We’ve written many articles on this blog about the importance of Activity Streams, mostly in conjunction with social software. Forrester recently released the first research report dedicated to just Activity Streams. To be included in the research, Forrester said the product had to specialize in activity streams as opposed to being a platform. Initially this […]
Posts Tagged ‘SharePoint’
Your Culture = Your Intranet
The last month at Perficient has seen me working on various social intranet projects both here in the Midwest, and outside of my usual stomping grounds. On a project in Philadelphia, I was treated to a close-up sight of that city’s beautiful City Hall every day, and it got me thinking about architecture, culture, and […]
Guest Microsoft Partner Post: What Does Social Mean to You?
I was recently invited to guest blog on Microsoft’s partner site, DigitalWPC.com. I blogged on a topic I’m passionate about – Social Business Solution. You can read an excerpt from the post below. The full post is here. According to Knowledge Networks, 60% of people use social media to discover new brands or products, 46% […]
There are more SharePoint designs on the Internet, Horatio….
A comment was recently posted to one of my older blogs looking for more than text. “Words, words, words,” the commentor said, quoting Shakespeare’s Hamlet– “Are there visual examples of SharePoint Designer done right?” As it happens, there are. Of course, we need to be clear that not all SharePoint visuals are conceived through SharePoint Designer. And […]
Building a Social Business Environment
Mark Fidelman recently posted an interesting article on Forbes.com titled “Microsoft’s View of the Future Workplace is Brilliant, Here’s Why” in the article Mark shares how he’s visited Microsoft Technology Centers in the past couple of months and its left him “feeling both energized and alarmed. Energized because I am seeing a dramatic rise in […]
Lync, SharePoint, OneNote, NewsGator & more on the iPad
Rich Wood and I recently chatted about how Rich is able to use Microsoft technologies on his iPad. In this video Rich shares how he uses Lync, SharePoint, NewsGator Social Sites, One Note, Bing and more on his iPad to allow him to use it as more than just a consumer or entertainment device.
SharePoint and Social with Mike Gannotti (@gannotti)
I recently caught up with Mike Gannotti in Philadelphia. We talked about his new role in the Philadelphia MTC, SharePoint, Social Media, Dogfooding (of course!) Tahoe (Mike’s been around SharePoint for a while), Social Business, Women in SharePoint & more. I learned that Mike is the Seventh most followed Microsoft entity on Twitter! You can […]
Integrating External Content with IBM Web Content Manager V8
Stefan Hepper presented a session at the IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference on techniques to integrate external content management systems with IBM WCM. He first presented on integration of ECM systems into WCM. There are several use cases where this integration is important: Author content in external ECM system and deliver it using WCM Target […]
SharePoint 2010 Permissions and RunWithElevatedPrivileges Context
These days, many people are using SharePoint anonymously or creating mash-ups of data from various SharePoint sources. As a result, these various resources have differing permissions governing their visibility. For example, the Managed Metadata Term Store cannot be accessed anonymously. Indeed, the most likely occurrence, and where I discovered this problem, is when you want […]
Take Your SharePoint With You: NewsGator Social Sites on the iPad
So you’re using NewsGator Social Sites on your SharePoint intranet and you want to stay connected when you’re on the go? Check out my new video blog on using the iPad app for NewsGator Social Sites. As NewsGator’s inaugural Partner of the Year (2011), we just might know a little something about this. Oh, and […]
Why Your SharePoint Portal Includes a Lunch Menu
I’ve lately been reading some thought-provoking posts by Stephen Fishman over at CMSwire. I think he makes some very astute observations from the UX point of view, and I’d suggest looking into them if you follow this topic. (In fact, a number of his points are exactly the sort of “pure UX” analysis I’ve been working […]
Healthcare Portals – Perficient's Health BI
Perficient’s outstanding Healthcare team just posted a video on YouTube that highlights our Health BI portal offering. You can view the video right here in this blog post. This system is based on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and provides very dynamic insight into your Healthcare data. It is designed for physicians, nurses, hospitals, MCOs, IDMs, ACOs, […]