SharePoint in Higher Education: Don't Do It Alone!

Deploying SharePoint in higher education is uniquely challenging. Starting with where to go for help. Many of the popular blogs and books about SharePoint make assumptions about the technical infrastructure and organization structure that just don’t apply in higher education. Or they don’t adequately address the topics that are of critical importance such as accessibility, cross-browser/OS support, or service charge-back models.

All that is about to change. Bamboo Solutions and FiveSix Consulting are launching a new online community focused on higher education. The goal is to build a repository of actionable advice on how to acquire the support, configure the tools, and manage the implementation so that SharePoint is a success at your institution. This will be a place where higher education professionals can congregate to discuss a range of issues, be they SharePoint-related or not.

We know you are out there, higher education professionals! We’d love to have you as a guest contributor to the popular community site, Bamboo Nation, or have you start a thread at the SharePoint in Higher Education forum.

To get you started…

• What is the one thing about trying to implement SharePoint that you just can’t get figured out?
• If you could sit down with a few colleagues and talk shop, what would you bring up?
• Are there things that have worked well at your institution that you could share with others?
• What business process would you most like to automate?
• Does collaboration really happen in higher education?

Questions or blog posts to contribute? Post a comment here or head over to the SharePoint in Higher Education forum.