Posts Tagged ‘best practices’

Over 75% of our portal or web site related projects these days have some mobile component. If they aren’t doing it then they are making some serious plans for it.  That brings up a lot of questions on how to design a site to fit all the different channels that will hit it.  The new […]

I recently heard on the news that some employers were asking job seekers to provide their Facebook ID and password so the company could see what they were posting.  To me that’s outrageous.  I don’t have anything to hide from my own posts, but who knows what some of my friends might put on my […]

Over on CMSWire, Christian Buckley posted an article about SharePoint Search.  Buckley’s post talks about a presentation given by Michal Pisarek at the recent Australian SharePoint Conference. The post and the presentation focused on the business value of search and hoe you should organize your content in SharePoint to create better search results. Pisarek argues […]

Summarizing reports by owner name is one of the many useful aspects of Salesforce. But if you sell through partners, you probably want to see leads and opportunities based on the partner company name rather than the partner employee name. This way, you can easily understand partner performance. Should be easy, right? It is. But […]

It looks like Rich Wood is well on his way as this is the second time I’ve posted on a nice post of his.  I’ll let Rich’s post stand by itself and just re-iterate my thoughts on the importance of UX.  User Experience counts the overall experience a user has on a specific site. It […]

Probably eight out of ten clients start out asking for customization of some kind.  Usually, the customization broken into two categories: Give users a page like My Yahoo! or iGoogle.  Let them add portlets or widgets at will and let them customize the portelts themselves like we do with weather or stock Let users define […]

Mo Omar posted a video on YouTube that debunks three myths he has been hearing regarding SharePoint online.  Mo is a Perficient Senior Technical Consultant and SharePoint MVP.   Mo talks about three myths in the video: On premise version has more features than the cloud version Developing solutions is more limited on the cloud […]

Over on our Microsoft Blog, Rich Wood has a post on Planning Communities in Newsgator Sites. I’ll pop in a teaser but Rich does dive deeper. In general though, his best practices are applicable across all social sites.  Social tools of all types need to focus on communities as a way to share the information […]

Lee Burch, one of our extremely talented architects, gave me a writeup on “Using WPS style Resource Environment Providers with Spring”  He wanted to know where to post something like this and of course, my first thought is this blog.  His justification for posting this is that while it’s a common use case in the […]

I came across the following post on CMSWire and found it interesting.  Free, Ad-Supported Mobile Apps Drain Batteries Faster, Consume More Data by by J. Angelo Racoma (@jangelo). What attracted my attention initially was that it was co-authored by researchers at my alma mater, Purdue University.  But after reading it, I thought it was a very informative […]

I came across the following post on CMSWire and found it interesting.  Free, Ad-Supported Mobile Apps Drain Batteries Faster, Consume More Data by by J. Angelo Racoma (@jangelo). What attracted my attention initially was that it was co-authored by researchers at my alma mater, Purdue University.  But after reading it, I thought it was a very informative […]

This afternoon Carol Rozwell presented a session titled The Social Scenario: Business gets Social.  In this session, she points out the drivers behind social media and described scenario planning as a tool to develop a social strategy. I thought her most interesting points were in  in how to go about setting your strategy for Social […]