Our good friend Michael Sampson has just written a new book – SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration. You might recall that Michael participated in our webinar last February entitled “7 Ways to Get More from Your SharePoint Deployment”, and was a guest blogger here. The site set up for the book describes it as follows:
SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration is the indispensable guide for IT and business people wanting to use SharePoint to enhance business collaboration. The roadmap focuses on the business and human side of SharePoint, rather than the technology.
Can’t wait to get my hands on it. You can pre-order a copy here. You can register for a replay of Michael’s Webinar with Colligo here.
This afternoon I received a question on our support for versioning. In short, our support is as follows:
Colligo Contributor and Reader behavior is the same here. The latest version is downloaded – in Reader that is the end of the story as it is a reader with no write access. In Contributor uploading documents will act as SharePoint is configured.
SharePoint Options Contributor
No version history Changes uploaded & current version over-ridden
Major Only New Major version created
Major & Minor New Minor version created
Just stumbled on to an excellent article here (http://sp.meetdux.com/archive/2009/06/20/best-practices-in-gathering-requirements-for-sharepoint-projects.aspx) by Dux Raymond Sy on requirements gathering for SharePoint projects. The content is from his presentation at the Baltimore SharePoint Users’ Group (http://www.baltimoresug.org/default.aspx).
We will be releasing version 4.0 at the end of the month and are giving advanced briefings to press, analysts, bloggers and Microsoft MVPs. If you are interested in scheduling a briefing, please send me a note via the contact form on or before June 24th. Please include your name, email, URL, and whether you are an MVP, blogger, analyst or press.
Yesterday I was down in LA at the SharePoint Solutions 2009 event hosted by Microsoft, Xelleration, QuickStart Intelligence, Softchoice, LMR Solutions, and Colligo Networks (see: http://www.xelleration.com/ss09/index.html). The sessions were informative and well attended.
Colligo presented a session on email management. Much of the content was drawn from the webinar we did with Kathy Hughes (Microsoft MOSS MVP). The webinar is recorded here: http://www.colligo.com/articles/ResourceCenter.asp.
In surveying the room, I would say that 25% of people were actively either had or were in the process of moving email into SharePoint. Around two-thirds (including the aforementioned 25%) viewed email management as a topic on their radar to address in the months ahead.
Special thanks to Fiazan Hassan and Zee Subzwari from Xelleration (a Colligo partner in SoCal), as well as David Constantine from QuickStart for hosting me in LA for the day.
I found this and thought it will be an interesting webinar, particularly for those developing portals. The presenters are Microsoft Program Managers in IT experienced in SharePoint.
TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Designs and Creates Enterprise Publishing Portals Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Event Overview
Join this session to learn valuable lessons and strategies from the implementation of MOSS 2007 publishing portals at Microsoft. Learn planning and development approaches for rich publishing portals. See customizations and lessons learned in the process of building these flexible, extensible platforms across the Microsoft enterprise. Walk away knowing how to more deeply leverage, customize, and extend native MOSS 2007 functionality.
Presenters: Kiley Williams, Microsoft IT Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation and Martin Cai, Microsoft IT Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation
Register Here.
Melanie Aizer, our dedicated and talented marketing specialist, has been posting Colligo User Tips to the Colligo for SharePoint User Group on LinkedIn. We are getting some good feedback on the posts, as people are discovering new ways to use the product. If you are a Contributor user, I’d suggest joining the group.
Melanie is posting a lot of other interesting information on LinkedIn and is finding an active Colligo community on Twitter.
Andy Dale, the Senior SharePoint Consultant at UK SharePoint Specialists, Officetalk published his list of “Best SharePoint” Awards for 2009 on his blog. I’ll repeat them here:
1 Best SharePoint Information Site 2009
Winner – SharePoint Reviews
The newcomer on the block which contains reviews of 100’s of SharePoint Products
2 Best SharePoint Webpart Provider 2009
Winner – SharePoint Boost
Creating easy to install and use webparts as if they are going out of fashion
3 Best SharePoint Administration Tool 2009
Winner – ControlPoint from Axceler
Finally a way of really managing all those user permissions across all of your servers and sites. Oh, and very useful for moving complete sites.
4 Best Website built on SharePoint 2009
Winner – Cadbury
Chocolate and SharePoint have never tasted so good.
5 Best SharePoint Training Package 2009
Winner – CBT Clips
Still the best solution to show End Users how to use SharePoint.
6 Best SharePoint Offline Solution 2009
Winner – Colligo Contributor from Colligo
Allows SharePoint to be with you even when the network isn’t. Don’t forget to download the free reader on the right.
7 Most Useful SharePoint Webpart 2009
Winner – Batch Check-in from SharePoint Boost
Lets us finally get rid of the ‘Checked Out’ annoyance after we have move lots of documents.
8 Favourite Free SharePoint Webpart 2009
Winner – Google Search Webparts
Keep your users in SharePoint as they Google away.
9 Most Fun Free Webpart 2009
Winner – Picture Puzzle Widget from Spring Widgets
Spring Widget have lots of snazzy free webparts including cat clocks with moving tails
10 Biggest SharePoint Mess-up 2009
Winner – Microsoft for 180 day expire error on SP 2.
Thanks a lot Andy. We are very flattered, indeed, that you selected Colligo Contributor as a winner this year!
If you haven’t yet visited, SharePoint Reviews, it’s a terrific site. Hundreds of SharePoint Products are featured and many have been reviewed by users. Mike Ferrara, a SharePoint consultant in South Florida, writes an interesting column there called OnPoint.
I was pleased to see that Colligo Reader is the Top Rated Freeware product at SharePoint Reviews. Colligo Contributor Client also received a 5/5 rating. Thanks to all the people who were kind enough to do a review of both these products. I noticed that they just put a product description of Contributor Add-In for Outlook up there recently, but it hasn’t received any reviews yet. We’d love to get a few reviewers if anyone is so inclined. You can get a 30 day full function evaluation copy of the Add-In here.
Colligo Contributor 4.0 – The Latest Innovation in SharePoint Client Solutions
SharePoint is evolving at full tilt with new use-cases cropping up every day. In these challenging times, supporting new requirements can be daunting for IT departments already stretched to the limit. Colligo has responded with the launch of Colligo Contributor 4.0, a significant new release that provides important enhancements across the entire product line, and introduces two exciting new products.
Join Dave Foster, Vice President of Product Development at Colligo and me as we discuss how SharePoint is moving beyond the portal and how Colligo can help you respond rapidly with off-the-shelf client solutions. You’ll see a hands-on demonstration of Colligo Contributor 4.0 (to be released in June) and learn how to get more horsepower from your SharePoint investment.
In this webinar, you will learn:
- How organizations are expanding their use of SharePoint
- What is known about the next version of SharePoint
- What’s new in Contributor 4.0 – New features and interfaces
- How to manage email attachments in SharePoint
- How to integrate Windows Explorer with SharePoint
- How to use SharePoint as a Network File Share Replacement
- How the Contributor SDK can speed the development of custom SharePoint client applications
WHAT – Supercharge Your SharePoint Deployment With The New Colligo Contributor 4.0
WHEN & WHERE – Tuesday, June 30, 2009
8:00 AM Pacific / 11:00 AM Eastern
4:00 PM London / 5:00 PM Paris
Online Webinar
PRESENTERS – Barry Jinks President & CEO, Colligo Networks Inc., David Foster, VP, Product Development, Colligo Networks Inc.
COST – COMPLIMENTARY
Register HERE
Even if you can’t make the date, please register and we will send you a link to the on-demand webinar when it’s available.
