At the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009, I had the distinct pleasure to present the Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010 session. The early estimates are that over 1000 people attended that session. I personally had a real good time talking about SharePoint Designer since, aside from the facts that it’s my favorite tool to customize SharePoint and that I co-authored the book on SharePoint Designer 2007, so many enhancements have been made to this product that I didn’t have to use the “maybe this feature will be included in the next version” answer even once in the session Q&A! Awesome!

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.

Still hunting for the holy grail of a solution that ONLY allows users to view or edit documents they have created themselves.