http://workspace.me Your Source for Social News and Networking Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:25:04 MST en http://workspace.me/content-management/finding-and-fixing-a-long-standing-bug-in-the-ruby-amazon-s3-library/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:25:04 MST workspaceme_admin Content Management 21 http://workspace.me/content-management/finding-and-fixing-a-long-standing-bug-in-the-ruby-amazon-s3-library/ http://workspace.me/content-management/aiim-market-survey-finds-76-percent-of-business-executives-would-pay-a-salary-premium-to-hire-certified-information-professionals/
Conducted in January 2012, four months after AIIM launched the Certified Information Professional program, the survey shows that:
- 64 percent of business executives would prefer to hire a Certified Information Professional (CIP) versus a non-certified candidate.
- 76 percent of business executives would pay a CIP a salary premium. Of these, 45 percent indicated that they would pay more than a 10 percent salary premium.
- 61 percent of business executives would prefer consultants that hold the CIP designation over those who do not.
- 62 percent of business executives think having CIP-certified staff would enhance the perception of their organization in the industry
- 60 percent of business executives would prefer CIP-certified IT staff.
- 66 percent of business executives think having CIP-certified staff would improve their ability to find, manage and exploit their information assets across the enterprise.

Debra Logan , vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner Research, and Regina Casonato, managing vice president at Gartner Research, confirmed the need for a professional designation for the emerging information professional, a role distinct from current IT skill sets. “An 'information professional' will not be one type of role or skill set, but will in fact have a number of specializations,” wrote Logan and Casonato in the 2011 Gartner “CIO Alert: You Need Information Professionals .”

Read more at http://www.aiim.org/Resources/Industry-News/42948

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http://www.aiim.org/socialmeetsbusiness

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]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:25:03 MST workspaceme_admin Content Management 7 http://workspace.me/content-management/the-big-dummies-guide-for-windows-phone-developer-resources/ http://workspace.me/online-collaboration/design-considerations-for-enterprise-social-networks-identity-graphs-streams-social-objects/ Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:25:03 MST workspaceme_admin Online Collaboration 10 http://workspace.me/online-collaboration/design-considerations-for-enterprise-social-networks-identity-graphs-streams-social-objects/ http://workspace.me/content-management/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-social-business/
What we are finding is that the sessions are sparking lots of conversation. Folks are asking what it means to be a social business, what the benefits are, and how it is achieved. A recent analyst number said that 41% of companies have already implemented an enterprise social software solution. So people are comparing approaches, technologies, policies – and evaluating their approach for their next phase.

Much of what is presented is based upon AIIM research and the experiences of Oracle customers. This combined approach gives a nice mix of empirical and anecdotal data, theory and reality. And by bringing them together we can hone in on where they are converging to see the full picture.

This examination of social business addresses many departments (Sales, Marketing, HR, Supply Chain) as well as many requirements (innovation in product development, responsiveness, access to knowledge), helping to optimize not only information access but to identify new ways to create information, make decisions, and publish results.

The AIIM/Oracle Social Business Seminars are coming to five more cities: Chicago on Feb 8, Toronto on Feb 9, Washington, DC on Feb 15, Atlanta on Feb 16, Minneapolis on Feb 21

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Get your copy today at http://www.aiim.org/Research/Product-Studies/ERM%20Systems

]]> Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:26:07 MST workspaceme_admin Content Management 9 http://workspace.me/content-management/how-do-you-know-what-erm-products-to-buy-get-aiims-electronic-records-management-software-product-study-/ http://workspace.me/content-management/visual-studio-achievements-remember-kids-theyre-just-for-fun/ They're fun and you get a bit of an internal high when you see this on your screen:

The Visual Studio Achievements follows the same idea and, once installed, are based on your activity as you work. Achievements are measured and discovered in the background when you compile. And hey, it's cool and fun to see this after a compile:

However when you look through the list of achievements one thing jumps out to those that try to follow good coding practices. These are certainly not that. In fact if I caught you writing a class with 10 levels of inheritance I would rip you a new one at the next daily stand up that would make even the likes of Gordon Ramsay shake in his knees.
Ahh but you say these are for fun. Yes, yes they are and far from me to be the party pooper. What sparked me to write this blog response is to emphasize F-U-N and not practice. Seriously you won't believe (or maybe you will) how many developers I talked to around me that thought this was a cool thing to install in their work environment.
Wait. Let's think about this for a minute.


Install achievemnts add-on in work environment.

Do work

Get achievment
Okay, the first step is fine. The second step is what we do. The third step? Hang on. Didn't I just say that having 10 levels of inheritance is a bad thing? So if you get the achievement during your daily work it should be a *bad* thing, not something to celebrate.
It's like breaking the build (which we all do at some point and certainly people get ridiculed for it, it's all fun right). Breaking the build is a bad thing but it's a good spin. It means we recognize something went wrong and whatever mechanism you have to let you know (since everyone on the team should get notified) means you get up, rally around, and fix the problem. Good stuff. Build fixed, work continues.
Where's the rallying here? The only thing that will happen is the dev will see the achievement, pat himself on the back and have a chuckle then what? What *should* happen if you installed this and got an achievment should be:


Do work

Get achievement

Chuckle

Silently say "Oh shit"

Fix problem

Lather, Rinse, Repeat
Hopefully this is the case, but again I've asked a few people and they miss the point of the fun aspect here. This shouldn't be something you strive to achieve, the achievements here (as they stand currently) should be something to avoid. In fact it should set of an internal whoop-whoop alarm and cause you to think "What the Hell was I thinking".
Before you dismiss me, I'm all for fun. I'm the guy that has robot zombies and posters of Close Encounters in my cubicle and challenges developers to games of magnetic Angry Birds after stand-up. I'm all that. However I just want people to be aware that this is fun and there might be a message here. Keep focused on good practices and not bad ones. In the game achievement world, we *try* to achieve these tasks. Heck when I get a game and I'm bored I look through the achievements and set myself up to try to accomplish it (mostly failing since I literally suck at almost every game).
However developers should not be looking at these achievements as something they should be striving for (except just to get the achievement and make it onto the site). What would I really like to see? Some actual achievements that developers can strive for and be proud to achieve. How about "Eliminate 10% of the codebase without removing functionality" or "Mock a service and pass 10 unit tests against it" as achievements.
Herein lies the real problem though. Getting the *fun* achievements is easy. They're tangible and simple to measure. How do you measure "good code"? Can you scan code with a computer and determine separation of concern? Or if your code follows SOLID principles or not? Somethings are detectable but most of the good stuff is not. That's the real trick here (and if you figure it out in a system where you can automatically detect it and award and achievment for, all the better).
Like I said, have fun with this addon. It's neat and I applaud the developers for coming up with it. I don't discourage its use but keep in mind what it is and what the message behind it is. Hopefully one day with might have some positive achievements to strive for as well as the fun ones.



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In this paper, we will consider in more detail the potential benefits of social business systems, clarify the roles of content publishing systems and content management systems, and consider how social content can best be governed while also being exploited for maximum long term benefit.

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This AIIM webinar (February 8 at 2:00 pm eastern) will explain how capture-driven business process management can help you get the most from SharePoint. We’ll describe how you can capture information at the point of origination – inside or outside the firewall – and deliver information into your business processes as fast as possible. With automated classification, extraction, and validation, your information can be drawn from business documents without manual intervention, and used to trigger business processes throughout your organization – to branch offices, field workers, and even your customers’ desktops.

Register today at http://www.aiim.org/Events/Webinars/20120208-webinar

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Search Engine Optimization


Out of the box URLs are not SEO friendly, you need a custom solution

Jie Li, a program manager on the SharePoint team, has a great collection of tips for optimzing your search engine face

For creating short urls (like bit.ly, tinyurl.com, etc.) Waldek Mastykarz has 4 ways to use short urls (which will help with the SEO)
HTML/HTML5


Out of the box HTML is somewhat horrible and not very optimized for Internet sites

If you want make SharePoint to output native HTML5 pages and get validated, then the answer is no. SharePoint 2010 is designed to output content in XHTML 1.0 natively.


I *always* start with Randy Drisgills master pages on new Web Apps. They're clean, optimized, and easy to use. Highly recommended. 

Randy Drisgill has a post about HTML5 compatibility although it was for IE9 beta and hasn't been updated, but still contains some good info.

Kyle Schaeffer has a new "responsive" HTML5 master page for 2010 that seems to have a lot of popularity so might be a good place to start from (or combine it with Randy's master pages)
Multilingual Support


A good, detailed post by Serge Tremblay on setting up, configuring, and supporting multiple languages in SharePoint

The Planning for Multiple Language support series of articles from Microsoft which is a good starting point

An MSDN article on using MUI support with examples on changing and setting languages, good for writing custom JavaScript to let users toggle the language selection
Hardening


Use ViewFormPagesLockdown to prevent access to system pages. It's still used in 2010 and turned on by default with publishing sites. Here's a blog post from the support team with some information about it.

TechNet has an article about securing your farm for anonymous access. Unfortunately it's for SharePoint 2007 so some (most?) aspects might not apply to SharePoint 2010.
WCAG/508c
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 are the internationally accepted standard for web accessibility so you might want to look at providing this for your Internet facing site.


SharePoint 2010 is WCAG 2.0 AA compliant

Complete list of Web Accessiblity Compliance tools can be found here
Mobile Support


The out of the box mobile experience doesn't support anonymous users, which is the standard for Internet sites. Waldek has one workaround here.
SQL


A fairly in-depth blog post about optimizing the SQL side of things while making SharePoint peform better.
General


Mavention has a nice site checking tool that's specific for SharePoint 2010. Highly recommended.

Elizabeth Olson, a Program Manager for SharePoint, presented at MIX10 on designing an internet facing site in SharePoint. Here's the 45 minute video of that session.

As this is an Internet facing site you'll probably want to hook up some kind of tracking system so you can produce nice stats for the suits. Google Analytics is a good start but feel free to use any tool. They all hook in usually through a simple piece of JavaScript you can add into your master page.
Features


Using the Content By Query Web Part in anonymous sites

Allow anonymous users to rate your content
Performance
As far as SharePoint and Internet sites you could probably write an entire book on just performance. There are so many things to take into consideration, both on the SharePoint side (configuration wise of the site) and the IIS one. Watch out for content and customization issues though, as they're not directly SharePoint related but people will blame SharePoint for issues. Things like large articles, missized images, unoptimized JavaScript, long running scripts, etc. can all lead to performance issues that have nothing to do with SharePoint.


Some tips on how to Reduce page size

Fiddler is an invaluable tool to see your pages load times (and tracking down errors)

YSlow shows you where bottlenecks are in page loads and helps you optimize them

Eliminating large JavaScript files

Custom caching to optimize your sites. Good information with pros and cons of the different types of caching.

Minifying custom JavaScript files. Nice article by Wictor. Use any tool you need to or the built in one in Visual Studio to do this. JavaScript compressor will do this for you.

Here's the article for optimizing the web content management site but it's for SharePoint 2007. Not sure how much is relevant in 2010.

Chris O'Brien has a nice checklist for optimizing SharePoint sites like this although much of it is written for SharePoint 2007, but some is universal and works for 2010

Joel Oleson did a great presentation on optimizing SharePoint 2010. Here's a PDF of that presentation.
This list is far from complete and should be an evolutionary thing as it's just what I've collected myself. Do you have experience building SharePoint sites on the Internet? What kind of issues did you come across? Feel free to leave comments with your experience, links to your blog, etc. I'll update this list with that information.
Enjoy!



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