First things first: Happy new year! Welcome to 2018, friends. I spent more time than I want to admit looking for a quote for how I feel about the new year at Rogue. Here’s what I google came up with: What do you need in the New Year? You need a dream; your dream needs … Read More »
As the new year approaches (3 days, friends!), I find myself reflecting on 2017 and making plans for 2018, both in my personal life and as contributions to our Rogue team and our hubley SharePoint intranet platform. This brings me to the idea of New Year’s resolutions. It’s well known that barely anyone keeps them. … Read More »
We’ve had a fair many questions lately about what hubley is. Is it different from Rogue? Is it a new business? Is it a re-brand of Rogue? All understandable. Let’s get to it! hubley is the brand name of Rogue’s packaged intranet solution. Gosh what a frustrating answer. I’m annoying myself. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? … Read More »
After gathering custom intranet requirements for over a decade, the team of consultants who founded Rogue Services and Solutions, a niche SharePoint consultancy, focused on an intranet solution that was easy to implement with less risk and more functionality than its custom competition. hubley was born—an organizational hub for collaboration, engagement, and productivity. The impetus for hubley was … Read More »
I once had a client ask me if we could “do governance.” Sure. It’s like “doing life” or “doing parenting.” It’s hard and ongoing and takes a heckuva lot of effort so that things go well. Or go at all. This past week I had the honor of chairing ALI’s “SharePoint for Internal Communications” conference. … Read More »
The search feature in SharePoint has not been one of its most lauded—that is until the 2016 on-prem and SharePoint Online releases. With the back-end enhancements, SharePoint search works more like the goo-mumble search engine we all know and love and have sold our souls to. Cool, cool, but how can you harness all that … 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 »
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 »
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 »