FREE E-LEARNING
A great new offer this week from one of our Shop Owners in the 'SharePoint Software' section of shops, Competentum. With the launch of the latest version of their awarding winning software ShareKnowledge they are offering all companies 100 free users for a year. The software ShareKnowledge 3.1 is one of the most powerful, cost effective, easy to you Learning Management Systems (LMS) availble for SharePoint. It works on all version of SharePoint (including 2010 and 2007) and certainly is well worth trying out. Just visit http://sharepointvillage.com/?p=633 now.
NEW SHOPS AT SHAREPOINT VILLAGE
New shops continue to pop up everywhere at Sharepoint Village hte latest two being in the SharePoint Software section. A big welcome to Metalogix (suppliers to StoragePoint, a revolutionary product in SharePoint Storage) and IntLock (suppliers of CardioLog, Enterprise Analytics for SharePoint).
We are very hopefully of announcing another two new shops next week so keep checking SharePoint Village.
VILLAGE PEOPLE
Our latest member of the Village People is Joseph Giegerich who is the Managing Partner and President of Gig Werks, an Award Winning Microsoft Gold and Field Managed Partner.
Joe’s expertise is on the topic of SharePoint, business productivity infrastructure optimization, and Microsoft Technologies. BPIO is a model and a methodology to guide companies to deploy IT as a coherent, connected solution, rather than as a reactive deployment of discrete products. This methodology serves to ensure maximum value and ease of use for end users while achieving the lowest total cost of ownership.
Joe provides a regular series of webinars, and presentations for both Gig Werks and Microsoft on BPIO, SharePoint, Business Intelligence, and how to align IT investments with its objectives. Additionally, Joe Giegerich has been on the board of directors of the NY/NJ International Association of Microsoft partners for the last two years and serves as the NY State policy chair for the US chapter.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
SharePoint Village News - Village People
Welcome all to the latest edition of our SharePoint Village News after a September month that saw over 30,000 visitors flood into SharePoint Village.
We are delighted to announce that Kwizcom will be our newest shop at SharePoint Village when their brand new shop opens in the Web Part section next week and we look forward to seeing what they will have on offer for all us SharePointers. We also have two other shops coming soon to your SharePoint Village.
Talking of Web Part offers if you check out the SharePoint Village Noticeboard you will see that Lightening Tools are offering you the chance to win a sparkling new IPad by suggesting a Web Part they can develop. The closing date is 1st November and I have already submitted my entry so fingers crossed.
Also on the popular Village Noticeboard is information on the European SharePoint Best Practices Conference 2001 hosted by our very own leading SharePoint Trainers and shop owners Combined Knowledge. So London gets to host not only the 2011 Champions League Final but also the 2011 European Best SharePoint Best Practices Conference.
Make-A-Wish
It was great to read some interesting news about one of our shops at SharePoint Village, Virto Software, last week. The Make-A-Wish Foundation of America, the largest wish-granting charity in the world that grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions, announced that they had chosen five Virto Software products and services to enhance their SharePoint environment.
The Press Release read "The Make-A-Wish Foundation of America has selected a line of five products by Virto Software to allow its SharePoint environment to be more effective and powerful through adding a variety of new robust features and, at the same time, bringing a level of simplicity to management and development functions. Among the components chosen by The Foundation are Virto Password Change and Password Reset web parts, Virto Active Directory User Service, Ajax Calendar as well as Virto Ajax Data View. The line of Virtosoftware web parts and services helps the Foundation to achieve a new level of efficiency in very different sectors of its work ranging from user account management to web site development."
Well done to Virto Software and if any other shopkeepers, or visitors, would like to share with us any SharePoint work they have done for any charity we will happily publish them.
Village People
The most talked about section of SharePoint Village News yet is the 'Village People' and shopkeepers are all keen to be included. But please no more offers to sing YMCA !! We are still looking for somebody to correctly name all the characters in the original Village People though so please leave a comment if you can help.
So now to our second shopkeeper to take their turn in the 'Village People' and this week it is the turn of Ryan Wheeler the man behind the imaginative Web Parts at Pentalogic.
We asked Clare Stone also from Pentalogic to tell us about Ryan and this is what Clare had to say, "Ryan Wheeler founded Pentalogic Technology in 2005 after working as an IT consultant in the City of London. Pentalogic aims to provide a range of products which fill some of the gaps in SharePoint out of the box functionality. When not puzzling over the mysteries of SharePoint Ryan is most likely to be found snowboarding, kite surfing or mountain biking - or if he's broken something doing one of the above, sat at home with his Playstation feeling sorry for himself!"
So find out who will be the next member of the Village People? Find out in the 3rd Edition of SharePoint Village News out next week.
Maybe we should get each company who have a Shop at SharePoint Village to send in a video of them performing YMCA. Now that's an idea!!!
We are delighted to announce that Kwizcom will be our newest shop at SharePoint Village when their brand new shop opens in the Web Part section next week and we look forward to seeing what they will have on offer for all us SharePointers. We also have two other shops coming soon to your SharePoint Village.
Talking of Web Part offers if you check out the SharePoint Village Noticeboard you will see that Lightening Tools are offering you the chance to win a sparkling new IPad by suggesting a Web Part they can develop. The closing date is 1st November and I have already submitted my entry so fingers crossed.
Also on the popular Village Noticeboard is information on the European SharePoint Best Practices Conference 2001 hosted by our very own leading SharePoint Trainers and shop owners Combined Knowledge. So London gets to host not only the 2011 Champions League Final but also the 2011 European Best SharePoint Best Practices Conference.
Make-A-Wish
It was great to read some interesting news about one of our shops at SharePoint Village, Virto Software, last week. The Make-A-Wish Foundation of America, the largest wish-granting charity in the world that grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions, announced that they had chosen five Virto Software products and services to enhance their SharePoint environment.
The Press Release read "The Make-A-Wish Foundation of America has selected a line of five products by Virto Software to allow its SharePoint environment to be more effective and powerful through adding a variety of new robust features and, at the same time, bringing a level of simplicity to management and development functions. Among the components chosen by The Foundation are Virto Password Change and Password Reset web parts, Virto Active Directory User Service, Ajax Calendar as well as Virto Ajax Data View. The line of Virtosoftware web parts and services helps the Foundation to achieve a new level of efficiency in very different sectors of its work ranging from user account management to web site development."
Well done to Virto Software and if any other shopkeepers, or visitors, would like to share with us any SharePoint work they have done for any charity we will happily publish them.
Village People
The most talked about section of SharePoint Village News yet is the 'Village People' and shopkeepers are all keen to be included. But please no more offers to sing YMCA !! We are still looking for somebody to correctly name all the characters in the original Village People though so please leave a comment if you can help.
So now to our second shopkeeper to take their turn in the 'Village People' and this week it is the turn of Ryan Wheeler the man behind the imaginative Web Parts at Pentalogic.
We asked Clare Stone also from Pentalogic to tell us about Ryan and this is what Clare had to say, "Ryan Wheeler founded Pentalogic Technology in 2005 after working as an IT consultant in the City of London. Pentalogic aims to provide a range of products which fill some of the gaps in SharePoint out of the box functionality. When not puzzling over the mysteries of SharePoint Ryan is most likely to be found snowboarding, kite surfing or mountain biking - or if he's broken something doing one of the above, sat at home with his Playstation feeling sorry for himself!"
So find out who will be the next member of the Village People? Find out in the 3rd Edition of SharePoint Village News out next week.
Maybe we should get each company who have a Shop at SharePoint Village to send in a video of them performing YMCA. Now that's an idea!!!
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
SharePoint Village News - Opening Edtion
WELCOME
Hello, and welcome to our first ever issue of SharePoint Village News.
SharePoint Village News will be a weekly Blog to let you know what is happening at SharePoint Village. We will showcase some of the SharePoint Village Shop Owners and hopefully bring you some of their latest offers. We aim to give you the chance to learn a little more about the individual SharePoint companies and the people behind them.
If you haven't yet had the chance to look around the new and exciting SharePoint Village then why not grab a coffee and have a browse of the SharePoint shops there. The address you will need, which we hope is fairly easy to remember is http://www.sharepointvillage.com/. You can even miss out the www if you are feeling lazy. Actually, I will let you into a secret, but it even works on sharepointvillage.info or sharepointvillage.co.uk.
NOTICEBOARD OPENS
So what's new at SharePoint Village this week? Well, the first new addition is the Noticeboard section which can now be found under Info Point. This is similar to the advertising noticeboards at your local supermarket where you can find little postcards in clear packets. The idea is, for just £50, companies can be of one of eight adverts here for 30 days. One of the first advertisers on the Noticeboard are 'Solutions Developed' who are offering a great SharePoint Admin Training Boot Camp. They even include transport from any UK airport to the training centre.
VILLAGE PEOPLE
Each week we will focus on one of the people who is involved in SharePoint Village. This could be anyone; a Shop Keeper, our Web Designer, SharePoint User Group Leader or even a frequent SharePoint Village visitor. This week though we are going to start with me, Andy Dale, one of the co-founders of SharePoint Village. Yes, I will be the first of our Village People (no not the one in the builders safety helmet).
I work as Senior SharePoint Consultant at Birmingham based SharePoint Specialists Action SharePoint Limited (we trade as 'Office Talk'). Not quite sure how I ended up in IT as I started out training to be a Primary School Teacher, but finished up studying for a MCSE and becoming a Network Manager in the late 90's. I first took part in a SharePoint Project in 2003 and have had the SharePoint Bug ever since.
Away from work I probably have three main passions. If you read my weekly SharePoint blog http://aboutsharepoint.com/ you will know of my love for all things Aston Villa. I have had a season ticket at the Villa since 1981 (the year we last won the league and the year I turned 13 and my dad finally let me go to game at Villa Park on my own). My dad, and brother, are Wolves fans and although Wolves have not beaten the Villa since March 1980 I am still nervous about the two sides meeting on Sunday. Favourite all-time Villa player is Gordon Cowans who was interestingly yesterday appointed to the Villa first team coaching staff as one of Houllier's first appointments. I could talk about villa for days, but want to mention my other two passions.
Passion number two is writing. Yes, I quite like writing my various SharePoint Blogs but most of all I like writing 'hopefully' mildly amusing fictional comedy. If you ever get the chance you might want to read my fictional blog called 'Tell the Groom' about a poor 30 year old called Jon who is jilted on his wedding day and then his life is never quite the same. I have also written children's books and two other romantic comedies.
The third passion to mention (they weren't in order) is my work with children and young people in the Methodist Church. As a 'Son of a Preacher Man' I have always been very heavily involved at Bilston Methodist Church and took charge of the Sunday School there when I was only 23. In 2005 I founded a new organisation for children at Bilston Methodist called 'Spiritblazers' which now has other branches around the UK.
So that really is what makes Andy Dale. Hopefully in future weeks of SharePoint Village News we will find out more about the 'Village People'.
Happy SharePoint Shopping !!!!
Hello, and welcome to our first ever issue of SharePoint Village News.
SharePoint Village News will be a weekly Blog to let you know what is happening at SharePoint Village. We will showcase some of the SharePoint Village Shop Owners and hopefully bring you some of their latest offers. We aim to give you the chance to learn a little more about the individual SharePoint companies and the people behind them.
If you haven't yet had the chance to look around the new and exciting SharePoint Village then why not grab a coffee and have a browse of the SharePoint shops there. The address you will need, which we hope is fairly easy to remember is http://www.sharepointvillage.com/. You can even miss out the www if you are feeling lazy. Actually, I will let you into a secret, but it even works on sharepointvillage.info or sharepointvillage.co.uk.
NOTICEBOARD OPENS
So what's new at SharePoint Village this week? Well, the first new addition is the Noticeboard section which can now be found under Info Point. This is similar to the advertising noticeboards at your local supermarket where you can find little postcards in clear packets. The idea is, for just £50, companies can be of one of eight adverts here for 30 days. One of the first advertisers on the Noticeboard are 'Solutions Developed' who are offering a great SharePoint Admin Training Boot Camp. They even include transport from any UK airport to the training centre.
VILLAGE PEOPLE
Each week we will focus on one of the people who is involved in SharePoint Village. This could be anyone; a Shop Keeper, our Web Designer, SharePoint User Group Leader or even a frequent SharePoint Village visitor. This week though we are going to start with me, Andy Dale, one of the co-founders of SharePoint Village. Yes, I will be the first of our Village People (no not the one in the builders safety helmet).
I work as Senior SharePoint Consultant at Birmingham based SharePoint Specialists Action SharePoint Limited (we trade as 'Office Talk'). Not quite sure how I ended up in IT as I started out training to be a Primary School Teacher, but finished up studying for a MCSE and becoming a Network Manager in the late 90's. I first took part in a SharePoint Project in 2003 and have had the SharePoint Bug ever since.
Away from work I probably have three main passions. If you read my weekly SharePoint blog http://aboutsharepoint.com/ you will know of my love for all things Aston Villa. I have had a season ticket at the Villa since 1981 (the year we last won the league and the year I turned 13 and my dad finally let me go to game at Villa Park on my own). My dad, and brother, are Wolves fans and although Wolves have not beaten the Villa since March 1980 I am still nervous about the two sides meeting on Sunday. Favourite all-time Villa player is Gordon Cowans who was interestingly yesterday appointed to the Villa first team coaching staff as one of Houllier's first appointments. I could talk about villa for days, but want to mention my other two passions.
Passion number two is writing. Yes, I quite like writing my various SharePoint Blogs but most of all I like writing 'hopefully' mildly amusing fictional comedy. If you ever get the chance you might want to read my fictional blog called 'Tell the Groom' about a poor 30 year old called Jon who is jilted on his wedding day and then his life is never quite the same. I have also written children's books and two other romantic comedies.
The third passion to mention (they weren't in order) is my work with children and young people in the Methodist Church. As a 'Son of a Preacher Man' I have always been very heavily involved at Bilston Methodist Church and took charge of the Sunday School there when I was only 23. In 2005 I founded a new organisation for children at Bilston Methodist called 'Spiritblazers' which now has other branches around the UK.
So that really is what makes Andy Dale. Hopefully in future weeks of SharePoint Village News we will find out more about the 'Village People'.
Happy SharePoint Shopping !!!!
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