I just got back from the European SharePoint Conference 2013 in Copenhagen. What an excellent event! I had a great time connecting with the community and attending sessions presented by Europe’s best speakers. The slides from my presentation are below. Thank you to everyone that attended! I received some great feedback and appreciate the insightful [...]

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Happy #MusicMonday everyone! I’ve curated a play list of tracks that are guaranteed to enhance your SharePoint work. These tracks are mostly electronic music inspired with a steady beat and melody but minimal vocals, and new tracks are added weekly. This is my go to playlist whenever I need to put on my headphones [...]

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This is one of the times where I hope this blog can be a learning tool for myself and for other people. SharePoint is an extremely versatile tool and there is no way that one person can know everything ;^)

My Problem

I have a custom list created in SharePoint 2010 Foundation that I am [...]

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I recently discovered Placehold.it from one of my favorite user centered design blogs, http://www.zurb.com/blog.

Placehold.it allows you to generate a placeholder image using only a URL.

For example, http://placehold.it/350×150 will display as:

I used to keep similar images on my SkyDrive for SharePoint / WordPress site mockups [...]

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TED Talk: Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation

Summary

Are you trying to motivate your SharePoint users using a carrot and a stick approach to adopt your solution? Or, are you deploying a platform and hoping business users will get creative with the possibilities? This video examines the [...]

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This is a summary of the following research article: Di Virgilio, Marie E., Ludema, James D. (March 2009). Let’s Talk: Creating Energy for Action through Strategic Conversations. Journal of Change Management, Vol. 9 (No. 1), 67-85.

The full text whitepaper can be purchased here: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14697010902727211

Abstract

In this paper, we offer a model of [...]

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On December 5th, 2011 I went through the list of 230 SharePoint MVPs and compiled them into a twitter list, located here: https://twitter.com/#!/EricaToelle/sharepointmvps

Many of them were not easy to find, and I may have missed some people.  Please feel free to comment here or @EricaToelle if a correction is needed.

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