This CRACKED me up, only because it is so true. If in need of a good laugh or good newbie advice, check out Bil’s post.
UPDATE 12/16/05: E. Shupps has followed up with some more great advice.
Category Archives: Information Architecture
Easy Breakdown: Differences between Dashboard & Scorecard
This is off topic for my blog, but I constantly hear the “dashboard” and “scorecard” buzzwords and often interchangeably. Mauro Cardarelli has posted a short table spelling out the differences between the two…. Continue reading
Uploading and Management of SharePoint Content
I recently went on a tangent about SharePoint support in, A tale from the SharePoint trenches, and I like the whole idea of sharing my experiences with administering SharePoint so hopefully some other person won’t make the same mistakes I did. So here I go again, this time about content. Continue reading
Workaround for Lookup field in SharePoint list templates
If you have ever tried to save a list as a template that contains a Lookup field for one of the columns, you have undoubtedly discovered that the template once implemented on another site will be unable to properly lookup a field for that column. Instead the column will have to be deleted and recreated for each instance of the list. Continue reading
A tale from the SharePoint trenches
Mauro Cardarelli has written a nice piece about measuring the success of a portal. Reading his post about a recent portal launch made me reflect on my not so recent portal launch. We are 9 months into a very large portal deployment, where we took a regular HTML intranet site and turned it into a behemoth portal site, handing over content control to the content owners and combing several smaller sites into the larger portal. It was quite a ride during development, and has been an interesting experience since deployment. Continue reading
Good implementation of the SharePoint OWA web part
Renaud steps through how he made the OWA web part actually useful in SharePoint. The big problem with this web part is getting it configured for each individual user, Renaud has figured out how.
A review of SharePoint Search
Greg McAllister has done a nice write up of some basic portal search information, which is always pretty daunting to work with. Nice post!
Portal My Sites Explained
E.Shupps summed up some My Site info quite nicely, and it is very handy given all the confusion around personal sites with what they are and how you can update them. Continue reading
Weblog Usability: Top Ten Mistakes
I have a lot of respect for Jakob Nielsen, and he has posted his top ten design mistakes for weblogs. While sometimes I think he is a little on the extreme or impractical side, I really like these usability tips for weblogs and I think he is dead on for every one. His article runs a little long, so here is a condensed list for those of you who just want to check to see if your blog is in line Jakob style: Continue reading
If two recycle bins theoretically collided…
AC has posted a great review of some SharePoint recycling bin options currently available that made the blog rounds last week. After his review, he threw out a cream of the crop result if a collision were to occur between Todd Bleeker and Joel Olsen’s bins. (Collison too harsh? Lets say get together and make chitlins then). Continue reading