People- vs. Project-Centric Email Workflow

Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 7, 2021 at 05:02 PM

Ha, yes, everything you say is spot on. We experimented with SharePoint a few years ago, and after desperately trying to control the efflorescence, I finally gave up and sacked it.

We even had a special extranet running on SharePoint for one of our major clients at the time (part of Sony); it had lots of useful info on it, including archives of advertising/marketing material and all sorts. Did anybody ever use it? Nope. Members of the client’s marketing department would visit it, admire it… and then leave it alone.

There’s something basically confusing about SharePoint; it’s what I would call a “fuzzy” app, something that appears to be friendly but isn’t really. Craft, a wonderful, gorgeous app for macOS/iOS, is similar – the structures are fuzzy, making it quite difficult to organise things in logical ways. But at least Craft has a really great search function (now that they’ve upgraded it), whereas the SharePoint search function almost feels bolted on as an afterthought. Or it did – I must confess I haven’t used SP in anger for several years.

And I shouldn’t really criticise Craft; it’s brand new, and its developers produce new, improved features at a stonking pace, whereas SP? Just seems to get fuzzier and fuzzier…

Cheers!
Bill

Ken wrote:
Larry Kollar wrote:
> >
>>
>>We’re stuck with all-Microsoft at work, too. My Outlook has a button in
>>the “Move” section of the ribbon to copy a message to OneNote. You can
>>share notebooks, so maybe that would be the way to go?
>>
>>Sharepoint, at least for us, turned into a data swamp. The only way to
>>effectively navigate it is to get a link from someone who knows where
>>the good stuff is, then be religious about saving bookmarks.
> >You can shout this from the mountaintops and the diehards would never
>believe you about SP becoming a data swamp. I have a OneNote page that
>has all of the invitations that I receive so at least they are in one
>place, although I believe that MS now shows you all of the files that
>have been shared with you in certain views. But, yes, if everybody has
>a SP site, and the project has a SP site, pretty soon it is impossible
>to find anything. My wife’s nephew used to work for MS and told me that
>nobody he worked with used it because they switched teams so often that
>it did not make sense. Perhaps things have changed, but I wish MS would
>overhaul the UI for SP. It is a kludge at best IMHO, and it is the
>underpinning of Teams, so behind the scenes it is creating untold
>numbers of folds and paths.
> >—Ken