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Random thoughts on Collaborative Apps, Social Software and SharePoint in the Enterprise

For around the last year I have been really annoyed with myself for not living up to my full...

Date: 01/02/2009

Or maybe you can if you want to be bland, boring and unremarkable. Seth Godin has been rallying for...

Date: 07/09/2008

This week we are kicking off the KWT Early Adopter Programme.  If you work in NHS IM&T and...

Date: 06/30/2008

Interesting piece in the New York Times on the effect of interruptions caused by email, IM...

Date: 06/24/2008

Some hints from Ray Ozzie this week on the future overlap between Groove and SharePoint: "You asked...

Date: 04/22/2008

The quiz: https://www.pewinternet.org/quiz/quiz.asp My results: Based on your answers to the...

Date: 04/20/2008

Today we held a workshop with some NHS folk on the topic of electronic forms. The KWT team are...

Date: 04/16/2008

Thanks to everyone who attended the CIO Summit today. Everyone I spoke to provided positive...

Date: 01/15/2008

My name is Hilary Palmén, I work for Microsoft UK planning and conducting research with NHS...

Date: 01/14/2008

I'll be speaking this week at the NHS CIO Summit that Microsoft are hosting at Thames Valley Park,...

Date: 01/13/2008

Here's the official blurb... "We have managed to complete the engineering work slightly earlier than...

Date: 12/11/2007

Who would have thought Excel could produce charts as good looking as this? I certainly would never...

Date: 08/21/2007

This is such a cool offer! If you have friends or family who work for the NHS in the UK, go tell...

Date: 07/12/2007

On Amazon.com today, I noticed a feature that David Weinberger mentions in his book, but I don't...

Date: 07/05/2007

Concluding my notes on Everything is Miscellaneous...A good read on the whole. Does a good job of...

Date: 07/04/2007

How many times have you visited a team site and seen this? Or a site where a web part for every list...

Date: 07/03/2007

Mike Gotta writes on the demise of email: With all the recent conversations in the media about...

Date: 07/01/2007

Sometimes I am really impressed by the BBC. Despite its image as stodgy, old fashioned Auntie Beeb,...

Date: 06/29/2007

Looking through my referrer logs yesterday I noticed lots of hits from people looking for Arsenal's...

Date: 06/26/2007

Darren is offering a free copy of Office 2007 Pro for the first person with a boxed copy of Office...

Date: 06/25/2007

Continuing my notes from Everything is Miscellaneous. I have also discovered a video presentation of...

Date: 06/25/2007

I spent some time this week creating workflows in SharePoint Designer. I have done SharePoint...

Date: 06/20/2007

Continuing the notes I have made on Everything is Miscellaneous... Chapter 3 - The Geography of...

Date: 06/15/2007

Surprise announcement today on the Beeb got my attention. Immediate thought - what the heck are...

Date: 06/11/2007

Amazon delivered me a copy of David Weinberger's Everything Is Miscellaneous at the weekend. I love...

Date: 06/11/2007

My post yesterday on Excel as an early example of a tool for creating mashups got me thinking about...

Date: 06/05/2007

Blatant snip from the press release: Today at TechEd we announced the availability of the Microsoft...

Date: 06/04/2007

James Dellow wrote last week on spreadsheets as an early mashup tool. I totally agree, and I don't...

Date: 06/04/2007

It's six months now since I switched the way I file email in Outlook. Rather than maintain a complex...

Date: 05/27/2007

...or a new slant on Business Intelligence. From Tim O'Reilly's blog, two new sites in the area of...

Date: 05/22/2007

Over the last few months I have been doing numerous scoping sessions with customers - helping them...

Date: 05/14/2007

Whenever I take a long haul flight there are a couple of magazines I always pick up for the journey:...

Date: 05/07/2007

Just want to flag up this really great post from Joris...

Date: 05/02/2007

Just realised I had a whole bunch of comments waiting for approval dating back as far as November....

Date: 03/28/2007

I guess I am a little behind the times as this went live a week or so back, but I thought it was...

Date: 03/28/2007

For a while now I have been using an operating system analogy when explaining SharePoint to complete...

Date: 03/23/2007

It's seemed like an awful long wait, and I've been expecting this for a couple of months now, but...

Date: 01/23/2007

Every year about this time I archive off all of the email I have kept from the previous year into a...

Date: 01/09/2007

That's one of Gartner's headline grabbing statements in its end of year predictions. It's a pretty...

Date: 12/14/2006

Did you know you can advertise your SharePoint Server's search capabilities to IE7? Browsing our...

Date: 12/07/2006

I said in a previous post that I would provide some details of the Vista gadget that Arsenal have...

Date: 12/06/2006

A couple of new gadgets published recently. The Outlook Upcoming Appointments gadget shows you your...

Date: 12/06/2006

Today I needed to get an InfoPath Forms Services web-form to make a call out to a web service. I was...

Date: 12/05/2006

It's been frustrating not being able to write about some of the great projects I have been working...

Date: 12/04/2006

If you have been waiting for a UK version of Office Live, the UK Beta is now open....

Date: 12/01/2006

The number 1 question I get asked at the moment: What training resources are available? Here's a...

Date: 11/29/2006

Ever wondered how Microsoft rolls out Vista and Office internally? Here’s how. This picture was...

Date: 11/22/2006

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 RTM is now published and available for your downloading pleasure. As...

Date: 11/16/2006

More downloads I missed from my last post: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for WSS 3.0 (Nov CTP) Tools...

Date: 11/13/2006

A bunch of new downloads have shipped over the past week that are useful for developing Office 2007...

Date: 11/13/2006

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