How to create SharePoint taxonomy governance

This week I’ve written a piece for SharePoint Pro Magazine about: How to create SharePoint taxonomy governance Ironically, I’m in Chicago this week to chair ALI’s Intranet and Digital Workplace Summit, where I know taxonomy will come up. It always...

It’s about the topics, not the channel

I’ve said it before. I’ll say it again. When it comes to intranet navigation it’s about the topics. It’s not about the channel. I recall having a conversation with someone at Sprint PCS in 1997 about the home page of our new intranet. This...

Great news on SharePoint

I just got off the phone with a company trying to reach a multi-generational employee base. They’ve had a large influx of new employees, nearly all of whom are millennials. These young people have been tossed into a conservative company with many soon-to-retire...

What happens when you do content migration well?

Doing content migration well is time consuming and politically challenging. It’s tough to get people to step up and do what should be done to improve the user experience. Many will ask you why, why should we bother? Here’s an experience from one of our...

Turn your social technology thinking on its head

I was talking with a client last week about how they could enable different parts of the organization to provide RSS news feeds for their SharePoint portal. I said it was as simple as using the SharePoint blog template. That’s right, use the blog template, but...