Our book is out! SharePoint for Nonprofits

Sean and I finally finished our book: SharePoint for Nonprofits: The Definitive Guide to SharePoint for your Nonprofit, Association, Charity, and .ORG.   We actually finished it during the week of Thanksgiving 2010, but I’m finally getting around to chatting about it. There are hundreds of really great SharePoint books already out there that cover the… Continue reading Our book is out! SharePoint for Nonprofits

Portraits of Love

I just signed up as a volunteer photographer for Portraits of Love.  The Portraits of Love Project is an effort put on by the PhotoImaging Manufacturers and Distributors Association (PMDA) and Soldiers’ Angels, a non-profit group.  They have put out a call for photographers nationwide who are willing to volunteer their time to shoot family-portraits for deployed military… Continue reading Portraits of Love

Quit Telling People Your Personal Goals

Psychologists have demonstrated over the past 80 years a social reality that telling other people your personal goals makes them less likely to happen.  When you tell someone your goal, most people react with great support.  I’m going to quit smoking!  I’m going to start running!  I’m going to lose weight!  That is wonderful, John! … Continue reading Quit Telling People Your Personal Goals

Five Best Improvements in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 is great, but what are the Top 5 enhancements or new features that are available in SharePoint 2010?  Everyone who works with SharePoint will have their own Top 5 lists. Social Network.  The world is now social.  I know, in reality the world has always been social.  The entire Internet is based upon… Continue reading Five Best Improvements in SharePoint 2010

Use the FREE version of SharePoint 2010 for your CMS

That’s right.  You can use the free version of SharePoint 2010 to run your public facing website.  SharePoint Foundation 2010 is free.  SharePoint Foundation 2010 may be a good fit to run your public facing website.  In order to look at this in a completely scientific manner, realize that there are literally hundreds of web… Continue reading Use the FREE version of SharePoint 2010 for your CMS

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is a Platform not a Tool

This is one of the biggest strengths of SharePoint.  It is a platform.  I’ve been a SharePoint evangelist for a few years now, and one of the most important facts about SharePoint is the full feature set of the platform.  I read the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management, August 2010, last night.  I’m… Continue reading Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is a Platform not a Tool

SharePoint 2010 Small Farm Server Recommendations

Microsoft has some pretty good information posted about the hardware and software requirements necessary for SharePoint 2010.  I still get asked for real world, or ‘best practices’, recommendations all the time.  Like everyone else, I want to get the best performance for the best price.  It’s difficult to strike the balance between ‘good enough’ and… Continue reading SharePoint 2010 Small Farm Server Recommendations

Is Virtualization supported for SharePoint?

Yes, virtualization is fully supported by Microsoft.  Virtualization is not at all new but is one of the biggest IT advancements, maybe ever.  I’m pretty sure that IBM was one of the earliest pioneers of this ‘pseudo machine’ concept in the mid 1960’s.  How’s that for a ‘new technology’ that is nearly 50 years old? … Continue reading Is Virtualization supported for SharePoint?

Ten Reasons You Should Use SharePoint

Should you use SharePoint?  Should you use SharePoint for your public facing website?  Is SharePoint a good CMS?  Does SharePoint have shortcomings as a web content management platform?  Is SharePoint overkill?  Is SharePoint design friendly? The SharePoint debate is definitely a heated one.  Some people love SharePoint.  Some folks hate SharePoint.  Some people that have… Continue reading Ten Reasons You Should Use SharePoint

SharePoint Audience Targeting is not Security

One of the SharePoint features that many end users and site administrators have a hard time understanding is the concept of Audience Targeting.  In fact, I received a question recently asking me to describe how “Audience Targeting” differs from the authentication needed for features like “Collaborative Workspaces”. The short answer is that Audience Targeting is… Continue reading SharePoint Audience Targeting is not Security