Perttu Tolvanen

MindManager for SharePoint is an interesting piece of software. Many companies have huge installations of teamsites and document libraries and users have trouble of forming a mental map of all this chaos. MindManager could be a useful tool for many to make a personalized information management dashboard to all this.

Facebook is building a paraller universe. From the page: So what could derail Facebook? A lot. People could tire of it. But I don't see that happening. In fact, I see us putting more of our content inside Facebook and I see them making it all easily searchable and accessible from any device and leveraging connections to make it all even more powerful.

When is Faceted Search Appropriate? Good article and presentation about the different use cases of faceted search. Faceted search is most common on ecommerce sites since buyers often need exploratory search interfaces. Also product information is usually pretty structured so that faceted can be produced and used effectively.

Great presentation about the sociality in Enterprise Search.

Interview with Peter Morville, the author of Search Patterns. Some clever thinking about the future of search. From the page: "The future of search isn't Google + 1. To get real-time search, we had to invent Twitter. And to achieve real-world search, an inevitable extension of augmented reality, we'll need to leapfrog from iPhones to iGlasses, and infuse our surroundings with sensors and spime. So, to anticipate changes in what we search and how we search, we should keep an eye out for emerging technologies and weird ideas that aren't labeled or categorized as search. In other words, we must look away to see."

Comparison views between Umbraco and DotNetNuke from a former DNN developer, now working with Umbraco. Umbraco is stated to be more of a web content management system as compared to a portal approach of DNN.

SharePoint blog which discusses SharePoint development, project management and different business use cases. The blog is run by a group of IT professionals working at Blue Meteorite Ltd. From the page: "In SharePoint Blues, we want share our SharePoint-related experiences to give back to the SharePoint community by exchanging information and facilitating discussion. The focus of SharePoint Blues is in technology, although we will also write about project management issues specific in SharePoint projects."

From the page: "The use of the mobile phone," Mr. Bangirana said, "has empowered the community to know what they never knew and ask any question concerning their surroundings."

Good article about making a content inventory or a content audit. Audit is a high level overview which examines the style of content and tries to identify the most important groups of content. Inventory is the excel file that has every piece of content identified, described, classified and priorized. Maybe the most important phase of any site redesign.

The difference between usability and user experience explained. Good examples ranging from useit.com to iPhone user experience. From the page: "By far the easiest (and probably most over-cited, please forgive me) to distinguish these two comes on lauded usability expert Jakob Nielsen's homepage, useit.com. Jakob has dedicated a lifetime to the study of usability, and his website represents a page that is extremely easy to interact with. Everything is front and center, easily searchable, with important ideas stressed through bold text. Yet despite its high level of usability, the lack of interesting layout, design, or even typography makes the site rather boring and feel uninspired. I can accomplish my goals here easily, but I probably won't have much fun in the process."