Project Collaborate Framework for OnePoint

Welcome 

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OnePoint is the combined use of OneNote and SharePoint to create a team collaboration/knowledge management environment presented as shared project e-notebooks. This implementation pattern provides an intuitive user-friendly interface onto a SharePoint document library with automatically managed online/offline working. This solution enables project teams to move seamlessly into working in a collaborative fashion resulting in increased engagement and cohesion. This solution not only revolutionises team collaboration at, but also leads to reduction in email traffic, elimination of information silos and provides a team knowledge management solution.

What is OneNote
OneNote is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It is free form note taking tool that enables knowledge works to easily aggregate information from almost any source into a notebook. It is widely recognised as the gold standard for personal knowledge management. Effectively OneNote manages to electronically reproduce the look and feel of a loose leafed folder. Previous to the 2007 version of OneNote the application only allowed a user to have one notebook that had to reside on their hard drive, consequently only personal notebooks could be created. However new functionality in OneNote 2007 allows users to create multiple notebooks as well as enabling the user to place these notebooks in shared online storage, i.e. a SharePoint document library or a file share. With this functionality it is also possible for multiple user to be synchronised to a single notebook, essentially creating a shared team notebook.


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Essentially in using OneNote in this way we are providing an intuitive user friendly interface onto a SharePoint document library. All content added to or created in OneNote is stored in SharePoint. The complexities of this are all managed in the background without the user being aware this is going on.