Continuing with our presentation series this work, I am highlighting the work of Slide:ology by Nancy Durante. In today’s discussion, Nancy is joined by Garr Reynolds, author of Presentation Zen.

In SharePoint, the default behavior of a links list is to open each link in the same browser window. Sometimes it becomes necessary to create a list of links that, when clicked, will each open up in a new browser window. Usually this type of functionality is requested when the links are to external web sites, that are outside of the SharePoint environment. We don’t want users to accidentally navigate away from SharePoint and not know how to get back. In this screencast, you will learn how to create a data view web part of a list of links that will open in a new browser window. This functionality is not limited to “Links” lists in SharePoint, and can be utilized any time hyperlinks are being created in any type of data view web parts. Towards the end of this screencast, I quickly zip through exporting and importing the web part from one page to another.

A couple of weeks ago, Christophe Humbert from Path to SharePoint presented a live online workshops, Easy Tabs Interface, to rave reviews. We’ve had numerous requests to run this one again, so we found a slot on October 8 at 1:00pm EST for him to deliver another session.

I was seeing what I could do to create pages a little more useful than you get using vanilla SharePoint without having to crack open Visual Studio. One of the things I wanted to do was display a SharePoint list on the screen and add a filter to the screen that would allow a user to filter the list with a date field value greater than or equal to whatever a user entered. Sound’s simple right?

Yesterday I talked a little about Nancy Durante and Slide:ology, a paradigm shift in thining about how to present information. In today’s installment, I’ve chosen one of her quick demo talks on the “Presentation Landscape” diagram she used in the previous video. You can download the document from the original article, Don’t Get Discouraged , Fight for What’s Right!

It is possible to achieve this using just JavaScript (jQuery and SPAPI) and CEWP (Content Editor Web Part). All you need to do is add the CEWP to your page (in my example I added it to the Order view page) and add the following code (see comments inside):

In the previous article, I made use of the ‘Contacts’ list template, provided out-of-the-box by SharePoint, to create a list which will act as the backend for our mailing list. In this article, I will show you how to configure the ‘Contact’ content type, create a custom subscription form and do some sort of customization. The intention of these customizations is not only to make the subscription form look different from the out-of-the-box list forms but also to show you the power, simplicity, and efficiency of SharePoint Designer 2007.

This week I’m giving a live online Train the Trainer Workshop Series. There are a few resources I speak about during the series, including Nancy Duarte’s theory of presentations as demonstrated in her book Slide:ology.

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch interviewed Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer on September 24, 2009. This is the first segment of the interview, which lasted for over an hour. I’m interested in following the series to see if SharePoint pops up in the discussion.

I’m working on a project to develop a document tracking system for a client. After the initial interviews for discovery, I started sketching out a few ideas. After getting a mental image of what needed to be done, I called Pat Iovanella and Paul Galvin to ask for some input.