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I heard on a trashy morning radio show recently that it’s OK to say, “Happy new year!” through February. I had two crises upon receiving this knowledge: 1. Why am I still part of the trashy morning radio show audience? It’s not healthy. 2. Why haven’t I updated our readers at all on Rogue goings … Read More »
The most common question we get from communicators is how they can know that their intranet is working. After all, an intranet is an investment, and for any investment, you should know what your users are getting for the money and whether the new tool is worthwhile. Your gut will tell you if it’s going well. And, … Read More »
Everyone is budgeting for 2017. We’re 94 days until the new year (how does that keep happening?). If your organization is new to O365 or is considering an O365 migration for 2017, a business case for SharePoint may help. One of the big selling points of SharePoint is implementation of a corporate intranet for targeted communication and engagement. Here … Read More »
There are three questions all our new clients ask us: Can SharePoint do X? [Yes, almost always. Should it is another question.] How much will it cost to make it do X? [Depends on what X is, of course, but if it is one of our packaged solutions, much less than custom development.] And I can … Read More »
Not sure if you’ve heard, but the world feels like it might be ending for those of us who live and work in Baton Rouge. OK, not really, but it’s been a crappy go of it for a summer now. I’ve had writer’s block for over a week. My texts–and even person-to-person chats–have been string-of-consciousness … Read More »
We can square off about whether Joe Cocker or the Beatles did it better, but two things: (1) it’s silly to debate this because Cocker absolutely sang it best, and (2) I think we can all agree that a little help from our friends now and again isn’t a bad thing. Rogue created our SharePoint support … Read More »
We are in an interesting position as a small business who caters mostly to small businesses, with several non-profits and state agencies in the mix. We have vendors, and we are a vendor. This duality imbues me with lots of opinions about how we prove our worth to clients and what really cheeses me off as a customer. … Read More »
Rogue is proud to announce that our own Cody Gros was selected as a speaker for SQL Saturday on August 6 in Baton Rouge. Here’s a teaser for what the audience will be hearing: Everyone is going to the Cloud, y’all! With the advantages of Office 365/SharePoint Online, many organizations are evaluating their SharePoint on-prem environments for cloud migration readiness. But … Read More »
Most of our blog posts to date allude to the business case for SharePoint. For example, we have talked about: Deeper employee engagement through implementation of an intranet Better generational teamwork through collaboration Reduced overhead with SharePoint, here, here, and here In this post, we are going to spell it out. We all know that SharePoint projects can … Read More »
“Employee engagement” is a much buzzed about key phrase in the modern workplace. Gallup, Forbes, and the Harvard Business Review all have opinions about it. Engagement does not refer to happiness, nor does it refer to entitlement. It isn’t hippy dippy, hocus pocus, feel-good mumbo jumbo (though there’s nothing wrong with that). I enjoy this rather … Read More »