I was just looking through the 10 best Intranets of the 2009 report from Jakob Nielsen and 5 out of the Top Ten Intranets have been developed using SharePoint 2007. In total, the 10 winners were built on 26 different products — substantially fewer than the 41 used in 2008 or the 49 used in 2007. Most impressively, fully half of the winning intranets used SharePoint, especially the recent MOSS platform (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007). As the following chart shows, SharePoint use has grown dramatically in recent years. This is particularly impressive given that, from 2003–2006, the winning intranets didn't use earlier versions of SharePoint at all. Check out the article here > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/intranet_design.html Last year we had the Ministry of Transport New Zealand Intranet feature in the Top Ten. Tech ...[Read More]

Just today I got a question via my blog. Can you recommend any classroom based SP 2007 training- Wellington. Needs to cover lists, libraries, workflows, pages, customisation, reuseable content etc - chris knight Sure thing. First up in Wellington (New Zealand) I can only recommend this guy > http://mctalex.blogspot.com/ Alex Dean. Alex has already done two presentations at the SharePoint User Group and he has a wealth of Knowledge in terms of development practices in .Net and SharePoint. If you are interested in attending any of the following courses make sure that Alex is conducting these. 50049A: Architecting Web Content Management Solutions with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (2 days) 50064A: Advanced SharePoint 2007 Development (5 days) Both of these above tracks should give you a very good starting point as a Sh ...[Read More]

Hope everyone has had a great Christmas/New Year celebrations and holidays, I haven't been able to blog as much lately due to various reasons and will try and get into the habit of doing at least one useful post per week. Last year was an interesting one during which I travelled to Seattle twice (SharePoint Conference 2008 and MVP Summit) and did quite a bit of travelling around New Zealand as well. It was also when I decided to become my own boss and started life as an independent consultant. So far so good, it has been an interesting 8 or so months with some exciting projects and great clients. Thanks to everyone who has helped me in various stages. So what's been happening in the SharePoint world then? WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint Microsoft Released the WSRP (Web Services for Remote Portlets) Toolkit for SharePoint back in Decembe ...[Read More]