Shënim: This was originally posted to www.endusersharepoint.com.

A few weeks ago I had the chance to speak at SharePoint Saturday in New York. Once again, a tremendous event. Këtë herë, I spoke about “learning SharePoint” – a very broad topic. During the presentation (which you can get here), I talked about a variety of techniques for “learning” SharePoint, including stuff like book learning, class room training, creating your own VM and most importantly (mua), community participation. One way to participate in the SharePoint community is via blogging. Someone asked me about blogging in particular and asked my opinion on a few concerns he had that I’ve heard others mention before. It’s been itching at the back of my head for a few weeks so in my usual fashion, I’m scratching that itch by blogging about it.

Some people seem to think that there are so many quality bloggers out there on the scene today and that so many quality blog entries have been written that in a sense, there’s nothing new to write about. Ose, the “new” thing is so narrowly focused that it’s not going to be interesting to anyone. I don’t agree with those sentiments or the underlying assumption about them.

For starters, if you’re blogging because it’s part of your personal attempt at learning SharePoint well, it’s really irrelevant if someone has written on your topic or not. One of the drivers behind community participation, whether it’s for personal learning or not, is that you need to get it right. No one wants to put up some weak blog entry and look silly in front of the world. In the course of getting it right, you’re going to think the subject through more carefully, etj. Thus, you’re thinking, studying and considering this topic from all kinds of angles, left to right, up to down, inside and out (or at least you should be). That’s a very valuable exercise. Në të vërtetë, it’s almost beside the point of pushing the “post” button by the time you finish writing it since you’ve already derived much of the benefit by now. Sigurisht, you do want to push the post button anyway for a variety of reasons, but I digress. The bottom line is that blogging is a valuable learning exercise in and of itself, period.

I also reject the “it’s already been done” argument. So what if it was? The terrible consequence is that people who are looking up your topic via bing will now find two or five or a dozen articles. Who cares? I always prefer to find several articles on the same topic when I go searching the tubes for stuff. Different points of view, different writing styles, different approaches to the same problem – they all help me understand what I need. In my opinion, the community is no where close to reaching a saturation point on good quality blog articles on any topic in the SharePoint world.

Kështu, blog away! You won’t hear me complaining about it. I guarantee it 🙂

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Atëherë ejani pas meje në Twitter në http://www.twitter.com/pagalvin

Unë isha DM'd një mesazh nga sot eksitim dhe mendova se do blog përgjigje.

Bie fjala: "Hej Paul, një të shpejtë për ju,si e keni marrë counter eksitim në hapësirën tuaj të jetojnë si kodi script është e bllokuar kur ruhet thx "

Unë e bëri këtë duke shtuar një widget porosi html për faqen time jetojnë hapësira dhe duke përdorur kodin copezat pak:

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Kjo përdor një version të ndërfaqes counter eksitim widget që merr e kaluara Windows Live censor gjë që ne të gjithë e urrejnë kaq shumë dhe do të dëshironi të merrni një rast të keq të dredhkë helm.

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Atëherë ejani pas meje në Twitter në http://www.twitter.com/pagalvin

I kap hapësira Windows Live përsëri në korrik të 2007 as my blogging platform. For the most part, Unë nuk kam asnjë keqardhje dhe Microsoft sigurisht zgjeron atë me kalimin e kohës (pse unë kryesisht gjeni rreth tipare të reja nga aksidenti).

My biggest complaint right now is blog spam. This person / llogari (http://cid-82b0534bceed9881.profile.live.com/) (ndër të tjera) frequently adds a lot of spam comments to my blog in the form of comments. MSFT added a nice feature to show “recent comments” so at least I can fairly quickly identify them (ndërsa para, Unë kisha për të shkuar në çdo hyrje blog veçmas) and clean them up. It’s still time consuming.

Unë uroj që:

1. MSFT do të vënë disa filtrim më të mirë për postë të pavlerë.
2. Që unë mund të bllokojë popullin specifike nga shtuar komente.
3. Dështimin sipër, I could more easily identify and delete spam. Right now, Unë kam nevojë për të bërë atë të komentuar nga komenti dhe është i ngadalshëm, sidomos kur një person Spam robot / programi i shton 25 në 50 komentet në një seancë.

Nëse ju jeni një përdorues të Windows Live dhe kanë disa truket e dobishme për të ndarë, Unë do të jenë mirënjohës.

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Verën e kaluar, ndërsa unë isha duke punuar në dy kapituj për mirë libri informatikë SharePoint social ndonjëherë, I began to get very far behind in my blog reading. I use Google Reader for my RSS stuff and when you have more than 1000 artikuj palexuar, ai vetëm i thotë:, "1000 ".

Gjatë disa javëve të fundit, Unë kam qenë i ulur poshtë dhe sistematikisht leximin e tyre dhe tagging ato si të shkoj për referencë në të ardhmen (I use Delicious.com).

Kjo fundjavë kaluarën unë pashë të gjithë Humbur, Sezoni i katër në një çift të seancave dhe kapjen e deri në 1000+ blog entries ndjen të njëjtën mënyrë.

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Ata tërhequr më mbrapa në!

Windows Live Spaces doesn’t do a good job protecting me from comment spam. I assume MSFT has good spam detection, but that the spammers are better. The fact remains, megjithatë, që unë të marrë komente të spam-shumë më tepër se sa unë të marrë komente të vërteta dhe unë isha vetëm duke menduar në javën e fundit, ose kështu që unë ishte duke shkuar për të çaktivizuar komentet.

Megjithatë, sot, Kam gjetur dy komente të shkëlqyera në përgjigje të këtë post (në lidhje me qasje të kufizuar) dhe këtë post (kërko për kufizimin e dokumenteve të, në krahasim me dosje). Those comments are so complementary (në se ata të shtoni një shumë me vlerë për postin tim), I can’t see disabling comments and thereby closing off that avenue of useful information. Kështu, Unë kam dhënë dorëheqjen veten për të qenë një tërheqëse njerëzore spam- / cleaner. Live spaces does provide a pretty decent way to clean up comments, por kush dëshiron të humbim kohë duke bërë që?

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Kolegu im EMC, Erik Swenson, ka qenë e bindi të hidhen në përleshje, stand up and be counted 🙂

Ai bloget Rreth rreth një shumëllojshmëri të gjerë të quajtur temave SharePoint në http://erikswenson.blogspot.com/. Some of his recent posts include interesting stuff about Photoshop, Microsoft Office Jetoni për biznesin e vogël, SharePoint Qeverisja, creating custom WCM styles and so forth. He does not confine himself to branding. It’s quite an interesting mix which is a little bit different from a lot of the SharePoint blogs with which I’m familiar.

RSS tij është: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SharepointBrandingDesign

Check it out and give him a little encouragement. We all need that from time to time, sidomos kur kemi parë të vërtetë të zhyten në këtë botë Blogging.

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Twitter is a very odd duck. I’ve been using Twitter for a little over a month and in some indefinable way, it’s almost as important to me as email. I find myself vaguely unsettled if I wait too long before looking over what others are twittering about. I get annoyed at Twitter’s occasional performance problems because it means I’m missing out. I get a little puff of excitement when I see a new Woot announcement.

It’s a real community builder in a way that really complements blogs and forums and even personal face to face meetings.

In the last month, I’ve followed one person’s attempts at shaking a cold while trying to manage a Seder.

I’ve learned personal detail about many folks I mainly "know" through blogs — where they live, the kind of projects they work on, that they have a work / family issues to manage just like me.

One person’s mother passed away … a sad event for sure. But sharing that fact changes and enhances the character of the whole experience.

That’s just the personal stuff.

There’s more to it than that. It’s also another medium for sharing ideas, or more often I think, seeking help. Throw a question up on Twitter and you’re never left hanging and the responses typically arrive within minutes.

If you haven’t tried it, you should really give it a go.

Look me up at http://www.twitter.com/pagalvin

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Mjerisht, I pastruar nga Gmail e mia orë llogari para nënshkrimit, kështu që nuk ka gjetur askënd, kur ajo kontrolloi për kontakte.

Nëse jeni duke përdorur Twitter, let me know dhe unë me kënaqësi do të lidhë.

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It seems fairly common in the political blogging world for a given blog to host a "guest blogger". When I’m in political blog land I must be wearing a different pair of eye glasses because it never occurred to me that "guest blogging" might make sense for a technical blog like mine. That is, until I read this post by Kanwal Khipple over at The Best of SharePoint Buzz- Janar 2008.

Thinking on it, I believe there could be a lot of people out there in SharePoint land that have the itch to put together an article, short or long, technical or more business oriented, etj, but don’t run their own blog for all the usual reasons. If you’re one of those people, I’d be happy to host it. You can reach me via email or leave a comment. I haven’t thought through any kind of guidelines, but I suppose that I’d want it to be oriented around SharePoint, but I also like to throw in some personal observations about consulting now dhe pastaj. I’m also trying to publish a "E diel Funny" every week and I’m bound to run out of ideas for that.

If you’re a regular blogger already but would like to experiment with guest blogging, I’m definitely open to that too, either as a host or a guest 🙂

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I started off my "blogging career" using Microsoft’s platform and it’s been good to me. It’s easy to post, there are good options and widgets for managing your "space", decent web storage and so forth.

Megjithatë, I really just fell into the MS solution with almost no planning. That alone calls for me to evaluate where I am and where I’m going, in terms of a blogging platform. There are also two important limitations that bother me right now vis-à-vis Windows Live Spaces.

I parë, I can’t get very good statistics. There are stats but the detail is often truncated and not presented in a way that allows for any kind of analysis. There no sorting or export capability. I get many blog ideas based on the kind of information people find (or especially fail to find) when they search my blog. It’s very hard to use lives spaces for that.

I dytë, there does not seem to be any mechanism to "monetize" a windows live space blog. Në të vërtetë, in order to get rid of MS ads (from which I derive no benefit), I need to actually pay Microsoft. (At least, that’s how I understand it; I have been unable to get definitive answers to this and questions like it).

Now that I’ve got an established pattern and set of blogging habits, I want to evaluate other options. I’ve done some research and there are a lot of choices, but I’m curious as to what other people, particularly others in the SharePoint community (as bloggers or readers), like to use.

If this subject interests you and you have an opinion or are willing to share your experience, please leave a comment or email me directly.

Falënderim!

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