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Social Media in the Enterprise Is a Farce

By Chris Poteet on July 9, 2010

As plat­forms such as Share­Point con­tinue to beef up their social media offer­ing the more I am left shak­ing my head. I don’t think aspir­ing to have social media work in an enter­prise is a bad aspi­ra­tion, but in the ends it’s a fool’s errand. Here are a few rea­sons why aspir­ing and push­ing enter­prise social […]

Posted in Social Media, User Experience | Tagged Adoption, enterprise | Leave a response

Making DHTML Menus Suck Less

By Chris Poteet on June 3, 2010

There are design­ers on both sides of the DHTML menu issue. Some are lib­eral to use them and have no issue with them, and there are oth­ers (includ­ing myself) who think it’s not the ideal solu­tion to a nav­i­ga­tional struc­ture. Nav­i­ga­tion is unques­tion­ably the most impor­tant part of any web appli­ca­tion, and if it is […]

Posted in Design, Information Architecture, Usability, User Experience, User Interface | Tagged best practice, dhtml, javascript, menus, navigation | Leave a response

SharePoint 2010 and XHTML Validation

By Chris Poteet on January 9, 2010

I’m writ­ing this and another post about doing devel­op­ment on the Share­Point user inter­face and the over­all user expe­ri­ences to dis­play some of my dis­ap­point­ment with issues I thought would’ve been resolved in this upcom­ing ver­sion. Microsoft has said on record they are sup­port­ing browsers that are XHTML 1.0 com­pli­ant, and they haven’t said officially […]

Posted in Design, SharePoint, User Interface | Tagged 2010, best practice, CSS, development, doctype, javascript, Standards, validation, Web Design, xhtml | Leave a response

SharePoint 2010 and Folders

By Chris Poteet on November 29, 2009

The pub­lic beta of Share­Point 2010 is out there for all of us to try who don’t have priv­i­leged access, and so now starts the time of deci­pher­ing the impact the next ver­sion of this very impor­tant soft­ware pack­age will have on us. One of the things that excites me the most is improve­ments in […]

Posted in Content Management, Findability, Information Architecture, SharePoint, User Experience | Tagged folders, metadata, views | 2 Responses

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  • I am still sad XHTML 2 didn't go anywhere. To me that spells the end of the "entire web as XML dream" unless something changes it. 01:56:50 PM August 26, 2010 from Echofon
  • When you create a web part view on a list, use that list web part on a page with that view, does it not update when altering the view? 07:06:48 PM August 24, 2010 from Echofon

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