The SharePoint Social vs. Yammer Battle – Do We Care?

I’m driven to write this post after reading one by James Dellow over the weekend called Gartner: Yammer or SharePoint? The choice is still unclear. The choice indeed may still seem unclear, but I think that the statement addresses the wrong questions. In my opinion (I’m the only one here – you talkin’ to me?), we should stop…

MetaVis SharePoint MVP Webinars Series – Creating a Great User Experience in SharePoint

Dave Coleman (@davecoleman146davecoleman146) and I had a grand time – Dave and I always seem to have a grand time – with the webinar we did yesterday. It was part of the MetaVis SharePoint MVP Webinars Series and I presented Creating a Great User Experience in SharePoint. It was somewhat a reprise of my SPTechCon…

SPServices Stories #11 – Using SPServices and jQuery to Perform a Redirect from a SharePoint List NewForm to EditForm

This entry is part 11 of 21 in the series SPServices Stories

Introduction I ran across this SPServices Story in a post on the blog at CTS. The author of the post, Matt Ingle, is a Senior Consultant at CTS in Birmingham, AL. According to Matt, he is a team lead for a group called the SharePoint Factory. The SharePoint Factory team roles correspond to the various areas of…

SPTechCon Social Demo

[important] Mark Miller (@EUSP) and I did a webinar on Friday, March 15, 2013 at  to show the demo again and take questions about how we built it. If you’d like to look at the demo yourself, check out the publicly available page on NothingButSharePoint.com. The video is embedded below. [/important] It’s not every day…

SPServices 2013.01ALPHA4 Returns a Deferred Object (Promise)

I’ve just posted a new alpha (ALPHA4) for SPServices 2013.01. This alpha implements the return of a deferred object, aka a promise, as well as executing a completefunc (if provided) for backward compatibility. Note that the deferred object capability was introduced in jQuery 1.5, so this version of SPServices requires that version or greater. I’ve done…