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How Do You Measure SharePoint – Metrics for Business Users
It goes without saying, if you can’t measure it you can’t manage it. This is not always so easy on SharePoint from a business user perspective. It’s easier for the server administrators as they can...
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King III Update : Directors’ Duties
There was a session held at Information Worker in February this year where we got to hear about the implications of King III and the Companies Act, (click here to get the documents from that session)....
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SharePoint Business Governance Plans
The subject of SharePoint governance is a constant source of confusion and complexity in the industry. Trying to decide what and who to govern and how is not an easy exercise for most organisations....
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SharePoint 2007 Poster – Team Site Permissions for End Users
Understanding SharePoint permissions can be a tricky business. It is not easy to explain all the concepts to rank amateurs. In my experience, users need 4 – 6 months working experience with...
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7 Steps to Successful SharePoint Business Governance
There is no one size fits all when it comes to SharePoint governance. It’s a tricky component of SharePoint to get under the belt for all organisations. Start small and grow dynamically. Without...
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SharePoint Governance for Site Owners
A new Site Owner approached me at the Best Practices Conference saying that she didn’t actually get the whole SharePoint governance thing. It all seemed pie in the sky to her. She wanted to know what...
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How Microsoft IT Handled SharePoint Governance
250 000 site collections and 36 terabytes of information makes Microsoft IT one of the biggest SharePoint implementations in the world. They have gone through the same challenges that just about every...
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SharePoint Governance : How are YOU Communicating and Managing SharePoint?
So I woke up this morning to the sound of chainsaws. There’s only one reason there would be chainsaws in the complex – to cut trees. There are two things you simply cannot do in front of me, hurt...
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Slidedecks and Transcripts from Sessions at #TechedAfrica
Both presentations have been transcribed for you to read if you couldn’t make the sessions, (need to register for them, scroll to the bottom of the page). The team sites slidedeck is being corrupted...
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What if you Succeed With Your SharePoint Adoption Plan?
Have you ever asked yourself that question? A lot of time is spent trying to figure out how to get people to use SharePoint. But what happens if you actually succeed? What will you do if you get every...
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SharePoint Mission Statements in 8 Words or Less
Another pearl of wisdom from The End of Business was to keep things simple. Their point was that mission statements don’t mean anything to anybody and challenged you to write your mission statement in...
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Why Dropbox Sucks! … and Lessons for SharePoint
If you’ve never heard of Dropbox, it’s an online storage facility for you to do backups and share docs with multiple devices and users. One that deletes your files at random and then tries to tell you...
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SharePoint 2010 Permissions for Site Owners – Part 3 : Creating a New Group
There will be occasions when you need special groups to manage specific lists and libraries, it is very important to get the settings right. (These settings are applicable to SharePoint 2007 as well)....
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Who Owns SharePoint? Business or IT?
A relentless question that causes untold war in the SharePoint world. This is what happens when you fight about ownership : Months if not years wasted in getting the platform moving and nothing gets...
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SharePoint Governance Competition – Are YOU The Golden Lifeguard of the Year?
Axceler is running a competition to see who the governance superstar of the world is. If you have implemented a governance plan, are maintaining it, written one, whatever – if you have been involved,...
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South Africa’s Valda van Dyk makes SharePoint Governance Competition Top 4!...
Axceler’s first Golden Lifeguard Award has narrowed the field of entries from all over world to 4 – and our very own Valda van Dyk from Cape Town has made that list! Well done girl! Not only that,...
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Site Collection Audit Settings
Have you activated the audit settings on your site collection? If there is a leak of critical company information resulting in losing a merger deal, and the Chairman of the Board wants to know who read...
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SharePoint is NOT Your Fileshare
It seems most companies around the world get SharePoint to replace their fileshares. It’s the entry point for many businesses. The classic mistake most make however, is treating SharePoint like a...
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How Successful is Your SharePoint Deployment?
AIIM has released their latest report on SharePoint 2013 as well as a cool supporting infographic on deployment issues in SharePoint. Defining a SharePoint Strategy is absolutely critical to the...
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How Do You Enforce Governance in SharePoint?
Automate it. What does that mean? Most IT departments and governance forums want to keep overly tight control on SharePoint for various reasons; but this doesn’t make it very palatable for end users to...
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