Google had a fun little commerical during Superbowl, Parisian Love, that got a lot of notice. I’ve recreated the same type of thing to talk about community in SharePoint. If you’d like to create your own story, you can too. Have fun. — Mark

Coincidentally, just as I published an article on using EndUserSharePoint.com to filter all the noise on SharePoint, the TechCrunch Crunchup Conference posted a video of a roundtable discussion on Filtering Noise. The panel is a group of some of the most prominent people in the Social Media world.

There’s an interesting shift happening in how large companies are starting to present their products. A while back, Common Craft start putting their “In Plain English” videos on YouTube. These things are nice: simple graphics, simple language, possibly complex subjects broken down into consumable chunks.

In the previous three articles of this series, I presented an overview of how to structure a SharePoint Multi-Media Resource Center. I have created a screencast that walks through the finished solution to give you an idea of how it will look to the End User, including the transparent access to external videos and resources through the implementation of LyteBox.

Here at End User SharePoint I have been working hard to create and collect SharePoint videos for your viewing pleasure. The goal is to have an organized repository for publicly accessible SharePoint screencasts and videos.
We’re averaging about five per day so make sure to check back often.
If you find a screencast that you like, there’s [...]

Todd Bleeker gave an extended presentation at Best Practices Conference this week on “Best Practices for Developing SharePoint Web Parts”. I slapped together a quick down and dirty web cam recording with UStream, embedded below.
Todd was kind enough to send me the entire slidedeck along with the resources from his presentation. Crank up the recording [...]

We’re going to stick a web cam in a couple of the sessions and stream them live, so you won’t feel so left out.

I’ve had over 50 requests in the past two weeks asking for the “Create a SharePoint Multi-Media Resource Center” live online workshop, so I’ve scheduled one for July 21st. You can read the entire description and watch a six minute screencast of the solutions if this sounds of interest.

Think about. What better way is there to spread the word, in-house, than to do it with an experienced marketer. Five stars for the idea… 3.5 for the content, because of that annoying music in the background. Definitely worth a look and thought.

Would your company be willing to implement a third party solution for a few thousand dollars and have access to a fully functioning workflow platform, or would they rather have you hack away at it for a couple weeks because, in terms of dollars, they are already paying for your time?