Jonathan Ralton - We Need to Talk...

We Need to Talk: How to Converse with Regular People About Managing their Content in SharePoint

Jonathan Ralton - Senior Information Architect at BlueMetal, Microsoft Certified Professional

SharePoint gives us extreme flexibility in the ways we can store and retrieve our information and documents. Whether you are planning for a small team-based collaboration site or a department-wide portal, the value of taking the time to chart your course before you start diving into site settings and configuring libraries and lists is inarguable.

But how the heck do you talk to people about SharePoint without confusing them, scaring them away, or watching their eyes glaze over? We want to communicate effectively enough with them so that they 'get it' and start using the features you want them to, right? We'll go through several real-world consulting micro-scenarios and discuss WHAT to say WHEN (including what NOT to say) and how to LISTEN and INTERPRET what they're asking you for!

This session assumes a basic end user knowledge of site structures, list and library behavior, metadata, and navigation in SharePoint.