Nas últimas dúas semanas, I attended the New Jersey SharePoint user group and the newly formed New York SharePoint Desenvolvedores user group (contrariamente ao grupo de usuarios máis establecida Nova York SharePoint).

En New York, the good people of NewsGator presented their product and covered a lot of very interesting social computing concepts. If you’re looking to incorporate social computing into your organization in a system-assisted way and can’t get out-of-the-box SharePoint to do it for you, seriously check out NewsGator. It’s very good stuff. A lot of great social computing functionality and (in a demo environment at least) very well done.

I’m personally convinced that companies that begin to adopt social computing attitudes and systems will outperform those that do not. It’s too useful to ignore or, at this point I think, to even delay. It can make a tremendous difference in day-to-day operations if done correctly. I’ll write some more about this later.

In New York last night, the NY SharePoint Developers group kicked off its inaugural meeting at the MSFT office on 52nd and 6th. John Bender presented on how to create a custom stsadm extension. I’ve read about it, but seeing it "live" clarifies things. It’s much easier than I realized. No need for features/solutions, just an XML file and a DLL. He walked through a process for recursively finding and displaying security settings for sites and lists in a site collection. He took it farther to describe how this could be part of an auditing process. This group focuses purely on development and so doesn’t come into conflict with larger more established SharePoint user group which is frequently talking at a higher level.

There are groups all across the world. Check them out.

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I’m speaking at the SharePoint Best Practices conference in November.

It’s sort of a funny story. I was in Virginia presenting at the SUGDC conference and that Friday was the deadline to submit speaking proposals for the BP conference. The organizers described how they would use a "blind selection" process and that every effort would be made to select presentation on the basis of its value, etc. To maximize my chances of getting selected, I submitted two proposals. The selection committee picked both.

O meu compañeiro (Natalya Voskresenskaya) and I will discuss a real-world governance model that we and our client put together for a substantial SharePoint rollout project last summer. The objective here is to describe the details of the governance plan and why we believe it represents best practices in the context of Sharepoint, Governance and similar companies.

Segundo, I will present a process for obtaining great business requirements from End Users. This goes back to one of my very early blog posts, inaptly titled "Moss: Introdución eficaz dunha organización".

This conference looks to be crazily full of great information and I highly recommend tearing yourself away from your work for three days, joining in on these presentations and networking with both conference attendees and alto-falantes. It will be time and money well spent.

Hope to see you there 🙂

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My compañeiro (Natalya Voskresenskaya) and I will be speaking at the Fairfield/Westchester SharePoint User Group meeting at 6:00 PM en 07/16 (Mércores). We are talking about the content query web part. This is the same (pero versión mellorada que deu a Nova York, en maio).

Preinscrición aquí: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=129626&wa=wsignin1.0

Natalya e espero velo alí!

Here’s the email Richard Martzelle just sent out on the subject:

Tema: Using Content Query Web Part to Create Business Solutions

Speakers: Paul Galvin & Natalya Voskresenskaya

Data: Xullo 16^º Benvido Tempo: (Eat & Network): 6:00AM Tempo: 6:30 AM -8:00AM

Meeting Description

MOSS 2007’s Content Query Web Part (CQWP) permite aos usuarios crear visualizacións personalizadas de datos consultados desde moitas fontes, e presentar os datos nun só lugar. A pesar da súa consulta poderoso & opcións de refinamento de contidos, CQWP é moitas veces un recurso subestimado e ignorado. CQWP is both a "data extraction engine" (atopar documentos ou elementos de lista en calquera lugar nun conxunto de sitios) e tamén unha ferramenta de presentación de primeira clase que permite aos usuarios controlar o xeito no que o contido é presentado por implicación HTML e estilos para formatar a exhibición de case calquera forma que desexa.

Nesta sesión de demostración pesado, van amosar como usar a CQWP para resolver problemas de negocios, amosando os principais recursos

• use default CWQP features, incluíndo o público-obxectivo

• use CWQP as a reporting tool anywhere in a site collection via filter criteria such as "all documents created today"

• change look & sensación de resultados da consulta para destacar os datos de empresas, amosar columnas adicionais de información, ver información nun formato de reixa, e outros

• show how CQWP can aid in content type administration (i.e. atopar todos os documentos dun determinado tipo de contido, co fin de comprender o impacto potencial de cambiar a definición de CT)

• describe some limitations of CQWP

• provide a list of resources for advanced CQWP techniques, incluíndo blogs, ECQWP proxecto CodePlex & Documentación MSDN

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