Social Networking

Aardvark is a new kind of tool that lets you tap into the knowledge and experience of friends and friends-of-friends. It reminds me of the old IRC channels you would join to ask questions on relevant technologies, just a thousand times better.
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Scott Samuels on August 20th, 2009

Previously I mentioned a few key SharePoint design points in one of my old posts about Facebook applications, their design and how it can relate to designing successful SharePoint applications. At the risk of the points being obfuscated in the previous article (it was quite a lengthy post) I have decided to reiterate the points [...]

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Scott Samuels on July 3rd, 2009

There seems to be a lot of speculation going on with regards to what will be included in the upcoming SharePoint 2010 release. I seem to think that Microsoft have had their largest Technology Adoption Program (TAP) running for some time now and best of all YOU can become a part of it (if you [...]

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Scott Samuels on June 28th, 2009

Microsoft has recently unveiled a new marketing site titled “Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Social Computing“ focused purely on promoting the use of SharePoint Server 2007 as a social networking platform. Of most value are the case studies on SharePoint implementations with a strong social networking focus. I highly recommend you check them out [...]

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Scott Samuels on April 7th, 2009

More and more these days I find myself relating concepts commonly found in Facebook to my day-to-day dealings with SharePoint. Although at times it can be tough work convincing the more senior members of my team of its business value within an Enterprise context,  I find the challenge almost a duty to [...]

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