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Tracy van der Schyff

Facilitating The Evolution of Human Capabilities

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The lighter side of Microsoft #8: SharePoint Libraries with folder permissions

A while back I wrote a post "The lighter side of Microsoft #4: Folders vs Metadata in SharePoint" and I spoke about folders vs metadata. I feel quite strong about NOT using folders as people are lazy to categorize content,... Continue Reading →

The lighter side of Microsoft #7: Filtered Views & Filtered Email Alerts

During September I presented at a couple of SharePoint Saturdays and was surprised at how many people (business and technical) didn't know about 'filtered email alerts'. See my presentations on SlideShare. I'm pretty sure I stumbled across this accidentally years... Continue Reading →

The lighter side of Microsoft #6: SharePoint Saturdays SA 2014 Wrap up

And so we've come to the end of our yearly South African SharePoint Saturdays. First up was Johannesburg (#SPSJHB) on the 6th of September, Cape Town (#SPSCPT) next on the 13th of September and finally Durban (#SPSDBN) on the 20th... Continue Reading →

The lighter side of Microsoft #5: Be more creative with Microsoft Office

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while” – Steve Jobs... Continue Reading →

Empowering stuff for great people #3 – The (dying) Art of Eloquence

I’m always nagging my students about taking the time when “expressing” themselves. Writing emails, creating documents, presentations AND YES – building SharePoint solutions. It’s important that they understand that their ‘words’ speak on their behalf, when they’re not around to... Continue Reading →

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