The Michael Sampson Company has launched The SharePoint for Collaboration: Business Impact Awards 2009.  

About Michael Sampson

As many of you know, Michael Sampson is the author of "Seamless Teamwork: Using Microsoft SharePoint Technologies to Collaborate, Innovate, and Drive Business in New Ways (BP-Other)" (Microsoft Press, 2009), a book that helps organizations envision how to support collaboration with SharePoint. 

We thought it was so good, that we gave away a copy to a lucky participant.

SharePoint for Collaboration: Business Impact Awards 2009

In January 2009, Jakob Nielsen's report for 10 best Intranets of 2009 [original report], showcased 8 of the 10 Intranets were on the SharePoint platform.  It was evident after the release of this report that, SharePoint deserves its own Awards.  The Michael Sampson Company has done a great community service by launching the SharePoint for Collaboration: Business Impact Awards 2009.

Award Categories

1. Project Team Collaboration ... The use of SharePoint to support team project activities. This is likely to include the tracking of milestones, deliverables and emerging information over time, aligned with a specific business project.
2. Document Collaboration ... The use of SharePoint in business activities to support the joint creation of large and complex documents. This is likely to include people working across departmental or organizational boundaries, on large and complex documents such as request for proposals.
3. Structured Data Collaboration ... The use of SharePoint to help groups collaborate on structured data through lists. For example, this could be about running the organization's budgeting process through SharePoint.
4. Process Collaboration ... The use of SharePoint for business process enablement, either directly through workflow services, or indirectly as a way of handling exceptions in business processes.
5. Product Design and Service Creation Collaboration ... The use of SharePoint to support the design of new products or the creation of new services.
6. Enterprise Social Networking ... The use of SharePoint to support the discovery and cultivation of connections between people in the organization, the identification of expertise, and the formation and support of communities of interest and practice.
7. Extended-Enterprise Collaboration ... The use of SharePoint to support collaboration with partners, suppliers and customers.

Organizations will be very well graded in each of these categories. 

Call for Entries

Every organization, big and small, can submit their intranet for a chance to win the SharePoint for Collaboration: Business Impact Awards 2009. You have until June 5, 2009 to submit your organizations SharePoint intranet.  Will your organization win?