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Speaking at the London SharePoint User Group
Posted on February 9, 2012 | No CommentsThe London SharePoint user group kicks off 2012 with Steve Smith and I presenting. SharePoint Administration - I always wondered what that was for by Steve Smith. Extending the SharePoint 2010 activity system by Wes Hackett . -
SharePoint Saturday 2011
Posted on November 12, 2011 | 2 CommentsSaturday 12th November saw the 2011 SharePoint Saturday at Nottingham’s Conference Centre. Another great event organised with so many quality speakers and companies in attendance. I presented a session on Social Intranet and the slides can be seen below. I hope everyone found the session... -
Ratings and SharePoint Search better together
Posted on October 27, 2011 | 17 CommentsSharePoint 2010 introduces a new feature to allow a user to rate content within the sites. Depicted by five stars the user can rate content and these ratings are collated to provide the average rating for the item. Displaying content based on ratings can assist users determining the quality of content easily. Ratings will also help content authors understand which content is considered to be higher quality by the readers. -
A status by any other name would still smell as sweet
Posted on October 24, 2011 | No CommentsExplore how the native social status update works and where the data is stored. -
Activity Feed Item Templates
Posted on October 13, 2011 | 4 CommentsIn this post we examine what the native Activity Feed templates are and where they are stored. -
SP2010 MySites – Part Six: MySite Centric
Posted on September 24, 2011 | 10 CommentsThis is the sixth article in a series which explores the SharePoint 2010 MySite features. This article will discuss the approach taken to use the MySite as the centre of the intranet. -
Speaking at SharePoint Saturday UK
Posted on August 20, 2011 | No CommentsI’m pleased to announce my SPS2011 session called ‘Putting you at the centre of the social intranet’. With users experiencing contextual information like never before with use of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn how can we utilise these concepts for our intranet. The session will introduce the social intranet, provide some examples in SharePoint 2010 and then cover the challenges and benefits. -
Extending the activity feed with enterprise content
Posted on June 16, 2011 | 31 CommentsAmongst the most anticipated new features of SharePoint 2010 were the social activity feed features which bring colleague activity as a feed to an individual. Natively the activity feed displays user profile changes, tagging and notes activity. Microsoft provides an API to extend the activity feed system with your own content. With this extensibility API it is possible to extend this to include enterprise content activity, such as activity around documents. Bringing ECM data into the activity feed gives a full 360 degree picture of activity within the SharePoint system. This article describes key areas of the logic and elements required to achieve this. -
SP2010 MySites – Part Five: Blog
Posted on May 6, 2011 | 3 CommentsThis is the fifth article in a series which explores the SharePoint 2010 MySite features. This article will examines the default Blog creation and highlight changes required to customise this default. Series contents: Overview, which details the MySite functionality provided by SP2010 Anatomy, we delve... -
SP2010 MySites – Part Four: My Content
Posted on March 11, 2011 | 17 CommentsThis is the fourth article in a series which explores the SharePoint 2010 MySite features. This article will examine the ways that you can customise the default page for the MySite. It will describe the common requirement and how to approach them in a supportable and scalable fashion. The walkthrough will provide an example implementation which you can tailor to your exact needs.
