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Started: 5/25/2009 12:33 PM
Picture Placeholder: Veronique Palmer
Veronique PalmerNo presence information
Start your own IW site and event at your organisation
Need ideas to get user buy-in?
Try creating a special site specifically about SharePoint in your organisation.  Call it a user group / community of practice / portal, depending on the terminology used in your organisation.  Things I have on mine are :
  • Request a demo
  • Request a team site
  • Request a Group facing site
  • Request My Sites
  • Acceptable Use Policy
  • Terms of Use for SharePoint Designer
  • SharePoint in the Group
  • Get Fit for SharePoint
  • How To's
  • Best Practises, Tips and Tricks
  • Training Options
  • Surveys
  • Communications and Newsletters
  • SharePoint Administrators Knowledge Sharing (SAKS) Forum
  • Knowledge Cafe's
  • Error Repository
  • Give Us Feedback
I publish everything to this site and send weekly newsletter to all my site owners with links to this site when necessary.  It is a great way to have one point of truth for all things SharePoint in your organisation so when people need more info, you can just send them a link till you can get to them in person.
 
What I also did, was start a forum similar to IW which I called the SAKS Forum.  I demo web parts and latest ideas to my user base.  I host them them around once every 6 weeks or so.  This has gone a long way in getting buy in from my users.  I now have a big base of power users that have become SharePoint champions on my behalf.
 
Posted: 6/1/2009 11:48 AM
Picture: Michael O'Donovan
Michael O'DonovanNo presence information
I like the idea. Lovely.
Posted: 6/1/2009 11:49 AM
Picture: Michael O'Donovan
Michael O'DonovanNo presence information
would be great if on each SharePoint site in the organisation, there was a link to this site of yours too :-)
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