SharePoint Allows Instant Collaboration

One of the best features about SharePoint, and one that makes it useful to thousands of business owners who are struggling to find good collaboration software, is the fact that with the new updates users can collaboration in “real time” on documents and save changes without emailing back and forth.

Even Dropbox and Google Docs, which were once hailed for their cloud-based collaboration capabilities, do not share documents in the way that SharePoint is capable of doing. While it is true that both Dropbox and Google Docs allow users to access documents from a number of locations, they do not share the same type of “real-time” collaboration capabilities that are evidenced in SharePoint.

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SharePoint Solutions For Your Business

Would you be surprised to learn that in a recent Microsoft class, most of the students had no answer for the question, “What is SharePoint?” Actually, most people learn about the benefits of SharePoint when they encounter it at work after someone else has chosen to implement this useful Microsoft platform, either in its online … Read More

Using Email To Boost Your SEO Efforts

Link building is not limited to web pages and press releases. It can also be used as a strategy in email alerts for things published on the web. There are eight types of email alerts that can help you implement in order to improve your SEO results. If you have set up email alerts in … Read More

Tibbr Links to SharePoint, Outlook

More companies than ever are discovering the benefits of collaboratively linking to SharePoint, including Tibco, the company that promotes its Tibbr enterprise social networking suite. Tibco recently announced that it will aim for deeper SharePoint integration to target customers who are using the Microsoft platform in its self-contained format. Tibbr hopes to capitalize on the … Read More

Hummingbird Impacts SEO

Hummingbird optimization is no laughing matter, although many SEO experts have not realized its significance yet. When Moz recently polled 300 marketers about Google changes that affected their traffic, almost all of them cited Penguin and Panda but not Hummingbird. However, while Penguin and Panda specifically targeted webspam, Hummingbird may have even broader implications for … Read More

SharePoint Drives Social Communication

Microsoft SharePoint is not only a program that offers convenient document storage in a cloud base. This incredible program also offers one of the newest and most interesting forms of communication available for a data sharing program: social communication. What Does Social Communication Mean? In the past, workers communicated by email or other methods that … Read More

When You Should Ignore The Expert’s Advice

The term “best practices” has become a buzzword in everyone’s mouth these days. However, many people think that “best practices” means you should always follow a certain set of rules or procedures, and this is not true. Best practices are designed to guide behavior in most situations, but there are times when you must break with the rules and do something different. It is important to know when you can safely ignore expert advice and take a different approach in your SEO practice.

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SharePoint and Yammer: A Match Made In Heaven

Microsoft has made it clear: Yammer will be the social collaboration vehicle for SharePoint from now on. According to a recent report, Office 365 is the first program to benefit from Yammer, but SharePoint is not far behind. Future service packs will feature out-of-the-box social collaboration through Yammer. However, there has been concern that Microsoft … Read More

Diversifying Your Link Portfolio

For awhile, it seemed that blogging was the bulletproof way to build links. Now, with new Hummingbird and Panda algorithm updates, some experts are decrying the use of blogs, particularly guest blogs. However, there is still a great deal of benefit to be gotten from blogging and guest blogging if it is handled correctly. In … Read More

SharePoint Conference Available Online

The 2014 SharePoint Conference which was held March 3-6 in Las Vegas, Nevada, featured several important speakers as well as more than 230 breakout sessions for developers, IT professionals and others who were interested in finding out more about how SharePoint could help their businesses. Now, all of these sessions and speakers are being offered … Read More