Toronto SharePoint Camp
Got to hang out at the first Toronto SharePointCamp and have a bunch of developer friends ask me, “What are you doing here, you’re not a developer”
Archive for SharePoint
10 Cs of Information Work – Lawrence Liu
This is from Lawrence Liu’s Report from the Inside. It was posted a few months ago but it is one of those things I really like.
Jared Spool and his funny, accurate description of a problem with SharePoint.
Implementing SharePoint is a lot like building a house. It’s like a friend of yours says, “I know exactly what to do.” And, he drives you to a Home Depot, drops you off at the front door and says, “Everything you need is here.” Then, drives off.
- Jared Spool (paraphrased from his closing keynote at Web Directions North by Joanna)
I think the important thing to take away from this is that installing SharePoint is not a enterprise strategy. Using SharePoint as the tool to enable you Enterprise Strategy Vision is a much better approach.
[tags]MOSS2007, MOSS, MicrosoftOfficeSharePointSystem, JaredSpool[/tags]
Carsten on the new SharePoint Search
On Thursday, November 23, 2006 the Toronto .net Users Group held a session on search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
from the Toronto .net Users Group site
As one of the major focus areas for Microsoft, competing with Google in the enterprise space is taking centre stage. Not only will Office SharePoint Server 2007 launch with an optional, cost-effective “search only†SKU, the company is also launching an upgrade to its Windows Desktop Search that searches the user’s desktop, the Internet and any intranet indexes using SharePoint’s indexer. We’ll look at the different components of this strategy and examine some of the architectural opportunities opened up by them.
Mr. Knoch is the Principal Consultant at Navantis responsible for supporting the sales team and overseeing software requirements. Before Navantis, Carsten worked at Microsoft, in Canada and South Africa, where he was responsible for launching Africa’s first MSN portal.
I recorded his presentation and have videos posted below
Download this video in High Quality Windows Media or in High Quality MP4
[tags]MOSS, MOSS2007, SharePointSearch, EnterpriseSearch[/tags]
BarCamp Toronto presents Enterprise Camp
So what do you do when your company is about to tear up an old telemarketing office to make way for a new floor of developers… you hold a BarCamp that’s what.
We are going to do a more specialized BarCamp this time one whose focus is on enterprise development and solutions.
So if you are in the Toronto area and are sick of holiday cheer come out and join us for some inperson knowledge sharing.
Check out the wiki to sign up and for more details.
… oh and ok-cancel rules.
Getting Real on the Enterprise
Ok I know I ripped of the title but I do kinda reference slash promote the “book”.
I have already talked about SachaC at the first TorCamp enterprise 2.0 gathering but I have finally got of the perch and editted together the presentation that Bryce & I did with lots of help from Carsten.
The presentation is about development methodologies that are associated with Web 2.0 and how they can relate to the Enterprise, the experiences of the Navantis team on developing enterprise application with Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003, and a good discussion on the good and bad points of all the methods
Windows Media Version (63megs) or MP4 version (66megs)
Referenced Materials:
- Getting Real by 37Signals
- Corporate Intranets Best Practices Report – A User-Driven Web 2.0 Perspective by Avenue A / Razorfish
- Turn The Project On Its Head – Navantis SharePoint White Paper
Looking forward to the next time we get together for EnterpriseCamp Enterprise2.0. I really want to show SharePoint enabled collaboration with OneNote.
