Yesterday I gave a presentation in Denmark to a diverse group of organisations, all wrestling with SharePoint. While they’d all found SharePoint to be useful,…
Make sure your new SharePoint intranet really is easy for staff.
“Helping staff do their jobs” is the primary purpose of most intranets. Yet this is only achieved when staff can quickly and easily find what…
Two streams of SharePoint governance.
A few weeks back, we were at the Australian SharePoint conference in Melbourne, which was packed with both attendees and vendors. The word of the…
Spend 10-15% of SharePoint intranet projects on planning and design.
The classic texts of project management outline the importance of initial planning and design activities. While they only consist of 10-30% of the project, they…
How to create the right sites on your SharePoint intranet.
When you want to create a new site in your SharePoint intranet, this is the page you’re presented with. It’s pretty daunting for an inexperienced…
Don’t ask staff what features they want on a new SharePoint intranet.
“If we gave you a team site, would it be useful to you?” We’ve said before that the breadth of SharePoint is both its strength…
Planning your SharePoint intranet project.
Starting a SharePoint intranet project, whether creating a new intranet or redeveloping an existing one, can be daunting. Alongside strategy and design questions are now…
Where to start with a SharePoint intranet.
A lot of organisations are currently deploying SharePoint for their corporate intranet. And rightly so, as it’s a viable and potentially powerful solution for intranet…