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Planning for governance in SharePoint implementations is more than just a punch list on a deck of vendor cards.  Not only do you need to plan for governance but you need to stick with your plan as well.

There are also many reports of SharePoint deployment projects being derailed or having less than desired results. Some of these are related to a lack of features necessary for an organization such as more robust records management or a more controlled repository, but many are because of the lack of SharePoint governance.

via 8 Things You Need to Know about SharePoint Governance | EndUserSharePoint.com.

• Get More from Google SMS by Setting a Default Location – Cell Phones – Lifehacker

  You already know that you can get quick local search results from your phone with Google SMS for the price of a text message, but the service is a helluva lot more usable now that you can set your default location.

  tags: sms, text, google

• The Data Liberation Front (the Data Liberation Front)

  The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products. We do this because we believe that you should be able to export any data that you create in (or import into) a product.

  tags: google, data, privacy, dataliberation

• Top 10 Google Settings You Should Know About – Google settings – Lifehacker

  As the outcry over Google Buzz’s privacy has shown us, it’s smart to explore settings in Gmail, along with other places you’re sharing data with the search giant. Let’s take a look at 10 privacy, convenience, and annoyance fixers you should know.

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• A Little Less Conversation

  A Little Less Conversation
  Have you ever invited employees to a meeting just so they wouldn’t feel left out? If so, you may be an overcommunicator.

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• Google Docs Grid View

  Google Docs Grid View
  Now that you can use Google Docs to store files, you’ll upload a lot of files from your computer and treat Google Docs as an online version of Windows Explorer (or any other file manager). Unlike Windows Explorer, Google Docs had a single view for displaying files: the details view.

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• The Decline of Male Space | The Art of Manliness

  “Because men had exclusive power in both private and public life, they controlled their surrounding environment and the way in which space was designed and decorated. Consequently, the world was once a very masculine place.

  Thankfully, we’ve made progress in the area of gender equality and women have brought their influence to bear in both the home and the workplace. However, as with many other areas of modern life, the pendulum has swung from one extreme to the other; instead of creating a world that’s friendly to both male and female space, we’ve created one that benefits female space at the expense of male space.”

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• Things You Really Need to Learn ~ Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes

  “But what should you learn? Your school will try to teach you facts, which you’ll need to pass the test but which are otherwise useless. In passing you may learn some useful skills, like literacy, which you should cultivate. But Guy Kawasaki is right in at least this: schools won’t teach you the things you really need to learn in order to be successful, either in business (whether or not you choose to live life as a toady) or in life.
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  tags: learning, education, communication, thinking, creativity

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If you have ever been responsible for tracking anything then you’ve dealt with the world of metrics.  In most cases they can be useful and highly effective tools for gauging the impact of business decisions and strategies.  Unfortunately there is another class of metrics…those for the sake of being.  This happens often when you demonstrate you can capture metrics.  Now the objective becomes how can you use those measures rather than the original question of what did you need to measure in the first place.

Next time you’re asked to generate metrics for some activity, don’t be afraid to ask what they’re going to be used for and what will change as a result of their capture and reporting.  You see…far too often metrics are the data version of the beating stick used when unrealistic expectations go unmet.  If the intention is to improve productivity then you best know how the metrics can be applied before you start gathering them otherwise you’re just wasting your time.

“The modern American school faces rough challenges. Budget cuts have caused ballooning class sizes, many teachers struggle with poorly motivated students, and in many schools a war is being waged on distracting technologies. In response, innovative educators are embracing social media to fight back against the onslaught of problems. Technologies such as Twitter and Skype offer ideal solutions as inexpensive tools of team-based education.”

via 3 Ways Educators Are Embracing Social Technology.