"The 3 P's of SharePoint 2013; Planning, Productivity, and Policies" #SPSSVGina Montgomery, V-TSP
Why do SharePoint intranets fail? What is all the buzz about SharePoint 2013? Can I get better governance with SharePoint 2013? Come spend an hour with us while we discuss the three P's of SharePoint 2013. This session describes the importance of information architecture planning; demonstrates SharePoint 2013's new productivity enhancements including social collaboration and task aggregation and project management; presents how to push SharePoint OOTB to create even more productivity within your organization; and finally shows the new governance features using site policies.
"The 3 P's of SharePoint 2013; Planning, Productivity, and Policies" #SPSSVGina Montgomery, V-TSP
Why do SharePoint intranets fail? What is all the buzz about SharePoint 2013? Can I get better governance with SharePoint 2013? Come spend an hour with us while we discuss the three P's of SharePoint 2013. This session describes the importance of information architecture planning; demonstrates SharePoint 2013's new productivity enhancements including social collaboration and task aggregation and project management; presents how to push SharePoint OOTB to create even more productivity within your organization; and finally shows the new governance features using site policies.
Today's workplace has evolved. Employees are working on more teams than ever. Teams are comprised of internal and external users, spread across different geographies and now have an ever wider multigenerational composition than before. These teams all still have to find a way to collaborate, have different needs and are facing a common set of challenges. In this session we will cover Office 365 Collaboration Use Case guidance across Teams, Skype, Office, SharePoint and Yammer, as well as, the intelligent fabric that ties them all together. You'll learn how to create a productive, digital workspace for your all of your end users that will inspire the team collaboration that is needed while eliminating the confusion on what to use for what.
Office 365 Groups and Planner - Jump Start PM and Digital CollaborationGina Montgomery, V-TSP
Today there are more than 96 million mobile workers! With our organizations shifting into more a digital workplace, easy-to-use and secure collaboration space is a necessity. Used together, Microsoft Office 365 Groups and Office 365 Planner give you a user friendly and a visual way to organize your digital teamwork in a given project! Groups let you hold conversations about what you are working on, get progress updates from the team, and share files. Planner shows all your plans in a centralized view and lets you set due dates, assign people to tasks, and track your progress in a chart—all without the learning curve and ramp-up time usually associated with traditional project management software. Join me in this session and learn how Office 365 Groups and Planner can help you jump start project management while striking the right balance for digital collaboration your organization.
Social Journey Webinar with ViewDo Labs and Portal SolutionsJoel Oleson
Your enterprise social journey starts with exploring a variety of different collaboration solutions and enterprise social networks. In this session we explore the experimenting, expanding, embracing, and everywhere social maturity matrix and help you better understand the business value in social and provide tips to success.
This session will discuss building an effective search and information architecture strategy for SharePoint.
One of the reasons many SharePoint implementations fail to meet user expectations is the lack of investment in its underlying information architecture. Some organizations see SharePoint as an out-of-the-box solution that they can simply plug in and throw content into, but it requires as much thought and effort around data structure, organizational principles, and search configuration as any portal or intranet.
This call will discuss building an effective search and information architecture strategy for SharePoint, including such topics as:
• Building a search & IA vision
• Requirements gathering & use cases
• Implementation strategy & approaches
• The future of SharePoint search
Exploring the SharePoint 2013 Community Site TemplateSusan Hanley
Presentation that reviews tips and tricks for using the SharePoint 2013 Community Site template to support online communities of practice and moderated discussion forums.
Harness Collective Knowledge with #ProjectCortex #msignitethetourKanwal Khipple
Join us to learn about the most significant innovations ever unveiled for knowledge management and intelligent content services in Microsoft 365. Get the latest updates on Microsoft Search and other experiences that connect you with knowledge, insights, expertise, answers and actions, within your everyday experiences across Microsoft 365
Need to know more about getting the best value from the investment in your website?
A Web Strategy is a vision that clearly articulates how you use the web to help achieve or exceed your organisation’s online objectives. It provides a measurable plan of attack that is specifically tuned to your needs. In this briefing we will outline the core components of a Web Strategy, what the difference having one makes and how you can get one.
Need to know how to leverage the Microsoft SharePoint platform for your website?
Microsoft’s SharePoint is leading the way for internal employee collaboration and communication. However it is also a great platform for your website. Also in this briefing you will hear more about and see examples of Microsoft SharePoint being used for websites.
Tackling Governance, Site & Teams Sprawl with Microsoft 365Richard Harbridge
Without an effective governance strategy in place, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Sites can quickly go from an organized and effective workspace to an out-of-control, sprawling digital wasteland. Sound familiar?
It's very common for organizations to experience Microsoft Teams & SharePoint Sites sprawl. But, when it does happen, how can you tackle it? Join me as we will explore:* Challenges organizations face with Microsoft Teams & SharePoint Sites sprawl.
* Solutions to tackle Microsoft Teams & SharePoint Sites sprawl.
* Best practices to get more from Microsoft Teams & SharePoint.
* Real-world guidance on out-of-the-box solutions and custom approaches.
* How you can improve experiences, management, and organizational outcomes.
Microsoft Search is looking to bring the search experiences across all Microsoft 365 services together into a single unified experience. Attend this session to learn how the experience impacts your users, how you can configure it as well as scenarios where you should customize it.
Presentation about whether Microsoft SharePoint is suitable for use as a CMS by Frank MacDonald from Heriot-Watt University at the April meeting of the Scottish Web Folk in Glasgow. (Uploaded with permission.)
Presentation on Microsoft SharePoint created for the Xelleration Sales Team. What is SharePoint? It allows an organization to create an employee intranet/portal, manage documents or even develop a public facing site.
Made in PowerPoint 2013.
Today's workplace has evolved. Employees are working on more teams than ever. Teams are comprised of internal and external users, spread across different geographies and now have an ever wider multigenerational composition than before. These teams all still have to find a way to collaborate, have different needs and are facing a common set of challenges. In this session we will cover Office 365 Collaboration Use Case guidance across Teams, Skype, Office, SharePoint and Yammer, as well as, the intelligent fabric that ties them all together. You'll learn how to create a productive, digital workspace for your all of your end users that will inspire the team collaboration that is needed while eliminating the confusion on what to use for what.
Office 365 Groups and Planner - Jump Start PM and Digital CollaborationGina Montgomery, V-TSP
Today there are more than 96 million mobile workers! With our organizations shifting into more a digital workplace, easy-to-use and secure collaboration space is a necessity. Used together, Microsoft Office 365 Groups and Office 365 Planner give you a user friendly and a visual way to organize your digital teamwork in a given project! Groups let you hold conversations about what you are working on, get progress updates from the team, and share files. Planner shows all your plans in a centralized view and lets you set due dates, assign people to tasks, and track your progress in a chart—all without the learning curve and ramp-up time usually associated with traditional project management software. Join me in this session and learn how Office 365 Groups and Planner can help you jump start project management while striking the right balance for digital collaboration your organization.
Social Journey Webinar with ViewDo Labs and Portal SolutionsJoel Oleson
Your enterprise social journey starts with exploring a variety of different collaboration solutions and enterprise social networks. In this session we explore the experimenting, expanding, embracing, and everywhere social maturity matrix and help you better understand the business value in social and provide tips to success.
This session will discuss building an effective search and information architecture strategy for SharePoint.
One of the reasons many SharePoint implementations fail to meet user expectations is the lack of investment in its underlying information architecture. Some organizations see SharePoint as an out-of-the-box solution that they can simply plug in and throw content into, but it requires as much thought and effort around data structure, organizational principles, and search configuration as any portal or intranet.
This call will discuss building an effective search and information architecture strategy for SharePoint, including such topics as:
• Building a search & IA vision
• Requirements gathering & use cases
• Implementation strategy & approaches
• The future of SharePoint search
Exploring the SharePoint 2013 Community Site TemplateSusan Hanley
Presentation that reviews tips and tricks for using the SharePoint 2013 Community Site template to support online communities of practice and moderated discussion forums.
Harness Collective Knowledge with #ProjectCortex #msignitethetourKanwal Khipple
Join us to learn about the most significant innovations ever unveiled for knowledge management and intelligent content services in Microsoft 365. Get the latest updates on Microsoft Search and other experiences that connect you with knowledge, insights, expertise, answers and actions, within your everyday experiences across Microsoft 365
Need to know more about getting the best value from the investment in your website?
A Web Strategy is a vision that clearly articulates how you use the web to help achieve or exceed your organisation’s online objectives. It provides a measurable plan of attack that is specifically tuned to your needs. In this briefing we will outline the core components of a Web Strategy, what the difference having one makes and how you can get one.
Need to know how to leverage the Microsoft SharePoint platform for your website?
Microsoft’s SharePoint is leading the way for internal employee collaboration and communication. However it is also a great platform for your website. Also in this briefing you will hear more about and see examples of Microsoft SharePoint being used for websites.
Tackling Governance, Site & Teams Sprawl with Microsoft 365Richard Harbridge
Without an effective governance strategy in place, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Sites can quickly go from an organized and effective workspace to an out-of-control, sprawling digital wasteland. Sound familiar?
It's very common for organizations to experience Microsoft Teams & SharePoint Sites sprawl. But, when it does happen, how can you tackle it? Join me as we will explore:* Challenges organizations face with Microsoft Teams & SharePoint Sites sprawl.
* Solutions to tackle Microsoft Teams & SharePoint Sites sprawl.
* Best practices to get more from Microsoft Teams & SharePoint.
* Real-world guidance on out-of-the-box solutions and custom approaches.
* How you can improve experiences, management, and organizational outcomes.
Microsoft Search is looking to bring the search experiences across all Microsoft 365 services together into a single unified experience. Attend this session to learn how the experience impacts your users, how you can configure it as well as scenarios where you should customize it.
Presentation about whether Microsoft SharePoint is suitable for use as a CMS by Frank MacDonald from Heriot-Watt University at the April meeting of the Scottish Web Folk in Glasgow. (Uploaded with permission.)
Presentation on Microsoft SharePoint created for the Xelleration Sales Team. What is SharePoint? It allows an organization to create an employee intranet/portal, manage documents or even develop a public facing site.
Made in PowerPoint 2013.
These are my slides for three presentations on Twitter for groups of journalists this week in Ottawa. For a handout on my Twitter tips for journalists: http://bit.ly/nNhzo
Now is a good time to make sure all these tips stick and you can benefit from them next year. Because being productive is not a lifehack to be done once. Staying productive is a lifestyle choice, a mission to yourself. A goal for the next year that shouldn’t be abandoned as fast as January-made gym membership card.
Here are all of Derrek’s advice summarized in one slideshow. The 15 tips you can refer to when feeling that you can’t get anything done. A feeling, all of us feel from time to time.
Being in touch with trends in online learning is crucial for anyone responsible for managing and delivering E-Learning and training within their organisation. So we've prepared a handy infographic that contains our predicated 10 key E-Learning trends and foresights to watch out for in 2016. You can read the full blog on this at blog.aurionlearning.com
How to best create and manage product roadmapsJeremy Horn
Slides Marc Abraham recently used in his discussion w/ mentees of The Product Mentor.
The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals…Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People.
Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community.
http://TheProductMentor.com
Running (or starting) a law firm has never been simple—but today, firms face an especially unique set of challenges. Clients have higher standards for new tech-enabled communications, and many firms have shifted to distributed business operations and service models.
Whether you’re starting your own law firm or you’re already practicing at an established firm, being aware of these modern demands—and how to meet them—is essential.
Join this free 1-hour session with Emma Raimi-Zlatic, Clio’s Senior Affinity Partnerships Manager, and Amy Grubb, owner of a successful legal consulting firm, to learn what your law firm needs to not only survive—but thrive—this year and beyond.
In this free webinar, you’ll learn:
- Key business planning, registration, and budgeting essentials for modern law firms
- Strategies for building and marketing your unique firm brand
- Tips to implement a specialized intake experience that converts more clients
- Recommendations on how to leverage technology to support law firm growth
Product Roadmaps - Tips on how to create and manage roadmapsMarc Abraham
This presentation is focused on two areas with respect to product roadmaps. Firstly, a roadmap is a not a loose collection of timings and features. Secondly, it is key to define a product vision, goals and strategy before creating a roadmap.
Proven Strategies for increasing Adoption and EngagementChristian Buckley
While Office 365 continues to grow at a rapid rate, adoption can be slow and difficult without a strategy in place. This presentation covers a number of different topics that all have an impact on end user adoption and engagement. This presentation shares: a "go to market" strategy for a successful Office 365 deployment; productivity features that will enhance adoption; strategies for keeping end users engaged; how to track usage and activity so you can measure your success; and touches on many of the productivity features (Groups, Delve, Yammer, co-editing, etc). The primary focus, however, is on the management/ongoing educational aspects of a successful deployment.
How to Manage the Whole Product by former Cisco Director of PMProduct School
In this presentation former Cisco Director of PM Wayne Green explains how to manage the whole product through keeping your finger on the pulse of customer's interactions with all aspects of product experience and the underlying people/organization responses.
GrowFL: Improve Employee and Customer Experience in a Hybrid Work EnvironmentAdam Levithan
It is a time for transition as organizations not only balance working remotely and in-office, but your clients will also want a combination of in-person and remote experiences. How does a growing organization manage productivity and collaboration, while providing continued customer service in this scenario? The answer is automation, allowing you to utilize your human capital to it's optimum. Join us as Adam Levithan, Principal of Product Management at Withum and a Microsoft MVP, walks through the process and options readily available to your business.
Preparing to Manage Social Media in a Crisis
Social media has changed crisis management exponentially. It has become the primary source for news as it breaks, to maintain a connection to the crisis, and to reach out to ask questions, comment, or get support. Consumers flock to find the ‘official’ page of the business within search, and their official channels on Social Media. This presentation from Matt Lynch explores best practice across Search Engine Optimisation and Social Media for the Crisis Management Leaders Summit, Perth 2015 #gocrisis #voriantraining
The purpose of this webinar is to highlight some of the awesome features available within the Salesforce that help companies adopt and manage social as part of their Marketing, Sales and Service DNA, rather than just something the marketing team takes care of.
These tips go beyond the 101 and 102 training and are hyper focused on hacks and focused tips that will add practical value to your social media workflow.
It doesn't matter whether you are currently a Salesforce customer, or are assessing Salesforce as a strategic technology platform - this training will highlight the cooler features that not everybody knows about.
This webinar will cover the following Salesforce 17 #ProTips created by seasoned Salesforce Social vet Robin Leonard:
1. Workspaces
2. Content Library
3. Publish Workflow
4. Content Reporting
5. Engage Workflow and Reporting
6. Enabling Social Cases, Social Leads and Social Journeys
7. Creating Dashboards
8. Using Workbenches for Reporting
9. Integrate Social with your BI Platform
10. Intelligent Tagging
11. Intelligent Crisis Notifications
12. Salesforce Live Message + Social Hub
13. Lightning Service Console
14. Social Sidebar
15. Using Milestones to track KPIs
16. Command Center
17. CRM targeted Social Advertising
18. Social Advertising Look-a-like Lead Gen Loop
Unleash the Power of Video Communication - Office 365 Video vs. Azure Media S...Gina Montgomery, V-TSP
Is your organization considering the power of Video Communication? Microsoft provides two options that can assist your organization in Video Communication. The first, robust and fully customizable option, Azure Media Services, allows you to deliver any media, on virtually any device, with the power of the Azure cloud. Microsoft also provides an out-of-the box video portal solution in Office 365 that is built on Azure Media Services and SharePoint Online. Come learn features and benefits of each.
Office 365 Groups - A Whole New World of Collaboration - Cloud Saturday ATLGina Montgomery, V-TSP
End Users are looking for ways to improve their productivity around team collaboration. Challenges such as central storage around documentation, communication and schedules can prolong team projects due to disorganization. Working like a network can empower end users to collaborate quicker and more efficiently. Learn about the connected experience that Office 365 Groups offer your end-users. We will cover trends and tips & tricks around Office 365 Groups in this session.
Enhancing Relevancy & User Experience with SharePoint Search - SPSBMORE 2015Gina Montgomery, V-TSP
Delays in discovering data, especially for end users, will lead to end user adoption issues. Utilizing OOTB SharePoint Search functionality such as display templates, document previews, query rules and visual refiners is guaranteed to improve the end user's search experience. In this session we will cover the latest SharePoint Search Online features that will help your end users to reach the relevant content that they are searching for while providing them an improved user experience.
Impact Your Business; Identifying Low-Hanging Fruit for SharePoint 2013 No-Co...Gina Montgomery, V-TSP
To code or not to code; is that really the question? In today’s ever-changing business landscape, our end users are demanding tools that can help them do their job better and faster. Did you know that many of these tools can be created by you without any IT intervention? Come spend an hour with me learning how to reverberate your organization’s SharePoint 2013 environment by identifying low-hanging; high impacting no-code solutions. Impact your business and boost productivity amongst your workforce by rapidly solving some of their business needs and give them a relevant set of tools to help them become an agile workforce. In this session we will discuss what it takes to identify the requirements for no-code solutions while also empowering you with guidance on how to design a practical no-code solution.
Take a Leap into the Connected Cloud; 3 Trending Hybrid Cloud ScenariosGina Montgomery, V-TSP
Organizations are feeling the shift to the hybrid cloud as leading publishers such as Microsoft pushes their cloud platforms. Executive management is left pondering what solutions can be cloud based and how to integrate them into existing IT investments without significant effort and cost. Microsoft has created a number of hybrid options that allow companies to selectively migrate enterprise solutions or build new apps that use cloud services while maintaining an on-premises infrastructure. Spend an hour learning about Microsoft's Cloud stack and 3 trending Hybrid scenarios built on top of it. Hybrid Identity, Hybrid Storage and Hybrid Exchange will be discussed in this session.
SharePoint adoption is a very tricky subject. The best planned and designed SharePoint portals can fail if users don’t adopt to SharePoint. Gartner surveys say that more than 50% of SharePoint implementations fail due to poor user adoption. With millions of dollars spent each year on SharePoint deployments, this becomes quite significant. SharePoint adoption starts with proper planning, implementation and governance. In order to have sustained user engagement, new techniques like gamification are also emerging. This session will focus on all these aspects and will provide the attendees ideas and tools to implement for their SharePoint portal. Attendees will be presented with the challenges currently being faced with SharePoint deployments centered around adoption, best practices around planning and governance will be discussed, and ideas for SharePoint gamificaiton will also be presented.
Are you considering the impact of a social workplace? Not sure where to get started? A successful social solution for your enterprise can provide your users with the tools that they are used to using to really kickstart productivity and collaboration amongst one another. Microsoft has gone social in a big way with SharePoint 2013 and Yammer. Come spend an hour learning 3 different key aspects to consider when creating your enterprise social strategy. You will walk away with the knowledge to get the Enterprise Social conversation started in your own organization.
SharePoint was first launched in 2001 as a document and content management system for teams to work together. We have definitely come a long way from there! But the core reason still is very much relevant today, especially for project teams. SharePoint 2013 provides a gamut of features for managing projects. With a bit of configuration, all aspects including project planning, resourcing, costs , reporting and more can be managed. All this apart from managing project related documents and work items. Come and learn how you can get started with SharePoint 2013 for project management. And even if you are on SharePoint 2010, don’t worry. We have got something for you too!
Today there are ongoing trends in business that are driving consumer or end user expectations within the workplace.
Trends such as cloud readiness, social collaboration, and mobility are all driving end user adoption of technology platforms such as SharePoint.
Without us keeping up with these trends end user adoption suffers.
Today we will learn about how the SharePoint 2013 ecosystem is paving the way for end user experience and innovation while addressing today's top trends in business.
Changes in SharePoint 2013 licensing will also be addressed.
#SPSSAC Identifying Low Hanging Fruit for SharePoint 2013 No-Code Solutions
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3. Join us right after at The Blue Prynt
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4. Introductions
What are SharePoint Composite No-
code Solutions?
Identifying Low-Hanging Fruits
Let’s build one
7. Softmart Company Facts
Established: 1982; Status:
Privately Held
Regional offices throughout the
U.S.
Global partnerships in all world
markets
Business Strategy – Focus on
the customer
“As a privately held company, Softmart
manages to the expectations of our
customers, not Wall Street. We believe
the true measure of our success is
customer satisfaction.”
SAM Certified
Analytics Advantage Program
Numerous Microsoft Awards
9. Let’s get started
SharePoint Composites
@ginaMmontgomery is making us go social
or go home with #SharePoint 2013! #SPSSAC
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11. http://bit.ly/Qw4nC3
Rapidly create solutions
by assembling,
connecting, and
configuring the basic
building blocks of
functionality available in
SharePoint 2013, and in
many cases, Microsoft
Office 2013.
12. Lists, Libraries, Views
List Forms, InfoPath, 3rd Party Forms
Workflows – SharePoint Designer, Visio, 3rd
Party Workflow Tools
Power Pivot / Power View
Access Apps
Social Tools
Web Parts
14. To leverage your SharePoint
investment
To help reduce duplicate content
and data
To unlock the value of Line-of-
Business (LOB) data
To rapidly create a business
solution without dependence on
technical staff (DIY)
Because your End User Adoption
Relies Upon it
15. Factors Impact
Risk Prepare Risk Mitigation Plans if Necessary
Approval Do you have the proper permission to build such
Solution? Obtain Proper Approval to Build the
Solution.
Adoption Does this solve users’ needs? Why would they use it?
WIIFM. Define the value proposition before you build
it.
3rd Party Applications / Solutions Are you recreating the wheel? Does the solution
better integrate if built on SharePoint? Etc…
Training What kind of learning curve will the users have?
Prepare a training plan for go-live.
Governance Policies Determine how existing governance policies should
affect your solution/application. What permission
groups should exist. Can you use pre-existing
permissions?
Step 1: Think it through; get your users involved!
16. Step 2: Sample Questions
Identify Requirements From Your End Users
What processes are you currently doing with Email & Office today?
Do you have any paper based processes?
What do you track in your department? How do you track it?
What kind of reports do you look at? How are they distributed to you? Is
the data static?
How do you collaborate on documents today?
What kind of forms are required in your department? How do you
distribute them and how do the users execute them?