I came to this year’s SharePoint Conference with one goal in mind: I wanted to learn everything I could about Microsoft’s enterprise roadmap for Yammer. Well, as of this writing the conference is halfway over and if anything, it looks I’m probably going to get about halfway to that goal. I’m not going to recap […]
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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SPC12 Quick Take — SharePoint and Exchange: Integrated at Last!
Well, it’s about time. It looks like SharePoint and Exchange are finally integrated in the ways users have been wanting for years now– tasks, document sharing and e-Discovery. Some of the most common questions I’ve fielded over the last few years, both as a consultant and a SharePoint specialist at Microsoft, have concerned getting these […]
SharePoint? Okay, great. But how will Yammer impact OFFICE?
It won’t surprise anyone that I’m a longtime fan of analyst services like those of Gartner and Forrester. They’ve had a very positive impact on my career in consulting. In fact, one of my formative career experiences was developing a web portal content architecture used by Giga Information Group, the technology advisory founded by Gideon […]
SharePoint 2013 Social: Around the Web
In the last few months, we’ve spent a lot of time on this blog discussing social intranets, SharePoint social business concepts and solutions, and web content management in SharePoint 2013. Given the interest in these topics, I thought I’d point our more SharePoint-admin-inclined readers to some similar content elsewhere that provides a fairly concise summary […]
SharePoint 2013 — Get it Now (if you have an MSDN subscription)!
Hot off the presses from Mary Jo Foley over at ZDNet: TechNet and MSDN subscribers can officially download SharePoint 2013 (and other Office family goodness) as of right now. Yes, right now. As in, “this minute”. That’s right. It’s not even mid-November yet, and they’re already here. Talk about overdelivering. As you read this, someone […]
Thoughts on Microsoft’s Surface RT Pricing
You may have already heard that Microsoft released the pricing for the “Surface RT” version of their new Surface tablet earlier today, October 16. The prices are Apple-esque in general, ranging from $499 for a 32GB, keyboard-free edition to $699 for a 64GB, touch cover keyboard. ZDNet’s noted Microsoft blogger, Mary Jo Foley (for whom […]
Microsoft: SharePoint 2013 is here!
Yep, you read that right. Development on SharePoint 2013 (as part of the larger Office 2013 family of products) is DONE and it’s being released to the market very, very soon. Read the whole story on Kirk Koenigsbauer’s blog. The key note here is for enterprise customers: “Volume Licensing customers with Software Assurance will be […]
Five Ways to Get Ready for SharePoint 2013
Unfortunately, the NFL won’t give my Green Bay Packers back the win that was stolen from them by the replacement refs earlier this week, but I’m going to do my small part to balance out the karma of that. I have something to give to you, loyal readers. Yes, it’s a present– my list of five things you […]
Social Business: LinkedIn Needs Some Positive Reinforcement
Whenever I’m doing a social strategy workshop with one of my clients, I like to stress a simple point when it comes to behavior change: Positive reinforcement gets results. This is something I learned years ago when studying to become a teacher. Although I never ran a classroom for long, I suppose you can say this […]
Intranets Then and Now or The Rise of “Make it like Facebook”
To really understand the value of social intranets today, you have to understand where they came from. Today we’re going to spend a little time taking a look back at where intranets have been and where they’re going, because having that context can be a real boon when you’re staring at an intranet redesign project. […]
SharePoint 2013: Social Analytics Part 2 — What it Means to You
(This post is Part 2 in a two-part series. For Part 1, click here.) In our previous episode, we quickly reviewed the concept of data analytics as applied to social computing software—how it enables both admins and the software companies themselves to prescriptively target feature configurations or updates to user demographics that will benefit from them. […]
SharePoint 2013: Social Analytics Part 1 — Why? Who? How?
(This post is Part 1 in a two-part series. For Part 2, click here.) Let’s continue our tour around the social capabilities of SharePoint 2013 and its extensions with a look at the value of analytics and why they need to matter to the decision-makers—whether they’re in IT, Communications, Human Resources or some other function— who […]