Karina Vatynskaya joining special guest, Microsoft's Chris Bortlik to discuss patterns and practices in SharePoint adoption. Derek Cash-Peterson reviewing what we learned about SharePoint for external-facing (extranet and WWW) sites. Collaboration Events SharePoint SharePoint SharePoint Conferencehours.  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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

A second Microsoft roadmap session I attended at last weeks’ SPC was session SPC271, David Pae’s “SharePoint 2010:  Improving Productivity with Social.”  good audience question about a limitation of the “noteboard” capability in SharePoint 2010.  The Microsoft products NOT mentioned.  cough:  NewsGator!)]. MORE >>