Comments on: “Why can’t we build this on Sharepoint?” http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/02/06/why-cant-we-build-this-on-sharepoint/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:33:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Stewart Mader http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/02/06/why-cant-we-build-this-on-sharepoint/comment-page-1/#comment-1121 Stewart Mader Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:19:20 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/02/06/why-cant-we-build-this-on-sharepoint/#comment-1121 Kathleen, Great post! and I think Euan's comment is equally on the mark. Other tools have been rapidly changing to keep up with advancements in social networking and collaboration, but SharePoint has lagged behind, and its interface does give off that "sterile" feeling Euan describes in the post on his blog. I've posted my own take on this on the <a href="http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2007/02/sharepoint_is_s.html" rel="nofollow">Atlassian Blog</a>. Stewart Kathleen,
Great post! and I think Euan’s comment is equally on the mark. Other tools have been rapidly changing to keep up with advancements in social networking and collaboration, but SharePoint has lagged behind, and its interface does give off that “sterile” feeling Euan describes in the post on his blog. I’ve posted my own take on this on the Atlassian Blog.
Stewart

]]> By: Euan http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/02/06/why-cant-we-build-this-on-sharepoint/comment-page-1/#comment-959 Euan Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:43:50 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/02/06/why-cant-we-build-this-on-sharepoint/#comment-959 Great post Kathleen. To a degree I believe that the technology doesn't matter. It is possible to make Sharepoint do most of the things one would want - and there are plenty of examples being generated currently - but the bigger problem is the orientation and motives of those deploying it. I tried to describe the problem in <a href="http://theobvious.typepad.com/blog/2006/12/nice_place_you_.html" rel="nofollow">this post</a> on my own blog. Great post Kathleen.

To a degree I believe that the technology doesn’t matter. It is possible to make Sharepoint do most of the things one would want - and there are plenty of examples being generated currently - but the bigger problem is the orientation and motives of those deploying it.

I tried to describe the problem in this post on my own blog.

]]> By: Etienne Gonnaud http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/02/06/why-cant-we-build-this-on-sharepoint/comment-page-1/#comment-930 Etienne Gonnaud Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:26:32 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/02/06/why-cant-we-build-this-on-sharepoint/#comment-930 I totally agree with Jaap, Sharepoint really misses only one point of your list : user-centric design. It has all the other requiered "2.0" features you mention. Not to mention some interesting features like SocialText's wiki integration. I had a look at Sharepoint as an Enterprise 2.0 solution some months ago : http://www.entreprise2-0.fr/2007/01/05/preview-sharepoint-2007-une-solution-entreprise-20/ (in french) or here http://www.socialsoftwares.com/blog/2006/06/27/enterprise-20-sharepoint/ (english version) but from another point of view. I totally agree with Jaap, Sharepoint really misses only one point of your list : user-centric design. It has all the other requiered “2.0″ features you mention. Not to mention some interesting features like SocialText’s wiki integration.

I had a look at Sharepoint as an Enterprise 2.0 solution some months ago : http://www.entreprise2-0.fr/2007/01/05/preview-sharepoint-2007-une-solution-entreprise-20/ (in french) or here http://www.socialsoftwares.com/blog/2006/06/27/enterprise-20-sharepoint/ (english version) but from another point of view.

]]> By: Jaap Steinvoorte http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/02/06/why-cant-we-build-this-on-sharepoint/comment-page-1/#comment-920 Jaap Steinvoorte Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:20:27 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/02/06/why-cant-we-build-this-on-sharepoint/#comment-920 Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/kn/ for the Knowledge Network Sharepoint add-on. AJAX support will officialy included with the release of MOSS 2007 Service Pack 1. This does not mean it is not possible to use ajax in MOSS 2007. There are some web parts freely available which allows tagging in MOSS, on document libraries and weblogs, wherever you want. You can than even assign the tags via Word 2007. cross-network collaboration: MOSS 2007 is designed for intranet, extranet and internet purposes, it can even cross these lines. It is even possible to show an internet facing site to a visitor, but when the visitor logs into MOSS it shows a whole intranet or extranet. User experience then, I agree with your point of view, but there is seemless interaction and integration between the office client suite and MOSS. Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/kn/ for the Knowledge Network Sharepoint add-on. AJAX support will officialy included with the release of MOSS 2007 Service Pack 1. This does not mean it is not possible to use ajax in MOSS 2007. There are some web parts freely available which allows tagging in MOSS, on document libraries and weblogs, wherever you want. You can than even assign the tags via Word 2007. cross-network collaboration: MOSS 2007 is designed for intranet, extranet and internet purposes, it can even cross these lines. It is even possible to show an internet facing site to a visitor, but when the visitor logs into MOSS it shows a whole intranet or extranet. User experience then, I agree with your point of view, but there is seemless interaction and integration between the office client suite and MOSS.

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