Today, I released a new free report to the free content section of this website. The report is targeted at business analysts and managers who want to know whether to go with SharePoint or not. I’ll show you strengths and weaknesses of SharePoint, show some sample scenarios in which you would or would not use [...]
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This post was written by furuknap on March 9, 2010
Arno Nel, a long-time friend and founder of SharePointMagazine.net, has just launched his new SharePoint social site called spoint.me. spoint.me has a ton of features and I’m not going to bore you with those, but what’s important is this: There’s a USP Journal group at spoint.me. Inside that group is a set of forums where [...]
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This post was written by furuknap on March 3, 2010
It’s been a full year since Understanding SharePoint Journal launched. On February 23rd 2009, USPJ was born after a reader of my blog posted a simple question. Now, one year later, thousands of readers have learned about SharePoint through USPJ. Now, one year later, we’re running full speed toward bringing the world’s first SharePoint academy [...]
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This post was written by furuknap on February 23, 2010
By request from several readers, I have now made a sort-of-subscription option available for Understanding SharePoint Journal. The biggest problem with traditional subscription modes and USP Journal is that topics span a range of areas, many of which may not be interesting to you. In a traditional model, you pay for all issues in a [...]
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This post was written by furuknap on August 10, 2009
For the last few days, the controversy over the latest USP Journal issue series has been raging. Microsoft has attempted to silence the issue, and online discussions have been fierce. The debate seems to be around whether the issue contains confidential information or not. Despite attempts to clarify this, some people still seem to think [...]
This post was written by furuknap on July 22, 2009
For some time now, I have asked individual users to be part of a community review team to review early versions of upcoming issues of Understanding SharePoint Journal. The feedback has been extremely useful for me in tuning the issues to meet the expectations of the community. For each issue, I ask 4-5 people to [...]
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This post was written by furuknap on June 12, 2009
