SharePoint Saturday Utah - The Art of the Possible Keynote

Liam ClearyWE ARE CURRENTLY HERE

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What? SLCWhat is Salt Lake City Famous For?


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• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Amazing Mountains

• 1st Transcontinental Railroad

• Ski Resorts

• National Parks

• Salt Flats

• Genealogy / Family History

• Kennecott Copper Mine

• Miller Motorsports Park

• Temple Square

SLC TempleThe impressive Salt Lake City Temple


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• Site Selection July 1847

• Started Construction – February 14th, 1853

• 1858 - work stopped due to the US Army approaching

• Builders used a wooden railroad spur, a canal, special roads, and even a uniquely constructed wagon to move the granite

• 40 mile Journey, took 4 days a time

• Capstone complete, April 6th, 1892

• Dedicated, April 6th, 1893

• 40 Years of construction

• Must have been great to see the Vision come to reality


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THE ART OF POSSIBILITY IS AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE WAY PEOPLE THINK,

LEARN AND COMMUNICATE.

OUR ABILITY TO IMAGINE AND CREATE IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS.

What ?What do people want from an online experience?

• They want to look at Ad’s• They want Entertainment• Feel like they accomplished something• Personal experience• Information – contextual• Be Part of a Social Community• Ability to find without having click endless navigation• Use a search mechanism and retrieve relevant results• See a “sexy looking” site

Liam Cleary THE ART OF THE POSSIBLEWE ARE CURRENTLY HERE

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WE ARE CURRENTLY HERE

Hmm? SHAREPOINTSo where does SharePoint come into it then?

Document Collaboration, Version Control, Workflow, Search, Taxonomy, Metadata, Records and Retention, Authentication Methods, Security

Intranet

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Pages, Publishing, Version Control, Workflow, Search, Authentication, Taxonomy, Data Aggregation, Security, Metadata

Internet

Document Collaboration, Version Control, Workflow, Search, Taxonomy, Metadata, Records and Retention, Authentication Methods, Security

Extranet

Service Applications, Search, XSLT, XML, API, SQL, Web Parts, Controls, Pages, Modules, Authentication, Authorization, WCF Support, HTML, jQuery, CSS, Standards Based

Application

Build INTERNETCan SharePoint really work as an Internet Site?


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• Publishing Support – includes Approval Workflow

• Full HTML Support

• Standards Based – support for Accessibility Standards

• Content Aggregation Capabilities

• Content Tagging – using Content Types and Columns

• Support for Hierarchical Taxonomy

• Supports Multiple Authentication Mechanisms

• Search Capabilities

Yes

• Full HTML Support - within Reason

• Struggles with pure semantic

• Standards Based – Little Support for strict

• Section 508, not quite

• Authentication – Custom Development always needed (ASP.NET Providers, WIF)

• No cross site collection aggregation

• Taxonomy works well but controls are limited

• Search, custom styling needed and custom or FAST

• Cross Site Collection just does not work well

No

Build INTERNET…Can SharePoint really work as an Internet Site?


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• Template Support

• Site and List templates

• Audience Targeting capabilities

• Personalization Support

• Social Capabilities – similar to Facebook

• Analytics Framework for Tracking of content

Yes No

• Template Support Limited

• Site Templates cannot be based on Publishing Site, unless custom DEV

• Audience Targeting limited and more or less useless in public facing sites

• Personalization limited to “ability to modify page”

• Social Capabilities = Version 1 from MSFT

• Great Enterprise Features for Internal

• Not so great for External

• Analytics Great but requires custom reporting

So SHAREPOINTSo many pros with caveats and cons, why SharePoint?


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• Probably own SharePoint License and may not even know it

• Possibly deployed already

• Great return on investment

• .NET Development platform

• Utilize existing skill sets you may already have

• Great content authoring and approval process

• Content Deployment to manage authoring and publishing

• Powerful Search Capabilities

So SHAREPOINT…So many pros with caveats and cons, why SharePoint?


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• Full Capabilities can be used on Internet Site

• Out of the box capabilities brings element of easiness

• Don’t have to code everything from scratch

• Built on Scalable platform

• Almost a “plug and play” approach

• Support for all .NET coding (ex. .NET 4)

• Support for all standard W3C standards and approaches

• MSFT – Heavy Investment to Rule the World

SharePoint POSSIBLESo what is possible? What can be done with it?


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SharePoint POSSIBLEDevelopment can enhance it even further


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All those cool sites, but how do you get there?


• Define you’re audience• This will help in the technology and approach

• Wireframe the site and functionality• Perform “Information Architecture” session

• Card Sorting, content review and content removal• Define Taxonomy, including Content Types and Metadata

• Too often content is added then retro fitted with Metadata• Design you’re brand for SharePoint

• Don’t try to make it fit SharePoint• Use page layouts and master pages sparingly• Design the site with the User in Mind

• Create Personas with various attributes and use for test and use cases• Know the imitations of SharePoint for public facing web sites• Don’t just custom development

• Define what *needs* to be developed• Only to get round a lack of out of the box functionality or integration

• Remember SharePoint is not Magic

How SHAREPOINT…

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How, WHO & WHENHow do we make it happen?


YOUR ABILITY TO IMAGINE AND CREATE IS THE KEY TO

SUCCESS

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Thank you, ENJOY


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