We have just completed the Create a Master Calendar workshop and will be using this space for feedback for the people who attend. I think the big take away from the workshop is the need to manage content and metadata structure through the use of content types. The LyteBox is cool, but content types is what really gets the job done.

It’s unfortunate, then, that many new SharePoint Content Owners simply present RSS feeds in a web part to ‘flesh out’ their SharePoint site. The RSS feed web part on an Intranet or Internet site aren’t meant to be used in a “set it and forget it” way. The goal of your site is should be to educate, to present information that the reader can’t get or can’t interpret themselves. The RSS web part, unfortunately, allows us to present information on our site in a passive manner. Instead, the way to view RSS, and other information presented on your site, is to focus on providing ‘quality, not quantity’.

Using the method of building out a “Truth Table” then a “Flowchart” for each and every nested formula may not always be the best approach for you given the time it takes to build them out, but as the complexity of your formulas increase, you might find that having them can decrease the “headache-time” of debugging and troubleshooting when your logic goes awry.

You now have a complete formula that includes every step of the logic needed to ask each question in a manner that allows for each possible answer

Just a quick reminder that tomorrow’s live online workshop on how to Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint starts at 1:00pm, EST. If you’ve been looking for a way to consolidate mutiple calendars in CSS or MOSS, this might be a solution for you.

The next session of the Online Study Group for Seamless Teamwork will be held next week, with the recording made on Tuesday. We’ll be looking at Chapter 4 of the book, which is about inviting the project team into the new SharePoint team space. In other words, we have the space set up, and now we need to let them know about it, how to find it, and how to know what’s going on inside it.

a series of SharePoint and collaboration master classes

One of the most frequently overlooked capabilities of SharePoint 2007 is its automatic creation of efficient, mobile views. This is a powerful capability that people often find surprising. The SharePoint mobile view allows you, and your users, to gain access to the SharePoint list information contained on your site. I will show you how create and use your own Microsoft Tag to easily load your mobile SharePoint 2007 site on your Smartphone. The use of a Microsoft Tag to get to your mobile SharePoint site, or any other mobile site for that matter

Putting column headers back within reach on large lists using groups and jQuery.

Paul Grenier and I are designing a new set of workshops to suppliment his ‘jQuery for Everyone’ series at EndUserSharePoint.com. As we were talking, I turned on the recorder so that any curious about what Paul is working could listen in and see where he is headed with the series and what his next set of live, online workshops will look like.