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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 […]

Posted in Content Management, Findability, Information Architecture, SharePoint, User Experience | Tagged content query, content types, metadata, taxonomy | Leave a response

A Case Study in Translating Business Needs Into SharePoint Information Architecture

By Chris Poteet on July 22, 2009

I got a good com­ment on my post about the folder-less Share­Point par­a­digm, and I thought it would be a good oppor­tu­nity to show how to trans­late busi­ness needs and con­tent analy­sis into busi­ness require­ments that can then be trans­lated into an infor­ma­tion archi­tec­ture. I decided to speak with the com­menter over the phone, and […]

Posted in Content Management, Information Architecture, SharePoint | Tagged analysis, requirements, use case | Leave a response

Apple Becoming A Viable Enterprise Solution

By Chris Poteet on June 9, 2009

Fresh on the heels of yesterday’s keynote at the World­wide Devel­oper Con­fer­ence Apple show­cased their new sup­port of Microsoft Exchange 2007 in the pro­duc­tiv­ity apps (Mail, iCal, Address Book) for their forth­com­ing OS release Snow Leop­ard. Apple, not Microsoft, is the only oper­at­ing sys­tem to offer free Exchange sup­port (in Win­dows you have to buy […]

Posted in News | Tagged apple, exchange, os x | Leave a response

Barriers to SharePoint Adoption

By Chris Poteet on May 26, 2009

In my short time as a Share­Point con­sul­tant I’ve come across three major bar­ri­ers to imple­ment­ing the solu­tion. Mind you, this isn’t only rel­e­gated Share­Point but any tool, sys­tem, or process imple­mented in the enter­prise. While each of them could vary in degree they all exist in some form of a Share­Point imple­men­ta­tion. Polit­i­cal Barriers […]

Posted in Project Management, SharePoint | Tagged Adoption, end users, planning | Leave a response

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