Whatever the solution, you have to get staff to declare what it is on the front end. It's not all about the technology. I see some of the benefits of Sharepoint, but depending on your audience (tech-savvy or not) it may become a training issue. Prepare for change management.
What I like about Sharepoint is the Office integration, the improvements over the last few years, document history (versions), and mostly, the ability to require metadata. If you have a taxonomy of topics, it will make it much easier to create a search appliance that can find what people are looking for. You may be forced to look at auto-classification if you can't get staff to do it, or hire knowledge managers (librarians) to properly catalogue. Trouble for us is getting to agreed-upon taxonomies and hierarchies across divisions (I'm in the knowledge management trenches here).
A good way to start might be Sharepoint repositories, require a topic field, seed it with however many topics you can come up with, and leave an OTHER field so you can collect what you have not organized. If you analyze what comes into the OTHER topic, you may keep adding new topics.
Find the logical buckets to start search before they think about searching too. Does your staff only care about 1 project at a time, break it up into project searches. Basically offer them one level of selection before they get to search - it may make things easier (if you are structured that way). They may look for something from a particular function - Marketing search vs. Operations search.
Also, sharepoint can leverage active directory info, so you may be able to get some metadata automation (Docs from sales staff vs. R&D, etc.)
Hope these points help. Contact me if you need more.
Couldn't the industry use the lockout system to attempt to find hackers? Let's say a company has 100,000 DVD players out there. A single player gets cracked. They shut that lock that player out from new releases and the public starts calling. They offer to fix the problem by sending a new player (or just a disc to re-key the firmware?) Couldn't they then send out different versions of the upgrade - so they could start whittling down who is hacking the players by process of elimination? I admit it sounds far-fetched, but there must be something we are missing here, I can't imagine the hardware producers would go for this. People would riot - or even worse, sue!
When I was choosing between Comcast cable and DSS Satellite in Minnesota, Comcast did not have a published list of what you were getting in their packages (although they would read the list off over the phone). Anyway, a well-aligned dish almost never goes out, I have had much greater problems with cable. There is one top reason though to get DSS satellite. The $99 RCA DirecTivo box with dual receivers. Buddy - once you have dual receiver Tivo you will NEVER go back. Plus only $5 a month for service. There is no better money spent on geek goodness than that!
Lou Gossett Jr., James Woods, Oliver Platt, Heather Graham. Good story, good fighting, good twists. This movie kicks ass. Get some beer, some buddies, and watch this movie - you'll have a blast! My runner up is Bram Stokers Dracula - but you have to have a lot more beer to get into the finer points of this comedy (yes, it is a comedy).
I just thought I would mention that there is more than you could do than just give a rock to someone to let them know how MUCH you care. When I proposed to my wife, I skimped a little bit on the rock (not much), and took her to Germany for Octoberfest when I proposed in castle Neuschwanstein. I always felt that how you propose is just as important as the ring, which should just be a reminder of the proposal.
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Whatever the solution, you have to get staff to declare what it is on the front end. It's not all about the technology. I see some of the benefits of Sharepoint, but depending on your audience (tech-savvy or not) it may become a training issue. Prepare for change management.
What I like about Sharepoint is the Office integration, the improvements over the last few years, document history (versions), and mostly, the ability to require metadata. If you have a taxonomy of topics, it will make it much easier to create a search appliance that can find what people are looking for. You may be forced to look at auto-classification if you can't get staff to do it, or hire knowledge managers (librarians) to properly catalogue. Trouble for us is getting to agreed-upon taxonomies and hierarchies across divisions (I'm in the knowledge management trenches here).
A good way to start might be Sharepoint repositories, require a topic field, seed it with however many topics you can come up with, and leave an OTHER field so you can collect what you have not organized. If you analyze what comes into the OTHER topic, you may keep adding new topics.
Find the logical buckets to start search before they think about searching too. Does your staff only care about 1 project at a time, break it up into project searches. Basically offer them one level of selection before they get to search - it may make things easier (if you are structured that way). They may look for something from a particular function - Marketing search vs. Operations search.
Also, sharepoint can leverage active directory info, so you may be able to get some metadata automation (Docs from sales staff vs. R&D, etc.)
Hope these points help. Contact me if you need more.
We found him chewing on junior.
Couldn't the industry use the lockout system to attempt to find hackers? Let's say a company has 100,000 DVD players out there. A single player gets cracked. They shut that lock that player out from new releases and the public starts calling. They offer to fix the problem by sending a new player (or just a disc to re-key the firmware?) Couldn't they then send out different versions of the upgrade - so they could start whittling down who is hacking the players by process of elimination? I admit it sounds far-fetched, but there must be something we are missing here, I can't imagine the hardware producers would go for this. People would riot - or even worse, sue!
When I was choosing between Comcast cable and DSS Satellite in Minnesota, Comcast did not have a published list of what you were getting in their packages (although they would read the list off over the phone). Anyway, a well-aligned dish almost never goes out, I have had much greater problems with cable. There is one top reason though to get DSS satellite. The $99 RCA DirecTivo box with dual receivers. Buddy - once you have dual receiver Tivo you will NEVER go back. Plus only $5 a month for service. There is no better money spent on geek goodness than that!
Lou Gossett Jr., James Woods, Oliver Platt, Heather Graham. Good story, good fighting, good twists. This movie kicks ass. Get some beer, some buddies, and watch this movie - you'll have a blast! My runner up is Bram Stokers Dracula - but you have to have a lot more beer to get into the finer points of this comedy (yes, it is a comedy).
It's a great idea, but what happens when the first kidnapper cuts off a little kid's hand to remove the thing?
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Hi everyone,
I just thought I would mention that there is more than you could do than just give a rock to someone to let them know how MUCH you care. When I proposed to my wife, I skimped a little bit on the rock (not much), and took her to Germany for Octoberfest when I proposed in castle Neuschwanstein. I always felt that how you propose is just as important as the ring, which should just be a reminder of the proposal.
My 2 cents!