William's Blog

A couple weeks back I got wind of a customer that wanted to address a very straightforward problem – getting Marketing and Sales to work better together.  This is an area that can benefit every commercial organization.  With a bit of inspiration, we came up with a rather nifty way of addressing this challenge by [...]

In my overview to CorasWorks Idea Management solution for SharePoint, I touched on our support for custom-tailored, event-driven idea communities, such as Campaigns and Challenges.  In this article, I’ll drill down into what these are and how this approach to idea management complemented by the new Web 2.0-style feature sets drive improved effectiveness.
Most people [...]

In my previous post, I wrote about an Idea Management Community built with Spirit’s new Community Services Suite v1.2 release.  Here we’ll look at second solution which is a Portal for an IT Project Management solution.  I’ll follow the same format, some text graphic and video.
Our Project Portfolio Management application is very popular.  It [...]

Communities are great ways to increase the collaborative effectiveness of SharePoint.  Spirit is launching a new version of its micro-community with the release of its Community Services Suite v1.2 in April.  Here is a quick preview video of this new module.
 Click here to watch the preview video (5 minutes)
The micro-community v1.2 is a module of [...]

We continue to create new solutions based upon the Spirit Community Services Suite.  It is very versatile.  We’ve done a video of an Intranet Community Portal solution.  This would be put in an Intranet.  It is a portal that has 3 micro-communities for General SharePoint Users, an Idea Community, and a Project User Community.  The [...]

This is cool product. We did a joint webcast with Microsoft in November where we talked about integrating Extranets in the Cloud with Intranets on premise (what we termed the X design). In it, we highlighted the Spirit Community Services Suite which was just released. This product allows organizations to create very webby UI, integrated [...]

My - what a year it has been.  Thanks for being there, and, I hope you feel we were there for you.  One year ago, CorasWorks didn’t have an online Community at all, we were coming off a new customer acquisition binge, we were running on CorasWorks v9, SharePoint 2010 was no where in sight, [...]