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3 Little-Known Uses for SharePoint Online

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Most business owners know the power of SharePoint Online for team collaboration and document sharing. But did you know that there are many more uses for this vital part of the Office 365 Suite? Together with Vorsite and Microsoft, you can unlock the power of the cloud in three easy, timesaving ways.

Cut Down on Web Development Costs with SharePoint Online Websites

SharePoint Online is specifically designed to help small business owners streamline website creation, allowing them to focus on marketing their business to attract new customers. There are plenty of advantages to using SharePoint Online to build your own business website, including:

  1. SharePoint Online websites are easy to set up and painless to maintain.
  2. In addition to being public-facing, SharePoint Online websites have a truly professional appearance.
  3. Choose the default custom URL for your domain, or use a different domain name you already own through the DNS settings built into Office 365.
  4. Instantly add more resources like storage space with the click of a button.

SharePoint Online allows you to create professional websites that appear no different than websites other businesses waste countless time and money developing. If you’re familiar with WordPress, Joomla, or any other content management system, you’re already ready to take advantage of professional website development solutions from Vorsite, powered by SharePoint Online.

Streamline Company Updates and Information

If you’re struggling to find an easy-to-use system for keeping your team up to date on company news and updates, SharePoint Online could be the perfect time management solution for your business. Intranet sites allow you to easily sort vital documents and employee information in a safe, accessible web environment. Using Intranet sites, you can also:

  • Launch and participate in discussion forums
  • Edit and view routine business operations
  • Collaborate on time-intensive projects
  • Set events and reminders

Vorsite and SharePoint Online empower business owners to cut down on email use, instead delegating important tasks and reminders to the Office 365 private cloud space.

Add Custom Code to Any SharePoint Online Module

If the powerful document and content management solutions offered by SharePoint Online aren’t enough for your business, you can also access a Sandbox solution that allows your developers to upload custom code. This allows you to change almost anything you want about your website’s appearance and functionality. You can also take advantage of a number of easy-to-use features like:

  1. Office Web Apps
  2. Silverlight Web
  3. Visual Studio
  4. Microsoft Office Integration
  5. Excel and Access Services

Remember that, with Vorsite, you can unlock the true power behind Microsoft’s cloud solutions. Partnering with some of the most successful companies in the world allows you to cut business costs and wasted work time; focus on what really matters – growing your business.

SharePoint 2010 – Fixed width, center-aligned layout

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As a web designer there are many unique challenges you’ll face when customizing a SharePoint site that you probably won’t experience anywhere else. Tasks that sound simple can sometime take hours to get functioning correctly, and other seemingly complicated feats can be accomplished in a matter of minutes through your browser interface.

Recently I’d been working on a SharePoint site that posed some unique challenges.  One of my biggest challenges turned out to be creating a fixed width, center-aligned layout. More specifically, the site needed to be optimized for an 800×600 screen but would also need to scale to 1024×768 for the occasional user on a higher resolution monitor.

So, a “semi-flexible,” center-aligned website layout. Simple, right? This actually proved to be somewhat of a challenge. Capping the width of certain SharePoint elements prevented some elements from scaling, put scroll bars in weird areas, and cut off certain areas of text. Frustrating! But after some research plus a lot of trial and error I got it to work. The solution is actually pretty simple after all!

I added this to my CSS:

#s4-bodyContainer {

max-width: 1024px !important;

margin-left:auto;

margin-right:auto;

}

This code tells the container element to not grow any larger than 1024px wide.  SharePoint does the rest because out of the box the site will scale down to about 800px wide.

Here’s what you see at 800×600:

At 1024×768:

And at 1280×768:

Downside:   If you have a lot of content (for example a bunch of columns in a Document Library) some of those columns might overflow the container.  This isn’t optimal, but you do get a horizontal scroll bar to view this long line of text.

That said; just remember this constraint when building your site.  A fixed width design may or may not be the best solution for your intranet site.  Intranets are meant to be fluid because users are constantly uploading and changing content.   A fixed design might not be adaptable enough to handle these changes.

 
Bonus: Want the top ribbon to align with your content, too? Add this to your CSS:

.ms-cui-ribbonTopBars {

max-width: 1024px !important;

margin-left:auto;

margin-right:auto;

}

.ms-cui-ribbonTopBars > div {

border-bottom:1px solid transparent !important;

}

Here’s what you get:

 

Note: This will not center the rest of the content in the ribbon–only the top bar.

Well, how do you center the entire ribbon, then? My advice is don’t. Attempting to center the entire ribbon will only cause you headache. You’ll be left with broken behaviors and wonky button layouts. The ribbon is just too important to mess with. Leave it alone!

Problems logging on to SharePoint Online sites:

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When recently working with a customer we ran across a problem where a user wasn’t able to access their SharePoint online sites.  When accessing a SharePoint site collection the user reported the screen “flickered” and then it displayed an error message.  Upon further investigation we found the “flickering” was actually the browser bouncing back and forth between URL’s in the address bar.  The address bar also changed its background color from white to green which gave it a flicker or flash effect. The error displayed was:

Microsoft Online Services is unavailable from this site
for one of the following reasons:

  • This site may be experiencing a problem
  • The site may not be a member of the Windows
    Live Network

You can:

  • You can sign in or sign up at the other Microsoft
    Online Services site, or try again later at this site

Here’s a screenshot of the error:

My translation of the error message is this: the security settings need to be changed in your browser…

The solution to this problem is to add https://*.microsoftonline.com and https://*.sharepoint.com to Trusted Sites in IE.

Here are the steps to accomplish this:

  1. In Internet Explorer, on the Tools menu, click Internet options.
  2. Click the Security tab, click the Trusted sites zone, and then click Sites.
  3. Verify that the following entries are listed in the Websites list:
    https://*.sharepoint.com
    https://*.microsoftonline.com
  4. If these entries are not present, add them to the Trusted sites list of websites.
  5. After you’ve added the sites, click Close and then Ok in the Internet Options window.
  6. Close and re-open the browser and try logging on again.

With these sites added to the Trusted Sites zone the appropriate security settings are configured to allow for a user to login to the SharePoint Online sites.

 

Justifying Your Website In The Cloud

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The idea of putting your biggest marketing investment in the cloud might be a little scary. But that’s why you’re reading this post — you’re smart and know when to take a well-calculated risk.

The cloud is built for those with a built-in taste for success – who want to provide their customers with an updated website that’s optimized for search and ready to handle the campaigns generated from your marketing and sales departments.

THIS IS WHERE THE CLOUD COMES IN.
For those who like official definitions, Gartner came up with a good one: “The cloud is a style of computing in which scalable and elastic IT-related capabilities are provided “as a service” to customers using Internet technologies.” Gartner crammed all the important key words in there: scalable, elastic, service, Internet and IT. It makes it a good definition, but what does that mean for your public-facing website?

WHAT ARE THE BEST BETS IN THE CLOUD?
If the cloud is a scalable and elastic IT service, everything should be a good fit for the cloud, right? While that might be eventually true, for now here are the top uses for the cloud.

Public Websites with fluctuating traffic levels often require a big investment in an infrastructure (hardware, power and IT staff) that can accommodate short-term spikes. If your web analytics resembles a roller coaster, it might be a good idea to consider a cloud solution.

B2B / Partner / Client Portals are becoming extremely popular. With the right security features in place, the cloud is the perfect place to host a partner portal as it can experience fluctuations in traffic with every new product rollout or change.

Applications that can be pushed to the cloud are those that are a collection of services, like security services, mobile access, workflow integration, email, spam filtering, archiving, etc. Forrester recommends if you have an OLTP (online transaction processing) application – avoid the cloud for now.

3rd Party Integrations  Integrating 3rd party applications with your website becomes a no-brainer because the cloud acts as shield against your internal systems while providing the necessary scalability and cost savings.

BENEFITS OF USING OFFICE 365 FOR A PUBLIC WEBSITE
A content management system (CMS) makes the web more usable. It’s more important than ever these days to have your website be easy to manage, handle traffic fluctuations and be scalable with your business. Having a CMS solves many issues we face in business today.

Easy to update – Most websites grow organically over time and we find much of the content is out-of-date. If pages were manually updated using tools like Dreamweaver, its likely there are lost pages and things have gotten out of control. The benefit of a CMS is that anyone can learn to update the website.

Remote management – If the majority of your web production team (including content contributors) is off-site, a cloud CMS is a good fit for your business. Using Internet services allows individuals to easily access the information and data they need to effectively manage content and workflows all from within a single tool.

Saves time – Instead of struggling to publish content through your overloaded development team, a CMS gives non-technical staff the ability to publish directly with a push of a button. All with the added ability to revert back to an older version of the content should someone have hit publish too early.

Consistent user experience – The more your website can scale, the more you can take advantage of the cloud. Using templates gives your website consistency and pushes best practices out to your rogue teams.

Download the eBook to find out how to use Office 365 to build your public-facing website.

Digital Marketing In The Cloud

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The cloud has been around long before we gave it a name and marketers are poised to lead. The cloud is a no-brainer for marketers. The majority of content is designed to be public facing, so security is not a hot button and cloud technologies provide an entire department with built-in processes that require fewer resources to manage with a more predictable budget. But the most important reason is that marketers need to drive the adoption of cloud technologies in order to stay competitive in the marketplace.

Are you preparing your marketing department to support the coming changes?

What Came First: The Cloud Or The Behavior?

We have been going to the office from 8am to 6pm for decades. So, what changed? Given the competitive nature of business and the draw to stay

The mobile workstyle is a new generation of employees who expect a flexible work schedule and willingly submit contextual information that can be harnessed by marketers to inform their customer creation and retention strategies.

What Is Contextual Marketing?

Mobile is giving marketers deep insight into a user’s context, making timely and relevant marketing the golden key to success. As the adoption rate for cloud technologies and smartphones increase, marketers who are not using contextual-marketing tactics will be left behind.

A customer mobile context consists of:

  • Situation: location, altitude, environment conditions and speed.
  • Preferences: personal history as shared with social networks
  • Attitudes: customer behavior and logistics

Having this deep insight into consumer behavior will change the way we market. It will require small and mid-sized businesses to adopt marketing automation software and cloud technologies in order to compete. Marketers will be creating hyper-targeted messages based on the customer’s situation, preferences and attitudes. This requires understanding your customer on a whole new level and will require multiple tests before you get your message and target right.

Technologies that drive contextual information

Source: Forrester 2011

What Can Cloud Technology Do Now?

Getting into contextual marketing will be important in the next five years in order to stay competitive but the first thing organizations need to do is implement the systems that shifts time away from maintaining databases and manual inputs and moving to a streamlined approach. Implementing an integrated sales and marketing system empowers your teams to work together and build a long-term marketing strategy that uses the technology that will enable innovation and advancement in the coming areas of marketing.

Cloud Technologies Marketing and Sales Teams Use Today

  • CRM Online – Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online is a cloud-based solution integrated with outlook, giving marketing teams insight into sales performance reports.
  • SharePoint Online – Whether you’re building an intranet or a public-facing website hosting information in the cloud will streamline processes and lower the technical barrier for content management practices.
  • Exchange Online - Communicate anywhere?  You bet. If you have a connection to the Internet, your team will have access to the resources they need to communicate with each other.
  • Lync Online – Easy web conferencing with integrated phone & video.

Resources

Download PDF of mobile marketing terms – http://www.mmaglobal.com/glossary.pdf

Ask, J. A., Gownder, J., Riley, E., Brown, E. G., Parrish, M., Schadler, T., et al. (n.d.). Digital Marketing: The Future Of Mobile Is Context.

Ried, S., Kisker, H., Matzke, P., Bartels, A., & Lisserman, M. (2011, 04 21). Sizing The Cloud.

SharePoint 2010 Adoption – The First 14 Months

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On September 30, 2011 Forrester published statistics from a SharePoint 2010 Adoption survey with 510 IT Professionals. In this case SharePoint 2010 covers both the on-premise as well as the online version.

SharePoint 2010 Adoption Metrics

A couple things not in the infographic that surprised me was 29% of companies with SharePoint are currently enjoying its social features. Evidence that social networking is dripping into the workforce.

Source:
Forrester: SharePoint Adoption: Content And Collaboration Is Just The Start

 

Should You Use The Cloud To Manage Content?

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Trouble Managing Your Information?Like a new tree in the forest, every business has the capacity for growth – the trick is to find a break in the canopy. One of the ways to set your business up for a successful surge of growth is to create an information management strategy that makes it easier for people to sort through the forest of documents and find the content they need.

Right now you might be thinking how easy it is to convey information to your key five people and keep everyone aligned with the business. But this kind of harmony doesn’t last forever. If you’ve been in the business as long as I have, you remember the days when we hosted websites off of an old laptop in the corner of our office. Believe it or not, this is what is happening now with documents. Your salient content is kept isolated from the rest of the company and sometimes information is being updated to some random shared location – but no one can find it. Oh, and did I mention there’s a duplicate somewhere else and your new employee is using it to Tweet about your new product?

Are you moderately alarmed yet?

This is where the cloud comes in.

For those who like official definitions, Gartner came up with a good one: “The cloud is a style of computing in which scalable and elastic IT-related capabilities are provided “as a service” to customers using Internet technologies.”

Gartner crammed all the important key words in there: scalable, elastic, service, Internet and IT. It makes it a good definition, but often we’re asked: what does that mean?  What the cloud really refers to is the data in your server room down the hall (or maybe that laptop under your desk) has simply changed location. You choose which data moves to a secure facility and will be managed by IT experts. The whole premise behind the cloud is to provide permission-based access to content, freeing up people to access content anywhere, on any device – which is especially appealing to those of us who into gadgets and like to take advantage of email and presentations on the go.

Is the cloud is a good match for Portals, Content and Collaboration?

Yes, the cloud is well suited for portals, collaboration and collaboration (aka: document management technologies). First and foremost any content distribution technology has capabilities that need to be widely deployed. For example email is not reserved for just a select few in the organization, it needs to be widely distributed to be useful. The same thing happens with other types of content and it is important that all employees use the same technologies to access the content, so it’s easily discovered, managed and updated by everyone.

Gartner is also recognizing an underlying trend of requests to share content with people outside the firewall.  This means there is a need for an easy way to share workflows and content with partners, vendors, contractors, remote staff and all the other unique structural combinations that make up your organization today.

Overall, your outlook is good if you choose to go with a cloud solution for managing information across your company.

A Simple Matrix

Get The Cloud If You… Don’t Get The Cloud If You…
Need to widely deploy services (i.e. email) Don’t trust the 3rd party provider
Need to share content outside the firewall Need to accommodate many complex customizations & applications with no intention of updating them.
Want to give people access to your content
Need flexibility and on demand capabilities
Need to clearly communicate value to non-technical business users*
Want to reduce costs

*It’s much easier to ask for an email account than to request a series of server room hardware and software upgrades from your non-technical counterparts.

Creating An Information Management Program.

Step 1: Take a content inventory.

Knowing what content you have is the first step towards creating an information management strategy. This will inform storage needs as well as create a good conversation for the next step.

Step 2: Evaluate your employee needs.

Are you employees accessing information remotely?  Does content go through an approval process? Do multiple people contribute to a document?

Step 3: Decide how people will access the content.

Understand how people will access content will establish a baseline for what you’re looking for. Do you simply need some kind of file dumping ground – or do you want to add keywords, create team sites for group sharing and have it integrated with other systems?

Step 4: Create a content map.

This defines the proper places for content, which will turn the conversation towards permissions, privacy and the resulting delivery methods.

Step 5: Choose your technology.

Once you’ve established what you have, who needs it, how they its accessed and the content segments, you’re ready to decide what technology works best for you.

Our clients typically choose Office 365 for managing all kinds of content – but there are other alternatives. Office 365 just gave our clients what they needed most: a secure email, web conferencing and a content management system that works together.

Call Aaron Nettles at (206) 781-1797 if you want to have a conversation about the cloud or join us at one of our cloud meetups.

Referenced Articles:

Alan Weintraub, S. P. (2011, 09 15). Content Mapping: The Secret To ECM Technology Selection Success. Retrieved 09 16, 2011, from Forrester.
Mann, J. (2011, 09 14). Cloud Strategies for Portals, Content, & Collaboration Projects. Retrieved 09 16, 2011, from Gartner.
Rob Karel, J. G. (2009, 08 11). Refresh Your Information Management Strategy To Deliver Business Results. Retrieved 09 16, 2011, from Forrester.

Creating Projects in Office 365: From The Eyes Of A Project Manager

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Collaborating with a team on a document can be challenging. You are either sending e-mail, tracking them down in person, instant messaging, placing multiple phone calls or all of the above. The bigger the team, the more data you need to manage and the more overwhelming it can be.

The cloud gives you an opportunity to unlock yourself from the office and still create workflows that help manage the project process.

Let’s take something simple, like a new client proposal and you need to work with experts and sales to make sure the proposal is complete. You can’t let the competition know you’re bidding on a project, so you need to keep the data safe. But you might need to remain flexible, since the team is already busy on other projects.

If you’re new to the proposal process, take a minute to consider the following:

  1. What is the goal?
  2. What does a typical proposal look like?
  3. Who are the contributors?
  4. What are the deadlines?
  5. What are the areas of contribution?
  6. How will you track project status?
  7. How can you get everyone to contribute?

Microsoft Project is great for robust tracking – but is typically only used by project management. You could simply drop the files in a shared folder in the cloud, but you might not be able to easily scale the process if you win the bid.

A simple way to approach any new project is to use SharePoint. The features in SharePoint are built for team collaboration and tracking progress.

Create a sub-site

  • Click and create a sub-site so your team knows where to go for information.

Co-authoring documents

  • Multiple users can edit a word document at the same time.

Monitor progress

  • Tracked versions are available as a view in SharePoint. This means you gain instant visibility into when edits were made and who made them. You can even revert to an earlier version if there happened to be a mistake.
  • Get out of the office and stay updated with a RSS feed.
  • Create and manage business processes using workflows.

GET MORE DETAIL ON THE SPECIFIC PHASES

video iconCreate a new site with special permissions

video iconStreamline document reviews by using workflows

 

Is SharePoint right for your organization?
Call Aaron Nettles at (206) 781-1797 to get more information about Office 365.

Intranet: Growing Your Company’s Digital Internal Pea Patch

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Pea Patch

Photo by Andrea Black

Growing companies that enter the cloud have found that to control the flow of information and filing of digital documents that they usually need some sort of intranet, private places within an organization geared to connect employees to shared information, processes and people. These companies often either use it as a strictly monitored resource or give employees the ability to collectively grow it into something that they enjoy using and engage with beyond merely document searches. Many companies have found that if they allow their intranet to be like a community pea patch, ideas sprout that they may have not had access to in a more restricted atmosphere. Here are a few things to consider when planning your intranet, especially in the areas of knowledge sharing, usability and user feedback.

Knowledge Sharing

Knowledge sharing is the main reason why we even bother with creating an intranet. Connecting employees and making it easy to find information is how we attempt to make employees more efficient. But putting documents up in a publically accessible folder seems to lack scalability and consistent employee contributions. So how can you increase engagement on your intranet?

Add branding. Employees are often overlooked as brand ambassadors. However, the people you hire are incredible influencers in their community. Providing a platform for employees to organically absorb brand attributes, values and personality will encourage your employees to repeat these key terms in public.

Distribute different types of content. Great intranets are full of content employees have a good time creating. Encourage employees to create a variety of content types like video, text, blogs, wikis and images. The employees who are passionate about a topic will find pride in creating top-notch content that can be safely distributed internally.

Identify content curators. Content can run wild without someone who is passionate about finding, grouping and sharing the most relevant information on a specific issue. Content curators are typically identified by their demonstrated advocacy for information sharing – meaning they will typically send emails with links to relevant articles, etc.

Usability

Usability is simply the idea of ease of use. You may have great content, identified processes, curators and a spectacular brand presence, but what’s the point if no one is going to use it.

Optimize for mobile. Focus on the features that will help when employees are out of the office and keep in mind the touch-based scenarios typically today on smartphones and tablet devices.

Design a task-centered user interface. Designing your intranet around specific tasks is the way to successfully delivering content to multiple facets of the organization. Take some time to figure out who is using the intranet and to what end. Start with the common tasks and build from there.

Search. Search is the mysterious white box in the top right-hand corner of the page that either gets it right or it doesn’t. Focusing on the quality of search will help employees use the intranet as a primary source for information. Some companies are even going so far as to display the search queries from other employees to help others access needed information faster.

Use a CMS. Make it easy for employees to update content and take the burden off your technical folks. SharePoint Online is a popular CMS system, which allows users to build profiles, team sites and corporate communications.

User Feedback

Enhance the effectiveness of information sharing with simple rewards for participation. A successful intranet is dependent on employee contribution, so it only makes sense to build a reward system for those who are making other people’s lives easier.

Encourage comments and ratings. Allow employees to rate content and provide comments. You can always sort information that is most accessed, but encourage employees to rate and comment on documents that they find useful. Don’t forget to make this easy to do via a mobile device.

Add badges and rewards. If you have the ability to add employee profiles, it can be simple to recognize employees for their contributions through badges and participation statistics. Most people feel a sense of pride in their work, so giving them a little recognition will go a long way in supporting your intranet goals.

Provide training. Everyone has difficult technical abilities, so it’s important to make sure everyone has a buddy to show them how to access the intranet and the basics around content participation. Having a CMS here will greatly reduce the ramp-up time needed to get everyone on board and sharing.

As you can see, by giving your employees the ability to understand and contribute to the company through a centralized workspace, you can increase efficiency, communication, and perhaps even boost morale. Your company’s transition into the cloud can not-only help the operations, but also create internal resources that add value on multiple levels.

7 Steps to Organizing a Fundraising Campaign with SharePoint Online

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Fundraising is all about teamwork, organization, and imagination. Ignite your team’s drive for communication and accomplishment by focusing some strategic energy on building an organized and efficient fundraising project site.

Creating an Organized and Efficient Project Site

1 – Define the Audience

Decide who needs to access the fundraising project site.

Write down all the possible groups of people who may need access to all or just a portion of the site. Will it be internal staff only, volunteers, partners, and/or board members? Deciding who needs access not only helps with organization, it will also give your IT staff time to prepare technical feedback on your concepts.

If you have some spare time, learn how to develop personas on Usability.gov

2 – Establish Goals and Objectives

Now decide what you want your SharePoint site to do for your audience. SharePoint can easily be setup to accomplish multiple tasks, but each section should have a specific purpose. Think about what you need each audience segment to do and map these to goals or tasks. This becomes your audience goal matrix.

Example: Volunteers need to do a call down to potential donors. In this situation you might want to have a section dedicated to communicating with potential donors with supporting documents like a telescript, mission statement, common questions, and a link to the secure list of donor names and telephone numbers where they can update status.

3 – Create a site map

SiteMap ExampleThe size of your organization will influence  the size of your fundraising project site. Based on the newly created audience goal matrix, begin listing the content needs and decide how the information will be categorized. One technique to accomplish this goal is to write down potential content categories  on notecards and group them together as a team. Remember, the site map should contain broad categories.

Get more information on Sitemaps from Usability.gov

Perform a card sort with Optimal Workshop (there’s a free version, up to 30 cards)

4 – Set up a Taxonomy to Organize Files

Taxonomy is simply information about the information and helps organize files across the organization. Taxonomy makes it easy to find and display documents regardless of its physical location within SharePoint. This essentially allows the same document to potentially be in two places at once.

Taxonomy areas to consider are:

  • Document keywords (or metadata)
  • Document naming convention

In a fundraising campaign, one might create a specific document taxonomy around the campaign name, campaign stage, and audience type. You are likely to come up with more!

Note: Even if you haven’t identified a taxonomy for your entire organization quite yet, deciding on categories now for this particular fundraising campaign is  a good place to start.

Learn more about how to manage metadata from Office Help

5 – Decide on a layout

SharePoint Layout / Template | Image from Microsoft.com

Image: Microsoft.com

SharePoint comes with some pretty boring out-of-the-box templates but times are tough and as long as the site is organized and efficient, the site will work.

The main focus during this phase is to decide where content should go on the page. Best practices suggest that, as a team, you decide on types of pages, based on your site map and documents.  This will create standardized page templates and give a consistent location for content types. This means your staff and volunteers will know what to expect and always be able to find the information they need, regardless of what campaign they are working on.

Learn more about creating a project site with SharePoint Online

Best practices on creating Wireframes from Usability.gov

Ready for more? Learn about how to customize a publishing page layout in SharePoint Designer 2007.

6 – Create content

Content can serve as inspiration for your team. Exposing key milestones in a calendar on the page and displaying a chart of total donations can make your volunteers and staff feel informed and excited about their efforts on the campaign.

SharePoint makes it easy to keep content up to date and everyone on your team can quickly learn how to update the site, regardless of their previous technical ability.

Learn how to manage content with SharePoint Online

7 – Give permissions and get ready to go!

Permissions and access to the SharePoint site are essential if you’re looking to make a SharePoint project site a success. Make sure everyone has the permissions they need to access content and double check that all private content is secure.  Having IT looped in from the beginning and throughout the stages of a SharePoint project site will ensure your site is accessible to the entire team and nothing slips through the cracks.

Learn more about managing permissions with SharePoint Online

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