For years I have been working with small businesses on various issues. When they have a new project they want accomplished the e-mails begin. We start by defining the project and sending e-mails back and forth until we have an understanding of the scope and the price.

Once the project is defined, we have others that may get involved at different levels dealing with programming, design, content and many other areas. The e-mails continue to fly and things begin to get lost. Someone was to do something and they missed the e-mail or forgot about it. The same thing gets mentioned over and over again and tempers begin to increase.

This continues until the project is finished or abandoned. People get blamed and hopefully everyone gets paid and the customer gets their project completed.

There is a better way, SharePoint services. For those in larger companies, you probably know this and have probably used it to some extent. But for smaller companies, they usually have not heard of it.

SharePoint is a very powerful tool that can benefit all involved by giving everyone a central place on the Internet where everyone can see the information and add as needed to the process. For small companies we now offer this service. I will write more about this in later blogs.