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Blogs: From SharePoint to WordPress
The document discusses the limitations of SharePoint as a blogging platform compared to WordPress, highlighting expert opinions on the matter. It outlines tools and strategies for migrating SharePoint blogs to WordPress on Azure, along with associated resources and options for improving web performance. Additionally, it emphasizes the benefits of using Azure for hosting multiple websites.
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Blogs: From SharePoint to WordPress
- 1. Blogs - From SharePointto WordPress Tom Resing, SharePoint MCM Jive Software
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- 3. “Microsoft has neverinvested a lot in their blogs. It’s ok to say that SharePoint isn’t the best blogging platform.” – Joel Oleson
- 4. “In fact Idon’t shed a tear when I say it’s not the best wiki either. There are point solutions out there that are better than SharePoint and most SharePoint consultants will stand up and admit it.” – Joel Oleson
- 5. Tom Resing Past SharePointMVP Award winner, 2013, 2014
- 6. 6 DRIVE EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY ENGAGE ANDSUPPORT CUSTOMERS AND PARTNERS ENGAGE, TRAIN AND ALIGN YOUR WORKFORCE THE COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION PLATFORM FOR MODERN, MOBILE BUSINESS INTEGRATE & EXTEND SOCIAL INTRANETS SELF SERVICE SUPPORT EXTERNAL COMMUNITIES What Is Jive?
- 21. Demo • http://tomresing.com – FromSharePoint 2010 Blog to WordPress on Azure – 2 .Net Components • A console app to generate the export in WordPress XML Format • A .Net Forms App to redirect to the new location of blog posts
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- 24. What are AzureWeb Sites?
- 25. Demo – 2Options Azure Control Panel Create a New Azure Web Site Other Blog topics if not covered so far: Responsive Design Page Load Speed Testing Search Considerations
- 26. Resources • A BlogMove : SharePoint to Azure WordPress, TomResing.com, December 2013 • SharePoint vs. WordPress for Public Blog – No apology needed?, Joel Oleson, March 2013 • Tool to migrate SharePoint Blogs to WordPress, Jeremy Thake, MVP, August 2013
- 27. Resources • Azure Infographic •Penny Pinching in the Cloud: When do Azure Websites make sense?, Scott Hanselsman, Microsoft, August 2013 – "You can put up to 500 websites into a single instance using Azure Websites." • Using WordPress on Windows Azure with SQL Server instead of MySQL, Ahmed Sabbour, MSDN Blogs, July 2013 • Brandoo WordPress MS SQL Azure SQL Web App Gallery • http://www.windowsazure.com/
Editor's Notes
- #2 When using SharePoint, sometimes, it's just as important to know when SharePoint isn't the right solution. Some of us have learned this the hard way. For my public blogging, I chose SharePoint many years ago and continued for too long. I recently migrated to Azure Web Sites. Come to learn about some of the pros and cons of using SharePoint for Public Blogs, some of the challenges I overcame to migrate and some of the benefits of WordPress on Azure.
- #3 One of my professional goals is to improve web communications through better technology use. Do I share that goal with you? Do we agree blogging is a powerful web communications tool? This is a presentation on blogging, based on my personal experience with multiple blogging platforms. I’m not only going to talk about SharePoint. I’m going to talk about a best of breed blogging solution that may be slightly outside our shared personal area of technical focus.
- #4 This is a message that I'm ashamed to admit took me way too long to get. While it was very common to recommend quickly moving beyond SharePoint's discussion forums from their first release, I continued to recommend SharePoint blogs beyond their practical usefulness.
- #5 Maybe that’s even a good litmus test for your SharePoint consultant. Tell him you want to stand up a public blog and ask him what you should use
- #6 I’m Tom Resing and I joined Jive as a Sales Engineer almost 5 months ago. I’ve specialized in SharePoint Development exclusively for the past 7 years. I’ve earned an exclusive certification, co-authored two Microsoft Press books and earned two Microsoft MVP awards.
- #7 Jive does three things. Social Intranets, Self Service Support and External Communities. Jive is a hub of collaboration that helps organizations cross boundaries
- #9 2007
- #10 2008
- #11 2010
- #12 Current – December 2013
- #13 Anyone remember Windows Live Spaces? It was a free blog platform from Microsoft that migrated to Wordpress almost 4 years ago.
- #14 And lot’s of other SharePoint bloggers have made the move.
- #16 Even the SharePoint Team moved off of SharePoint for blogging last year.
- #17 You can see it in the source code. It’s actually running the latest stable edition! 3.9.1 as of 6/24/2014
- #18 Now there are other options. Andrew Connell, a long time SharePoint MVP, prefers Orchard, which is a .Net based content management system. One thing I like about that platform is that it can use Azure SQL, which is cloud ready compared to legacy databases like Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL.