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SharePoint’s flexibility is both its greatest strength and its greatest weakness. The capabilities of SharePoint far exceed those that user communities are accustomed to receiving in a software solution. Given this, when they are first exposed to these capabilities your users may feel intimidated by SharePoint’s complexity and frustrated by its menus and cryptic options. Here are some ideas about how best to use SharePoint’s flexibility to gain greater adoption of the platform within your environment

Our old friend Lee Reed sent us this Friday funny. Does the photo feel familiar…sigh…

"Those first few months…the ones just after the rollout. Those were the days when everything was new, like a spring rain. Late nights spent at the office learning the CQWP, mastering new curse-word combinations after using Designer on your site’s pages. [...]

Organic growth is great and is something that you should allow within your SharePoint environment. However, providing some guardrails around what site administrators can or should do with regards to navigation will help to ensure that everyone has an enjoyable SharePoint navigation experience.

Pimp Your SharePoint Blog – Show your Latest Postings
Pimp Your SharePoint Blog – Create a bloggers list in the sidebar
Pimp Your SharePoint Blog – Personalize Your Blog Header with an Image
Pimp Your SharePoint Blog – Use Windows Live Writer
Pimp Your SharePoint Blog – Add a Short Bio About Yourself
Pimp Your SharePoint Blog – Manage Your [...]

In the fifth installment of Pimp Your SharePoint Blog, Lee demonstrates how to include a bio in your blog.

In this fourth installment of the Pimp Your Blog screencast series, Lee talks about using Windows Live Writer to write and publish post.

Lee Reed continues his Pimp Your Blog series with a tip on customizing an image to personalize your blog. Actually, there are some things in here I haven’t seen before. Fun stuff.