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Friday, February 03, 2012
Information architecture shouldn't be a big scary thing: it's simply about creating the same elegance you see in the Golden Gate Bridge or the Eiffel Tower, only instead of being built with steel, it is built with information.
What is Information Architecture?
Information architecture is the process of creating a structure and tools for information such that it can be stored, retrieved, and managed efficiently and effectively. In other words, information architecture is about making information work for you.
Information architecture is different than physical architecture as there aren't physical materials to arrange. However, the struggle towards effective and simple elegance, which is at the heart of all architecture, has its place in information architecture as well.
When speaking of architecture, we should mention the architect, the person who is responsible. In Greek, the word architect means the chief builder. However, a building architect doesn't actually build the building. Carpenters and skilled tradesmen do that. An architect, then, is the person who creates the plans, strategies, and direction for the building.
Going back to our case of information, the primary tool the architect uses is "creating meaningful breakdowns". That is, the architect creates the ability to find information by categorizing it. The following five steps are a straightforward approach to generating your information architecture.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Quick! Define trust. No, seriously, pause and try to define it. I'll bet you knew exactly how to define it until I asked you. If you did answer, perhaps you answered with "knowing that another person will come through for you." That's not trust. Rather, it's trustworthiness of another person. Successful SharePoint implementations rely on trust in two key ways: first, your team, or coalition, needs to trust one another to be effective. Second, your users have to trust your commitment to SharePoint.
If you don't have trust in your coalition, you'll achieve little or nothing as backstabbing and infighting consume everyone's energy. If you don't have trust in your users, you'll have a platform with no one using it. Let's take a look at how to build the trust you need.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
"Eyes forward. If you can't pay attention, I'll rap your knuckles with my ruler." This may be an echo of a strict Catholic education or it may be a hyperbole of how your child is being trained at school, but either way, it doesn't have a place in how you educate the adult learners in your organization.
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Like it or not, 2 out of every 3 organizations are using SharePoint, Microsoft's unstoppable platform for communications, collaboration and information management. SharePoint can be a great tool for learning organizations and it represents potential competition for a learning portal. The good news is that SharePoint's array of options for integration that make it an ideal platform to marry up with an existing Learning Management System (LMS).
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Friday, December 23, 2011
You may have snuck SharePoint Foundation 2010 under the radar, or it was an official but unfunded project. You're trying to figure out how to get the support you need for the new intranet the organization needs or to extend it to the Internet so you can get partners engaged and get some real value from the platform.
However, you can't seem to find an executive sponsor to drive the project forward.
All of the "experts" keep saying that you need to get executive sponsorship or executive buy-in, but they're noticeably absent on how to make that happen. So here are four tips on how to get your executives to buy into SharePoint
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Friday, December 09, 2011
You've got a burning sense for the fact that your SharePoint project hasn't gotten the adoption you want. Perhaps it's your ears burning as others talk about the failure of the project to meet the adoption goals, or perhaps it's just a fire in your belly that tells you there's more to be had. Here are five tips to help you measure your success. Read More @ SharePointProMag
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
The powerhouse of SharePoint publishing sites is the ContentByQuery web part – more affectionately known as the Content Query Web Part or CQWP. Last year I wrote a comprehensive article on customizing it that was published today at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff380147.aspx Check it out and let me know what you think about it.
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Monday, August 03, 2009
"In this four part series on performance we've reviewed the fundamentals of assessing performance including using the tools built into Windows to make these assessments. We've covered the considerations for session state, and we've walked through the benefits and problems with caching. However, we've not covered in detail what to do once you've assessed performance or how to leverage what you've learned about session state and caching to solve real world problems. In this article we'll be focused on isolating problems into solvable units and what to do when you believe that things just can't fixed."
Read More at http://www.developer.com/design/article.php/3832961
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Monday, July 27, 2009
"If you're looking at performance and you want to get some quick wins, the obvious place to start is caching. Caching as a concept is focused exclusively around improving performance. It's been used in disk controllers, processors, and other hardware devices since nearly the beginning of computing. Various software methods have been devised to do caching as well. Fundamentally caching has one limitation — managing updates — and several decisions. In this article, we'll explore the basic options for caching and their impact on performance."
Read More at http://www.developer.com/design/article.php/3831821
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
"Most of us have learned about the concept of gravity through our schooling in Newtonian physics. Although, most of us remember it as Sir Isaac Newton getting hit on the head by an apple. We know that objects draw other objects in. Despite the fact that we've learned this we're confronted with our daily observation where we see that two objects sitting on a desk don't appear to be zooming towards each other through this attraction.
This explains our challenge with understanding gravity as it applies to our Intranets. The concept is one that makes sense -- but it's difficult to see and get a tangible feel for. However, despite its elusive nature gravity does have a profound impact on our lives -- and it can have a profound effect on your Intranet.
In this article we'll talk about how gravity works on the scale of planets and galaxies so that we can see how we can make our intranets larger."
Read the rest at http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200907/ij_07_24_09a.html
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