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Web Communication – It Gets Better

By Tom Resing on December 16, 2014 / Blogging, Community, Jive, Web 2.0 / Leave a comment

The quality of communication is important. Quantity is also important. Both effect your team’s productivity in different ways. Over the years, the tools available have dramatically increased our ability to communicate effectively. And, improvements are still being made. Quality versus Quantity A friend at a conference said to me, “[Our activity stream platform] at work is great! I ask a question and get all kinds of responses in the same day.” I replied, “That’s great! Finding answers at work can

SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Conference Day 1 Highlights

By Tom Resing on October 19, 2009 / SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Conference, vNext, Web 2.0 / Leave a comment

My colleague Rich Olivieri offers this summary of SharePoint 2010 Points live from the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas: Support for developing on a client OS so long as it is 64bit Windows 7 or 64 bit Vista SP1. API available through REST. You can call listdata.svc and get a strongly typed response vs a weakly typed response from lists.asmx. It is WCF REST combined with ADO Data Services. You can link lists through a look up column and

Save the Manatees with SharePoint and Google Maps!

By Tom Resing on April 9, 2009 / SharePoint Designer, Web 2.0 / 11 Comments

Today’s guest post is courtesy of Jamey Baxter who is a Computer Programs Analyst II/SharePoint Developer with the Office of Information Technology at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Jamey read my post on mapping a list with latitude and longitude and adding the name to the popup. He took the method and implemented it on a unique project I thought you would like to hear about it. Along the way, Jamey updated the solution to work for the

Virtual Earth API 6.2 with SharePoint

By Tom Resing on April 2, 2009 / Maps, SharePoint Designer, Web 2.0 / 5 Comments

Virtual Earth API Update As I promised at my SharePoint Saturday Presentation in Boston, I’ve updated my previous example integrating SharePoint with the Virtual Earth SDK. The original example was based on the SharePoint Designer Team Blog post, How to Integrate Virtual Earth Maps with a SharePoint List, from almost 2 years ago. Greg Chan’s original post is still great, and I recommend you give a read to see how he did the magic. However, there is at least one

First American CTO a Web 2.0 Guy

By Tom Resing on March 5, 2009 / Web 2.0 / 1 Comment

The Wall Street Journal has coverage of Obama’s pick of the current CTO of the District of Columbia as the first CIO of the United States. Vivek Kundra is the man who created an internal Wiki for the DC Government that took off on their intranet. He’s a big proponent of online collaboration. He won’t be mandating SharePoint for all government agencies, but how about ObamaBlog and ConstitutionWiki? Twitter feeds for pork? This announcement and the upcoming CTO placement are

Blogs and Wikis becoming more recognized in business

By Tom Resing on February 22, 2009 / Web 2.0 / 1 Comment

I’m a big fan of blogs and wikis, tools built into Microsoft SharePoint. I recently found two great examples and a new White Paper that I’d like to share. Liz Elizondo, a San Antonio SharePoint User Group Member shares a great example of SharePoint wiki use from her experience. They transferred Operations Manuals on CD ROM to a wiki with a few issues, but to great response. My brother Mike works at Marriott and we recently had a great discussion

My SharePoint BlogRoll

By Tom Resing on January 30, 2009 / Blogging, Web 2.0 / 7 Comments

A Matter Of Degree http://amatterofdegree.typepad.com/a_matter_of_degree/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/AMatterOfDegree Aidan Garnish http://aidangarnish.net/blog/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/aidangarnish Andrew Connell [MVP MOSS] http://andrewconnell.com/blog/Default.aspx http://feeds.feedburner.com/AndrewConnell Arpan Shah’s Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/default.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/rss.xml Attis on SharePoint and More… http://wssguy.com/blogs/dan/default.aspx http://feeds.feedburner.com/Attis Ben Curry – CISSP, SharePoint Server MVP http://mindsharpblogs.com/ben/ http://mindsharpblogs.com/ben/rss.aspx Bill Baer http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/default.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/rss.xml Blog – René Hézser http://www.hezser.de/blog http://feeds2.feedburner.com/renehezser Blog of an overweight SharePoint addict http://www.myfatblog.co.uk http://www.myfatblog.co.uk/?feed=rss2 Bob Fox’s SharePoint Blog: Posts http://bobfox.securespsite.com/FoxBlog/Lists/Posts/AllPosts.aspx http://feeds.feedburner.com/BobFox Carsten Keutmann http://keutmann.blogspot.com/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/CarstenKeutmann Chris O’Brien’s blog http://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/ChrisObrien CleverWorkarounds http://www.cleverworkarounds.com http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/feed/ CodeJedi.NET http://blogs.msdn.com/williamcornwill/default.aspx http://feeds.feedburner.com/CodeJediNET Daniel Webster http://mindsharpblogs.com/daniel/

Followup to SharePoint Contacts List on a Map from Google

By Tom Resing on December 23, 2008 / Maps, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Designer, Web 2.0 / 7 Comments

In the Mapping Part 2 Comments, I received two questions I’ve been meaning to get back to. Can you do this if your list has latitude and longitude? How do you add the name to the popup? Latitude and Longitude The first step in modifying my example for latitude and longitude is adding the fields. First I go to List Settings: Then I create the latitude column: Repeat for Longitude. After creating a Collection on maps.live.com with my contact cities,

On Michael Gannotti’s SharePoint Brown Bag and Blog Network

By Tom Resing on November 3, 2008 / Office System, Web 2.0 / 1 Comment

Microsoft SharePoint blogger Michael Gannotti hosted a live meeting brown bag today. Two things I loved about it Insight into Microsoft’s future direction on SharePoint He used the Facebook Blog Networks Application to host the details Facebook Blog Networks Application You can now Join my network for Tom Resing’s SharePoint Blog on Facebook. Michael joined my newtork today. It’s a great forum for readers of my blog. As a value add for people in his network, he published the