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• A Christmas thought for SharePoint Users and other "Authors"

  Going through the Christmas routine of wrapping presents recently brought home the importance of "metadata". As I am wrapping the presents I know who is giving them and I know who they are for, of course, so why do I need to waste time labelling them??. Read More... Posted 19 December 2009 17:35 by bob.barnes | 0 Comments Filed under: Metadata, Content management, sharepoint 2010, tagging

• SharePoint 2010 – Can it help me collaborate??

  Well the buzz is building about the next version of SharePoint – part of the Office 14 wave (that’s right – there was no Office 13!) – due out, not too surprisingly, in 2010 – or next year, which is not that far off in planning terms. Microsoft SharePoint Read More... Posted 10 December 2009 10:23 by bob.barnes | 2 Comments Filed under: microsoft, Collaboration, sharepoint 2010, Business

• Doing more with what you have – squeezing out extra value

  In the current economic climate, it is important to consider if companies are actually getting the most out of their IT environments. In a topic close to my heart, I have seen portals and intranets, often based on Microsoft technologies, that while they Read More... Posted 24 March 2009 10:51 by bob.barnes | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint 2007, Business

• The Perfect (information) storm

  While attending the recent Microsoft SharePoint conference in Seattle I noticed a thread around the growing issues of the changing and expanding information tide and the various and perhaps competing demands on using and controlling that information. Read More... Posted 10 March 2008 09:43 by bob.barnes | 0 Comments Filed under: SPC2008 SharePoint governance MOSS 2007, MOSS, Collaboration, Content management, SharePoint 2007

• Public Site Live on Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007!

  This month (December) our first public facing Web Site built using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 went live. This was for a division of one the leading UK high street banks. This is a very much a first stage of a large initiative that Read More... Posted 15 December 2006 15:34 by bob.barnes | 0 Comments Filed under: Agile, MOSS, Content management, SharePoint 2007

• Web 2.0 and Collaboration

  There is a lot of talk about the next generation Internet – Web 2.0 and how it might impact different types of internet users. My interest lies in its possible application in improving collaboration – both inside a company and also between Read More... Posted 21 November 2006 08:18 by bob.barnes | 0 Comments Filed under: MOSS, Collaboration, SharePoint 2007, Web 2.0

• Stealth IT & the PC Renegades

  Over the many years I have spent in IT I have been pleased to see a growing professionalism in central IT in many medium to large companies. They are now taking a very serious attitude to controlling the environment, have proper standards based IT management, Read More... Posted 05 July 2006 08:44 by bob.barnes | 0 Comments

• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - an Overview

  The whole really is greater than the sum of is parts! So the curtain is well and truly up on the next version of SharePoint – now called Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or MOSS!. Beta 2 is now out and I will be commenting on this over the next Read More... Posted 14 June 2006 17:17 by bob.barnes | 3 Comments

• The Balanced Information Diet

  Is information really treated in the right way in the enterprise? Is there a tendency to gorge on one type of information and the expense of another – and in doing so is the balanced view lost? An analogy might help to clarify the situation. People Read More... Posted 24 May 2005 10:24 by bob.barnes | 0 Comments

• Compliance – Building the C-Level defences

  Compliance is a word that continues to dominate business and IT thinking as deadlines approach (and then recede again, in some cases). One thing that is clear is that the current wave of compliance requirements, like Basel II and Sarbanes-Oxley will not Read More... Posted 17 March 2005 11:45 by bob.barnes | 0 Comments