Sharepoint: Enterprise 2.0 via the front door
I have written about the potential of MS Sharepoint earlier. More than one year ago I pointed to the potential for Microsoft in terms of hijacking the Enterprise 2.0 market. My feeling has become stronger and stronger in that direction since then.
Having had a look at some recent documentation on the wiki and blogs components of Sharepoint Services 3.0 and taking into account the issues there are with trying the get a (big) company to experiment with E2.0 tools, it made me think again about that old post and the potential of Sharepoint. What about this scenario:
- just stay very low profile
- wait for Microsoft to invade the workplace for old reasons (“we use Office so why not use Sharepoint; it is good to centrally store documents, share news etc.”)
- then gradually switch on the forum, wiki and blogging template (and RSS!) and let is slowly unleash its potential
- and start evangelising again and give a good example
Advantage of this strategy:
- it is not a separate tool to install (although there is a learning curve!)
- integrated into a trusted environment (working with MS Office we all know)
Of course, this places the majority of the challenges for E2.0 introduction on technical aspects in stead of emotional/political/fear backgrounds. It sounds a bit like “build it and they will come”, but nonetheless Sharepoint it is something that will happen anyway at least in our MS dominated company.
Update: Simon Revell shares some interesting thoughts on Sharepoint as well!
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posted Sep 19, 10:23 PM on Sep 19, 2007 |
category: Sharepoint
/ Enterprise 2.0