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Green IT and The Future of Collaboration

Whenever “Green IT” is invoked, it’s usually about reducing the energy consumption of IT equipment or manufacturing/powering them with renewable resources. Which is a pity. Because the really Big Green Opportunities out there are about applying IT to...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2008 11:06 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Collaboration, Green IT
Collaboration and the Groundswell: What VCs are doing about it.

Over the past couple months, I have literally been bombarded with requests from venture capitalists to provide insight into the collaboration space. Prior to that, there was modest proactive interest in my sector. Needless to say in the first half of...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2008 7:06 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Collaboration, Vc, web 2.0 in the enterprise, Groundswell, venture capital investment in enterprise 2.0, collaboration investment, social networking in the enterprise
How We Did It: Christian Children’s Fund extranet powered by SharePoint

Overview Ironworks Consulting , a management and web consulting firm and Microsoft Gold Partner, recently launched a new global extranet for the Christian Children’s Fund (CCF), which is one of the most respected child development organizations in the...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2008 12:16 AM by Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog

Filed under: Community Kit for SharePoint, Developers, WCM, Workflow, Customization, Master Pages, Customer Evidence, Collaboration, Multilanguage, Governance, Social Computing, Search, Personalization, social networking, Extranet, Enterprise 2.0, Content types, Migration, Taxonomy, Metadata, Information Architecture
Knowledge and Talent in a People-Ready Business

We have been receiving a growing number of inquiries from customers asking about the business value as well as Microsoft's vision of "Social Networking" and "Enterprise 2.0" and "Social Media" and other buzzwords related...

Published Fri, May 05 2008 5:52 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Security, Web 2.0, Community, Office Business Apps, Collaboration, Interop, Partners, My Sites, Whitepaper, Governance, Social Computing, Personalization, social networking, Business Intelligence, Webcast, exchange, strategy, Enterprise 2.0, Integration, Taxonomy, Knowledge Management
Groove vs. SharePoint? (No, think Groove *and* SharePoint!)

[Cross-posted from the Groove Advisor blog because this addresses one of the top FAQs in the SharePoint community. For more information, check out the Groove and SharePoint Integration white paper . <Lawrence />] I get asked a lot about Groove and...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2008 5:00 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Collaboration, Whitepaper, Offline, Integration, Office 2007
Roundup of recently released Microsoft Solution Accelerators for SharePoint

SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool Performance models for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 that use the analysis and simulation features of Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner 2007 to help you...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2008 1:13 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Technical Readiness, Collaboration, Deployment, Administration, Extranet, Capacity Planning
Update to Office Live Workspace

[Cross-posting from our friends on the Office Live Workspace Team Blog . As you may know, OLW is built on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.] The cool thing about building software services on the web is that you can deliver surprises (hopefully pleasant...

Published Sun, Mar 03 2008 9:00 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Web 2.0, Collaboration, WSS 3.0, Social Computing, Enterprise 2.0
Re: the Office Live Workspace Beta

We on the SharePoint team are very happy for our colleagues in the Office Live team for releasing the public beta of their Workspace service yesterday. The official announcement is here , and Robert Scoble has posted a video interview , but the best place...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2007 3:20 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Collaboration, WSS 3.0, Office 2007
Objective data on Collaboration Platforms

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a short post about measuring the growth and share of collaboration platforms. I had found a UK website -- ITJobsWatch -- that tracks IT job postings by type of work, pay rates, technology used, and so on. The data I pulled...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2007 4:16 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Collaboration, Sharepoint, platform, Lotus Notes, exchange, UK, microsoft sharepoint, market Share
Bloomberg on Sharepoint: revenue, references, switchers, etc

Bloomberg's Dina Bass published a story today on Sharepoint . Some highlights: Microsoft Corp's Office SharePoint Server, a program that lets companies set up Web sites, search for data and organize corporate documents, topped $800 million in...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2007 2:08 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Microsoft, Collaboration, Sharepoint, platform, collaboration platform, references, share, growth, Lotus, Notes migration, Lotus Notes, revenue
Information Architecture and Management Controls in WSS 3.0 (Governance 2 of 5)

Preface With WSS being so flexible as a platform and as a collaboration I often get people asking me how they should architect their deployment. They ask about what you can do with it. The possibilities are so open as a platform it's tough to explain...

Published Sun, Jul 07 2007 1:35 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Collaboration, Administration, Whitepaper, Governance, Management
"ChatterBox" persistent chat session for SharePoint

Have you ever wanted to have a persistent chat session right on your SharePoint team or collaboration site? It can be much easier and quicker for typing a message than SharePoint’s built-in Discussion Board. The ChatterBox web part provides an example...

Published Tue, May 05 2007 6:09 AM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Community Kit for SharePoint, Developers, Collaboration, Source Code, AJAX
Understanding the SharePoint calendar and how to export it to iCal format

Introduction One of the challenges of accessing SharePoint calendars via the object model is that there are so many different types of events – normal events, all-day events, recurring events, recurrence exceptions, and deleted instances – and they all...

Published Tue, May 05 2007 1:44 AM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Community Kit for SharePoint, Developers, Collaboration, Source Code, Interop
Invitation to review and provide feedback for the Microsoft Collaborative Workspace Architecture Guide 1.0

[ Update 05/30/2007: The feedback window is now closed. The team will evaluate the feedback that has been provided thus far and will update the content as appropriate.] You are invited to review and provide feedback for a pre-release draft of the Microsoft...

Published Thu, May 05 2007 5:43 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Collaboration, IT Pros, Planning

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Green IT and The Future of Collaboration

Collaboration and the Groundswell: What VCs are doing about it.

How We Did It: Christian Children’s Fund extranet powered by SharePoint

Knowledge and Talent in a People-Ready Business

Groove vs. SharePoint? (No, think Groove and SharePoint!)

Roundup of recently released Microsoft Solution Accelerators for SharePoint

Update to Office Live Workspace

Re: the Office Live Workspace Beta

Objective data on Collaboration Platforms

Bloomberg on Sharepoint: revenue, references, switchers, etc

Information Architecture and Management Controls in WSS 3.0 (Governance 2 of 5)

"ChatterBox" persistent chat session for SharePoint

Understanding the SharePoint calendar and how to export it to iCal format

Invitation to review and provide feedback for the Microsoft Collaborative Workspace Architecture Guide 1.0