In a previous post we introduced the Northridge SharePoint Site Governance Lifecycle, which we identified as having five stages: Request, Standup, Adoption, Auditing, and Archiving. In this post we will focus on the second of these: standing up new SharePoint sites, one of the most common activities to take place in a SharePoint intranet, but also a key governance topic.   In that previous post, we briefly described the Standup stage this way: What is the actual process for standing up a n ...

As Northridge has developed various SharePoint-based business solutions for clients, and assisted clients in a consulting capacity with SharePoint strategy and governance, we have developed a model that we call the SharePoint Site Governance Lifecycle. This model addresses one of the most important SharePoint governance concerns for perhaps the most important element of SharePoint-based solutions: the site. The model most frequently comes into play in an intranet or extranet context, but coul ...

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 ...

2009 and 2010 will be remembered as the time when the words "search" and "Microsoft" became closely associated in the minds of enterprise technology customers, vendors, and developers. In addition to the consumer-facing splash Microsoft has achieved with the innovative Bing, Microsoft has also been making major investments in its search offerings to businesses, government entities, and non-profits--both through internal R&D and a key acquisition. In this post, I will b ...

On September 1, 2009 Microsoft announced the availability of a preview release of Windows Embedded Standard 2011, the latest in Microsoft's line of embedded/compact editions of the Windows operating system. This allows manufacturers of devices such as point-of-sale kiosks, point-of-service handhelds, and other thin client devices to preview the latest Windows advances, including "hundreds of feature packages based on latest innovations for Windows 7."   Prior to adopting the " ...

The world of analytics continues to evolve from basic traffic stats to more behavioral indicators. Well, enter the newest of analytics...Sentiment Analysis. With all of the user-participation online with ratings, comments, and so on, there is a wealth of "feelings" about brands and products online.  Some companies have begun to analyze this data to get a sense of how people feel about a movie, a product, or a company. While there is still some limitations about how the technology tr ...

A paradigm shift is underway for how .NET solution developers work with identity and authentication. The shift is not only in the tools and recommended design patterns for validating user identity (authentication) and managing role-based permissions for what a user is allowed to do (authorization). While many of the seeds and shoots for this change have been underway for some time, critical mass is near.   The paradigm shift is from a domain-based orientation to a claims-based orientation. ...

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 ...

When organizations adopt the Microsoft SharePoint platform, there are often at least a few people in the group who are very excited about the prospect of using the SharePoint wiki feature. They have used Wikipedia, seen what an incredible resource it has become, and they have decided that they love the idea of a harnessing the same "crowdsourcing" forces to capture knowledge within their organizations.   We think this is great, and these people are right to be excited about the po ...

Yes, I own Thriller and Off the Wall (on vinyl!), but this is not about the work of Michael. The impact of his death on the Internet was pretty remarkable. Twitter, music sites, AOL's Instant Messenger, Facebook...you name it, they got rocked by the King of Pop's death. Twitter alone saw a peak of 5k Jackson-related messages per minute! Akamai's Net Usage Index reported traffic to leading news sites in North America was 20% above average.     See more of the details on the LA Times Website ...