Author: Marijn

AIIM’s 10 commandments for an effective DM project

jmancini posted an interesting blog post some time ago on the AIIM blog, about his 10 commandments for an effective DM project: 1.BUILD A STRATEGY 2.NOT ALL CONTENT IS ALIKE 3.THE NEED TO CONTROL IS NOT GOING AWAY – IT WILL GET WORSE 4.PERFECT IS THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD 5.RIPPING OUT AND REPLACING IS …


Essential free 3d party add-ons for SharePoint

Microsoft’s partner-based model for platforms such as SharePoint is a great way to work..everyone can build functionality and applications to use in that platform.. A result of this way, is that there are A LOT of different applications and features out there. Most of them are listed on the codeplex website, and the others are …


Is ECM moving towards output-management ? (in dutch)

I found an interesting item in my RSS feeds today: Hans Dickerscheid, independent advisor and owner of DaDoLog Consultancy & Interim Management wrote an article on docufacts.nl about ECM and the move towards output-management (in dutch). In short, the keypoints he adresses are: – in recent past, focus was on the incoming items: all paper …


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11 ways to make your SharePoint implementation more user-friendly

At the “A matter of degree” blog they have an easy to read but important post with tips to make your SharePoint project more user-friendly: 1. Make the banner logo link to the Home page. 2. Remove unused web parts from the Web Parts gallery. 3. Use the Table of Contents web part on empty …


Fantastic 40: Request For Proposal site template

You will all know the famous Fantastic 40 templates. One of them is the Request For Proposal template. I really like this one, because it could work for you when you are writing an RFP as well as writing an offer to an RFP. So it does the job for both ends of the wire, …


Information Architecture for key users: Great tips by Chris Poteet

Chris Poteet shares some great tips on the EndUserSharePoint.com site: *Expose the global navigation from the parent site(s) in your subsites. It will help to orient users in the application. *When naming lists and libraries, use descriptive names that make sense to your audience. For instance, “Documents” isn’t a great name for a document library, …


SharePoint 2007 – Visio 2007 integration

Just saw this while clicking around in MOSS..Just installed Visio 2007 last week and this is what I got to see in my actions menu on a list: It just adds a new link “Create Visio Diagram”. It only works in lists ( task list and issue list, not the custom list) So, off to …


Quick Tip (3): lookup field to a site on top

Imagine this case, like a customer of mine had: You have all kinds of project sites for all the projects in your company. Of course you have a site on top that links to all these sites, shows you some additional info etc.. Now, my client wanted to manage all issues on the top level …


Article on CIO.com: Nine Mistakes That Turn Your Corporate Intranet into a Ghost Town

A good article on common mistakes that keeps your employees away from your intranet, by Martin Amm (CEO and one of the founders of adenin TECHNOLOGIES: 1)Assuming a one-size-fits-all home page will meet everyone’s needs. Give the users news that is for specifically for them. 2)Creating a one-way communication platform. Make it easy for users …


How long does the “New!” exclamation appear for new items?

That was a question I got in 2 training sessions, and I had to admit that I didn’t really knew the answer. I was sure you could edit the time, but I didn’t encountered it yet throughout my sharepoint-browsing. So I asked some of my collegues, and one (Tom Verhelst) came up with this one: …