Last summer Microsoft bought Yammer, a social network service for business. Microsoft’s March 2013 update on the Yammer/SharePoint “enterprise social road map” left many wondering whether to use SharePoint or Yammer — or both. Yammer newsfeed SharePoint newsfeed The decision is difficult because: Yammer and SharePoint 2013 have many overlapping features; Microsoft’s integration of Yammer … Continue reading
It’s nice to find someone else who is helping publishers make the transition from a centralized gatekeeper model based on content “containers” to a bottom-up digital model focused on the reader’s (user’s) workflow. Brian O’Leary approaches the issue from a publishing industry point of view, while I view it from the perspective of enterprise information … Continue reading
After spending the last 6 months learning and teaching the latest version of SharePoint, I have the feeling that the product has reached an inflection point. Yes, SharePoint 2013 has significant new capabilities, but most of them have a catch: Social networking features such as Likes, Badges, Most Popular, Mention, Follow, and Hashtags may be … Continue reading
I’ve been working with a crackerjack SharePoint programmer to integrate our Filemaker metadata repository with SharePoint. The objective was to maintain thesaurus terms and relationships in Filemaker (where they’ve lived since 1998) and have those changes automatically made to the corresponding data in the SharePoint term store. There are, of course, several good programs on … Continue reading
