SharePoint 2010 as a Social and Collaboration Platform: Key Opportunities and Roadblocks

Monday, November 14, 2011, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

SharePoint might seem nearly ubiquitous as an enterprise information platform, yet many organizations are still in the process of deciding whether or how to adopt it for social computing services and collaboration.

Redmond has heavily touted new social and community services in the current version, SharePoint 2010, and the platform gained has nearly unprecedented momentum in the wake of early success stories and extraordinary partner enthusiasm.  At the same time, some adopters have puzzled over missing features, lingering usability and performance problems, and escalating consulting fees.

Join two leading industry analysts who will provide an objective overview of what works well — and poorly — for social and collaboration within SharePoint 2010.  Get the real story on unexpected "gotchas" and hidden gems.  Discussion and demos will cover topics such as mobile services, MySites, findability and search, tagging/ratings/commenting, compliance and retention, potential architectural hurdles, SharePoint’s vast ecosystem, and more.  The workshop is less of a "how to" and more of a "when to" and "why to" (as well as "why not").

Whether your enterprise is considering SharePoint, or you already license the platform and want to learn more about its promise and pitfalls, this session will provide a fast-paced dive into the most salient opportunities and potential roadblocks facing Intranet managers and IT leaders alike. 

The workshop is ideal for:

• Intranet and internal community managers — to learn what SharePoint 2010 does and doesn't offer out of the box
• Information and Knowledge Managers — to compare SharePoint against other information and knowledge management tools in your enterprise
• SharePoint project managers and architects — to understand what you're about to get into, with respect to architectures, licensing, and functionality
• SharePoint evaluation teams — to level-set understanding and terminology among the team, and make more informed choices about whether and where to employ SharePoint
• Consultants —- to understand where SharePoint works well, and where it does not, provding more value to clients

Instructor:  Tony Byrne President Real Story Group Tony Byrne is Founder of CMS Watch, a vendor-neutral analyst firm that publishes comparative evaluations of content technologies. At CMS Watch, Tony leads of team of analysts covering various technology marketplaces on behalf of solutions buyers. Prior to founding CMS Watch in 2001, Tony led the developer team a systems integrator, following previous stints as a programmer, journalist, and international educator. He is also the author of the CMS Report and publisher of the Enterprise Portals Report, the Enterprise Search Report and the ECM Suites Report, and an avid Green BayPackers fan.

Instructor:  Richard Harbridge Senior SharePoint Evangelist Allin Consulting Richard Harbridge is an internationally recognized expert in Microsoft SharePoint and is a technology and business evangelist with deep expertise in information architecture, enterprise content management, and technology strategy. He has defined, architected, developed and implemented well over a hundred SharePoint solutions from small implementations on a single server to over 80,000+ user implementations in international organizations. As a sought-after speaker he often shares his insights, experiences, and advice around collaboration, knowledge management, social computing, ROI, governance, user adoption and training at many industry events. Richard hopes to see you/speak with you at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference as it’s an amazing event where hundreds of people exchange and share experience, knowledge, and relationships to help us all become even better at our jobs and the things we are passionate about.