Many times we see people approach SharePoint with the idea of “Tell me what SharePoint is, and I’ll let you know if I can use it or not.” This is a tough one to get around for two reasons. First, there’s no such thing as a 30 second overview of SharePoint. Second, talking about a technology does not show how it can be used to solve problems.
Mind mapping works so well for creating high level and detailed designs of your SharePoint Information Architecture or taxonomy
There are many issues to deal with when creating the Information Architecture for a SharePoint site.
Information architecture is an often misunderstood job title. Are they Designers? Developers? Managers? All of the above? In this article we’ll discuss what information architecture is, why it’s related to usability, and what are the common tools/programs used in information architecture.
This is crazy! Before I watched, I had no idea what to expect, but then my jaw dropped. Think about how much planning it took plan this out. It appears as if it was done within a single day.
SharePoint consists of several elements that provide for the creation, management, presentation, and disposition of information involved in an organization’s operations. One such element, the SharePoint List, is oh-so-simple, yet so incredibly important and powerful. Here are a quick set of best practices for the creation and management of lists that will provide for the definition, capture, and sharing of your desired groupings of information.
I hear it every single day on blogs, twitter, articles… people moaning about how much SharePoint sucks, how it can’t even do the simplest things without jumping through flaming circus hoops. “SharePoint sucks when it comes to Social Software. SharePoint blows chunks for finding even the simplest things. SharePoint navigation is useless.” The finger is always pointed at the software. God forbid there should be an actual human making decisions around how the product was deployed.
One of the tools available, the MetaVis Classifier, allows an information architect to migrate 1000 of documents while attaching metadata to them… in a drap and drop interface! If you’ve ever tried to replicate content types within SharePoint, listen closely and see if you get as excited about the solution as I am.
I just finished a live online workshop session for Simple Site Planning. This comments to this post are from participants of the workshop, with comments and feedback on how it went for them.
Just a heads up that we’re headed for another sellout live online workshop tomorrow with Simple Site Planning. As of this posting, there are 7 seats left. If you are a site manager trying to get a handle on the process for planning a site, check out the description and agenda.
