Posts Tagged "User Adoption"
SharePoint & Office 365 On-Demand Training is now available!
Ever since I founded SharePoint Maven more than 6 years ago, I have offered three main services to assist my clients with SharePoint and Office 365: Hourly Consulting, Live Training, and Configuration. Since then, I’ve worked with and trained hundreds of organizations and thousands of users. While my Live Training is a very popular and cost-effective option, it is geared towards training… keep reading >
Is SharePoint Training really necessary?
With this post, I would like to answer the question that I get quite often from my clients and loyal blog followers: Is SharePoint Training really necessary? This is a valid question and not without merit. So let’s dive into this and answer it together. Full disclosure first, I provide SharePoint Training for a living. So I will try to be as… keep reading >
Best way to implement SharePoint in a large organization
As a SharePoint consultant, I mostly focus on small and medium-sized organizations. However, over the last year, I had a chance to consult for and help implement SharePoint in some really large organizations: a large medical device manufacturer, a university and an engineering company. So with this post, I would like to share my observations as well as share some tips and… keep reading >
Stop wasting time developing SharePoint Training Manuals
In my blog posts, I usually tell you how and what to do with SharePoint. In this post, I would like to tell you what not to do with SharePoint. You should never create any SharePoint training manuals! I had an interesting conversation with the client the other day. They asked me to develop all sorts of manuals and step by step guides… keep reading >
How to convince your boss that SharePoint and Office 365 is the way to go?
I get emails like this all the time. “Greg, I love SharePoint and Office 365, but I have a hard time convincing our leadership, they have lots of concerns about usability and security and think we still need to stay on premises or keep using our in-house file share. I have given all sorts of presentations, and they are all very stubborn… keep reading >
How to smoothly transition your users from folders to metadata
I get this question all the time. It goes something like this. “Yeah, Greg, we know you love metadata, and it makes sense to me, but how do I convince my users to use it and switch from folders to metadata? We tried this before, and it did not work.” Well, in case you are asking yourself the same question as you read… keep reading >
Stop gathering business requirements for SharePoint Intranet!
I see this happening over and over and can’t resist the urge to speak up again on the topic. I see many companies and even potential clients of mine developing 50-page business requirements documents for SharePoint, where they list every single wish list item, feature, and functionality they want to see in their new Intranet, from the number of sites to the number… keep reading >
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Metadata
Learn how to come up, create and set up metadata as well as company-wide taxonomy
Best Practices
A mix of best practices related to implementation and configuration of SharePoint
Security
Everything related to security and permissions of SharePoint
User Adoption
Tips and tricks to improve SharePoint and Office 365 user adoption
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