By Dan Holme
Office & SharePoint Pro
Community Manager What Do You Think? New Products and Addons Forums
Because I'm not "tied" to any one software vendor, I'm often asked what I think about products and addons for SharePoint. I'm lucky that I get to connect with a lot of our community, so I can benefit from the combined knowledge and experience of lots of folks. It occurred to me that we all could benefit from each other's insight into the products that fill gaps and meet requirements related to SharePoint. So I started a new forum on Office and SharePoint Pro called Products and Addons. Ideally, I'd like us to have one thread per product category, where we can discuss what solutions are out there, what roles they serve, what our experience has been with the products, and so forth. I'll try to make sure that this forum provides as open, honest, and useful a discussion as possible. I'm asking vendors to carry on human discussions with us about their products--they're welcome to post but not to just dump a replica of their site and marketing materials. Most importantly, I want feedback from you the developers, administrators, and end users who have experience with the products. Post about your good experiences and your bad ones (though please be civil--this isn't meant to be a "rant" forum). Ask about products in categories that you are evaluating for 2008. Let's start talking!
Content Management Podcast TMy friend and SharePoint Live! veteran Melissa Fraser just posted a podcast entitled Using SharePoint 2007 As A Platform For Managing Information Across the Enterprise. It investigates the benefits of employing SharePoint 2007 as a platform for managing information throughout the enterprise. The podcast discusses the basics of the content management process and explains how workflow and information management policies are implemented in Office SharePoint Server 2007 solutions. Check it out here. SharePoint Connections and Barcelona Slides Slides have been posted for the recent events in Vegas and Barcelona. I noticed Arpan blogged that his slides were available here, and Tom Rizzo announced that his SharePoint Connections slides are available here. Connections attendees can go to the URL listed in the Show Guide for updated slides from all Connections speakers. Share Your SharePoint Knowledge and Win!
To launch the new "TIPS" section of the Office and SharePoint Pro site, which allows the entire community to post great tips and tricks, we're conducting a contest: Whoever submits the best tip between now and December 15 wins a full VIP SUBSCRIPTION to WINDOWS IT PRO MAGAZINE--which includes access to every article ever printed in Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Magazine, Exchange and Outlook Pro VIP, Scripting Pro VIP, and Security Pro VIP--WORTH more than $1,000,000 (OK, actually only $279, but that's awesome too!) We'll also have giveaways for top runners up. Just log on to the Office and SharePoint Pro site, click TIPS at the top of the page, and select WRITE A NEW POST. Until next week, all the best! Dan Holme danh at intelliem dot (top level commercial domain) |