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Author: Sam Marshall

21 Aug 2012

SharePoint 2013 for Collaboration

by Sam Marshall
in Collaboration, Digital Workplace, Intranets, SharePoint, Strategy, Technology
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[frame]This post is part of a series that looks at what’s changed from an intranet manager perspective, in particular things employees will notice and improvements for site and content owners.SharePoint 2013 SeriesIs SharePoint 2013 worth waiting for? SharePoint 2013 for intranet sites  SharePoint 2013 social features SharePoint 2013 for collaboration (this post) SharePoint 2013 digital workplace and mobile (forthcoming) SharePoint 2013 governance, analytics and search (forthcoming) SharePoint 2013 user experience (forthcoming)See our summary webinar on...

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02 Aug 2012

SharePoint 2013 Social Features

by Sam Marshall
in Collaboration, Communications, Digital Workplace, Intranets, SharePoint, Technology
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[frame]This post is part of a series that looks at what’s changed from an intranet manager perspective, in particular things employees will notice and improvements for site and content owners.SharePoint 2013 seriesIs SharePoint 2013 worth waiting for? SharePoint 2013 for intranet sites  SharePoint 2013 social features (this post) SharePoint 2013 for collaboration SharePoint 2013 digital workplace and mobile (forthcoming) SharePoint 2013 governance, analytics and search (forthcoming) SharePoint 2013 user experience (forthcoming)See our summary webinar on...

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31 Jul 2012

SharePoint 2013: What’s New for Intranet Sites

by Sam Marshall
in Communications, Intranets, SharePoint, Strategy, Technology
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[frame]This post is part of a series that looks at what’s changed from an intranet manager perspective, in particular things employees will notice and improvements for site and content owners.SharePoint 2013 SeriesIs SharePoint 2013 worth waiting for? SharePoint 2013 for intranet sites (this post) SharePoint 2013 social features SharePoint 2013 for collaboration SharePoint 2013 digital workplace and mobile (forthcoming) SharePoint 2013 governance, analytics and search (forthcoming) SharePoint 2013 user experience (forthcoming)See our summary webinar...

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30 Jul 2012

Is SharePoint 2013 Worth Waiting For?

by Sam Marshall
in Digital Workplace, Intranets, SharePoint, Strategy, Technology
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The new SharePoint has been released as a public preview, along with hopes by the Microsoft team of “leapfrogging expectations” (see the launch blog post). Is it worth holding out for the full release? Do the new features make it compelling to those planning a social intranet?[frame]This post is the first of a series that looks at what’s changed from an intranet manager perspective, in particular...

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20 Jun 2012

Five Principles for Managing Intranets in the Digital Workplace

by Sam Marshall
in Digital Workplace, Governance, Intranets, Strategy
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Intranets have always straddled multiple functions, but with the growth of the digital workplace, balancing what is in and out of scope for an intranet is getting trickier. Often related initiatives such as SharePoint, Yammer, mobile access or BYOD risk confusing employees, but are not necessarily within the remit of the intranet manager to set their strategy. Here we present five guiding principles for that balancing act: 1. Don't Plan Your...

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15 Jun 2012

Microsoft to buy Yammer – SharePoint implications?

by Sam Marshall
in Collaboration, Communications, Intranets, Technology
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Microsoft to Buy Yammer - SharePoint Implications? It looks official that Microsoft will acquire Yammer. This has led to lots of speculation about why and what it means for intranets.I suspect that Microsoft are more interested in the user base than the technology, as this is pretty trivial to replicate, and they were already on that path with Office Talk. It may also be a more predatory...

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07 Jun 2012

10 Worst Practices for Intranets

by Sam Marshall
in Adoption, Communications, Governance, Intranets, Strategy
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It’s good to learn from your mistakes, but it’s much cheaper to learn from someone else’s.With this in mind, here’s a summary of 10 worst practices that I’ve seen as an intranet consultant and manager over the years. What strikes me is that, even as technology has moved on and trends such as social media and the ‘consumerisation of IT’ have risen, the fundamentals of...

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22 Apr 2012

SharePoint Metadata: What Business Users Need To Know

by Sam Marshall
in Governance, SharePoint, Technology
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With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft introduced some very flexible tools for representing metadata on intranets. However, getting value from this requires that business units take ownership of it, and the available documentation tends to focus on the "how" rather than the "why".ClearBox therefore presented a workshop at IntraTeam 2012 on SharePoint Metadata: What Business Users Need to Know. Sharepoint metadata workshop from Sam Marshall [frame] Want to...

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Re-thinking employee adoption.
17 Apr 2012

Loving the Intranet

by Sam Marshall
in Adoption, Digital Workplace, Strategy
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Often discussions on intranet adoption tend to focus on launch or training activities. But what role should adoption play in digital workplace strategy? Indeed, what does ‘good’ adoption look like?It’s not even clear cut that people spending more time on an intranet is necessarily a good outcome – it could just mean that they’re lost.We also need to move beyond “what’s in it for me”...

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12 Apr 2012

SharePoint Intranets: Are We Communicating or Collaborating?

by Sam Marshall
in Collaboration, Communications, Governance, SharePoint
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Communication vs. CollaborationImagine if you are going to buy a new sofa, and instead of entering a showroom you are taken straight into the workshop. Inside there are rolls of fabric, wooden frames of part-built sofas, others that look nearly finished but you can’t quite tell. You pick out one that you like only to be told that it’s last year’s model and no longer...

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