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Enterprise Social Computing - SharePoint Server 2010 embraces collaboration trends

Article from Information Management Magazine, March/April 2010, by: David Samoranski

Collaboration trends are changing the way people work together. Social tools are essential to the daily lives of many people. The proliferation of social software demonstrates that users find value in this new generation of tools. Employees are now demanding this same value be delivered from their organizations. They want to engage socially with the people they work with and build stronger relationships within their companies. Traditional content management and collaboration solutions are incorporating new features to satisfy the social and information sharing demands of the enterprise. Microsoft’s latest release of SharePoint delivers a platform with an integrated approach to social computing.

The adoption of SharePoint in the business community continues to grow. SharePoint provides a wide variety of functionality in a single platform, and the 2010 version integrates the portal, content management, collaboration, search, forms and reporting workloads that organizations have come to expect with the social computing features that users demand. Technologically savvy users expect to interact with others using capabilities such as user ratings and comments, social networking, social tagging, micro-blogging and media sharing. SharePoint Server 2010 provides an enterprise environment that empowers information workers with social tools and experiences very similar to those available on the Internet. SharePoint blends social computing and traditional content management capabilities to enable people to work together effectively within a single platform...

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CentrePoint is a registered charity focusing on strengthening the governance, leadership and management practices of non-profits through our consulting, education and mentoring services. Established in 1996, we have been working with charities to develop their knowledge, skills and capabilities in critical organizational competencies like IT, Fund Development, Human Resources, Governance, etc.

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“The most recent set of skills I have acquired is to work in a SharePoint environment.  I have been equipped with skills that have enabled me to diversify my contributions to CentrePoint.  Support has been accessible to me both inside and outside the classroom which has been invaluable to both me, personally, and CentrePoint as I implemented my new SharePoint skills.  Over the years I have accessed numerous training opportunities with New Era Technology and have never walked away disappointed.  Thank you, New Era Technology, for being superb in the deliverability of your products!”

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Time Management - A List of Lists

By: Tyler Huggins, Instructor & Consultant

Information on Time Management abounds. Amongst that information, you will find much mention of lists.
What makes an effective list?  Well, that depends on how advanced your current Time Management system is, your own personal circumstances (demands on your time), and your personality type.  Do you like a lot of structure and plan far ahead? Do you prefer to “cross that bridge when I come to it”? Does your day tend to have more than 6 commitments or meetings in a day? Are you responsible for long range goals for your organization, or is your day largely dictated by a reactive role that services the needs of others?

For myself, I prefer simplicity.  While there are many systems out there, I have found that in my circumstances, things flow best when I deal with basically just two lists.  One is a “catch-all” “big bucket” list.  I use “tasks” in Outlook for this. This is the list where, whenever any idea pops into my head, I can pop it down into my bucket, and then go back to working on whatever I was working on, knowing the idea has been captured and won’t be lost. If I want, I can break this “big bucket” list down into as many additional categories as I like (long term/short term, personal/business, grand/more, etc). ‘Tasks’ in Outlook offers easy ways to do this.

I like to couple that “big bucket list” in Tasks, with a second, more specific list in my Calendar.  At the end of each day, and the beginning of the next, I visit my plan for the day ahead.  When I create this plan, I can drag and drop items from my bucket list in “Tasks” to my daily plan in my Calendar.  This distinguishes my catch-all list from my scheduled, short term list.  This ‘foundation system’ is unobtrusive enough to avoid intimidating people who are just starting to get more Time Management conscious; flexible enough to allow for various planning techniques; scalable enough to grow and adapt to a more intricate time management plan; and addresses some fundamentals of Time Management - namely having daily plans and reviews, having short and long term goals and tasks, and having a trusted external system that lets your mind relax, knowing things are under control.

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By: Alex Siedule

In Access 2003 and 2007:

Hitting F1 in an office application usually will bring up the help system. In Access, this is particularly useful when you are trying to figure out the options available for a particular property or setting.

For example, suppose you are trying to change the design of a table and want to learn more about the input mask property you see in the bottom area of the screen. If you simply click on the property and pretty F1, the help screen will open up with a breakdown of how an input mask works.

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