Your organization has deployed SharePoint as the ultimate collaboration platform that will solve all your problems in a blink of an eye. However you, as the content owner, are still struggling with end users and all the SharePoint features. In this session we are going to discuss tools you have at hand and simple and effective scenarios you can implement on your portal. These will help end-users to perform day-to-day operations with ease and to boost the overall SharePoint adoption.
3. Session Objectives and Takeaways Learn (at least) one new thing you can use to improve you SharePoint site tomorrow Target audiance: Power (end) user
27. Eat your own dog food SharePoint team should publish a blog How-to guides Information about new features Anything SharePoint related Document SharePoint installations wiki
29. Trick – Information push End users prefer to be notified via email Push info via »Alert me« Subscribe their AD group They will not be able unsubscribe
31. Eat your own dog food SharePoint Issue tracking on SharePoint Start on top of Microsoft Templates Expand as needed Email integration Workflows Custom reporting Source: http://endusersharepoint.com
34. SharePoint as self-service HR portal WIN-WIN situation HR Ideas (some available as Microsoft Templates) Annual leaves Expense Employee training Employee activities Employee benefits Hiring and firing Lending libraries
35. HR application »ingredients« OOTB WSS A workflow tool Security, approvals, calculations... My recommendation: Use Nintex Workflow 2007 Managers love„lazy approval” Keep it simple Try to use simple web forms instead of InfoPath Make rich UIs with JQuery
36. Workflow benefits Cut approval times shortened From days to within 1 business hour Reports show you bottlenecks
47. Aggregating information from subsites Aggregating data (2007) CQWP (SharePoint only) Lightning Tools Bamboo solutions Aggregating data (2010) Availabile in Foundation 2010
49. Internal Phonebook Scenario Benefits: OOTB functionality Simple to use Access 2007 for printing Connect to Outlook Sync to your Mobile device Bamboo > snyc with User Profiles
50. Internal Phonebook Scenario (2) Printing with Access 2007 (OOTB) Search Contacts as you type (check my blog)
52. Check list Use analytics to improve your content Improve your content to match Improved in SP 2010 Check crawl logs for errors Does your search return results Dummy testing Search Usage Reports
54. Governance check list Governance Plan (minimum): Information architecture (site structure) Taxonomy (consistent naming conventions) Branding (correct use of company imagery) Provisioning (consistent site usage and user policies) Search (users can find what they need) Testing (consistent use of sites and content) Training (all users are trained) Lear more: Governance Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007
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56. THANk YOU Toni Frankola http://www.sharepointusecases.com http://twitter.com/tonifrankola