I spent the week with John Anderson from Bamboo Nation and he never told me there were pop stars and schlock web part salesmen on the ohter side of the fence. Would you work with a company that has the confidence in their products to put out these promo videos?

What follows is a list of workshops in September and October. I’ll be sending out the November and December schedule in the coming weeks. Clicking on the links will send you to the description of the workshop, and offer you the chance to register.

I have been working with Christophe Humbert, Path to SharePoint, to deliver some live online workshops using his work Easy Tabs and dynamically generated color coding based upon the HTML calculated column. We were discussing different ways to access information to be displayed in charts.
I thought it would be interesting to open up a [...]

As per the requirements listed in the introductory part, we need to create a back-end where we will store the subscribers’ contacts and information. Since everything in SharePoint is stored in lists or in libraries, we will use a Contacts List to hold our users’ information. We need anonymous users to be able to contribute to this list by adding their contacts without giving them any sort of access to the list views. In addition, we need to set in motion the content approval feature provided by SharePoint to stop subscribers from receiving e-mails unless they are permitted.

Todd Bleeker gave an extended presentation at Best Practices Conference this week on “Best Practices for Developing SharePoint Web Parts”. I slapped together a quick down and dirty web cam recording with UStream, embedded below.
Todd was kind enough to send me the entire slidedeck along with the resources from his presentation. Crank up the recording [...]

Train the Trainer is a quick and inexpensive way to develop an in-house SharePoint trainer for your company. If you know the basics of SharePoint and have been asked to teach it to others within your company, this series is for you.

I was playing with Meebo (www.meebo.com) and discovered that I can set up instant messaging from SharePoint to my Meebo account.

I hear it every single day on blogs, twitter, articles… people moaning about how much SharePoint sucks, how it can’t even do the simplest things without jumping through flaming circus hoops. “SharePoint sucks when it comes to Social Software. SharePoint blows chunks for finding even the simplest things. SharePoint navigation is useless.” The finger is always pointed at the software. God forbid there should be an actual human making decisions around how the product was deployed.

The content from the streams are archived so that you can review the sessions and the notes taken in each. If you followed the live stream, I’d appreciate comments to the authors who participated so that they know what they provided is of value to people who couldn’t attend the event.

I worked on creating a mailing list for a public facing SharePoint site. I really had some constraints because I was only allowed to use SharePoint Designer and the browser. I’m not used to these situations because I am mainly a software engineer. However, it was a very nice experience. I applied lots of knowledge and I worked around the constraints. I decided to put the experience and workarounds together into an educational series of articles to help SharePoint end users and administrators create their own mailing list without writing a single line of .NET code.