Interesting to see that despite the straightened economic times, the Microsoft SharePoint conference, scheduled for October 2009, is already looking very popular. Apparently all the early bird places (discounted rate) have already been sold. Just more evidence that SharePoint continues to be selling like hot cakes and attracting massive interest around the globe. I guess the upcoming Office14 release will be a great curiosity for all of us involved in this space.

Michele Microsoft Home Page, SharePoint

Interesting post from Dion Hinchcliffe re Sharepoint in the context of Enterprise 2.0.  Hinchcliffe titles his post – ‘the good, the bad & the ugly’.  We have several implementations of SharePoint behind us with a range of clients.  Our experience has been that the power of the product generally goes unused.  There are no ‘free lunches’.  If you want to use SharePoint to improve/ support collaboration within your organisation you need to commit resources to the initiative – both in the planning, design & build phase and the post go live. 

With the appropriate investment major benefits can accrue to any organisation.  Some of the concerns expressed re complexity of SharePoint (in the context of Enterprise 2.0) are best addressed through careful planning and phased introduction of additional functionality.  The same would apply to any organisational change.

Barry O'Gorman Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Collaboration, SharePoint

We are launching the new Ciall web site today at www.ciall.com. In conjunction with this we are opening the Ciall blog (http://blog.ciall.com).  Different members of the Ciall team will contribute to the Ciall blog on a regular basis.  We will also look forward to having  guest bloggers participate as various topics of interest emerge.

Looking forward to your feedback.

Barry O'Gorman Announcement blog