I’ve used Google Maps for years to plot driving directions, but I’ve never thought of using it for running routes. That left the door wide open for me to create my own alternative in SharePoint.

Let’s get back to the playfulness of building community, of discovering solutions. Let’s create a playground that has enough space for everyone who wants to play, and large enough to hold anyone who wants to stand on the sidelines and watch.

I hit my first stumbling block when building out the architecture for the new 2010 site. I don’t like the default publishing page, so I figured I’d go in and delete the areas on the page that were hogging the entire space. No go. These are fixed areas that can’t be deleted or moved.

This is the first of a series of articles documenting the process of moving content from a WordPress blog, a bbPress PHP forum, and a SharePoint 2007 MOSS site into SharePoint 2010.

I sent out a link to the SharePoint World Cup Template demo site I created from Andy Dale’s framework template. I tweaked it a little with some widgets to make it a little less geeky.

Office Talk, based in the heart of the UK, has done the hard work for you by designing a World Cup 2010 SharePoint Template.

Marc Anderson has agreed to be our first ‘guinea pig’ in this little venture. His series, Unlocking the Mysteries of Data View Web Part XSL Tags, on EndUserSharePoint.com has been very popular.

Of all the stories I’ve heard on why people from the States couldn’t make it to SharePoint Evolutions, I think this video tells the story best.

I want to get a comprehensive list of SharePoint forums and make the list available so that you can quickly get your questions answered.

What happened in Annandale, VA. this weekend during SharePoint Saturday DC was outside the norm and raises the bar for future events of this type.