Mark Bower
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