I get a LOT of emails from a variety of industry sites that I opted into, but I admit that many go unopened.  Well, this morning from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, I received one with the title "Does SharePoint Destroy Intranet Design?"   Being chest deep in the planning stages of a few SharePoint intranet projects, it was worth the look and it paid off to help clarify some thoughts our team has been batting around.  Whether you are building a public website or an intranet, it does ...

Our own Atlanta is the host city for the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference this coming April.  Northridge needs your help BY FRIDAY to vote on our sessions for the agenda! Thousands of nonprofits and nonprofit technology professionals will gather in our fair city to share ideas, successes, and inspiration while many more will participate remotely via webcasts, webinars, and feeds.  We have a lot to share with conference goers, and think you will agree!  We have several sessions up for ...

Seems that the dance will never end, but there is a real strong possibility this time that Microsoft and Yahoo will finally work out a deal.  With the dollars Microsoft is putting behind Bing, it may have been enough to get the attention of Yahoo! execs.    The last sticking point is related to an upfront cash payment Yahoo is seeking.  The driving factors driving the deal really boil down to: Microsoft has more money to develop better tools and doesn't really want to be in the ad busin ...

Okay, so this is a bit off topic, but as Microsoft partners, we get a lot of news from them without even needing to look and most recently got hit with some of the new Xbox stuff. Take that wii, no controller required!  http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/projectnatal/ ...

Our 14th Fortune 500 to be headquartered here bringing with it 2,100-jobs. The metro Atlanta area continues to attract top talent and companies which is good for the overall business community and Georgia economy. Atlanta Business Chronicle:  NCR moving HQ to Duluth, to bring 2,100-plus jobs to Georgia   ...

I haven’t always been in Atlanta. Moving from Washington, DC in 2005, I had spent well over a decade there. When I first moved there in 1994, it seemed everyone I met was attached to a law firm, association/nonprofit, or the government. America Online had already been in existence since 1983 (I was shocked to just rediscover – Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aol), but by the mid-‘90s it had truly become the power player beating out Compuserve, Delphi, Prodigy, and many other pre-web p ...

Recent rumblings have Facebook being offered a $200 million investment from a Russian investor and is now valued at $10 billion. Not sure what else to say on this one! http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124303553603348803.html ...

Here at Northridge, we are a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. As such, we are often early on exploring the various products and have been early adopters of SharePoint 2007.  Historically, SharePoint has been a strong collaboration tool used heavily for corporate intranets, but with the new version it has become much more of a community building tool with robust content management features added. As we work with companies, it is interesting to get a glimpse into how some are heavily divided a ...

As I mentioned in another post, I have built a library of go to resources when talking to clients about various topics.  Another of these popped up recently when asked to define Web 2.0. There is a whole lot of information and misinformation out there in terms of what are the real characteristics of Web 2.0 (I have seen early articles on Web 3.0 but that is another topic entirely!). At its core, I look at Web 2.0 in a few ways that makes it different from the preceding reality: It’s about ...