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Microsoft SharePoint vs. Enterprise 2.0 Start-ups
(via @gannotti) An interesting article on the challenge of selecting SharePoint as a platform versus some of the more nimble (yet unstable) e2.0 options. Based on my experience, the SharePoint Decision (by Robert Ludlum, available at your local bookseller) can be a difficult one because some of the ‘cutting edge’ features that are so trendy now will not make it into the final release. However, as the old adage goes, no one is ever fired for hiring IBM choosing Microsoft; they are stable, and as the article states, will be “here for forever and a day.”

Most appropriate, I think, is the question in regards to whether or not SharePoint is “good enough”. In my experience, many organizations are (a) already licenced for SharePoint, and (b) when implemented, are not using the feature set to its fullest potential. Food for thought, I suppose.

Microsoft SharePoint Social Computing
New MSFT website outling SharePoint’s potential in the realm of social computing, focusing on customer wins and case studies. Bonus: it’s running on SharePoint 2007 for Internet.

Alright, this isn’t a normal blog post (and its a fairly old link), but I thought this was a great example of using Excel’s charting capabilities for good, not evil. Well, maybe not necessarily good, but good design in an IW product set.

There have been a lot of times when I’ve had a client say, after a presentation, “How did you do that in [insert Office product here]?” In this case, I actually had to ask, “How did you do that?”

Recreating the NY Times Cancer Graph

The video (in Quicktime) is not short (and may not be exciting for people who don’t like making pretty graphs in Excel), but it is worth the watch.

Note: I realize this is my first post in 20 months. I will try harder, I promise.