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The DW in the Netherlands…

A week or so ago I attended an intranet get-together in the Netherlands, where attendees could show eachother screenshots of their intranets, and discussed what worked and what did not. In general, the...

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How confidential is an intranet design?

When I was developing snack products,  I was never allowed to talk about my work with people outside my company. Others might copy our ideas! I always felt this was a real pity, because I was convinced...

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The Perils of InfoPath

Our Business Solutions team has not used InfoPath very often. It is really a very cool tool, and I love its transparency, but people often experienced an access denied or other annoying error message...

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More than 30 Sneak Previews to intranets

We have all been talking about using video’s ON your intranet, but what about video’s ABOUT intranet? After seeing a very good intranet teaser recently, I thought I’d collect a few more for you. I have...

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Playing “Hide and Seek” in SharePoint

After my earlier rant about people who want to secure their content for no good reason, I thought I would give some suggestions for alternative ways to hide content when it makes sense. First let me...

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What SharePoint can learn from SurveyMonkey (and vice versa)

I have always hated SurveyMonkey. Not that I knew it well, but out of principle: I try to help my colleagues work with SharePoint, and the more SharePoint they see, the faster they will get familiar...

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Your intranet design = your company website design?

Several years ago we embarked on a renewal of our intranet. The platform had already been chosen, we had a vision, a plan for the new information architecture and we knew which functionalities we...

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The key and the team site.

In my job (helping business users to use their SharePoint environment as good as possible), I am always looking for good metaphors to explain functionality. This is the first example “from the...

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The cutlery drawer and the page.

To the left you see my cutlery drawer. Normally it is out of view and only visible when I open the drawer. All items are arranged by type. This gives me a good overview of the amount and types of...

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No more meeting minutes!

When I visit “collaborative” sites, e.g. for a team, a department or a project, I often find a document library called ”Meetings”, or even worse, several document libraries, each for one particular...

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SharePoint Style Counsel

When you select your clothes for today, you can decide to wear something that is clean, whole and covers what needs to be covered. You can also refine your selection by choosing something that matches...

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My View on Views

Don’t you like a nice view? So, next time you have configured a page with a web part in default view, consider if this really the best possible way to display your content for your audience. Can you...

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How to win space and not alienate people – part 1

All my SharePoint life I have been fighting with storage space. Not only because of limitations in storage capacity and because full sites can be slow and hard to back-up and restore, but also because...

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How to win space and not alienate people – part 2

The first part of this post, ”How to win space“, was published on July 3, 2013. HOW NOT TO ALIENATE PEOPLE 1. Talk to your site and content owners. Contacting the site owner about their content is...

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Dangers of the Datasheet

The Datasheet view is a favourite with Excel fan boys. I have seen many a controller or purchaser create one Datasheet view after another after they had learned about this fabulous functionality. And I...

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More than 80 Intranet Launch Videos!

I thought I’d update you on my collection of Intranet Launch and Promotion Videos. What have I done since my last post on this topic? 1. Removed videos. I have been really sorry to see that some great...

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Configuration: Mind over Muscle

My SharePoint-related posts are also published on NothingButSharePoint.com. Recently, they displayed my series of Business Examples and I received a Tweet from someone who appeared to be a little...

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The Curse of Customization

The briefing for our new intranet was: “It should work like the current intranet as much as possible”. We had just spent a lot of energy in educating our users, and usage of our custom-built intranet...

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SharePoint White Magic

A White Christmas will not be on the agenda for my country, so I decided on some White SharePoint to get into a festive mood! If you are not a qualified designer, and/or SP Designer is not available,...

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Site Permissions Breaking Bad, episode 1

The Survey. In my earlier post, I showed default site permissions and what happens when you break permissions in one library. This time I will show another common scenario with non-standard...

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