mohamedr

Information Architecture for SharePoint 2010- Part 1

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Posted by mohamedr on January 3, 2012 – 10:48 am
Filed under Enterprise Search, SharePoint

This series of articles are addressed to IT persons who are not necessarily exposed to SharePoint. Those interested in Information Architecture (IA) and Enterprise Content Management would possibly find the subject more beneficiary than others.  SharePoint specialists may be interested in the content from a high level and global perspective.

The objective of this series of articles is to examine SharePoint capabilities and limitations  in the context of Enterprise Content Management, including Web Content Management. 

In Part 1 I am going to discuss the notion of IA and its implications for Content Management Systems. Also, I will discuss the concept of SharePoint Governance and its relation to IA.

For the empirical purpose of this article I am going to adopt a very simple and clear definition of IA as:

“The organization of information into coherent structures that optimize its usefulness and enable its efficient navigation and retrieval (search). This usually requires the categorization of information using hierarchical or network artefacts.”

The above definition implies that developing an IA includes the following essential undertakings: Read More »

richardb

A SharePoint Blog Rollup Webpart

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Posted by richardb on December 6, 2011 – 7:34 pm
Filed under Enterprise Search, SharePoint, Software Architecture

We use SharePoint 2010 and the MySites functionality for blogging, so to become aware of an Intranet blog post you need to check your MySite to see any updates. It would be great if we had something on our Intranet homepage that shows us latest blog posts instead.

After some digging around we were left with the alternative of purchasing a 3rd party web part or launching VS 2010 and creating our own. Neither option was very appealing, so we came up with an alternative out of the box solution, with a little configuration thrown in.

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richardb

Opening .EML file types in Outlook from SharePoint 2010

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Posted by richardb on December 1, 2011 – 6:59 pm
Filed under .NET, SharePoint, Usability

If you have ever setup Incoming email on a document library you will have noticed how the emails will arrive into the document library in .EML format. When you click on the .EML file it will either open up in your browser,  or prompt you to Save it to your hard drive. The browser will show  you the main body of the email, but will be missing all the good stuff like TO,CC, BCC Subject, attachments etc.

I’m going to walk you through the steps of setting up SharePoint and IIS to allow you to open these files in Outlook instead. This allows you to see the original email in all it’s glory.

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richardb

Updating HTML content in large lists

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Posted by richardb on November 30, 2011 – 9:00 pm
Filed under .NET, SharePoint

Microsoft has very good guidelines for how to build applications that can update large SharePoint lists without causing your server to grind to a halt.

The main piece of advice: don’t use the SPListItem.Update method in a foreach loop. They have a very good article here that describes how to build such an application.

The general gist of the approach is to build a MethodFormat of the following syntax:

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richardb

SharePoint Online Update

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Posted by richardb on November 30, 2011 – 8:39 am
Filed under .NET, Productivity, SharePoint, Software Architecture

Microsoft has just released the first update to SharePoint Online and they have added a couple of features that really strengthens the “cloud” proposition to anyone trying to decide whether to keep their SharePoint farm local or go online.

Business Connectivity Services

BCS in SharePoint Online allows us to finally connect internal line of business systems to our SharePoint Online portal. It’s now possible to start generating meaningful dashboards, KPIs and even CRUD (Create, Read, Update Delete)  applications in SharePoint Online that can connect to your internal systems. Read More »

charlotteb

The Colour of Success

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Posted by charlotteb on November 7, 2011 – 11:35 am
Filed under Corporate Culture, Growth & Development

~The Colour of Success~

I think we can all agree that colour has an effect on humans as a whole. Certain colours can elicit emotions of Happiness, Sadness, Anger, and Lust/Love…..etc. Just think and I’m sure you can come up with at least 2 times colour had or continues to have an effect on your life.

But why does colour affect us so??? According to science, there are four psychological colours- red, blue, yellow and green. Each colour relates in some way to the body, the mind, the emotions and the essential balance between the three. Over all there are eleven basic colours:

RED~ Physical

Positive: Physical courage, strength, warmth, energy, basic survival, ‘fight or flight’, stimulation, masculinity, Excitement. Negative: Defiance, aggression, visual impact, strain.

BLUE~Intellectual

Positive: Intelligence, communication, trust, efficiency, serenity, duty, logic, coolness, reflection, calm. Negative: Coldness, aloofness, lack of emotion, unfriendliness.

YELLOW~Emotional

Positive: Optimism, confidence, self-esteem, extraversion, emotional strength, friendliness, creativity. Negative: Irrationality, fear, emotional fragility, depression, anxiety, suicide. Read More »

andrew

Intranets are useless. Intranets are strategic. #SharePoint

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Posted by andrew on October 27, 2011 – 11:56 am
Filed under Corporate Culture, SharePoint, Usability

 We have an Intranet?
 I don’t visit the Intranet very often, it’s rarely updated. I just use email.
 The Intranet doesn’t make my job more productive, so why bother?
 I typically can’t find what I’m looking for on our Intranet.
 I don’t know how to use the Intranet.
 Our Intranet is useless.

Sound familiar? If not, congratulations, you’re one of the few who may have got it right. The primary purpose of Intranets can be summed up in 5 words: “A vehicle for sharing knowledge”

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paulg

Wordless Wednesday

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Posted by paulg on October 26, 2011 – 6:11 am
Filed under Wordless Wednesday

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