Many organizations have invested in Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 as strategic infrastructure for content management and collaboration. Atlassian, NewsGator) whose products integrated into SharePoint in ways that alleviated some of the worst functionality (e.g., Sometimes SharePoint will make sense, sometimes it will not. MORE >>

I had an absolute blast presenting "A Decade of SharePoint Adoption Strategies" at SharePoint Saturday Philly this past weekend.  In addition to the usual friendly, motley band of itinerant SharePoint speakers from various ISVs and consultancies, there were several hundred attendees (about 450 overall). . The slides are here: . MORE >>

SharePoint is many things, but it misses the critical element of social media which is networked connection between people and ideas, easy discoverability, makes visible and allows people to act on weak ties, and support for other network-like interactions rather than closed group performance. SharePoint is a silo builder, not buster. MORE >>

Last week seven startups spent the week developing applications on the SharePoint 2010 platform at the first ever SharePoint 2010 SocialFest hosted by the Emerging Business Team at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus. Confer – Bringing ‘twitter-like’ conversations to SharePoint. Leverage Software – Social sharing for SharePoint. MORE >>

Yesterday I gave a presentation in Denmark to a diverse group of organisations, all wrestling with SharePoint. While they’d all found SharePoint to be useful, the common story was the challenge of explosive growth in team sites. The starting point is to distinguish between two worlds of SharePoint governance. MORE >>