Sharon and I have been talking about working together for a while now, so this seemed like a perfect opportunity to get started. EndUserSharePoint.com will sponsor a free, half hour live online talk, as Sharon walks through her slidedeck on SharePoint permissions, taking Q&A in the process.

This article will sum up the final evaluation of Live Online SharePoint Saturday EMEA and what we will do better next time.

The Microsoft Office Online Training crew is already busy getting the pieces together to make it easier for SharePoint End Users to get a handle on what’s coming. They have just release a new training session, Make the Switch to the New SharePoint 2010 User Interface, free online.

Do you have pages that look bland that you want to add some color to? Perhaps you would like some a background behind your web part titles. Maybe you want to hide the recycle bin on one page, but not another. Using the Content Editor Web Part you are able to add CSS to a page to customize its look and feel. This is a great alternative to modifying core.css, using SharePoint Designer or other methods (such as specifying a custom CSS file in site settings). Follow along with this quick demonstration on just how!

There are many posts out there extolling the virtues of using metadata over folders for organizing information in SharePoint 2007. I certainly believe that metadata is a great tool for for classifying information, but it is incorrect to ask whether to use folders or metadata to organize information. Rather, it is more appropriate to ask when to use folders and when to use metadata.

This is the second article in a series of articles on how the EUSP team coordinated and produced SharePoint Saturday EMEA. The first article walked through the runup to the event. This article talks about what happened during the event. All time stamps are from January 23, 2010.

So how do you do that if you want to use Lightbox 2 in SharePoint and use a central Image repository with auto thumbnails, and pull images to different pages at different sites based on some category?

One of the things I rail against in my book SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration, is the belief that governance is just about optimizing technical settings in SharePoint. It’s not! It’s about so much more than that, and while the optimization of technical settings — the number of site collections, database sizes, page load times, and so on — is important within a particular context, successfully leveraging the technology of SharePoint to enhance business operations requires a more expansive view of governance.

In this article I will outline how SPSEMEA came about, what it took to plan the event, what happened during the event, a post mortem to talk about what could have been better and a look down the road to what will be coming.

Fostering a culture of collaboration means much more than just educating professionals on what SharePoint can do and how it can be utilized to make their job easier.