If you watched any of the videos I shot yesterday closely, you may have noticed that there was an announcement at the top of the page asking Jivers to share some of the ways they’ve customized their Clearspace home page. Since everyone can have a different one, I was curious to see how people had uniquely set theirs up. I actually had about 12 Jivers send me screenshots but rather than overload you with tons of them, I plucked a few to give you a taste.
But can’t you customize Sharepoint?
You sure can. I couldn’t find many out-of-the-box screenshots on Microsoft’s site but I’m sure someone will direct me. In the meantime, I followed the “customizing your site” link and found a lot of videos for SharePoint Designer 2007 (another product you need) so I imagine this is how you can customize Sharepoint, though I don’t think it’s on the individual-employee level. I also tried the online demo to see what it was like out of the box but got the error below (under the video). So, bottomline, I can’t tell whether you can customize everyone’s individual UI in Sharepoint. Does anyone know?
Tried to test drive the online version but it didn’t work
Your very own windshield
It’s pretty easy to forget that nearly everyone at big companies are forced to stare at the same dead interfaces everyday. When equipped with control over their own dashboard, I was pretty surprised just how differently people like to see their work. Here are just for examples of how different people in very different roles set up their own view.
Adam Wulf (joined Jive yesterday from Jotlet)
Paul Biggs, Online Marketing
Chris Brentano, Information Technology
Todd McCullough, Engineer
