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Oct
23
2010

"At the Gartner Symposium conference SharePoint 2010 was a key topic. Why? Enterprises have adopted SharePoint even though some acknowledge they don’t quite know what to do with it. Half of Gartner’s clientele has SharePoint installed.

Depending on who you talk to, SharePoint is either a great collaboration tool or a headache. There’s not a lot of in between."

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  • SharePoint doesn’t eliminate the needs for additional social tools and applications because you may not be able to wait three years for a new feature.
  • If social analytics does become a big deal, SharePoint 2010 lacks the heft to get the job done.
Oct
26
2008

"I left behind a gig and a half of email when I left NEC - I couldn't look at it, and they erased it. My former coworkers couldn't use that knowledge. A collaborative toolset helps to get information out of email into the shared social space. Sharepoint and others are working on that problem. You see productivity benefits. Now people can see where you are going, make suggestions on who to call there.

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JP Rangaswami of BT Design went a little bit further in that direction, by outlining how social tools can usefully become part of our working practices - and even build on some of the existing ones.

Social tools enavble the communities within businesses to emerge. There are fewer figures of authority and it's more a peer space than the traditional heirarchial business.

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  • Young people today are going to come into the workplace used to pervasive. mobile communications and they're not going to be impressed with the static, lock-down worsktations we have now.

    "They're pre-trained not to think as stupidly as previous generations," said JP.
  • "If we make everything we say a data object, and we can share and move it around," he says. "It becomes valuable."
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