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You’ve been tasked with bringing some order to the chaos of your various organizations’ file shares, e-mail servers, and externally facing websites. After all the research and analysis you’ve done you’ve decided that MOSS 2007 is the optimal solution to solve the problem. The problem? Selling it to management. You can demo MOSS with all its fantastic features and Office integration, but your management needs some “bullet point” reasons why they should invest in MOSS. In Essential SharePoint 2007* the authors lay out the “four C’s” of company portals that MOSS can satisfy. These can be (read more...)

I’ve been doing UI work for almost a decade.  I’ve seen a lot and been through many fads (although I won’t claim them if asked).  For a long time I thought the most important part of designing interfaces was the way it looked, and I was caught up in the next DHTML fad that would come across my RSS reader.  Well, thankfully I’ve grown and realized what’s really important, and I’ve come to realize that an interface’s appearance is not the most important thing. Note: Please don’t think I’m saying that the way it looks is not as important, but is (read more...)

When I started becoming interested in the SharePoint world I was immediately drawn to the end-user adoption of the technology. I came across Mark Miller’s blog EndUserSharePoint.com, and I was instantly hooked in. The articles stay away from the ethereal issues that implementers get caught in and stick with the questions that are pertinent to users that are actually using the application. I contacted Mark to contribute to his fantastic catalog of contributors, and he passed some my way. In the last week I handled questions from two users already! One deals with a technical use of (read more...)