Working Out Loud “Working out loud”.  I’ve used these words on a number of occasions over the past year or so, mostly when talking about Enterprise Social and the benefits of openness and transparency. My increased use of Yammer over the past year and encouraging more people to move beyond the simple document based collaboration, plus the whole gamestorming...

Not one for rehashing the same old presentations I gave myself a challenge to come up with something new and engaging for the SharePoint Saturday Netherlands a few weeks back. I have talked before about Cynefin. Dave Snowdon notes that The name serves as a reminder that all human interactions are strongly influenced and frequently determined by our...

It was an honour to be able to present at the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas in 2012. It was amazing to have about 700 people attend my session and now it’s available online for everyone to view thanks to Microsoft and Channel 9.  Would love to get your feedback on this session,  I have been working on the concepts further and love that Microsoft...

Like many people over the past few years I had moved my primary device from a laptop to a tablet.  At 1st I tried to use the Microsoft Surface RT – even having this as my only device for presenting at the SharePoint Conference in 2012.  However the lack of applications meant that this is now relegated to the bookshelf. I upgraded to the Lenovo ThinkPad...

As a family we made the decision to move to a more rural location over 10 years ago, at the time a good internet for homes was a fast modem or perhaps an ISDN line if you could afford it.  ADSL was just starting to roll out and was only really available in major cities. Although a lovely place to live and having many benefits, being a techie and working...

Thought it worth a quick post to catch any newbies to SharePoint and also to signpost some additions to the automated SharePoint farm build arena. If you’ve only every used the GUI and done the ‘spousal’* install (as brian alderman calls it) then you should take a look at the following. AutoSPInstaller – end to end installation automation for SP2010/SP2013 AutoSPSourceBuilder...