There’s really nothing quite like being part of a top national systems integrator. I’ve found that one of the coolest, most rewarding aspects of this job is working with so many bright, talented people from all across the country. The sheer breadth and scope of the expertise brought to bear by the ladies and gentlemen […]
Rich Wood
Rich Wood has been planning, designing and building enterprise solutions and internet sites with an emphasis on stellar user and customer experiences since 1997. Rich is a National Director for Content and Commerce Platform work in Perficient Digital. One of the rare breed of strategists to truly understand both the business needs of the customer and the platforms that serve them, he is a keen advocate for and accomplished speaker/writer on issues that surround that inflection point. His work has been published on CMSWire, Sitecore and Microsoft partner blogs, and his own LinkedIn page as well as our various blogs here at Perficient, and he has spoken at multiple major conferences including Microsoft's SharePoint Conference 2014. Married and a father of five, Rich enjoys spending time with his wife and family. He is a native of South Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a graduate of Marquette University.
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Content by Search Now Available in Office 365 SharePoint Online!
Intranets in SharePoint Online just got a lot more powerful. Hot off the presses from the SharePoint Blog, the Content (by) Search Web Part is now available in Office 365 SharePoint Online. This is a major announcement for those looking to do intranets on SP Online, because this web part allows you to easily deliver […]
Yammer and Office vs. “SharePoint for End-Users” on CMSWire
Long before Microsoft acquired Yammer, I was impressed with the usability of the latter enterprise social tool. Granted, they looked (and still look) more or less like Facebook, but that sort of stealing is brilliant stealing. After all, these days pretty much everyone uses Facebook, so when new users log into Yammer for the first time, […]
The fast and easy way to get your on-premise users into Yammer!
Does your company have a freemium Yammer environment that pre-dates your latest Enterprise Agreement? Do you want to have the same set of users in Yammer as you do in your on-premise Active Directory? Wonder no longer, dear readers. We now have some recommended reading for anyone who finds themselves trying to rationalize a pre-existing […]
SharePoint or Sitecore? Let me explain…
In my most recent article at CMSWire, I had the opportunity to make some wild and crazy predictions for the future of Microsoft’s SharePoint platform. While not claiming access to any crystal ball or inside information, I did make every attempt to ground my possibilities in the realm of actual, factual reality. One of those predictions […]
Microsoft, Nokia and the “Devices and Services” Mantra
If I had a thousand dollars for every time I’ve heard the phrase “devices and services” from Redmond this year, I could retire early. Tellingly, it occurs between four and eight times in the (only nine full paragraphs of the) official joint blog post announcing Microsoft’s move to acquire Nokia’s mobile phone business. Count ‘em […]
Yammer and SharePoint: UI, UX and Just… You
I read an article by Chris Clark on CMSWire last week covering SharePoint, Yammer, and the way UI (User Interface) impacts use and adoption. The article itself was enjoyable and informative, and I found myself agreeing with Mr. Clark’s central argument– Yammer’s superior UI helps it win adoption where SharePoint’s more complex UI can sometimes […]
New Information on Microsoft’s Yammer and SharePoint Roadmap
In recent weeks, I’ve been seeing an uptick in aggression from SharePoint’s would-be competitors, and I suppose that makes sense. Microsoft’s do-it all platform for collaboration, social business, intranets and extranets, content management, enterprise search, business intelligence and whiskey distillation—okay, maybe not the whiskey, but everything else and then some—is pretty much ubiquitous in large […]
Forrester on SharePoint + Yammer: Good stuff, Cloud is king
Forrester Research last week published a report on SharePoint, Yammer, and Microsoft’s direction for the two. I’ve always found the analysis put about by the likes of Forrester and Gartner to be far more important than the common buzz that gets tweeted and blogged around the internet because, bottom line, their material targets CIOs outright. […]
Facebook Graph Search: Changing the Search Experience?
Consumer experiences drive enterprise user expectations. That’s become increasingly true over the last few years. Now Facebook is making a bid to provide the first fundamental change to how we experience Search since Google introduced the now-ubiquitous Simple White Page With An Empty Search Box. Will Facebook’s latest innovation join the queue of consumer applications […]
Got Apps? SkyDrive Pro Now Available on iOS, WinPhone
Good news this morning for those using SharePoint 2013 and SkyDrive Pro for business collaboration and content storage / backup. Microsoft announced the news today (okay, technically yesterday) over on the Office 365 blog: We are pleased to announce that the SkyDrive Pro apps for Windows 8 and iOS are now available in the Windows […]
TweetJam on Social Business today! #socbizchat
Today on Twitter @1PM Eastern, I’ll be part of the CMSWire expert panel engaging in a TweetJam on social business! In this discussion, titled “What’s Next for the Social Enterprise,” I’m joining a pretty distinguished set of panelists for an hour of yammering (ahem) around the future of social business tools and the enterprise social […]