July 9, 2008 at 3:38 pm
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Here is post with a boat-load of 3rd party app/plug-ins that work with SharePoint, allowing all sorts of social networking types of activities. Here is one example from from on my favorite companies, NewsGator: ” Social Sites 2.0 — This tool brings new social capabilities to SharePoint Server 2007
including community pages, which are ad hoc communities formed around
projects, interests, or locations, and social networking capabilities
that let employees better collaborate and share knowledge.”
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July 9, 2008 at 3:27 pm
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I’ve seen some pretty interesting examples of internal web sites powered with SharePoint. And with the increased integration with the new Office, as well as the addition of Wiki and other interactive tools, there is a lot in there. But I think like a lot of new technologies, there is a lot more to adoption than just installing the server and offering people workspaces.
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July 7, 2008 at 9:51 pm
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I’ve seen a couple of articles over the last week, questioning the future of email. But for all its faults it just works so darn well. It doesn’t matter what email client you use, or what email server software your service provider uses, if I send an email mail I am pretty confident that it will reach the intended recipient. It works on all types of computers and mobile devices. Even instant messaging, which has been around for a while, can’t claim this interoperability. So email isn’t going anywhere quickly!
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July 1, 2008 at 10:59 pm
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I always think of page footers as a place to hide boilerplate, like the copyright notice. But as this gallery demonstrates, creative people can make it a much more interesting content area!
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July 1, 2008 at 10:53 pm
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Actually this site calls the method a frontpage slideshow — but it is really much more than that. Here is their description: Read the rest of this entry »
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July 1, 2008 at 10:43 pm
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As the number of posts in this blog grow (over 500 since December 2004!) I’ve struggled with how best to make the site content accessible. My personal style is a little eclectic, with posts appearing when the mood strikes, written about what interests me at that moment. So the standard monthly archive sidebar element does not seem very helpful.
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