The following are just a few of the applications that provides remote access to SharePoint from a device other than your computer.  The way that most people work requires them to be able to access corporate information at any time.  Having access to the SharePoint environment from their portable device will become increasingly easy and increasingly important for business users.

These applications offer a much richer SharePoint experience than accessing your SharePoint site through your devices browser, increasing user satisfaction and allowing fast access to the SharePoint environment’s content.

PocketPoint – iPhone/iPod
Moshare – iPhone/iPod
Attache’ - iPhone/iPod
SharePlus Office Mobile Client – iPhone/iPod, iPad
Filamente – iPad
iSP Browser for SharePoint – iPhone/iPod
Mobile Entree – iPhone/iPod, Android, Blackberry
Quick Browser for SharePoint – Android
Silverdust – Blackberry
WICKsoft – Blackberry

Here’s one reason why SharePoint projects often end up costing more than originally anticipated!

I had a great time presenting to the Atlanta SharePoint User’s Group earlier this week. My presentation covered something I call “The 5 SharePoint Personality Types”. My presentation is meant to arm you with information and resources to assist you in overcoming their arguments against SharePoint.

As I stated in the outline for my talk:

As a SharePoint consultant, Lee Reed often experiences 5 distinct personality types that challenge SharePoint as it’s introduced, or re-introduced, into an organization.  These user personalities often work against the successful deployment of SharePoint and cause chaos for a SharePoint deployment team.  In his presentation, Lee will discuss the 5 SharePoint Personality Types frequently found within an organization and will outline a battle plan to overcome the most common challenges they represent.

Lee’s presentation applies to all versions of SharePoint and will assist your organization to use SharePoint with fewer headaches and reduced deployment-induced stress syndrome (aka D.I.S.S).

Each resource that I refer to within the presentation has a URL provided. Given that Internet URL’s change, these links may work well for a relatively short time.  As I said during my presentation, “If you are taking notes on the content of my presentation, make sure you write them on a deposit slip because these tips are like money in the bank.” *my attempt at humor*  Seriously, I wish someone had given me this information prior to my starting to work with SharePoint 7 years ago.

I hope that you find the information I’ve written in this presentation useful.  Feel free to download my presentation from SlideShare.net and use it to your hearts content!

I was recently wondering what markets in the US were hot for SharePoint professionals.  After I Bing’d “SharePoint Jobs” (nope, still doesn’t sound right) I couldn’t find any information on the topic.  Therefore, I decided to do some quick research and make a map of my own.  The outcome is the map below of the top 10 metro areas for SharePoint opportunities in the US.  This information maps relatively well to what I know of the SharePoint market and served to confirm that the need for SharePoint Professionals is still very, very hot!

If you are a current SharePoint Pro looking for a new city and a new opportunity, these are the hot areas.  If you are interested in becoming a SharePoint Pro and live in one of these areas, begin studying for that certification exam because there aren’t enough SharePoint Professionals out there to fulfill the need!

Having a difficult time telling the difference between the various versions of the SharePoint 2010 platform?  Me to.  Here’s the ultimate interactive cheat sheet to help explain the differences between Foundation, Standard and Enterprise.  A big thanks to Microsoft for this page!

Implementing SharePoint in the flow of business means that SharePoint’s capabilities and your user’s needs meet at right time and the right place. For users to adopt SharePoint, these capabilities must meet the user where they are; meaning that they must provide the power that’s needed to solve the user’s current challenge while also being easy enough for the user to understand and implement. When SharePoint is implemented outside of the flow of business, user adoption will suffer and your user community will feel like they’re ‘pushing a rope’. Read the rest of this entry »

When you don’t take the time to define what collaboration means in your environment then you won’t have a baseline to compare current-state against previous-state to determine if your project has been a success or not. Take time before your SharePoint project starts and discuss what collaboration means within your organization. Define it. Test the definition. Ask people throughout your company how they define collaboration in order to build holistic view of what collaboration means to people.

To some companies, collaboration means that information is freely available to everyone that needs or wants access to it. In others, it means that people are working together in a way that they are unable to currently. Still others define collaboration as being able to more easily socialize the content that they produce as part of their job, such as providing reports or other documents. Collaboration means different things to each and every company so be sure and find your definition at the beginning of your project. Read the rest of this entry »

SharePoint sites, and more specifically Intranets, are created to provide information that positively contributes to your users work life. Users have an unspoken expectation of your site. They expect the information being presented to be refreshed frequently, expand their existing knowledge or present them with information that they wouldn’t have otherwise known if they hadn’t found it on your site.

It’s unfortunate, then, that many new SharePoint Content Owners simply present RSS feeds in a web part to ‘flesh out’ their SharePoint site. The RSS feed web part on an Intranet or Internet site aren’t meant to be used in a “set it and forget it” way. The goal of your site should be to educate, to present information that the reader can’t get or can’t interpret themselves. The RSS web part, unfortunately, allows us to present information on our site in a passive manner. Instead, the way to view RSS, and other information presented on your site, is to focus on providing ‘quality, not quantity’. Read the rest of this entry »