JFDI's Blog
Opinion pieces and technical articles from JFDI staff
SharePoint Thing-A-Day
Our Technical Director Joel has lots to say about SharePoint. So he created a series of short informative videos. One per day. It’s #SPThingADay!
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BMW Joins Cars to The Internet of Things
BMW is the first car manufacturer to join its cars to the Internet of Things, with its BMW Labs IFTTT Widget for Connected Drive. See what JFDI’s R&D Director Jon Silver did with this new technology.
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The Six Pillars of Great Intranets
Do you have an Intranet at work? If you have to work with colleagues on documents, chances are you do. Do you love it? Do you hate it? At JFDI we thought long and hard about what makes a good one. We’d like to share with you our top tips for Intranet success.
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Microsoft Flow driven Pedometer Challenge Twitter competition
Motivate Everyone, we said. Applying Gamification to business software design to better engage users. It's amazing where that thought process can lead. We needed something to engage people to interact with us at the European SharePoint Conference and other public...
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The Future of the Workplace
JFDI’s Jon Silver demonstrated Smart Building technologies to an audience of business people at a recent event in Brighton.
read moreOutlook 2010: Adding GMail-style archive features
One of the cool features Google added to Gmail was the Archive button - a way to quickly get items out of your inbox: out of sight, out of mind, but not out of the scope of a search. This way you're not confronted with a massive inbox, just the items you need to deal...
read moreGoodbye DotNetNuke, hello WordPress
OK so we tried DotNetNuke, and our site was based on it for several years. But behind the scenes we were feeling the pain, and found the cure in the shape of Wordpress. Read the full story.
read moreWindows 7: everything faster
After Vista disappointments, Windows 7 is found to be an unmissable upgrade.
read moreA Cautionary Tale About British Management
First Published in PC Pro Magazine, 1996 Let me tell you a little story about British management. Once upon a time, there was a big Foreign company that decided to open a UK subsidiary. They tried to make it work just the way it worked back home, complete with Total...
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