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Having worked a lot with harmon.ie recently at various customers and conferences around both mobile and email solutions for SharePoint, I decided to chat with one of their senior executives to give you the chance to hear about the fantastic solutions they offer, especially in their new 4.0 release, and their interesting views on mobile, collaboration, information overload, Yammer and other kinds of SharePoint integration.

Show Links:
harmon.ie’s Website
ComScore (mobile usage graph)
harmon.ie Outlook Sidebar Videos

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 47:41 — 32.8MB)

At the Share conference this year I sat down for a quick chat about international standards and compliance with previous Share speaker Tracy van der Schyff. Tracy helps her customers understand compliance better and to use SharePoint in a practical, measured approach to improve how they can reach and maintain it. She even encourages us to learn about and apply the principles behind ISO intranet and other standards without necessarily aiming for the certification and rather just the good practices.

Show Links:
Tracy’s company, The Guid Stuff
Tracy’s blog
Tracy on Slideshare

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 16:05 — 11.1MB)

In this episode we talk with well known SharePoint personality Tobias Zimmergren about the history of SharePoint development and his experiences over the years compiling WSPs, debugging, working with the community and eventually Microsoft tools and finally coming to Apps in SharePoint 2013.

Show Links:
Tobias’ Blog
Tobias on Twitter

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:28 — 7.2MB)

In this episode we meet Mark Kashman, a Senior Program Manager on the SharePoint team overseeing SharePoint Online as well as Microsoft’s new mobile apps for Windows Phone, iOS and eventually Android. Mark takes us through some of SharePoint’s history on mobile platforms, 2013’s take on things and where the new apps fit in.

Show Links:
Mark on Twitter
http://aka.ms/SharePointMobile
http://aka.ms/spwp
Mark’s Update on SharePoint Mobile on the SharePoint blog

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:27 — 2.4MB)

Ahead of Sue’s trip to the Share Conference in South Africa, we had a chat about knowledge management, Communities in SharePoint 2013, gamification, and the new ‘Share’ feature in SharePoint 2013 together with the governance issues it raises.

Show Links:

Sue on Twitter
Sue’s Website
Sue’s Blog
Essential SharePoint 2010 (Sue’s Book) (free chapter)
Essential SharePoint 2013 (Sue’s Latest Book – Prerelease)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 47:48 — 32.8MB)

Nicki and I caught up at the European SharePoint Conference to discuss Search Driven Applications, what’s new in Search in SharePoint 2013, what’s new in SharePoint Online Search in 2013, and where and how to connect your online and on premises SharePoint Search capabilities.

Show Links:
Experts Inside
Nicki’s Blog
Nicki on Twitter
Nicki on Slideshare

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 24:24 — 16.8MB)

In preparation for her upcoming Share Conference session, this episode sees us catching up with Sarah Haase, and old friend of the show, to dicuss what she’ll be presenting on at the event. We talk about automating and enabling business processes with SharePoint, gaining better adoption through ‘ninja’ advocates, and evaluating and delivering ROI to the business.

Show Links:
Share Conference (South Africa)
Sarah’s Blog
Sarah on Twitter

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 33:38 — 23.1MB)

In preparation for his upcoming Share Conference session, in this episode we dive into all kinds of upgrade-related topics with Richard Harbridge, ranging from some of the technical and business planning required to a number of super-user related tasks and responsibilities. We talk about Upgrade Evaluation sites, budgets, collaboration with IT, managing the user expectations and tons more.

Show Links:
Portal Solutions
Richard’s Blog
Richard on Twitter

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 45:38 — 31.4MB)

In preparation for his upcoming Share Conference session, in this episode we dive into the Social side of SharePoint with Jeff Willinger from RightPoint. Jeff explains some key points about why Social is important, how to put it in place and how to see the results.

Show Links:
Share Conference – South Africa
Jeff’s Profile at RightPoint
Jeff’s on LinkedIn
Jeff on Twitter
Jeff on Facebook

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 48:33 — 33.4MB)