Michael Porter

I’ve been thinking about this a while as I look at a variety of company’s create their own mobile apps and then struggle to manage the app itself and how to make a set of apps available on different platforms like Android and iOS.  I have clients who are actively looking at vendor hosted options […]

Thanks to Carol Smith from our User Experience group for pointing this out on Yammer.  In the portal and social world, we have struggled to pull User Experience activities into a sprint based approach like Scrum.  We’ve started down the path on a couple project but Jon Innes has an article at boxes and arrows […]

For anyone who has worked on any portal project, you run into the most common of issues, Single Sign On (SSO).  It’s the holy grail of websites that you never do find.  No one wants to sign in multiple times.  Very few companies have eliminated it.  Many companies use more than one SSO tool like […]

So I usually don’t make blatant references to our Portal and Social practice but we’ve been doing this for over 11 years and the stats start to add up.  Here’s a great infographic I thought I’d share.

Mashable.com has an interesting article about up and comer Pinterest.  I have to admit, I hadn’t even heard about it until about two weeks ago when  a colleague raved about how great Pinterest was and how easy it was to capture your interests from a variety of places and pin them to your page.   Little […]

Mashable.com has an interesting article about up and comer Pinterest.  I have to admit, I hadn’t even heard about it until about two weeks ago when  a colleague raved about how great Pinterest was and how easy it was to capture your interests from a variety of places and pin them to your page.   Little […]

 Michael Sampson has a great article at Plantronics about how important people are to collaboration and how tools need to get out of the way.  I’ve said that a number of times but Mr. Sampson does a better job clearly and concisely stating the case.  His opening paragraph says it best: With the many types […]

Steve Pogrebivsky has a nice article out on 5 critical steps to SharePoint architecture planning.  I like his general take on it because you mention governance in the SharePoint world and before you know it you are down in the weeds defining all sorts of collections, metadata, content definitions and the like.  It’s a different […]

OK, I couldn’t pass this one up.  Mark Jones has posted an article at Collaboris about a potential SharePoint App Store.  There are a number of sites that offer marketplaces for SharePoint applications. To my knowledge, Microsoft sanctions none of them.  The cool thing about an officially sanctioned app store would be the tight integration […]

A while ago I blogged about the Kindle Fire and how excited I was about their Silk Browser.  Well, I ended up getting one and have had two months to really dig into it.  Here’s what I discovered, it’s really a cloud device rather than a true tablet. I’ll start with what you expect from […]

A while ago I blogged about the Kindle Fire and how excited I was about their Silk Browser.  Well, I ended up getting one and have had two months to really dig into it.  Here’s what I discovered, it’s really a cloud device rather than a true tablet. I’ll start with what you expect from […]

We’ve written a number of times about the conundrum between having to write a native mobile app in iOS, Android, Blackberry, or Windows and just create a mobile ready web app.  No one wants to create 5 codes streams. It’s too much work.  Anyway, via slashdot comes a very interesting article about Yahoo! placing their […]