Prior to SharePoint, many users will have known nothing else but messy shared file systems where the only means of classification was folders and file naming conventions (that no-one ever followed anyway). Now we have many other tools at our disposal which in theory is a good thing.Really I need to expand on this, and try to get it out to my users...
But as I said, many people know nothing but folders. This has been the predominant file classification mechanism for more than 30 years. Trying to “un-learn” more than 30 years of operating fundamentally the same way is not something that will come naturally. Thinking in terms of columns, views and content types requires a deeper understanding of the divisions, disciplines, compliance and vertical market of an organisation.
peas⋅ant /ˈpɛzənt/ [pez-uhnt] –noun 1. a member of a class... (snip) 2. a coarse, unsophisticated, boorish, uneducated person of little financial means (the author, not the reader).
Friday, November 21, 2008
Nothing but folders
Another especially poigiant bit from http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/ and his series on SharePoint failure:
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment