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Free Yourself from the Tyranny of Sharepoint

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TL;DR: Sharepoint is a plague upon the American workforce — here's how to escape with open source and modern collaboration tools.
❗ Heads up! This post is archived and here for historical purposes. It may no longer be accurate or reflect my views. Proceed at your own risk.

“Sharepoint is a plague upon the American workforce. This ubiquitous piece of collaboration software has taught millions of people that Intranets are destined to be places where you can’t find anything[, but it] doesn’t have to be this way, despite what Microsoft may have you believe.”

 — Joe Flood on Freeing Yourself from the Tyranny of Sharepoint

Originally published May 10, 2012 View revision history
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I'm Ben Balter, and I write here about product, engineering leadership, open source, and showing your work. I wrote Open and Async, the playbook for remote and distributed teams. My open source projects have hundreds of millions of downloads. Most recently I was Director of Hubber Enablement at GitHub, where I owned the internal platform 4,000+ GitHubbers use to get their work done. Before that: Chief of Staff for Security, five years running trust and safety, and GitHub's first Government Evangelist. Before GitHub: attorney, Presidential Innovation Fellow, and member of the White House's first agile development team. More about the author →

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