Insights on Collaboration, ECM, IT Strategy & SharePoint

Communities vs. Portals, Blogs, Wikis, Documents, and More…

Rich Blank — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:17:04 +0000

Imagine a newspaper whose headlines didn’t change very often. That’s most intranet portals. Communities encourage participation by defintion as much as they allow for consumption. And activity streams provide an easy and efficient way to aggregate, consume, share, and engage. With that said, some people like to see a bunch of boxes on a web page [...]

Social Media vs. Social Business

Rich Blank — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:52:06 +0000

When we think about social networks, the big 3 come to mind: Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. These sites were built or mostly evolved as consumer platforms. The audience is everyone in the world and the revenue model is commerce – through advertising or sales of products/services. Consumer social media (or social commerce) is all about [...]

A few new published articles

Rich Blank — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:50:23 +0000

Haven’t blogged in a while as I’ve been focused mostly on writing for other sources on the web….here’s a few of recent articles: Just Because You Microblog Doesn’t Mean You’re a Social Business http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/just-because-you-microblog-doesnt-mean-youre-a-social-business-012732.php Social Collaboration Can Drive Significant ROI for Business http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-collaboration/social-collaboration-can-drive-significant-roi-for-business-011606.php Social Collaboration at Kraft Foods http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-collaboration/social-collaboration-at-kraft-foods-an-interview-with-vinicius-da-costa-010603.php Tagged: social business, social computing, [...]

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Rational Guide to implementing SharePoint Server 2010 User ...

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7 Considerations for Investing in Social Technology

Rich Blank — Fri, 06 May 2011 04:48:31 +0000

Social technology is a trending priority among IT organizations who are beginning to test drive multiple tools both in the cloud and internally. This is primarily driven by the hype of all things social on the public web and explosion of Facebook and Twitter. Often times, business users have already gone outside the firewall and are [...]

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SP2010 Branding Tip #5 – Handling unsupported browsers ...

Now Is the Time to Get Social On SharePoint…

Rich Blank — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:46:10 +0000

I hear from a number of organizations who all seem to say they want to roll out and promote the social and collaborative capabilities of SharePoint. And I hear a lot of talk, little action, and a lot of excuses not only from IT but directly from the CEO…. Why is your organization not [...]

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SLA sample agreement for SharePoint

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Microsoft Forefront: Secure Access to Your Cloud Services ...

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SharePoint 2010 Customizing Activity News Feed

Collaboration in Context

Rich Blank — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:11:58 +0000

Let’s face it….collaboration continues to happen via email. And one of my pet peeves with SharePoint is that it lacks what I call “collaboration in context”. In other words, there’s no linkage or capture of the conversations or activities within an associated item in a list. For example, you create a SharePoint list to track issues [...]

It’s Deja Vu All Over Again…

Rich Blank — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:12:52 +0000

For those who’ve have been around the world of technology the last 2 decades, there are times SharePoint seems like déjà vu all over again. The other day, I came across a Fortune article entitled “Why Microsoft Can’t Stop Lotus Notes” from 1994 discussing the hype of Lotus Notes with millions of licenses and the [...]

Using the CMM to Benchmark Your SharePoint Investment?

Rich Blank — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:54:56 +0000

How do you know if or when you truly are optimizing the investment you’ve made in the Microsoft SharePoint platform? You’ve spent last year creating your SharePoint roadmaps and have grand plans for social capabilities or perhaps the cloud. Or maybe you know enough about SharePoint to be dangerous and are just getting started with [...]

Share Your Journey…

Rich Blank — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:11:47 +0000

Changing the way people work, share information, manage knowledge, and communicate with each other is very much a challenge of organizational cultural. Let’s face it — implementing technology like SharePoint is a journey. Most of us IT or business professionals who have led or are currently leading their organization’s “social and collaborative” transformation leveraging the [...]

2010 in review

Rich Blank — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 03:42:20 +0000

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 6,800 times in 2010. That’s about [...]