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What to Consider When Building an In-House Social Media Team. The Social Media Marketing Series is supported by Webtrends Apps, which lets you quickly create and publish Facebook, iPhone, iPad and Android apps. Learn more about it here or keep up with all Webtrends Social products by following its blog. Building any kind of team is a challenge, but pulling together the people who are going to represent your company in the social media arena is a particularly tricky task. What is the ultimate purpose of your social media team? Do you hire experts from outside the company or utilize existing employees?

We talked to professionals who have gone through the process — from big global businesses to small companies — to try and find some answers to these questions. Have a read of their advice and let us know any useful experiences you've had in the comments below. 1. Before you consider the question of who, you need to have already established the answer to why? 2. "You should first consider how you want your brand represented. 3. Studard agrees. 4. 5. Home. Projecturf - Web-based project management app, collaboration and task management software. Mark Schneider's SharePoint Taxonomy and Governance Blog. Home. Planning A Successful SharePoint Site « Social-Point. A majority of my SharePoint posts up until this point have been very focused on the “engineering” of a SharePoint infrastructure.

While this is obviously very important I thought I would jump forward about 30 steps and talk about building a successful SharePoint site. (This post does assume that when you are ready to start you do have a functioning SharePoint environment running.) Know Your Audience Knowing who is going to be coming to your site is important to understand in advance for several reasons. Less Is More This has to do w/ the front page design.

Get Graphical OK, this one could have been a “part b” to the previous point, but SharePoint sites can get sooooo text ridden. Think of your Content as Produce Produce you ask? Pinterest Tags: Planning , SharePoint. SharePoint Foundation Help and How-to - Microsoft Office. How to Jumpstart SharePoint Governance | EndUserSharePoint.com. Guest Author: Christian B One of the most common questions surrounding metadata and taxonomy management is How do you begin? As with most user-driven technologies, SharePoint is often unleashed without proper planning or governance structures, and most administrators find themselves needing to retroactively apply standards across their environment. Companies tend to hoard information and may find themselves overwhelmed by the disorganization and how to even begin the process to get things under control.

Without proper management, search becomes ineffective, content become silos hidden behind team sites (or even within team sites), and user satisfaction plummets. Unfortunately, there is no easy button to fix this problem and its not a problem unique to SharePoint. Even the most proactive organizations struggle from time to time with managing their system governance. [tweet] Plan sites and site collections (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

Published: May 12, 2010 In this article: In general, you plan your sites and site collections in the following order: Determine the number and types of top-level sites and any sites below them in the hierarchy that are needed. Determine the number and types of site collections into which the sites will be organized. The first step in planning a solution that is based on SharePoint Foundation 2010 is to determine the types of sites your organization and its customers need. Plan sites by organizational hierarchy Plan the basic sites that you need based on the scale and structure of your organization. Use the following guidelines when you plan sites that are based on your organizational structure: Divisional or team sites Plan to create one site for a small organization or one site for every division or project of 50–100 people in a medium to large organization.

You can design a site for members of your organization to collaborate on content related to your business or organizational goals.