Nine out of 10 IT staff and about two-thirds of managers and users say they are using social-networking technologies at work, according to a global study by Microsoft- and Accenture-owned services firm Avanade.

But according to ZDNet’s article on social collaboration, what most people take for social collaboration is just Twitter and Facebook, not Read More...

This week, several of Entrance’s software consultants are attending P2′s ASCEND user conference to  go live with our “Frac Your Data” campaign for the energy industry. Yesterday I attended one of the sessions called, “The Power of an Enterprise Digital Strategy,” where we learned how taking control of your company’s assets and housing them where Read More...

What to Love and What to Hate (Or at least be annoyed at)
Ok, I’m a big fan of SharePoint. I’ve been drinking the cool aid for years and have been super excited to be deploying SharePoint 2013 both internally and for our early adopting clients. As I’ve started using the solution I have noticed Read More...

For the past few months I have been working on and blogging about SharePoint 2013 and new functionality that allows safer code development as a result of client-side code and SharePoint applications. To prove out this functionality, we decided to put some time into developing an app for performance evaluations that we will both use internally and Read More...

Last week, I started a list of the top ten things you didn’t learn at SharePoint Saturday, like better site retention and using metadata to improve the user experience. Now for the other five:
5. SkyDrive Pro
Move over client applications, there’s a new kid in town making it smoother and easier to access you content Read More...

I received a “Revert to template” notification bar recently when I modified an aspx page in SharePoint Designer. It was rather frustrating trying to get rid of this without clicking “Revert to template” and the blog posts I found on the subject gave instructions on using Javascript to hide notifications.


I didn’t really Read More...

SharePoint Saturday in Houston was a great event, but it did not cover a lot of the latest and greatest things we can do with SharePoint 2013. So I’ve created a list of the top ten things I think SharePoint users should care about that were not covered at SharePoint Saturday.

I’ll post the first five this Read More...

A few weeks ago, I discussed some new developments related to SharePoint 2013 that have made custom SharePoint implementation and development much safer. To build on that topic, there is another way to safely customize your SharePoint environment besides client-side code. Another way, which seems to be the wave of the future for SharePoint, is Read More...

I’ve been reading “Exploring Microsoft SharePoint 2013“ these past few weeks to get an idea of the many new features in SharePoint. One thing that caught my interest today is how to get more social within your company. The author of the book states that making social behavior work with SharePoint isn’t about any one technology. Read More...

“Plans are nothing; planning is everything.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower.

During a recent upgrade of SharePoint 2007 to 2010 for a national organization with thousands of users, planning paid dividends when it came time to execute. While we weren’t storming the beaches of Normandy, the task at hand certainly required methodical planning and communication Read More...