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Where do you begin with SharePoint?
Christian Buckley
Whether you’ve just unwrapped the Christmas packaging off your shiny new SharePoint 2010 deployment, you’ve downloaded a trial version, or maybe SharePoint has been in place for a couple years but not really utilized and you’re trying to build a business case for a much broader deployment. Where to begin? I’ll tell you one place not to begin – Human Resources. I’m not trying to beat up on HR, but it seems that every organization, when deploying SharePoint for the first time and thin [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 11th '12 |
Waking Up MVP
Christian Buckley
On Sunday, I joined the ranks of a very talented and passionate field of experts as a SharePoint Server MVP, and am very grateful to Microsoft, my team at Axceler, and the many members of the community for making this all possible. It’s the influence of amazing people like Joel Oleson, Mike Watson, Bill Baer, Todd Baginski, Ben Curry, Ivan Sanders, Susan Lennon, Michael Lotter, Eric Harlan, Becky Isserman, Jason Himmelstein, Geoff Varosky, Mark Miller, Chris McNulty, Inna Gordin, Virgil Carro [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 6th '12 |
Office365 Saturday Redmond (Call for Speakers)
Christian Buckley
What is it? Office365 Saturday is a an educational, informative and lively day filled with sessions from respected professionals, MVPs, and Microsoft product team members, covering a wide variety of Office365 topics. The event is community-focused, coordinated and staffed by volunteers, and completely free to the public. Office365 Saturday Redmond will be the inaugural event for the newly formed Office365 Saturday group, taking a page from the highly successful SharePoint Saturday events, which [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 3rd '12 |
End of Year Recap? Suck It.
Christian Buckley
Sometimes the best comedy doesn’t come through intentional humor, but through the back and forth emails, tweets, and SMS messages that fill our days. My good friend Mike Watson (@jmikewatson) was complaining about the onslaught of year-end recaps this week, and was making me laugh, so I asked him to put together a more formal list of reasons why people should not recap the close of the year, which, as he puts it, “summarizes a bunch of content that, if we cared, we would have read the first [read].
Posted: Sat, Dec 31st '11 |
When Marketing is Effective
Christian Buckley
In the late 1990's, I took a role as Director of Project Management for a newly public technology company based south of market in San Francisco. Things were fairly fast-paced, the money was flowing in, we had really beautiful offices, and great Friday afternoon parties out on the balcony. My team was tasked with projects large and small, from helping define and orchestrate corporate and IT governance strategies, to deploying a new email campaign management tool, and the data collection and data [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 30th '11 |
How Do You Define Full-Fidelity Migrations?
Christian Buckley
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Axceler, through its acquisition of echoTechnology in early 2010, has been migrating Nintex Workflows since the MOSS 2007 platform. Echo was known within the industry for our comprehensive support for Nintex. We have a long history together, going back to the founding of the two companies. In fact, almost every migration demo we provide showcases a Nintex workflow migration. Davinci Migrator for SharePoint 2010 do [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 22nd '11 |
From SPSUtah to SPSSouthFla
Christian Buckley
I am amazed at how quickly this year has flown by. This time last year I was doing multiple demos each day of our newly launched migration platform (Davinci Migrator for SharePoint 2010) and getting ready to launch handful of videos as part of a new interview series with SharePoint experts and MVPs from around the world called The One Thing. As of this weekend, the total count of videos created for this series is 135, which could grow by a couple more before I disappear for 2 weeks for a m [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 12th '11 |
My Adventure in Israel
Christian Buckley
When you tell people that you are an evangelist for a software company and that you travel the country and the world speaking at events and meeting with customers, partners, and members of the community to talk technology, they think its all fun – like an extended vacation with a little work sprinkled in there. Hardly. It’s a good job, to be sure, but most of my trips are literally airport to hotel to event location back to hotel then back to airport. And while on the long flights (during wh [read].
Posted: Sun, Dec 4th '11 |
Robin Hood and a Game for Pale Young Boys
Christian Buckley
November has been a mad dash. After an incredibly busy October, how else to calm things down but to present at SharePoint Saturday Richmond (VA), followed by 3 SharePoint user groups in 3 nights (Tri-State PA, Princeton NJ, and DC/Reston VA), and then hop on a plane for SharePoint Saturday Nottingham and then south to London for a couple days in the office? Sounds like a great way to spend a couple weeks. I do have to admit that the SPUG events are always fun – any time you get to spend qualit [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 29th '11 |
The Problem With Community
Christian Buckley
Building community takes time and effort. The problem is that few are willing to do what it takes, and in a sustained manner, to be successful. What does that mean, exactly? Well, a successful community needs a driver -- someone to get things started, to keep things running. Look to the success of any community program and you'll find one or more drivers. For example, look at the Boy Scouts. Many scouting programs at the local level can point to one or two individuals who go out of their way to [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 9th '11 |
Launch of the SharePoint Migration Kit
Christian Buckley
A majority of companies who built out their intranets using SharePoint 2007 have not yet fully moved to the 2010 platform, but this statistic will likely accelerate over the next 12 to 18 months. In an effort to assist SharePoint farm administrators with the details and best practices around securely and efficiently moving their 2007 9and 2003) environments to SharePoint 2010, the Axceler team has put together a collection of content, videos, and tools to help with migration planning and prepara [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 7th '11 |
SharePoint in Berlin
Christian Buckley
After a couple days of sleep, I’m just getting back up to speed following a week on the road in Germany and Belgium. After a false start at SeaTac on the 15th with a cancelled flight due to mechanical issues (never a good sign), I was able to get on a flight mid-day Sunday, arriving in Berlin mid-day Monday (after a lovely 5-hour layover in Amsterdam). This was my second time to Berlin, and my first European SharePoint Conference. With over 700 participants at the Estrel Convention Center, th [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 25th '11 |
Re-Thinking the Performance Review
Christian Buckley
In her October 2011 Harvard Business Review article The Cure for Horrible Bosses, Rosabeth Moss Kanter identifies many of the all-too-familiar pains associated with poor managers, from artificial and unnecessary deadlines to control issues. At one point or another, many of us have experienced or know someone who has had a lousy performance review, where details of average to low performance, which never came up during weekly one-on-ones, suddenly come to center stage at the review, blindsiding t [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 20th '11 |
A Rare Political Post
Christian Buckley
I never write about politics. I call myself a religious constitutionalist, because I increasingly don’t identify with any of the major political parties, or even the minor ones (they scare me even more). I am deeply religious, I believe that the Constitution of the United States was divinely inspired, and that we have the best form of government (democratic republic) in the world. It’s not perfect, but it is the best thing going. If you are sensitive to political talk, and would rather not h [read].
Posted: Sat, Oct 15th '11 |
October 2011 Activities
Christian Buckley
I’m in a sprint to get work done before disappearing into the ether for a week while on the road in Germany and Belgium. I keep telling my wife that it doesn’t stop until just before Christmas, but I think the last couple months of relatively short travel times has lulled her into a false sense of security. Coming up are the European SharePoint Conference, the CTG Experience Day, the Taxonomy Bootcamp, SharePoint Saturday events in Nottingham UK and Richmond, Virginia, and presentations at t [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 14th '11 |
The Anaheim Effect
Christian Buckley
I seem to recall attending the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim last week, but it was a blur. Maybe it was because I tried to maintain a fairly full session schedule, while still delivering on a number of content and program commitments, filling my spare time with partner meetings and learning about some of the new vendors out on the floor. Or maybe it was because of the full social agenda each night. Or maybe it was because I couldn’t walk 20 feet without finding someone else that I hadn’t [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 11th '11 |
Freeze Mob at #SPC11
Christian Buckley
Having some fun at the SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, CA [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 7th '11 |
Reflections on SharePoint Saturday Bend
Christian Buckley
Having helped launch several SharePoint Saturday events in the past 2 years, and trying to set the (unofficial) record for having presented at the most SPS events in a calendar year (I believe Becky Isserman holds the record at 15, but I will have at least 16 by end of year), I was looking forward to helping get the SharePoint community energized for the first inaugural event in Bend, Oregon this past weekend. It was a crazy lead up to the event, as it happened right in front of travel plans for [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 4th '11 |
Why SharePoint Hegemony?
Christian Buckley
With all the writing I do these days, I’m glad to still maintain this personal blog and share some of my unedited opinions on things. For those of you who follow my activities in the twitterverse (@buckleyplanet), you’ve probably already seen my latest article over on SharePointMagazine.net, entitled Taking Control of Governance. It’s the first article in my new column for the site, which I’m calling SharePoint Hegemony. I liked this name, first because I am a huge fan of Orson Scott Car [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 28th '11 |
Microsoft will dominate the tablet space, as well
Christian Buckley
How many years now have we been hearing that Microsoft was about to wither and die, either shrinking down or going away in some categories altogether? And then what happens? They expand and grow, make record profits, and extend their dominance in many of those categories. Look, I am no fan-boy for all things Microsoft. I believe they get some things flat out wrong, and in other areas take 4-times as long to get it right than they should have. But don’t make the mistake that Microsoft has alrea [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 26th '11 |
Remembering End Users in IT Project Planning
Christian Buckley
Fact: the more you involve end users in your planning, the more likely they are to support your initiative later. If you've seen one of my presentations, you've probably heard me say this a few times. It's a real problem. My experience has shown that there is a direct correlation between the urgency of a project and the level of involvement of end users. Not that they want to be excluded -- that's just how it ends up. In the interest of moving things forward faster, we cut more people out of the [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 21st '11 |
SharePoint Conference Preamble
Christian Buckley
I can’t believe that this will be my 4th SharePoint Conference. The first one was kind of a blur (2006), as I was a new Microsoft employee and spent much of my time helping things run smoothly in the Hands on Lab, or talking to the handful of BPOS-Dedicated customers (back then we were still Microsoft Managed Services) find their way around the event and to connect with the right people (most of them were Energizer employees). The second conference in 2008 was also a bit of a blur as I had cha [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 20th '11 |
Starting a Community is Hard
Christian Buckley
Sometime in early 2002, I was working for a startup in Redwood City, California, and was approached by some folks I had met in the technology community about creation of a non-profit. After a couple discussions, I agreed to join the little cabal and the East Bay IT Group (eBIG.org) was born. We had a little bit of funding, use of some part-time technical resources to build a site, and passion. The idea was to bring technology events and coordinated user groups to the San Francisco east bay. We w [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 13th '11 |
More Road Warrior Activities
Christian Buckley
Ah yes, the upcoming travel schedule. It’s actually been fairly quiet these past couple months, with just a handful of events. But the rest of the year is going to hit hard, and I’ll be attending and speaking at quite a few SharePoint events. I just returned from 3 days with my team in Los Angeles (El Segundo, specifically, or as I call it – #TheGoo) working on some great new partnership opportunities, working with my California Sales Engineers (@jaliperti and @iamgoldberg) on forthcoming [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 9th '11 |
Hyperspecialization as a Leadership Tool
Christian Buckley
In their Harvard Business Review article The Age of Hyperspecialization, researchers Thomas Malone, Robert Laubacher, and Tammy Johns highlight the rapidly transforming workplace, and the shifting demands (and opportunities) for technology workers to specialize. They claim that "dividing work into ever smaller tasks performed by ever more specialized workers" will improve work output, and provide quality, speed, and cost benefits to the business. The article cites the model of the company TopCo [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 6th '11 |
The Product Definition Dilemma
Christian Buckley
The success of a product or service in this modern day and age is seen as an unpredictable event – presented as the culmination of skill and technological excellence, delivered with adroit adherence to the principles of marketing strategy (these being the four P’s: Product, Price, Placement, and Promotion) – with the obvious benefit of sheer luck. Product development and strategy “experts” take for granted and largely ignore the underlying factors of success, namely the arduous task of [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 1st '11 |
Building feedback loops: It’s the process, stupid
Christian Buckley
[A dramatization – well, sort of] In the not too distant past, I was sitting at a customer site on the other side of the country, waiting for a software vendor (whose application was integrated into my company’s software solution) to respond to a customer question about a piece of functionality that wasn’t working as documented. As I sat there waiting for the phone to ring, my mind wandered a bit, and I found myself daydreaming about creating some kind of technology that would allow me to [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 24th '11 |
It’s all about timing
Christian Buckley
In January 2001, I closed a deal with Rational Software (pre-IBM acquisition) to sell the assets of my little software company. After 3.5 years of bootstrapping, beta software, and venture capitalist pitches, we made the decision to sell the company and get back to a normal life (you know, just the one job). Of course, the break didn’t last long -- a couple weeks after signing the paperwork, I joined another startup. The difference, however, was that this one had received hefty VC investment. [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 23rd '11 |
Horse’s End, Turned Up to 11
Christian Buckley
Can't get enough of Horse's End? It’s understandable. As the biggest, most rocking (fake) SharePoint band ever, the band has influenced literally dozens of people.For all of the true fans out there, I decided to pull together the entire saga (to date), in all its glory: Here's the backstory from NothingButSharePoint. The first presentation we did - a "lightning talk" at SPTechCon Boston where we spoke for 3 minutes in an effort to entice people to come to our session. IN this talk entitled “ [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 19th '11 |
Do We Have Any Competitive Threats?
Christian Buckley
Ok, is anyone besides me completely bored by this question, and the inevitable back and forth dialog surrounding it – no matter what the category or industry discussed? No matter what you do, whatever product or service you are representing, there is ALWAYS a competitor. If you believe you don’t have a competitor, then you are completely oblivious to reality, and don’t deserve the funding, the sale, or my time. Even in nascent technologies, the competition may come through “like-technolo [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 17th '11 |
The Failure of Customer Leadership
Christian Buckley
One of the chief complaints of end users with SharePoint (and, to be fair, just about every other technology out there) is the failure of IT, engineering, and/or administrators (whomever owns the platform) to respond to their requests in a timely manner. People are understanding if you are up front with them about your priorities, business pressures that limit your ability to respond quickly, or management overrides of the most well-intentioned plans. But keep those people in the dark, and they [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 16th '11 |
Content a la Carte
Christian Buckley
It’s good to keep a running list of all the content you create. When you write for several blogs and regularly submit to various online and offline publications, the list helps you keep the voices in your head at bay… While not a complete list (which includes event write-ups and personal observations, internal documentation, marketing copy, and a lot of videos), here is some of my output over the last 4 or 5 months: Mapping Out Your Development Processes Moving SharePoint from IT-Led to Bu [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 11th '11 |
SharePoint is Dead! Long Live SharePoint!
Christian Buckley
Like many others in the SharePoint community, I had the urge to quickly jump into the fray and share my thoughts on the recent blog post by Steve Gaitten on the Bamboo Team Blog in which he shares his impressions on the transition from the on-premises SharePoint model to the Office 365 hosted platform. I held fast for a few days, enjoying some of the interesting dialog running through the community, but want to add my thoughts. His most provocative statement? “I believe that SharePoint will [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 5th '11 |
It feels like a sprint, not a journey
Christian Buckley
As I sit here at SeaTac, thinking about what I have to get done this week while in the air and on the road, the thought popped into my head “yes, but remember that it’s a journey, not a race.” Unfortunately for many of us, the journey is a series of sprints. Don’t get me wrong – I’m not complaining. I rather enjoy my job, I have a great team, I work in a fantastic corporate culture where people are able to share ideas, and where an individual can take an idea that they are passionate [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 26th '11 |
WPC Panel Event
Christian Buckley
While at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Group event (#WPC11), I was invited by the Worldwide Partner Group to participate in a panel to discuss various themes running across the events, and to share our insights. The panel was part of the year-old Microsoft Partner Network, and shared via MPN Live (#MPNlive). Moderating the panel was Juliane Tubino (@JuTubino). On the panel with me were my good friend Tiffany Ingargiola (who seems to know EVERYONE), Business Development Manager at New Horizons [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 21st '11 |
Tracking the Influencers
Christian Buckley
I had a conversation with a friend a few years back who had become a stock broker and made millions – just out of college. Clearly, this friend has a gift for that kind of thing, and so I asked him what a typical day looked like. He told me that he would wake up at 4:45am every morning and turn on 2 or 3 large televisions in his room, and start watching the various business and financial programs while he also scanned the internet and several major newspapers for additional, relevant news. He [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 19th '11 |
The Trouble with Travel
Christian Buckley
You’re attending a tradeshow abroad, or visiting a customer site across the country. You intend to check in regularly on your blog, and even lay out some high-level plans for content over the week, with the best intentions. And then reality happens. You are in constant meetings with customers and partners and team members from your remote offices, followed by event activities and parties which are yet another opportunity to network and talk in person. They’re all valuable activities and the [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 15th '11 |
The Business Value of Good Will
Christian Buckley
Ask an MBA student to define “good will,” and you’ll likely hear a drawn-out answer like “Goodwill refers to the intangible value the business has created above the value of its tangible assets such as manufacturing plants, cash on hand or equipment.” Wikipedia adds that “the term was originally used in accounting to express the intangible but quantifiable "prudent value" of an ongoing business beyond its assets, resulting perhaps from the reputation the firm enjoyed with its clients [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 8th '11 |
SharePoint Community Maturity
Christian Buckley
I’ve written a few times about the amazing growth and passion within the SharePoint community (see SharePoint, Hillbillies, and Community, and What Came First: SharePoint or the Egg?), but a few folks have noted the slow creeping presence of ego within the ranks. Mark Thompson continues the dialog around the changes happening within the SharePoint community – including his encounters with some of these “negative vibes” – in his post SharePoint Community; Loud but not so clear, which wa [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 6th '11 |
Mapping Out Your Development Processes
Christian Buckley
Time is a fickle thing. You have an hour to kill before a flight, and the time seems to crawl by at a snail’s pace. But the six hours you have left to complete what seems like a simple presentation for a meeting tomorrow morning is gone in a flash of light. So much of our technological advances have to do with our increasing need to control time and space, to automate, to streamline, to optimize. All for what? To spend more time with our friends and families? Then why is it that with all of ou [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 22nd '11 |
Obsessive-Compulsive ADD Workaholic Vacations
Christian Buckley
People ask: why are you driving 14 hours to…anywhere? Ah, but that is 14 hours of talking and thinking and pulling over on the highway to jot down a few ideas (or to call my own voicemail and leave myself reminders of ideas without needing to stop) and listen to talk radio from which other ideas come. And then it’s all about generating lists: lists of new ideas for blogs, ideas for articles, ideas for videos, lists of emails to send, things to do, people to contact. Once we arrive at our des [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 21st '11 |
My advice? Re-Post it.
Christian Buckley
I was just responding to a comment by Tom Resing on my last blog post, and thought it would be worthwhile to expand on the idea of re-posting content. The conversation was in regards to my third bullet point in that article: Your old stuff is somebody’s new stuff. I can see some speakers getting sick and tired of doing the same topics over and over again. But what's old hat for you is brand new (and much needed) for someone else. When I submit abstracts to speak at events, I include the old t [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 17th '11 |
SharePoint, Hillbillies, and Community
Christian Buckley
What a flurry of great blog posts and commentary we’ve seen today! It started with a great article by Barb Mosher over on CMSWire (The SharePoint Community: What it is, Why It's Important and Microsoft's Role) including interviews with SharePoint community stalwarts Laura Rogers (@wonderlaura, a SharePoint MVP), Jennifer Mason (@jennifermason), Dux Raymond Sy (@meetdux, another recent SharePoint MVP), and Microsoft’s Chris Johnson shared their thoughts on what has made the SharePoint communi [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 15th '11 |
Perfection by the Numbers: Key Learnings from Six Sigma
Christian Buckley
Six Sigma, at many organizations, simply means a measure of quality that strives for near perfection. Six Sigma is a disciplined, data-driven approach and methodology for eliminating defects (driving towards six standard deviations between the mean and the nearest specification limit) in any process -- from manufacturing to transactional and from product to service. The statistical representation of Six Sigma describes quantitatively how a process is performing. To achieve Six Sigma, a process m [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 13th '11 |
The Consumer Decision Journey
Christian Buckley
At a company meeting at the beginning of the year, I shared some thoughts the role of evangelism, which included a few of my thoughts on the sales process – and what differentiates SharePoint from the traditional software sales model. Of course, this is from the perspective of a non-salesperson, and I am not one to disrupt a working model. However, I do believe that a successful sales model, like any muscle within the corporate body, needs to experience some degree of “muscle confusion” if [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 7th '11 |
SPTechCon: The Building of a Demo
Christian Buckley
Most folks don’t understand the difficult work that goes into setting up one or more demos for a presentation for a technology show, such as this week’s SPTechCon Boston, being held at the Sheraton in Boston’s Back Bay. To make a demo rich and functional and to help people put the examples in perspective to their own working lives, you can’t go with a simple “Company XYZ” that produces widgets and thingamabobs. No, you need to be more creative, otherwise people will recognize that th [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 2nd '11 |
On the Road for SPTechCon Boston
Christian Buckley
Quality time in the office is always so short-lived in the life of an evangelist. After a week home, it’s time once again to prepare for the road. But I’m really looking forward to this trip – SPTechCon is a well-run machine, and after a few days in Atlanta for TechEd 2011, I’m looking forward to being surrounded once again by my SharePoint peers. The SharePoint crowd is the most passionate (and fun) group of people in technology, and I am looking forward to being in the middle of it all [read].
Posted: Thu, May 26th '11 |
The Building of #ShareQuilt
Christian Buckley
My closet has been growing. My wife has mentioned it on multiple occasions, usually when she’s gone looking for hangers. So many SharePoint events, each with it’s own speaker shirt and attendee shirt – some with memorable designs, others just created to weigh down my suitcase for the flight home. What do you do with all of them? I am going to make a quilt. Well, more specifically – my mother in law has offered to make a quilt for me. I think we’ll embark on this adventure later this ye [read].
Posted: Wed, May 25th '11 |
TechEd 2011 Interview
Christian Buckley
While wandering the hallways at TechEd in Atlanta last week, my good friend Jeff DeVerter from Rackspace grabbed me for a quick conversation and video to discuss, of all things, SharePoint. And, surprisingly, I had some thoughts on the matter. [read].
Posted: Mon, May 23rd '11 |
The One Thing Reaches 10,000 Hits
Christian Buckley
We’ve just passed some milestones with my video series, The One Thing You Need to Know about SharePoint 2010: we surpassed 10,000 views (in 4 months), I recorded my 100th video (still have a dozen to edit and post), and it looks like I may be filming then in a more official manner for Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference and uploading them daily (and multiple times daily). For those who may be unfamiliar with these videos, they are community videos by experts, MVPs, and MCMs talking abou [read].
Posted: Wed, May 18th '11 |
Deep Thoughts
Christian Buckley
I recently picked up a book on my way through the airport called The Magicians, by Lev Grossman, that billed itself as “a mature Harry Potter.” I’d position it as more of a Harry Potter-meets-Orson Scott Card-meets-C.S.Lewis-meets-Kurt Vonnegut. Some amazing prose inside (and a fantastic storyline to boot), including this great piece: “Language and reality are kept strictly apart – reality is tough, unyielding stuff and it doesn’t care what you think or feel or say about it. Or you [read].
Posted: Mon, May 16th '11 |
Evangelism, Sales, and Marketing
Christian Buckley
After posting some thoughts on the topic in January, I shared some back and forth Facebook comments with my father-in-law around the role of evangelists, in which he insisted evangelism was just part of marketing. While its easy to disregard anything he says because he’s getting really old, his mind is shot, and rumor has it that he’s completely insane – I would like to challenge his assumptions. The fact that I started the rumor (no matter how true) is irrelevant: evangelism is more than [read].
Posted: Thu, May 12th '11 |
Tales from the Road–SPS Houston
Christian Buckley
Alright, I know that I complained the entire time about how hot it was in Houston. I’ve definitely become acclimated to the weather here in Seattle, and while I do enjoy the occasional hot day (preferably when I am near a body of water, dressed for the occasion), I love the cool weather, frequent misting rain, and overcast skies of the Puget Sound. It’s just how I roll. After 34 years of life in Northern California, I just had my fill. Nice to visit, don’t want to live there. Ok, I’m don [read].
Posted: Tue, May 10th '11 |
I Will Never Be Michael Noel
Christian Buckley
Returning from a 10-day trip to Boston, St. Louis and San Diego, I came to a very harsh realization that I will never be Michael Noel. Or Andrew Connell (although we were almost twins this week with matching pink shirts). Or Todd Baginski (because I can’t surf, and I’ll never be more than intermediate at skiing). Let me clarify – this realization came not from my inability to code, or from Michael’s vast knowledge of SharePoint and other technologies. No, that would be too easy. I’m s [read].
Posted: Thu, May 5th '11 |
What Came First: SharePoint or the Egg?
Christian Buckley
Since co-presenting the keynote for SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach in January, and the release on my e-book, I’ve had many interesting conversations with folks inside and outside the SharePoint community about what makes this community special, and whether it can be repeated in other Microsoft product communities. Is the passion and drive of this community unique to SharePoint? Or is it just a byproduct of the consumer-based social computing revolution that we’re currently experiencing? [read].
Posted: Mon, May 2nd '11 |
Reality Check on Office 365
Christian Buckley
In case you haven’t heard, Microsoft is “all in” on the cloud. What that means to you and to most companies, especially as a SharePoint customer, is a good question. It just depends. As with all-thing SharePoint-related, cutting through the marketing hype is much easier when you have a clear idea of your business needs, which will then allow you to better map your requirements against the limited capabilities in a hosted SharePoint platform. Will Office 365 (formerly known as BPOS-S, or B [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 28th '11 |
A Demonstration of Labor
Christian Buckley
About 10 years ago, We had a custom pool put in. The contractor told my wife and I that we’d be fans of his for about 3 days, then hate him for 60 days, and then love him again at the end of the project. And he was exactly right. The tractors showed up the next day, dug the hole, and we had the beginnings of a beach-entry swimming pool. We celebrated for a couple days. And then nobody showed up for over a month. We called, left messages, sent email – and got no response. Then one day, someon [read].
Posted: Sun, Apr 24th '11 |
What Drives Community?
Christian Buckley
Sitting through keynotes at the Australia and New Zealand SharePoint Conferences last month, I had some time to think about community building - both inside your company and external to your company. Both of the events featured Mark Miller and Joel Oleson talking about community, and sharing some details of their most recent activities around Asia-Pacific. While they did a great job of highlighting the macro-level view of community, what was missing were the tactical steps it takes to get starte [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 21st '11 |
Developing Cultural Confidence
Christian Buckley
“Teams that are immersed in a culture of accountability, collaboration, and initiative are more likely to believe that they can weather any storm.” In her April 2011 HBR article “Cultivate a Culture of Confidence,” Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who specializes in strategy, innovation, and leadership, provides some analysis of the differences between #winners and losers and how each handles losing. She shares some great insights into how teams that foster a cult [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 18th '11 |
“Marketing” does not equal “Building Loyalty”
Christian Buckley
The traditional sales and marketing models do not always apply to SharePoint. Why? I think it has much to do with SharePoint being a platform, and not a product. While some may view that bit of “wordsmithing” to be nothing more than a brilliant marketing move by Microsoft, it really does make a difference in how companies position themselves in the SharePoint space. What is the goal of marketing? To build awareness. The traditional marketing model seeks to reach as many people as possible, r [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 13th '11 |
3 Things You Should Know About The One Thing
Christian Buckley
My SharePoint community video series, The One Thing You Need To Know About SharePoint 2010 (on Twitter, search for #TheOneThing), has been gaining speed over the past three months since launch, now with over 65 videos in the collection. The series highlights experts and events in 4 countries. More articles will be added throughout the year, but I thought I’d share a quick post on the top 3 videos to date: Mark Miller (@eusp) discusses the strength of MOSS 2007, and provides guidance that many [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 8th '11 |
Leadership, Not Middle Management
Christian Buckley
In the Jan-Feb 2011 issue of Harvard Business Review, Lynda Gratton wrote a column in which she stated “the classic job of the middle manager will soon disappear” now that “technology itself has become the great general manager.” The article goes on to discuss her research on the technology revolution and how it is creating seismic shifts in social informatics, changing the ways that people work. As HBR points out, “her research shows that younger workers value a highly skilled “mast [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 7th '11 |
Hey! I’m on Video!
Christian Buckley
Not sure how long this will be available for streaming, but if you’d like to catch a glimpse of my session from the New Zealand SharePoint Conference, entitled Looking Under the Hood: How Your Metadata Strategy Impacts Everything You Do, it’s now available online. Thanks again to Debbie Ireland, Mark Orange, and Nick Hadlee for putting together a great show. Looking forward to getting back down in region for TechEd, and possibly a SharePoint Saturday or two. Click on the image to see the vid [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 4th '11 |
On the Road in April
Christian Buckley
I thought I’d do a quick post to let people know my travel plans for the month of April. I am currently on the road in Southern California, co-hosting this weekend’s (4/2) SharePoint Saturday Los Angeles event (#SPSLA) with SharePoint compatriot Nedra Allmond, and a great team of experts, including Axceler administration expert Jamie Aliperti, who will also be presenting tomorrow. My session at SPSLA will be Looking Under the Hood: How Your Metadata Strategy Impacts Everything You Do, which [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 1st '11 |
PM Surrounded by Devs
Christian Buckley
It’s always a mixed bag presenting on a PM/business analyst topic at a predominantly developer-focused event like DevConnections. I’m here in Orlando this week, before making my way out to Los Angeles for SharePoint Saturday Los Angeles (#SPSLA), presenting two sessions:
Don’t Just Migrate – Transform Your SharePoint Environment
SharePoint’s Social Computing Scorecard
My sessions are always heavy on best practices and real-world examples, light on demos. Why? To be honest, I find m [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 28th '11 |
When is the right time to get social on SharePoint?
Christian Buckley
In his AIIM.org blog post of the same title, Rich Blank provides a solid overview of the business reasons for considering the move into the social computing features in SharePoint 2010. He touches on some important scoping questions, such as understanding budget, time and resources (traditional project management concerns); understanding the scope and scale of your SharePoint platform; and recognizing that social tools will help (most companies) realize the potential of SharePoint, i.e. why you [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 24th '11 |
Where’s My Hairspray?
Christian Buckley
Nothing like late night boredom in a foreign country to inspire creativity. I found myself in Wellington, New Zealand last week on St. Patrick’s Day with a host of post-conference SharePoint folks, chatting with Paul Culmsee about a song idea that he had come up with a year prior, collaborating with Ruven Gotz and Peter Serzo on lyrics sung to the Tears for Fears classic, Mad World. After a quick lyrical refresh and a few minutes for Paul to remember the melody, we created this one-take video [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 21st '11 |
Lost in Beleriand
Christian Buckley
Following the Australia SharePoint Conference in Sydney last week, I made my way to Wellington, New Zealand and met up with fellow SharePoint expert Michael Doyle (@SharePointNinja). With a couple days in front of us before the New Zealand SharePoint Conference, we drove 6 or 7 hours north and found ourselves in the middle of nowhere. The plan: hike Mount Doom (i.e. the Tongariro Alpine Crossing). We arrived late on Saturday, found a nice little motel, and settled in for the evening. The most di [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 16th '11 |
Australia is a Wrap
Christian Buckley
I’m sitting here in the airport in Sydney, waiting for my flight to board to make my way over to New Zealand and thought I’d quickly recap the week. The purpose of my trip was twofold: First, to sponsor and present a session at the Australian SharePoint Conference, organized by Debbie Ireland, Mark Orange, and the SPEvents team. Second, to help officially open the new Axceler office in North Sydney. Growth in the region has been tremendous, with Australia one of the fastest growing global re [read].
Posted: Sun, Mar 13th '11 |
Axceler Expands into the Australia + New Zealand Region
Christian Buckley
Thought I’d share our latest press release: WOBURN, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/07/11 -- Axceler, the leader in Microsoft SharePoint administration and migration software, today announced the expansion of its presence in the Australia and New Zealand region with the opening of a new office in Sydney, bronze sponsorship of the upcoming Australia and New Zealand SharePoint Conferences, and the appointment of a new Channel Sales Manager for the Asia Pacific region. SharePoint is the fastest growin [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 7th '11 |
Australia SharePoint Conference Kickoff
Christian Buckley
I’m on the road again, this time sponsoring and presenting at the Australia SharePoint Conference (#AUSPC) here is beautiful and temperate Sydney. After arriving at 11am and quickly realizing that my phone was not switching over properly to the new network (new phone, already long calls with my carrier, still not resolved), I found my way to the hotel and – yes, you guessed it – sat and worked in my room for 5 hours. International travel can be so exciting that way. At 6pm, I met u [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 7th '11 |
SharePoint’s Social Computing Scorecard
Christian Buckley
Last fall, Mike Watson and I started talking about writing an e-book on the social computing capabilities within SharePoint 2010. While that project continues, and we’re talking with a publisher, we wanted to collaborate for a couple SharePoint Saturday events, and created a presentation that walks through a history of social computing followed by an in-depth review of the major social platforms, comparing them to similar features within SharePoint. The intent was not to cover every single co [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 1st '11 |
Content Recap for February
Christian Buckley
Over this past month, I produced a number of articles on this blog, the Axceler blog, and on NothingButSharePoint.com in both the End User and IT Pro sections. I thought I’d provide a quick recap of these articles and help you get the most out of your BuckleyPlanet experience With SharePoint, It Depends 2/28 A quick perspective on why SharePoint may not always respond the way you want it to. NothingButSharePoint.com 10 Reasons Davinci Beats Database Attach for SharePoint Migratio [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 28th '11 |
Does Social Tagging Promote Governance?
Christian Buckley
In an article on the AIIM SharePoint Community site, Does Social Tagging Accelerate Acceptance of Business Tagging in SharePoint?, Russ Edelman asks whether the growing acceptance of social tagging across various consumer applications and websites is picking up steam within the enterprise and, specifically, with SharePoint.
I believe so, though I don’t have any empirical data or formal studies to fall back on other than my own experience and customer interactions. But why would that stop me fr [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 23rd '11 |
What it Means to be "Neutral"
Christian Buckley
File this one under Mild Venting: I am an active SharePoint community member, but many of the presentations I give on SharePoint and surrounding technology have absolutely nothing to do with the products I help create and sell. In fact, I help coordinate and host industry events, such as SharePoint Saturday events in the San Francisco East Bay, Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Redmond) where my day time job is more or less in the background while planning for these all-day events. My [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 23rd '11 |
PowerShell Makes Brian a Better Person
Christian Buckley
I had to send Brian Jackett a t-shirt with his quote from TheOneThing video series in which he makes his now famous claim. For those who missed the video, here it is again: And it even made it into Mark Rackley’s video: Good times. [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 18th '11 |
The One Thing
Christian Buckley
Officially launched on December 27th, 2010, the video series “The One Thing You Need to Know About SharePoint 2010” just surpassed 5,000 views on the AxcelerCorp channel on YouTube, with who knows how many views through other distribution channels, such as Facebook and Twitter (neither of which tally against YouTube metrics). While not a MASSIVE number of views, the project is starting to pick up steam, with more people viewing and linking to the content. What is Th [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 17th '11 |
Are We Still In February?
Christian Buckley
Ah, so much happening all at once. Good thing I’m having fun, or else I’d go insane. Got back from SPTechCon in San Francisco last week (Feb 7-9) with a cold – that turned into a sinus infection. The best thing to do is sleep. Yeah, like that is going to happen. Instead, I’m at the office every morning at 6:45am, jumping into the content and demos head first. Thought I’d pump out a quick post to catch everyone up: SPTechCon had great energy, and when I was not giving one of my three se [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 16th '11 |
My Sessions at SPTechCon San Francisco
Christian Buckley
I am heading south Sunday for what should be yet another great SPTechCon event in San Francisco, being held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport in Burlingame, CA. Always happy to go back to the home turf of the bay area – even if I am not able to take some time to drive eastward and visit friends and family this time. While I love living in the Seattle area and have no plans to move back to CA, its always fun to visit. I will be conducting three sessions at SPTechCon, and wanted to shar [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 4th '11 |
Toronto SPUG
Christian Buckley
Never a dull moment in the SharePoint community. I was sitting over at the Axceler table in the exhibit hall of the SharePoint Summit Toronto 2011 event, minding my own business, when I am approached by Richard Harbridge (known as ShareBieber in some circles) with an invitation to speak at the Toronto SharePoint User Group community event that evening. No slides, 10 minutes max, and I can pick my topic. No problem. Would love to do it. As usual, it turned out to be a great event. I selected the [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 31st '11 |
End Users, SharePoint, and Migration Planning
Christian Buckley
What seems like common sense to some is often a revelation to many. The goal of any best practices presentation is to add upon what you already know, augmenting and improving the tools already in your toolset. And that was the goal for my webcast this afternoon with Axceler partner Grace-Hunt – to help SharePoint administrators and others who play a role in preparing to migrate to SharePoint 2010 understand where and when to involve their end users in their migration planning. (Thanks to @gvar [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 27th '11 |
The Age of the App is (Almost) Here
Christian Buckley
Stuff I’m thinking about: I don’t believe “the age of the mobile app” is in the immediate future. Not Yet. No sir. I believe the “rich app” world will remain in place for quite some time. However, strategic use of the cloud – and cloud-based apps, in conjunction with on-premise solutions – will be our next big shift. Yes, yes. Going out on a limb, here. For one, enterprises have far too much invested in on-premise and dedicated (or hosted) solutions to move to the completely new [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 26th '11 |
SPSEMEA and Technology Limitations
Christian Buckley
I love technology. I say this with a grimace following presentation issues with LiveMeeting and my SharePoint Saturday EMEA online presentation. First, my uploaded slides had a black background instead of white, making all of my text impossible to read. Then my attempts to share my desktop resulted in a gray background. So my presentation consisted of a lot of me talking, with the occasional “and if you could see my slides, you’d see…” Sweet. Oh well, hopefully people were still able to [read].
Posted: Sat, Jan 22nd '11 |
Involving End Users in Migration Planning
Christian Buckley
I’ll be back in the Boston area next week, and while there will be leading a webcast on Thursday, January 27th from 11:45 to 1pm EST, hosted by local partner Grace-Hunt, called ‘Strategies for Involving End Users in Your Migration.’ The session is based on an article I wrote for SharePointPro Connections called ‘When and How to Include End Users in SharePoint Migration Planning’ and is a continuation on the string of articles I’ve been writing here, on the Axceler blog, and for Nothi [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 21st '11 |
Branding 101
Christian Buckley
A topic of interest for me over this past month has been the importance of design, and – more specifically – concepts of color theory. Having spent almost 3 years as a design major (industrial design, focusing on product design), I have a special place in my heart for clear and functional designs, including the creative use of color (and of white space). And as a music collector with several bins of vinyl in my garage, each delicately wrapped in plastic sleeves and stored at optimal temperat [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 19th '11 |
SharePint in Bellevue on 1/25
Christian Buckley
Planning to be in the Seattle area next Tuesday evening? Then come join Dux Raymond Sy (@meetdux), Joel Oleson (@joeloleson) and me (@buckleyplanet) for a SharePint at the Rock Bottom Brewery from 6-9pm, located at 550 106th Avenue NE in Bellevue. We’ve heard back from quite a few members of the SharePoint product and marketing teams that some of them should also be attending, so it should be one of the best SharePint events of the year! Don’t drink? Don’t worry – neither do about half o [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 18th '11 |
VANSPUG and SharePointWhistler
Christian Buckley
Just wanted to add a quick recap of this past weekend when Joel Oleson, his son Scott and I made our way north from Seattle to the Vancouver SharePoint User Group for a joint presentation this past Friday (Jan 14, 2011). Thanks again to Sherman Woo and the rest of the team for making this happen on a Friday night, and then of course for everyone who came out to participate. We had a pretty full house as I presented on the 11 Strategic Considerations for SharePoint Migrations, followed by Joel sh [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 17th '11 |
Pawz Discussion on Davinci Migrator
Christian Buckley
Fluffy and Rex discuss the features and benefits of using the Davinci Migrator for migrating from SharePoint 2003 or 2007 to SharePoint 2010. [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 13th '11 |
What is this Evangelism thing, anyway?
Christian Buckley
While out in Boston last week for my company’s end of year celebration, I had the opportunity to address the entire company for an hour and share my perspective on just what the role of Evangelism entails. It’s a great question – one which may have slightly different answers depending on the company, the industry, and the level of support from your leadership team. I’m fortunate enough to work for a company that “gets it” and sees the direct link between product evangelism and compan [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 12th '11 |
Scaling Mt. Trashmore
Christian Buckley
Back in the office after a very productive and energizing week on the road, I thought I’d take a moment to quickly recap my travels from this past week. I was able to spend a couple days at Axceler headquarters in the thriving megalopolis that is Woburn, MA and connect with the team. On Wednesday, I had dinner with my good friend and Axceler partner Geoff Varosky, from Grace-Hunt, at the Capital Grille in Burlington. And I must say…. Best. Steak. Ever. While we ate, we wondered [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 10th '11 |
Updated eBook on Community Development
Christian Buckley
I added a dozen or so additional ideas, including a 4th section, to my free download. It is geared toward the SharePoint community – but applicable to anyone trying to build out their personal brand. Also new is a forward by Mark Miller, Chief Evangelist at Global360 and co-founder of NothingButSharePoint.com. Click the image to download this PDF. [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 2nd '11 |
Reaching the Coasean Floor
Christian Buckley
Funny what you find when you clean out the office. While still at Microsoft, I usually had 3 or 4 books checked out of the wonderful Microsoft library, and as is my habit, I jotted down several notes from my reading – some of which I tried to incorporate into my work (presentations, team building) or blog about. While organizing my office closet at home last week, I came across some scribbled notes on the back of a scrap of paper with several quotes and ideas captured from James Q. Wilson's 19 [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 2nd '11 |
Rock Paper Scissors
Christian Buckley
I love this cartoon. [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 2nd '11 |
How to Become a SharePoint Site Admin
Christian Buckley
For those who may be wondering about the process of becoming a Site Admin in SharePoint, this short video shows the typical identification and selection process in most companies: How to Become a SharePoint Site Admin Consider this a word of warning to all you helpful types out there [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 2nd '11 |
Danger Boy
Christian Buckley
The film that got me in trouble with my wife. But me and the boys had fun. Josh tests his driving skills [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 2nd '11 |
The Ugly Side of Customizing SharePoint
Christian Buckley
What is the ugly side of customizing SharePoint, you ask? Supporting those customizations, and later having to migrate them. In a perfect world, people design and build sites following best practices, and stay within the constructs of the SharePoint framework. While at Microsoft, I worked on the team that supported most of the internal deployments of SharePoint, and lived through much of the move from 2003 to 2007. My team learned a lot about the migration process – and the gaps in the platfor [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 2nd '11 |
Ringing in the New Year
Christian Buckley
I don’t see the point in sharing a list of resolutions for 2011 other than continue to work hard, provide customer and community value, and spend as much time with my wife and kids as possible. I do have goals of climbing for a third time Mt. Whitney in the Sierra Nevada mountains of southern California, but this time with a couple of my sons. I’d also like to take the family back to our favorite beaches in Kauai. And then there’s that science fiction novella that’s been in the back of m [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 2nd '11 |
Feature Videos for Davinci Migrator
Christian Buckley
A key part of my role at Axceler is to generate internal and external videos around our products. After generating internal sales videos, followed by a 15-minute demo of the Davinci Migrator for SharePoint 2010, I thought it would be helpful to also slice and dice this content, creating several feature-based videos so that people can get a quick sense of the unique features and core capabilities of the product without having to commit to an entire 15-minute video. I know. Fifteen minutes is a lo [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 23rd '10 |
Making the Top 10 in 2010, & Plans for 2011
Christian Buckley
I’m constantly having to explain to my family that my apparent narcissism is actually part of my job as an evangelist, and the self-promotion is all about connecting with customers and partners, and providing visibility to my company, Axceler, and products (like ControlPoint for administration and Davinci for migration). Even so, it’s great to see that your hard work has not gone unnoticed. My ECM Connection article 11 Strategic Considerations for SharePoint Migration remained in the top 2 d [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 16th '10 |
Why the Galapagos Tortoise?
Christian Buckley
In my presentations on the 11 Strategic Considerations for SharePoint Migration at various SharePoint events, I share with the audience a picture of a Galapagos tortoise and, on occasion, offer up some freebies to anyone who can tell me the picture’s relevance to my presentation. Only once has someone guessed correctly. What does a tortoise have to do with metadata and SharePoint? Here’s the story behind use of the picture: I was watching Master and Commander with Russell Crowe (great movie [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 15th '10 |
One of the Best. Videos. Ever.
Christian Buckley
I think enough time has passed since we all saw this spoof of what Microsoft would do to the iconic iPod packaging, circa 2005. I don’t know the full story behi Technorati Tags: Microsoft,iPod,videos,buckleyplanet nd this. I seem to recall it was an internally funded effort to illustrate the sheer lack of inspiration behind many of Microsoft’s product naming/packaging efforts. Doesn’t matter what the background is – brilliant video, nonetheless. Microsoft Re-Designs the iPod Packaging [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 15th '10 |
File Shares: SharePoint’s Ugly Distant Cousin
Christian Buckley
One of the primary reasons you moved to SharePoint was to consolidate your content under one roof, right? You were sold on the vision of a unified platform: better organized content, improved discoverability, clear lines of authorship, permission trimmed accessibility, and all of those other end user and IT Pro features. But by far, the ability for distributed content management was one of the strongest value propositions for SharePoint. And yet your group has delayed your file share migrations [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 13th '10 |
File under “Planning, Capacity”
Christian Buckley
As part of my drill down into each of the areas within my ECM Connection article ‘11 Strategic Considerations for SharePoint Migration,’ my post today over on the Axceler blog discusses the need for proper capacity planning before, during, and following your SharePoint migration. Why this ongoing analysis? Because your SharePoint environment is a living, breathing thing, with end users and admins making changes that keep it in a constant state of change. Whenever I think about capacity plan [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 6th '10 |
A Musical Interlude
Christian Buckley
Last Friday night, I took my wife down to the Triple Door in Seattle to see one of my teenage favorites, Bob Mould (formerly of the iconic metal/punk band Hüsker Dü, and the 90’s alt rock band Sugar). Bob’s vocals and guitar work were amazing, and true to form, he went from one song finish right into the next song with hardly a breath in-between. I knew the music was not my wife’s style, but she really enjoyed his energy and stage presence. I captured a few lousy photos with my phone: &# [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 6th '10 |
Is Your Migration Bigger than a Breadbox?
Christian Buckley
I just posted an article on the Axceler blog that further explores the strategic considerations outlined in my ECM Connection article on SharePoint migration planning. Here’s my main point: even small deployments (based on the number of sites or size of your content databases) can have great complexity. Migrations are rarely simple, so until you do some discovery and planning, don’t commit to a project delivery date. Some things to think about as you consider your pending SharePoint migratio [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 1st '10 |
Celebrating 20 Years
Christian Buckley
I can’t believe that its been 20 years since that day when I was 4 or 5 hours late to my wedding. Not my fault. The car broke down in early morning traffic, and nobody would stop to help the guy in his tux on the side of Highway 80 outside of Cordelia, California. After walking some distance, a trucker was nice enough to give me a ride into Vallejo, where (eventually) my bride-to-be and her dad rescued me. What a day. And now, 20 years later, I have 4 fantastic kids and a wife who still loves [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 30th '10 |
Conspiracy Theory
Christian Buckley
I’m not one for conspiracy theories, but come on – I’ve been in the Top 10 Most Viewed articles on ECM Connection since October 26th, most of that time in the #1 spot. Now they’ve got me in both the #2 and #3 spots (as both a guest columnist and as a download link). If they combined the two, would I be back in the #1 spot? Probably. If I suddenly appear in three spots, I’ll start a petition…. [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 30th '10 |
Migration Planning – End Users = Titanic
Christian Buckley
In my latest Axceler blog post, I point out that SharePoint migrations are much like an iceberg: what you see on the surface is the technical aspect of the effort -- the moving of bits between hardware. But under the surface is where the real work begins – the massive planning effort that really determines how and when your technical migration will take place, and whether the resulting SharePoint environment will, ultimately, be successful. You must decide where and when to involve your end us [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 30th '10 |
Conspiracy Theory
Christian Buckley
I’m not one for conspiracy theories, but come on – I’ve been in the Top 10 Most Viewed articles on ECM Connection since October 26th, most of that time in the #1 spot. Now they’ve got me in both the #2 and #3 spots (as both a guest columnist and as a download link). If they combined the two, would I be back in the #1 spot? Probably. If I suddenly appear in three spots, I’ll start a petition…. [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 29th '10 |
Migration Planning – End Users = Titanic
Christian Buckley
In my latest Axceler blog post, I point out that SharePoint migrations are much like an iceberg: what you see on the surface is the technical aspect of the effort -- the moving of bits between hardware. But under the surface is where the real work begins – the massive planning effort that really determines how and when your technical migration will take place, and whether the resulting SharePoint environment will, ultimately, be successful. You must decide where and when to involve your end us [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 29th '10 |
Going Plaid
Christian Buckley
I just posted an article on the Axceler blog re: understanding the current-state of your SharePoint migration. Here’s an excerpt” In one of my favorite scenes from the Mel Brooks movie Spaceballs, the heroes -- played by John Candy and Bill Pullman -- narrowly escape the bad guys in hyperspace when the villains miscalculate their hyper-jump and effectively “go plaid” (they leave behind a tartan warp signature) as they fly past in a blur of light. As utterly ridiculous this scene is, th [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 22nd '10 |
Creative Destruction
Christian Buckley
In my latest EndUserSharePoint article, I rehash a favorite internal blog post from my Microsoft days where I discuss the concept of creative destruction, and make the link between the phrase coined by economist Joseph Schumpeter and kaizen, the Japanese term used to describe the process of continual improvement. The act of creative destruction, as I interpret it, is about building into your product or service lifecycle a series of planning checkpoints that act a purging mechanisms for features, [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 22nd '10 |
End Users–The Key to Your SharePoint Migration Planning
Christian Buckley
For those who may be starting to plan for the migration from SharePoint 2007 to the new SharePoint 2010 platform, something to consider is when and how to involve your end users. Your end users know their requirements, essential business processes, and data better than you do – so you most definitely need to involve them in your planning. My recent article, entitled “When and How to Involve End Users in SharePoint Migration Planning” (SharePointPro Connections) provides a simple overview [read].
Posted: Fri, Nov 19th '10 |
12 Step Program for SharePoint Community Addiction
Christian Buckley
I was reading through comments on my article over on EndUserSharePoint.com (The SharePoint Community Needs More Content: How You Can Get Involved) and was inspired by something Nick Hadlee stated: “once you start getting involved in the community then it becomes a little addictive.” There is tremendous value in becoming part of the SharePoint community, whether as an End User who works with the platform, as an IT Pro that helps shape how SharePoint is deployed, configured, and used within th [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 16th '10 |
The “Defendable Swag”
Christian Buckley
There is a fundamental flaw in the thinking process of many entrepreneurs out there in the midst of building their companies and seeking angel or venture capitalist investment: simply put, their market projections cannot be defended. The total available market (TAM), around which the typical entrepreneur plans to build their pro forma business model, is often defined by figures pulled from some random analyst report off the Internet. Many times, the research performed by an entrepreneur is nothi [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 15th '10 |
Prague, Czech Republic
Christian Buckley
In a rare escape, I was able to spend a couple days off the clock and visit friends while on an otherwise jam-packed business trip. After spending a week in Las Vegas for the SharePoint Connections Conference followed by a week in Berlin, Germany for the TechEd Europe conference, I left my colleagues behind and took the train south to Prague to visit some good friends who are living abroad for a year or so. Spence and Heather Darrington are from my home town in the Seattle area, but Spence’s j [read].
Posted: Sun, Nov 14th '10 |
Enough Said
Christian Buckley
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Posted: Sat, Nov 13th '10 |
Ignore that Pie in the Sky
Christian Buckley
A question often asked of entrepreneurs is ‘How big is your market?’ Whether you are trying to raise capital through equity investment, or building a business plan and sales strategy for an already established company, this question is one of the most important you can ask yourself – and the answer is one of the most difficult to base in reality. There’s more to market analysis than picking up the latest Gartner or Forrester research report and cutting and pasting their sector estimates [read].
Posted: Sat, Nov 13th '10 |
Invert the Organizational Pyramid
Christian Buckley
I’m usually good about references in articles and blog posts, but I came across a photo of a sidebar from a Harvard Business Review article -- without my usual notes about who wrote it, and where to find it online. (I’m writing this while sitting on a train from Berlin to Prague, without wi-fi access, but I’ll try to track down a link later.) Long story short, this is excellent guidance for leaders on how one company sought to change the status quo, improve trust between front line workers [read].
Posted: Fri, Nov 12th '10 |
Breaking the Suck Threshold
Christian Buckley
One of my favorite blogs ever was Kathy Sierra’s ‘Creating Passionate Users.’ She had over 400 posts, most with some of the most brilliant and funny graphics, covering user design, development, management, and anything else that she felt passionate about. Unfortunately, she discontinued her site back in April 2007. Every once in a while, I go back and browse through her content for fun. Here’s one of my favorite graphics: [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 10th '10 |
ECM Connection Article on Migration Planning
Christian Buckley
pa href=http://www.ecmconnection.com/article.mvc/11-Strategic-Considerations-For-SharePoint-0002 target=_blankOne of my articles/a was just published in the ECM Connection newsletter on the nature of SharePoint migrations, with guidance on how to properly plan for a move to SharePoint 2010. Here’s a quick introduction:/p blockquote pWith the release of SharePoint 2010, many organizations are seriously considering the move from SPS2003 or MOSS 2007 to the latest platform. But migrating your pro [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 2nd '10 |
Building Your Brand in the SharePoint Community
Christian Buckley
pIn response to questions from attendees at the last couple conferences I attended in Seattle and Boston, I wrote a long article for a href=http://www.endusersharepoint.com/2010/11/01/sharepoint-community-events-need-you-how-you-can-get-involved-part-1/ target=_blankEndUserSharePoint.com/a outlining a numbera href=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef0133f5811773970b-piimg style=border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 5px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; bord [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 1st '10 |
Sonny amp; SharePoint at SPTechCon Boston
Christian Buckley
pWe were given a 6 minute time slot at a a href=http://sptechcon.com/ target=_blankSPTechCon/a Boston 2010 last week, and told we could pitch our software and company. Here’s the thing – with only 6 minutes, do you talk a href=http://axceler.com/SharePointAdministration/ControlPoint.aspx target=_blankadministration/a and a href=http://axceler.com/SharePointMigration/DavinciMigratorforSharePoint2010.aspx target=_blankmigration/a, or give a brief company history? The question for me was not [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 27th '10 |
Davinci Migrator is a Best SharePoint Product Finalist
Christian Buckley
pI am#160; very excited at the news today that the emDavinci Migrator for SharePoint 2010/em has been selected as a strongBest of Connections Fall 2010/strong finalist in the strongBest SharePoint Product/strong category. Since joining the echoTechnology team a ya href=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef0133f5315a50970b-piimg style=border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px title=BestOfConnecti [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 19th '10 |
Taking the Risk out of SharePoint Migration
Christian Buckley
pReprinted from a href=http://www.sharepointproconnections.com/article/sharepoint/SharePoint-Products-New-and-Enhanced-Fall-2010.aspx target=_blankSharePointProConnections.com/a:/p blockquote p“The majority of SharePoint migration projects fail because of lack of planning and inadequate resources,” says a href=http://www.twitter.com/buckleyplanet target=_blankChristian Buckley/a, who directs product evangelism at Axceler. “But you don’t know until you try to migrate, then see a failure. [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 19th '10 |
Donrsquo;t Put All Your Eggs in PreUpgradeCheck
Christian Buckley
pI’m preparing to drive across town to present at today’s a href=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/samaritanweb/2010/10/presenting-at-sharepointpalooza-on-1015.html target=_blankSharePointPalooza/a event, doing a quick refresh of my deck on migration planning, and thought I’d add a quick note on the topic of migration (or upgrade) preparation. This is based on one of the common questions I hear from customers when discussing tools and process that help with planning, and specifically the id [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 15th '10 |
Presenting at SharePointPalooza on 10/15
Christian Buckley
pI’ve been back in the SharePoint world for over a year now (interrupted by a 2 year boondoggle in Microsoft’s online advertising world) and have been an active participant in numerous events as a speaker, sponsor, and exhibitor – but tomorrow marks my first opportunity to present in my home market, Seattle. I will be joining other esteemed members of the Puget Sound SharePoint User Group (PSSPUG), and the local Seattle SharePoint Community, at the SharePoint Palooza 2010, being held tomor [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 14th '10 |
Eating an Elephant, One Bite at a Time
Christian Buckley
pContinuing to post old articles. I think this one came around 2000, despite the date of Jan 2004 that IBM has on their link. This is one of my favorite articles from the Rational/IBM days. Originally published on the Catapulse portal (does anyone remember that?) which folded back into Rational before IBM acquired them. Co-authored with Darren Pulsipher (now at Intel), and a href=http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/2114.html target=_blankavailable on IBM developerWorks/a:/p blockq [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 8th '10 |
Configuration Management is Man's Best Friend
Christian Buckley
pAnother article from the IBM Rational days, written between 1998 and 2001, co-authored with Darren Pulsipher, fellow startup traveler and friend from business school. You can find the reprint (after IBM gobbled up Rational) a href=http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/2054.html target=_blankhere/a. It’s a long one, but was highly rated – and landed us many other paid writing gigs. Enjoy./p blockquote pbSummary:/b#160; What do Configuration Management and washing a dog have in#1 [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 8th '10 |
SharePoint Architecture: Centralized or Decentralized?
Christian Buckley
pArticle a href=http://www.sdtimes.com/content/SPTechReport/SPTechReport_10_06_10.html#6 target=_blankoriginally published/a 10/6/2010, SPTechReport newsletter, Copyright © 2010, BZ Media LLC. All rights reserved./p blockquote pAn important question to answer when moving to SharePoint 2010 is how to design the new environment: centralized, with a traditional, top-down managed portal; or a decentralized environment, featuring user-driven collaboration? Many companies struggle with this decision, [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 6th '10 |
Business Modeling, Teenagers, and Primal Scream Therapy
Christian Buckley
pI was going through my shed, looking for an autographed copy of Sonny Bono’s autobiography (long story), and came across a stack of old magazines from my IBM days, and thought I’d republish some of the still relevant selections. I co-authored this with my friend and company co-founder, Darren Pulsipher, who now works for Intel./p pThis article was originally published in the a href=http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/content/RationalEdge/rosearchitect/ra_spring1999.pdf target [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 5th '10 |
Community Development 1-2-3
Christian Buckley
pAfter posting my a href=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/samaritanweb/2010/09/tips-on-hosting-a-sharepoint-saturday-event.html target=_blankTips on Hosting a SharePoint Saturday Event/a last night, I got to thinking about an even more basic topic – how to build out your local SharePoint community….which got me thinking about my time at Microsoft. Building community was an ongoing topic for the Management Excellence Leadership Team (MELT), a volunteer-based network created by managers to sup [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 30th '10 |
Tips on Hosting a SharePoint Saturday Event
Christian Buckley
pimg style=border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px title=SPSLA 022 border=0 alt=SPSLA 022 src=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef0133f4ba5cd1970b-pi width=260 height=200 / pWhile there have been a number of posts out in the SharePoint community about how to put together a SharePoint Saturday (SPS) event in your local community, I thought I’d share my experiences. As the co-ch [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 30th '10 |
Axceler Ships Davinci Migrator for SharePoint 2010
Christian Buckley
h4Comprehensive New Migration Product Now Available, Reduces Risks Associated with SharePoint Migrations/h4 pstrongWOBURN, MA – September 20, 2010 –/strong a href=http://www.axceler.comAxceler/a, the leader in administration and migration software for Microsoft SharePoint, today announced the immediate availability of a href=http://www.axceler.com/SharePointMigration/DavinciMigratorforSharePoint2010.aspxDavinci Migrator for SharePoint 2010/a, the first new product to be introduced as a resul [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 21st '10 |
The San Francisco SPUG Asks the Experts
Christian Buckley
pa href=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef0134875c0166970c-piimg style=border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto title=SFSPUG 005 border=0 alt=SFSPUG 005 src=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef0133f43ccddd970b-pi width=302 height=232 //a /p pFollowing the success of the a href=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/samaritanweb/2010/09/sharep [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 15th '10 |
SharePoint Saturday East Bay Snapshot
Christian Buckley
p align=centera href=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef0134875993ba970c-piimg style=border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px title=SPSBAY 003 border=0 alt=SPSBAY 003 src=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef0134875993c4970c-pi width=248 height=191 //a#160; a href=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef0133f43a4f42970b-piimg style=border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; b [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 14th '10 |
SharePoint Best Practices Conference Recap
Christian Buckley
pAh yes, nothing better than traveling across the country with a serious chest cold. Makes for some interesting adventures, let me tell you. While I was able to conduct both of my sessions at the conference, what I was not able to do was spend a lot of time talking with members of the SharePoint community – which is one of my favorite parts of attending these events. Thankfully, I am just about healthy and getting ready for a 3-event swing through California and Massachusetts. I’ve included [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 2nd '10 |
Speaking at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference 2010 ndash; Washington, D.C.
Christian Buckley
pa href=http://www.bestpracticesconference.com target=_blankimg style=border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px title=image border=0 alt=image src=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef0133f2e16d46970b-pi width=526 height=77 //a pIf you follow me on Twitter (a href=http://www.twitter.com/buckleyplanet@buckleyplanet/a) you’re probably aware that I have two sessions at the upcoming [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 6th '10 |
Women in SharePoint at SPSBAY and SPSLA
Christian Buckley
pA group of women working with SharePoint have come together under the “Women in SharePoint” banner, focusing on outreach to others working in the space and on mentoring. Read more about them on the a href=http://www.sptechblog.com/2010/07/group-of-women-working-with-sharepoint.htmlSPTechCon blog/a/p pWomen in SharePoint (WiSP) will be participating in the upcoming SharePoint Saturday events in a href=http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/eastbay/Northern California/a (On Twitter, #SPSBAY) and a [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 22nd '10 |
How to Jump Start Your Governance ndash; Part 2
Christian Buckley
pOriginally published on a href=http://www.endusersharepoint.com/2010/07/12/how-to-jumpstart-sharepoint-governance-part-2/EndUserSharePoint.com/a/p pIn a a href=http://www.endusersharepoint.com/2010/05/04/how-to-jumpstart-sharepoint-governance/strongprevious article/strong/a, I identified one of the most common questions surrounding the process of implementing a governance mode in the enterprise: How do you begin? /p pBecause SharePoint tends to be a user-driven technology, many companies find t [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 20th '10 |
SharePoint Saturday ndash; Hello California!
Christian Buckley
p align=centera href=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef0133f2518e0c970b-piimg style=border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px title=SharePointSaturdayEastBaySmall_sm border=0 alt=SharePointSaturdayEastBaySmall_sm src=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef01348576def7970c-pi width=172 height=74 //a a href=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef0133f2518e11970b-piimg style=bor [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 16th '10 |
Favorite. Voicemail. Ever.
Christian Buckley
pI have a Droid phone (HTC Eris, specifically), and love how Google attempts to translate my voicemails into text. Never even close to reality. Today was a real treat: I received a very garbled voicemail from my friend Geoff Varosky. I have no idea what he was trying to say, but Google took a stab at translating it anyway, and I thought I’d share:/p blockquote pHey Christian, just trying to see how you doing. So here you know like hair. I'm going to her and see what police. At this point in ti [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 1st '10 |
Managing Your Metadata
Christian Buckley
pWhen setting up your new SharePoint environment, one of the questions you’ll need to answer is centralized or de-centralized? Do you want to tightly control your environment, as you do with your external-facing portal, or do you want to enable the full capability of SharePoint and allow people to collaborate, ad hoc, as they see fit? Or maybe you want to do something in-between? /p pUnfortunately, the same question pops up again around managing your metadata, regardless of your environment ma [read].
Posted: Sat, Jun 26th '10 |
What Drives Social Media in SharePoint?
Christian Buckley
pa href=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef0133f1c8c522970b-piimg style=border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px auto 5px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px title=image border=0 alt=image src=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef0133f1c8c58a970b-pi width=310 height=182 //aAsk a crowd of people whether they believe social computing is important within the enterprise, and you usually see#160; -- at b [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 25th '10 |
On The Road
Christian Buckley
p align=centera href=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef0133f1c655e3970b-piimg style=border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px title= border=0 alt= src=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef0133f1c655ef970b-pi width=180 height=240 //a a href=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef013484ed0ec3970c-piimg style=border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; bor [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 25th '10 |
TechEd gone, Hello SharePoint Saturday!
Christian Buckley
pa href=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef01348482be35970c-piimg alt= border=0 height=200 src=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef01348482be3d970c-pi style=BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px width=260 //a#0160;/p
pSo much going on, so little time for blogging. Isn’t that always the case when life is so busy? The children (blogging, articles, email) alw [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 16th '10 |
echoTechnology Acquired by Axceler, Launching Davinci Migrator for SharePoint 2010
Christian Buckley
pA couple key press releases went out this morning, in case you missed them, including news that echoTechnology has been acquired by stronga href=http://www.axceler.com target=_blankAxceler/a/strong, based out of Boston, MA. The full press release can be found a href=http://www.axceler.com/NewsEvents/PressReleases/AxcelerAcquiresechoTechnology.aspx target=_blankhere/a/p h3/h3 blockquote pstrongAxceler Acquires echoTechnology To Offer Industry-Leading SharePoint Migrationa href=http://buckleyplan [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 1st '10 |
We Need an End User Content Revolution
Christian Buckley
pI started my career as a technical writer, developing engineering and marketing materials in the telecom and BI spaces, and trying to translate confusing technical jargon into straight-forward and reader-friendly content. I realized very early on that the best content wasn’t just filtered for humans, but was put into language and real-world scenarios that end users could emapply/em to their daily business. /p pI submit that we need this same strategy for SharePoint content./p pI was chatting [read].
Posted: Sat, May 22nd '10 |
SharePoint Saturday DC Snapshot
Christian Buckley
pa href=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef013480ea356e970c-piimg style=border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px title=28333_391419054146_675514146_4186775_943131_n border=0 alt=28333_391419054146_675514146_4186775_943131_n src=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef013480ea357c970c-pi width=260 height=180 //a /p pI’m sitting here at Gate D29 at the Dulles Inter [read].
Posted: Sun, May 16th '10 |
Taxonomy for Sale
Christian Buckley
pOn a swing through Oregon in March, a href=http://www.sharepointjoel.com/ target=_blankJoel Oleson/a and I presented to the a href=http://www.portlandsharepoint.com/default.aspx target=_blankPortland SharePoint User’s Group/a on topics surrounding social computing, metadata and taxonomy within SharePoint, and someone asked a great question: why can’t you just empurchase/em a pre-defined taxonomy? /p pOne of the most important aspects of a successful SharePoint deployment is a well-defined t [read].
Posted: Fri, May 14th '10 |
Are Activity Streams Security Trimmed?
Christian Buckley
pDuring my session at The Experts Conference (#TEC2010) in Los Angeles earlier this week, I was asked a question that I could not answer in full confidence: are activity streams in SharePoint 2010 security trimmed?/p
pIt was a great question. As we debated the answer, someone tweeted the question out to a href=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef0133ed191916970b-piimg align=right alt=93723892 border=0 height=161 src=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef01348049 [read].
Posted: Sat, May 1st '10 |
How to Jump Start SharePoint Governance
Christian Buckley
pOne of the most common questions surrounding metadata and taxonomy management is ‘How do you begin?’ As with most user-driven technologies, SharePoint is often “unleashed” without proper planning or governance structures, and most administrators find themselves needing to emretroactively/em apply standards across their environment. Companies tend to hoard information and may find themselves overwhelmed by the disorganization – and how to even begin the process to get things under cont [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 29th '10 |
Governance as a Hammer
Christian Buckley
pa href=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef01348030ad12970c-piimg style=border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto title=TEC2010 110 border=0 alt=TEC2010 110 src=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef01348030ad27970c-pi width=260 height=200 //a/p pI’m in Los Angeles for a couple days presenting at a href=http://www.theexpertsconference.com [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 27th '10 |
Migrations Are Not Drag-and-Drop
Christian Buckley
pMigration is a roadblock to moving forward with your SharePoint strategy. You’ve seen the new features in the latest version, but know that an upgrade will include a major clean up effort, an untangling of customizations and third party tool, and who knows what else. In short, there is nothing out-of-the-box about your SharePoint deployment, so drag-and-drop migration is, at best, unrealistic./p pSearch the web and you’ll find plenty of content that seems helpful at first glance, but leaves [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 21st '10 |
Why Good Spreadsheets Make Bad Strategies
Christian Buckley
pTwo great things about extensive traveling are 1) Harvard Business Review, and 2) The Economist. I love reading both cover to cover, taking notes, circling great quotes, and applying the ideas within my blog or to my current team/business. On my recent trip to the east coast, I picked up the April 2010 edition of HBR and found the feedback from several readers within the Interaction section (letters to the editor) to have great insight into a topic that has vexed me for, oh, a couple years now [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 21st '10 |
Managed Metadata Service Is a Tool, Not a Solution
Christian Buckley
pOne of the reasons I enjoy speaking at SharePoint Saturday events is that they provide a great dialog with customers, partners, and SharePoint experts around the topics that interest me. While the basic flow of the decks I share remain the same from event to event, I am constantly adding to them, refining their message, and even changing things up mid-presentation based on the direction of the questions and comments from the audience, and by the content being offered by fellow speakers in other [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 20th '10 |
Whatrsquo;s a Little Ash, Glass Particles, and Sand Between Friends?
Christian Buckley
pa href=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef01347fe9147e970c-piimg style=border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px title=2011614517 border=0 alt=2011614517 src=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef0133ecb9167c970b-pi width=346 height=196 //a /p pIn all the excitement and preparation for SharePoint 2010 Evolution next week, nobody stopped to talk to Mt. a href=http [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 16th '10 |
The Blog as a Collaboration Tool
Christian Buckley
pimg style=border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto title=image border=0 alt=image src=http://buckleyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d9d9453ef0133eca4c87a970b-pi width=456 height=120 /The concept of blogging is not as new as you may think – only the technology is young. Well, younger than the average teenager, at least. Blogging came into the mainstream conscience by the l [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 12th '10 |
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