Question of the day from Sue:
So far, I have been told that there is no way of using hyperlinks to documents stored in other applications (such as other doc management systems) and to make them appear seamlessly to users as part of a library of documents. We are not looking to create the link as [...]

I received this very thoughtful message from Sasha this morning: 
As the end user who will be a primary architect of our new SharePoint 3.0 installation, I am learning lots about HOW to do things in SP, but not much about WHY to do things.  IMHO, it would be useful to read something like “if you [...]

One of the fun things about giving a beginner’s workshop is getting off the slide deck and helping people with the things they run into in their work situation. Here is the short list of some of the questions that came up during the workshop this week. I’ll do some followup with extended explanations and screencasts on [...]

When I was delivering the SharePoint 2007 – The Basics Workshop yesterday in Neuchatel, I took the time to jot down a couple of things that come up in every End User workshop. Here’s the short list:

User resistance to change
Folders vs Views
Legacy data, file servers and moving content
Clunky interface in SharePoint (that’s a polite way [...]

Today’s question is pretty common:
“I have an Excel spreadsheet that keeps track of my products from multiple vendors. Is there a way to create a dashboard that will display the information for each vendor?”
Yes, there is, and it is very simple to implement. Follow these steps

Today’s question comes from Felice in San Francisco: ” I am just about to begin implementation of a team ‘out of office’ calendar and a team ‘release calendar’ on SharePoint so that Product Managers can merge these extraneous events with their own personal Outlook calendars on demand.  I (of course) cannot find my notes from [...]

Janis Hall from MindSharp has written a thoughtful post for the Get the Point Blog on the criteria to use when deciding to create a new library. While not comprehensive, it touches on major issues to consider when deciding how to structure your data. Key points:

Efficiency of Access to the Data (metadata)
Save Time and Effort [...]

The question came up again. “What is SharePoint?” This time it was in the context of creating a logo for my company, EndUserSharePoint.com. Below is the exchange I had recently with the design team. Take a look and see if you can help me out. How did I do on the descriptions? 
> Please give me [...]

It’s that time of the week again. At 9:00am EST, I checked the feedburner stats to see how things went over the weekend. The results showed that almost the entire visiting population was from outside the United States. Below is a screenshot of the Feedburner cloud. 
I’m flying to Switzerland to teach for the next two weeks, [...]

In a previous post on how to embed a video in SharePoint, I mentioned a Flash Media Library template I had configured for working with the screencasts created in Camtasia Studio. I have had several requests for that template, so I am providing it as a free download with this post.
You will need to install [...]