<p>With the working year now kicking off it's a perfect time for SharePoint business managers and administrators to make their New Year's resolutions. Whether you're looking after an intranet, collaboration portal, website, DMS, BI portal or all of these here's a few ideas to help you with the process of figuring out your priorities for the year, based on some of the more common personal resolutions we all make at the start of the year. 1. I will lose weight / get fit</p><p>Just like people, over time your SharePoint platform can tend to gather a little excess baggage. Redundant, outdated and trivial content ("ROT") can be clogging the system arteries and old, no longer used team sites can be adding to clutter.</p><p>SharePoint administrators should make a concerted effort to identify and remove the ROT working with the content owners to assess the currency and relevancy of content, then culling/retaining/archiving as appropriate.</p><p>To avoid the ROT in the first place it's all about getting in good habits. Instigate processes to get content regularly reviewed. One simple approach is to add expiry dates and content owners to content, then having automated alerts sent to the content owners on the expiry date. Do this diligently and your intranet will get that six pack! 2. I will learn something new / travel more</p><p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/my-five-big-new-years-resolutions-for-sharepoint-managers-019259.php">Keep reading...</a></p>