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On the Passing of Steve Jobs

Apple Logo with Steve Jobs silhouette

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I worry that with his passing too many people will want to turn him into some sort of mythical creature capable of no wrong. I suppose that beats worrying that no one will.

No guys, its IT vs. End-Users – Capture Expert Blog

What End-Users want is to solve a problem, or increase efficiency of a common task. Not only that, they want to solve it without spending time on the solution.  Even technical end-users don’t want to waste more brain cells then they have to on technology.  Why?  Because it’s not their job. We are all spread thin with our day jobs, so adding just one more thing unrelated to core duties is very frustrating.

On the other hand, IT is paid to handle complexity, the more complex the better.  IT puts the technology pieces together, and makes things work.  Once they build something, their job is to maintain the status quo until a new approach arrives.  Not only that, within IT are specialties, those who are great with hardware, those who are great with a particular software package, and those who are great with network security.  The more proprietary the technology, the more specialized the admin, the more security.  At least for now…
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Love this. And the comment thread is brilliant as well. Especially Daniel O’Leary’s “If you were starting a new business today, would you go out and buy servers and hire an IT guy, or would you go all cloud?”

Salesforce.com and OnePoll on Email Overload — and solid Chatter positioning to boot

Video: Tablet support in Mobile Entree 2.3 #SharePoint

Demo of “panel” system (similar to Outlook render) on tablets. ME product still displays single panel on smaller form factor devices. Nice usability.

Facebook Users Revolt…. the initial furor over activity streams… now what did I do with that data point around Facebook’s numbers AFTER streams were incorporated?

I also applaud Facebook for launching a product clearly designed to reduce total page views in the network by no longer forcing users to go to their friends pages for updates. That shows serious long term vision and dedication to the principle of facilitating communication among its users.

Flashback: Caller To C-Span Asks David Brooks for Help in Bringing Down Obama – YouTube

Great addition to his CV. I’m a huge fan of David Brooks — he’s sort of a Bizarro-Colmes on PBS. Always smiling, always cool with his big-tent analysis. Now I know where he gets his material.

YouTube fav “Derek Sivers: How to start a movement”

http://bit.ly/qsDLac

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YouTube fav “Flourish”

http://bit.ly/ouKPut

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Social & Workplace Learning through the 70:20:10 Lens | charles-jennings.blogspot.com | Readability

The shift in focus to workplace and social learning by HR and Learning professionals over the past few years is an significant one. And it’s not just a passing phase or fad. It is reflecting a fundamental change that is happening all around us – the move from a ‘push’ world to a ‘pull’ world, and the move from structure and known processes to a world that is much more fluid and where speed to performance and quality of results are paramount.

Provides background, commentary, and roadmaps around the (wise) L&D proposition that “…lessons learned by successful and effective managers are roughly:

70% from tough jobs

20% from people (mostly the boss)

10% from courses and reading”

The 5 Teams You Need for Effective SharePoint Governance

By the end of this article, I may not be able to give you all the answers to the questions above, but I hope to at least add clarity and give you some practical structure and tactics you can use to achieve effective SharePoint governance.

In particular I will provide answers to the following key questions:

  • What is effective SharePoint governance?
  • How should I structure my governance teams?
  • How does business strategy fit into SharePoint governance?
  • What should my governance teams be doing?

Let’s start with what “effective” SharePoint governance is, and what it isn’t.