Dear Nonprofit Professional,

Record numbers of nonprofits are turning to SharePoint to do business. As the economy stumbles and falters, as politicians promise helpless, ineffective solutions, the nonprofit community continues to heat up.

What this book means to you.

Never before has being at the bottom of the technology heap been so expensive or cost you more time than it does right now.

And:

Never before have so many nonprofits been trying to climb to the top of the technology heap!

Lots of nonprofits have SharePoint, but few are using the platform properly.

Why? Because paying a SharePoint Solution Architect $250+ an hour to properly plan your solution is not likely in the budget.

We want you to understand how SharePoint can benefit your organization. We have been educating people for years on how to use SharePoint, and we have been asked the same questions over and over.

There are already hundreds of books in print about SharePoint.

As of this writing, there are 936 books available from Amazon on SharePoint.

Nearly all of those books are written for administrators and developers.

This book is different.

This book will not teach you how to write code or how to install SharePoint.

SharePoint for Nonprofits is about strategy, planning and possibilities. It’s exactly what the $250+/hr SharePoint Solution Architect would tell you, in written format.

Testimonial: “…it sheds light on a number of areas that many SharePoint consultants have neglected for far too long. No longer does SharePoint need to be relegated to the back of the house for intranet or document management.”

This book will give you an idea how nonprofits are using SharePoint today and what can be accomplished with it.

We’ve worked with organizations of all sizes. We’ve worked with nonprofits and associations with more than 50 million members. We’ve also worked with the smallest of charities. Between the two of us, we’ve worked with hundreds of different organizations using SharePoint.

SharePoint has earned a massive world-wide adoption.

…but even with so many users, there are comparatively few people who really understand SharePoint.

Testimonial: “…it provides well thought out approaches and discusses the little known and talked about potential of an integrated SharePoint system/platform.”

People know how to use it to store files, but they don’t understand how to leverage it to enhance their organization.

They know it can store content; they just don’t know how well it can manage information, enable communication, foster collaboration, turn data into information, and provide knowledge.

Testimonial: “Despite the maturity of the Microsoft SharePoint platform, there is still a lot of misinformation in the marketplace about its capabilities. Talk to a dozen vendors and you will get at least a half a dozen different answers. This book brings clarity to many of the misnomers that have been circling the SharePoint world.”

If SharePoint is so flexible and used so pervasively throughout the world, why is it still so misunderstood?

We wrote this book to provide nonprofits with a workable SharePoint strategy and a proven approach.

This book aims squarely at providing high-level SharePoint guidance and approach techniques for associations, nonprofits and orgs of all sizes. SharePoint for Nonprofits will help you properly navigate your org through the breadth and depth of SharePoint’s many, many uses.

Testimonials:

“John and Sean go to great lengths to explain how SharePoint should be viewed as a platform, not just a document repository.”

“A quick and easy read, this book is concise and provides sound guidance as to the opportunities as well as pitfalls related to implementation and customization of SharePoint.”

“This is not a developers guide, it is a book written specifically to IT decision makers, strategists, and executives.”

“John and Sean bring a much needed discussion to the SharePoint arena. This book is written from the perspective of how an organization can develop a comprehensive SharePoint strategy.”

“This book is a must read for anyone who may be involved in deciding about whether or not SharePoint will be or still is a good fit for their organization.”