by Craig Roth | October 31, 2011 | Comments Off
“I want SharePoint”. “We need content management”. “We want to buy product xyz”. Business folks can be pretty demanding and specific in their requests from IT. Hey, if the business says they need something who are we to question them? A client of mine recently had a deluge of these requests with few specifics about [...]
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by Craig Roth | October 24, 2011 | Comments Off
I don’t often dabble in personal attention management since that field is quite crowded and lends itself to discipline and time management tips. But Lifehacker just published a good list called “Top 10 Tricks for Dealing With Email Overload”. I especially like #5-10: 10. Get to Know Your Email Client, 9. Learn Your Email Values, [...]
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by Craig Roth | October 19, 2011 | Comments Off
Yesterday I presented “The Joy of Information Abundance (Why Information Overload Is Wrong) “ at Gartner Symposium in Orlando. As part of the “maverick” track I tried to make sure it was fun and challenging, with topics such as the three worst information overload quotes, a 2-minute information overload presentation, Monday morning to-dos, and a [...]
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by Craig Roth | October 7, 2011 | Comments Off
In my last posting from the SharePoint Conference 2011, I described how conference that occur during the years between releases have a different flavor to them. One topic that is always in style is business alignment and planning. My presentation provided some inspiration and caveats for SharePoint planning derived from a city planning metaphor (SPC290 [...]
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by Craig Roth | October 6, 2011 | Comments Off
The SharePoint conference had great attendance and lots of energy, but it’s definitively an in-between year. The big year for a SharePoint conference is the year before a new release, when the new features are announced and the first demos (and the first feedback in the community) appear. This year Microsoft is not ready to [...]
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