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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 […]

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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 […]

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Setting metadata with folders

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 […]

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Counting Content Types

By Chris Poteet on October 13, 2009

Stephanie Lemieux wrote an inter­est­ing post about the opti­mal amount of con­tent types to use in Share­Point. This is an inter­est­ing dis­cus­sion, because I’m now fix­ing the con­tent type tax­on­omy for a client because the orig­i­nal design firm didn’t give them enough gran­u­lar­ity in their con­tent types or meta­data. I dis­cuss along these lines with […]

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