Conferences to attend
It’s the most painful, but also one of the most critical keys to SharePoint success: the Content Governance Plan. This session gives your content team the inside track on preparing an effective governance plan and transforming your current content for the new web era. We’ll take a closer look at the lessons learned from organizations who have recently drafted governance plans and we’ll discuss critical points for getting your governance plan drafted and socialized successfully in your organization.
What about a challenge? 1. Use SharePoint to build a collaboration platform, which users need maximum 30 Minutes to understand and start using its full functionality. 2. Visualize the flow of work in such a way that everyone can immediately understand what others are doing and what is next for me. 3. Design activity streams in a new way so you always have your context-related information in sight. 4. Incorporate mobile devices in a secure and natural way into this collaboration eco-system leveraging device unique features (size of screen, camera, offline, UI guidelines). 5. Make users drop email as their primary communication channel voluntarily. 6. Introduce a proven methodology that will guide users, improve quality of information and continuously improve productivity. Solution: Come to this session and find out how to make more with less using a well-proven 30 years old methodology from Japan.
Speaker: Michal Sobotkiewicz, Owner of KanBo
In this session I would like to explain, how you can make the use of SharePoint in your organization more social.
We will discuss how SharePoint Server 2013 has been enhanced for the way people work, providing people with a conversant, reliable sight of information, collaboration, and process. We can discuss how we can use SharePoint 2013, as a Social platform with a comprehensive, easily-managed and integrated platform to meet business requirements.
So I hopes it makes sense that we talk about social features of SharePoint, as 2013 version is adding more social and mobile features. Some of these features and their impact on the enterprise will be discussed in in my session.
Most of the Organizations currently looking to integrate more social collaboration into their business. SharePoint Server 2013 provides an ample solution for connected information work that enables people to transform the way they like to work while preserving the benefits of structured processes, compliance.
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.
SharePoint sites out of the box have the capability of being user-friendly, but only if they are designed and configured that way. Wendy shows you 20 simple tips and tricks that site owners or front end SharePoint developers can implement on their SharePoint sites to make them more user-friendly. From navigation best practices, to forms etiquette, to what to put on the home page, to graphics optimization, and much more - you will come away armed with a list of practical usability tips that are easy to implement, and your users will thank you.
Maximize your SharePoint investment and find out why you need to avoid folders and start leveraging the Enterprise Content Management features in SharePoint. This presentation outlines the shortcomings of folders and explore such alternatives as Custom Columns, Views, Key Filters, Managed Metadata, Content Type, and Document Set.
Managing projects collaboratively has never been easier. Combining the new capabilities in SharePoint 2013 with the improved two-way sync to Project 2013, make it an unbeatable platform for project and portfolio management.
This session will present and demonstrate both - a project management match made in heaven!
Speaker: Eamonn McGuinness, CEO, BrightWork.
Design Manager is a new feature, available in SharePoint 2013, which will allow SharePoint Designers to create and work directly with design files and master pages without needing the background knowledge of a SharePoint Developer. In this session, we will review each of the steps involved in creating and branding a SharePoint Publishing Site in SharePoint 2013 using Design Manager.
Users will learn tricks to uploading their design files, the creation of master pages and page layouts and a walk-through of the dos and don’ts of Design Manager. If you are looking to take the first step to branding your SharePoint 2013 site, this session will give you the time-saving tools and techniques to help you move forward.
This session is an introduction into Document and Records management and how it can be achieved using SharePoint. The session will cover the basics of Document and Records management and explore the tools available in SharePoint. It will also look at ways to increase collaboration on documents and look at different implementation methods including in place records management versus using a record centre. Finally, we’ll look at using eDiscovery to execute queries and export required documents.
Governance remains one of the most important practices for any SharePoint owner. With new services, cloud and sharePoint 2013, the complexity is growing and the need for a standardized methodology is evident. Anders have been specializing in SharePoint Governance since he left Microsoft in 2007 and is the author of the SharePoint Governance Framework methodology. In this session you will learn from a long portfolio of governance implementations, and get a simple guide to reinvigorate SharePoint governance. This is a top rated session from ESPC, Jboye among others.
This 1 hour session will help beginners understand, manage and use Managed Metadata in SharePoint. Topics covered will be Taxonomy vs. Folksonomy, Term Sets, Term Store Management, Managed Metadata columns, Enterprise Keywords, Social Tagging, Managed Metadata navigation, and using Managed Metadata with the Content Search Web Part. While some features are available in SharePoint 2010 this course will focus on SharePoint 2013.
How to achieve SharePoint Governance in the real world. Understand the role of SharePoint Governance and what it should cover from the author of the AIIM SharePoint Governance Toolkit, leveraging the best practices guide that is utilized by many Fortune 500 companies.
Speaker: Nick Inglis; Founder, LeftGen; Contributor, US News & World Report.
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In this session we will cover what it means to collaborate, review and approve content in SharePoint. The differences in definition and process, along with how an organization may need to change to support an automated environment. We’ll also cover concepts to make designing workflows and forms a much less daunting task. The key objective from the session is to help you work smarter, not harder.
Human Resources is an integral piece in almost every organization. The use of SharePoint and InfoPath can greatly improve efficiencies while maintaining the security required by HR. This session will show real world solutions for incorporating these vital tools into processes such as performance reviews, rewards-based wellness program, corporate credit card request and employee handbook using out-of-the-box functionality.
Take Aways:
• Build a user-friendly form and manage rules for submission
• Create an item level permissions workflow using impersonation in SharePoint Designer
• Design a dashboard to summarize information
In this session I will walk you through best practices and tips and tricks for defining, designing and building a SharePoint 2013 UX project.
These activities include: Identifying what users want (Requirements). Taking those needs/wants and creating the experience with Axure interactive wireframes. Using current trends such as flat design to create mockups in Photoshop for a slick modern UI that is tailored to your business. And finally slinging some HTML/CSS to build the visual design for both desktop and mobile using basic CSS3 Responsive Design media queries.
Information Architecture (IA) for a large organization is often as complex as a twisting labyrinth. In this session, we will explain, and demonstrate, why a good IA design is important for search and also provide best practices on how to plan, maintain and govern. We will also demonstrate how search provides the building blocks (entity extraction, metadata processing, etc..) for improving knowledge management and discovery scenarios for people and content.
This talk emphasizes the benefits of stakeholder buy-in within large organizations and covers how to take advantage of unique SharePoint features for a staged and smooth rollout of any project. Particular attention is given to identifying the projects with the biggest efficiency potentials, how to "acquire" legacy applications that translate well to SharePoint, and how to foster change acceptance with some key functionality tricks in SP2013.
SharePoint’s rapid adoption in the business community has created interesting challenges, one of which is understanding the inherent ways that people adopt new ideas an software. In some environments, SharePoint adoption needs to be throttled. In others, the opposite is true – it needs to be encouraged and evangelized. In this presentation, Bill English, CEO of Mindsharp, will discuss Diffusion Theory and then apply that theory to how an organization can confidently adopt SharePoint’s features in a smart, controlled way. You’ll learn:
• The basics of Diffusion Theory, including adoption patterns for innovations and the decision-making process that we all go through when deciding if we should adopt a new idea.
This session is not a technical drill-down session. Instead, we’ll all be challenged to think more strategically and critically about our SharePoint deployments.
Learn how to develop no-code business solutions using SharePoint Online. Learn how to get around limitations in SharePoint Online and augment its features with available apps, web parts and utilities.
Presented by Darrell Trimble CEO of SP Marketplace
Integrating excel services, metadata, documents, links, lists and promoted links to create a complete Project Dashboard.
Has your organization launched SharePoint and it is just sitting there? Do you have sites that get launched and they aren't getting used? User adoption is a key area that needs to be addressed. This session will provide you with tools and techniques to get your users engaged and drive value. You will leave feeling like you have a path to get your users onboard.
‘SharePoint Governance’ means a lot of different things to a lot of different people and for the most-part they are all wrong!
This session is part of the global re-education of what ‘SharePoint Governance' REALLY is and how it is the essential element to enable your organisation to deliver business value through the SharePoint platform.
We’ll talk about the ingredients needed for a holistic approach to SharePoint Governance, I’ll take your through the 3 primary ways of applying Governance in your organization and finally we will look at how to align SharePoint with your businesses vision in both project delivery and on-going into the future.
(A SharePoint Governance Workshop) This session is intended for Business stakeholders and SharePoint administrators. Do your users complain about the usability of your SharePoint? Do you suffer from site proliferation? Rights management issues? Content inaccuracy and staleness? Can you easily tell who owns the content of a particular site or list?
: “SharePoint Governance” is a buzz-phrase that many talk about, but few understand. In this informative session, Bill English will draw on his 10+ years of working with SharePoint platforms coupled with his real-world business management experience to offer a practical model based on corporate governance, risk and compliance accepted practices. English will also discuss how your ECM architecture more fully informs your SharePoint Governance model. You will learn the difference between governance, management and policies. You will learn a model that is sustainable, understandable, implementable, scalable and flexible, not only for SharePoint implementations, but for all your software implementations. If you take Bill’s thinking to heart, this session will likely change the status-quo in your organization, so come prepared to learn and think through the key issues that you’re facing in your environment.
It's good to learn from your mistakes - but it's a lot cheaper to learn from someone else's. This is a guided tour of business mis-use of SharePoint, covering internal communications pitfalls, team collaboration nightmares, and tales of when governance goes bad.
