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Sharepoint – how to “sell” the concept?

If you need to “sell” the concept of Sharepoint to a client or even in your own organization, there are a few pointers to keep in mind, so I will try to sum up the dos and don’ts. Before the list,

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FINALLY, Microsoft Embraces Social — And It’s Going to be Big

FINALLY, Microsoft Embraces Social — And It’s Going to be Big

I have come accross an article in Forbes web site on Social Enterprise in Microsoft products and strategy, if you follow the Sharepoint evolution you know that this is one of the areas that has been growing in every new version of the product.

Since the 2007 version (MOSS) that Microsoft has started a trail of Enterprise Social networking, providing  features that allow knowledge sharing, profiles connections among others. These were upgraded in the 2010 version but are still in a very early stage, and we hope that in the next version of Sharepoint this can be really an investment.

Check out the Frobes article at: http://www.forbes.com/sites/markfidelman/2012/03/13/finally-microsoft-embraces-social-and-its-going-to-be-big/

 

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I will be presenting at TechDays 2010 in Portugal (22 April – 15:15)

This year I will be attending and presenting at the Portuguese TechDays 2010, my session is scheduled for the 22nd April, 15:15 and it is on the subject of “Creating better solutions for the citizen using Sharepoint and CRM“. The

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Asp:Listview in Sharepoint

You might have had some problems using the ListView in Sharepoint, either directly or using Smartpart. Problem: You must have the .NET 3.5 installed to use ListView. the error might be: “Unknown server tag ‘asp:ListView’” Solution: add the following labels

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Explorer View in IE8 not working !!!

Yes, it is true, in my Windows XP with IE8 I simply cannot work with the Explorer View in a document library, the message is : “Please wait while Explorer View is loaded. If Explorer View does not appear, your

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HiSoftware aRTE

It is finally available the accessible rich text editor (aRTE) from HiSoftware. I have downloaded it but hasn´t install yet. Liam Cleary has written a very good post on the install of this component, that I recommend reading.

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Scrum, Silverlight, MVVM pattern and Sharepoint . . . of course!

My new project has a lot of chalenging parts for me, Silverlight 2.0 and MVVM (Model – View – ViewModel) pattern and Scrum project organization. This is all relatively new to me, so it is a very good chalenge to start working

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