective toolset for businesses internally – marrying email, with news streams, with video conferencing, with screensharing, with whiteboarding – it could be a huge win" I just came off a... Continue Reading →