Travel and technology fan - Client Director at @infoexp_uk - All things @Microsoft.
London, England
Joined January 2009
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"You need to change your brand, it's dated, and doesn't reflect who you are". We disagreed.
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2023 - The Year to move to #SharePoint properly! You've been paying #microsoft for your licences - and now it's time to get your full ROI! Of course you want to do it right - so find out how, the tools and the gotachas.
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Where does #SharePoint start to go wrong?
From the very beginning, if you're plotting a move to SharePoint Online, experience shows that your #migration strategy is going to define the ultimate level of success in your organisation.
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#VivaGoals is growing up - one of the biggest problems with most goal trackers is the double entry. As you can see from Kevin McDonnell's post, you can now integrate with a number of other solutions.
Where would I like it to go...?
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It's the weekend, my wife is away with her parents and I'm feeling a bit Marie Kondo.
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Interesting post by @baldarab below, I believe the happy middle ground is using a Framework - if you asked a hashtag
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If you go back to 1998 - the online community called Experts Exchange was very active, and it's where I demonstrated my #ClassicASP skills to help others solve their problems. 171 times by the screenshot below.
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"UK retailer Frasers Group, for example, consolidated from 10 security vendors to just Microsoft." This is from Microsoft's quarterly earnings call.
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Thinking #intranets - in the latest ClearBox Consulting Ltd 2023 report, 21 intranet solutions are reviewed, you go back 3 years and it was 77. So why the rapid decline?
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๐Too many times the approach to migration to SharePoint is to dump your P drive in to SharePoint - "and we'll sort it out later".
That might check the task on the project plan - but it generally doesn't meet the user experience.
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Should your website be solely focused on your solution/service - or should your extend the messaging of your #website to include those who make the magic happen?
We ran through this internally - this is why we said yes:
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๐ Slow lunch staring blankly at a screen?
We're not quite viral - when we're found, people seem to enjoy our YouTube #videos - particularly on:
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If you're interested in how #AI can help document management - then have a look at this.
Microsoft put their AI Content Services under the #syntex wrapper.
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Like a Christmas challenge? - try this one from GCHQ.
There are 6 more after this one - available from their website.
Clue: The answer is not seasonal, or related to reindeer (p.s. that's not a cryptic clue in itself either!)
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