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!!!
