Stop Newsletters, Start Blogging!
So your team has decided to publish a quarterly online or email Newsletter for all your target audience? Great idea! But…unless someone has “Create, Publish and Communicate Quarterly Newsletter” in...
View ArticleIt is time for intranet spring-cleaning!
Perhaps some of you are doing a regular spring cleaning in your home. But it is also useful to regularly clean up your intranet, especially if there are no plans for a platform upgrade or a merger with...
View ArticleHow do I spring-clean my intranet?
In my last post, I mentioned why it is important to review and remove your intranet content on a regular basis. This time I will share some guidelines on how to organize and execute a cleanup action....
View ArticleFrankly my dear…they’re just not that into your content.
“Oh yes, our employee benefits information should definitely be secured”, the country HR manager said. “We do not want everybody to see that information”. It took me some time to convince him that...
View ArticleEight and a half ways to collect feedback with SharePoint.
Are you interested in what all employees think about your company’s latest product launch, or do you want to know which date would be preferred for that training session? Regardless of your role in the...
View ArticlePlaying “Hide and Seek” in SharePoint
After my earlier rant about people who want to secure their content for no good reason, I thought I would give some suggestions for alternative ways to hide content when it makes sense. First let me...
View Article10 End-of-Year Things to do on Your SharePoint Sites
Reblogged from Views from Veronique: With one week left before most people go on leave, chances are most people are working all that hard anymore. We're all too tired and ready for a break. If you...
View ArticleWhat SharePoint can learn from SurveyMonkey (and vice versa)
I have always hated SurveyMonkey. Not that I knew it well, but out of principle: I try to help my colleagues work with SharePoint, and the more SharePoint they see, the faster they will get familiar...
View ArticleThe cutlery drawer and the page.
To the left you see my cutlery drawer. Normally it is out of view and only visible when I open the drawer. All items are arranged by type. This gives me a good overview of the amount and types of...
View Article7 good reasons to create a new document library. (And 3 bad ones)
When talking to end users, I often notice that people think they need to spread their documents over various document libraries to create meaningful groups of documents. In general, I suggest them to...
View ArticleSharePoint Style Counsel
When you select your clothes for today, you can decide to wear something that is clean, whole and covers what needs to be covered. You can also refine your selection by choosing something that matches...
View ArticleMy View on Views
Don’t you like a nice view? So, next time you have configured a page with a web part in default view, consider if this really the best possible way to display your content for your audience. Can you...
View ArticleHow to win space and not alienate people – part 1
All my SharePoint life I have been fighting with storage space. Not only because of limitations in storage capacity and because full sites can be slow and hard to back-up and restore, but also because...
View ArticleHow to win space and not alienate people – part 2
The first part of this post, ”How to win space“, was published on July 3, 2013. HOW NOT TO ALIENATE PEOPLE 1. Talk to your site and content owners. Contacting the site owner about their content is...
View ArticleDangers of the Datasheet
The Datasheet view is a favourite with Excel fan boys. I have seen many a controller or purchaser create one Datasheet view after another after they had learned about this fabulous functionality. And I...
View Article7 Tips for copying from Excel into a Datasheet View
Some time ago I was working with an Excel-loving crowd who had to share their data in a SharePoint list. I wanted to make the transition as smoothly as possible, so I created a special “Data Import...
View ArticleHow I archive a Team Site
As you may know from earlier posts, I am always struggling with the amount of storage space in my site collections. So whenever I find a site that appears not to have been used for a long time, I ask...
View ArticleSharePoint Tiles I’d like to see
When I first saw the new Microsoft tile design I was not too impressed. The tiles were, in my opinion, merely space-wasters that could have been replaced with a snappy icon or just a word. However, I...
View ArticleLingerie and Labeling on the intranet.
Once upon a time (it must have been around 2002) we reserved some space on our intranet home page for new products. Being in an international consumer goods company, we thought it would be good if...
View ArticleSharePoint White Magic
A White Christmas will not be on the agenda for my country, so I decided on some White SharePoint to get into a festive mood! If you are not a qualified designer, and/or SP Designer is not available,...
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