This is part two of my Art Train series.  If you read part one you recall that I took a number of photos of a train parked in my home town.  In this post I would like to focus on the work of two Minneapolis based artists.  Known and Shock and Silk these two are each amazing in their own right however they have teamed up to do projects as the United Crushers.  If you look closely you can see their fantastic and daring work all over town. read more…

I spend a lot of time talking about users.  What is the user doing?  What does the user want?  What would make users more apt to use the tools? How can we increase the productivity of the user?  SharePoint is designed to be user centered which means if the users don’t like it or understand the value of it, it’s going nowhere. But how to you get employees engaged?  What is the secret to a vibrant intranet?

I have always been a huge advocate for the SharePoint Training and Support program.  I firmly believe that to have a successful environment you cannot deploy SharePoint without a clear support program in place that puts the power of SharePoint in the hands of users.  In previous SharePoint TAO posts I have mentioned the three G’s; Governance, Guidance and Groundwork.  In this series of posts I intend to expand on some of these principles and give you the blue print for a successful and sustainable SharePoint environment that will be heavily adopted and increase user productivity in measurable ways. read more…

Ehlers is a finacial advisor that works specifically with non-profit groups. They had already invested money in a style guide and printed materials. My mission was to take the assets they already had and find a way to make thier website reflect their company brand. The project was a great success, these are the mockups. read more…