Changing the way people work, share information, manage knowledge, and communicate with each other is very much a challenge of organizational cultural. Let's face it -- implementing technology like SharePoint is a journey. Most of us IT or business professionals who have led or are currently leading their organization's "social and collaborative" transformation leveraging the SharePoint platform share similar experiences.
Many weeks or months of effort, off-hours and weekends learning & experimenting, and selling decision makers & users on the benefits. Our journeys have taken some groups from the dark ages of manual paper-based collaborative activities to innovative automated digital solutions built all on SharePoint. Some involve custom development, yet many were built with shoe-string budgets leveraging out-of-the-box functionality of SharePoint with the occasional third party application.
It's not often that those in trenches get to swap their stories. If you're lucky, you get to attend one of the many SharePoint conferences and listen to someone else tell their story. Fortunately Microsoft understands the best way to share knowledge and sell the benefits of SharePoint is to let customers tell their own story and demonstrate real results and benefits in the real world. I encourage everyone to share your SharePoint story.
The first step on the road to SharePoint success is simply understanding the possibilities so you can chart a destination of your own. You have until February 16th to submit your story:
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepointjourneys/Pages/default.aspx
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