Presentation TSPUG 2008

I was a speaker at a Toronto SharePoint User Group meeting 2008-02-20 and this is the PowerPoint I used. On SlideShare, it is Developing an Enterprise Strategy to Deliver Customized Sets of Capabilities and has has had a modest 1,000 or so views.

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Beta phase

This blog is in its beta stage of development during July and August and so readers should bear in mind the following: First, I expect my permalink structure to change so bookmarking will be problematic until that settles down. I know I can redirect from old to new but don't wish to do so in…

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Why developers hate content management systems

This is a companion post to Why developers hate content and, in the same fashion, the seed of a topic which I intend to develop as I collect more examples, ideas and resources. Do developers hate content management systems for reasons apart from the fact that they are content repositories? I believe that the answer…

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Why developers hate content

The impetus for this post is a long standing belief that developers regard the content in content management systems as something largely extraneous to their work and entirely the responsibility of the client in a CMS project. In my opinion, this is of more significance than the closely related belief that developers hate content management…

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Workspace defined 2

This is a continuation of Workspace defined 1. For the moment, for information space, think of a 3D visual map of someone's social networking sites (i.e., their subsite within the social networking site), his blog, all of the output he has produced in his work, his personal site, and everything in his PC, notebook, phone,…

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Workspace defined 1

The idea of workspace has been something that has interested me for a long time. I will start this post with a short definition and then develop the way I use the term and think about workspace in subsequent posts. I use the term workspace to refer to both a personal information space and to…

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How do you recognize a content guy?

Every organization that creates and publishes content needs a content guy. I'm not talking about publications like newspapers or magazines but rather the rest of us that publish as an integral part of our businesses. That's also true for projects that are strategic and complex. Gathering, processing and communicating information are content intensive tasks. While…

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