There are jobs in the jobless recovery – and skilled developers of any flavor rarely spend much time in the unemployment line. But I think this consistent demand obscures a deeply significant shift in that the market for developer skills. The future will be owned by those who can effectively optimize products and platforms to [...]
Although many organizations that use SharePoint employ internal developers to create custom solutions, every customer organization I’ve encountered in my ten years of SharePoint consulting has used external vendors for at least some development. These vendors include individual contractors, Microsoft Certified Partner firms like non-linear creations, and independent software vendors (ISVs) like Bamboo Solutions or [...]
For the longest time, shared drives were the way that enterprises preferred to store and share documents. The down side of using shared drives is that there is no version control for documents, no search beyond the filenames, and the folder structures get convoluted over time, making it very hard for users to find and [...]
(In Picture: Eric Gales, President of Microsoft Canada with NLC Senior Executives)
Congratulations NLC Team for winning two of the most prestigious Microsoft Impact Awards at the 2010 Microsoft Partner Network IMPACT Awards – Microsoft’s Choice Partner of the Year Award and Microsoft’s Marketing Innovation Award.
“Our annual IMPACT [...]
How much is poor search costing your business?
Most websites have search engines. Many actually make life harder for visitors. As analyst Gerry McGovern noted recently: “The quality of search on many websites is awful. Most organizations would simply not countenance having their reception area in the mess that their search engine is in. Yet [...]
The momentum of SharePoint has taken the world by storm, and with the launch of SharePoint 2010, its impact on enterprise organizations is only continuing to increase.
50% of The Year’s 10 Best Intranets from the Nielsen Norman Group Intranet Design Annual 2009 ran on the SharePoint platform (Nielsen Norman Group). The capabilities of [...]
NLC co-founder Randy Woods sat down with the folks at Microsoft’s bepublic.ca team to talk about our experience helping clients leverage SharePoint 2010’s social and business-process features.
You can watch the video below or check it out at bepublic.ca.
A couple of weeks ago there was a lot of buzz around the new social features in Facebook. Just reading their announcement it’s clear that Facebook is trying to leverage its huge social user base to glue together a lot of silos that exist on the web.
Basically they are creating new ways for websites [...]
In February, non~linear creations and Microsoft hosted semindars in Regina and Calgary on Collaboration & Social Computing featuring the 5 business realities of a WEB 2.0 world.
During the presentation, Shannon Ryan, President of non~linear creations, spoke on the many ways people collaborated in today’s world. Using relevant examples of past collaboration models like fax [...]
