September is an exciting month at SharePoint Village with our First Birthday on 1st September 2011. Difficult to believe it has been a whole year since we worked through the night ready to get all the shops launched on time.
Thank you for all your great ideas on how to celebrate our birthday. We are going to use several of them. Sorry we can't do the one of sending a slice of cake to all the SharePoint Village Visitors. One idea we really are excited about and have decided to launch is a SharePoint Village Birthday Honours List. Well, if the Queen can do it we thought we would have ago at rewarding some of the real SharePoint Super Stars out there. As many of these SharePoint heroes are not ones in the limelight we are asking you to help us find them by nominating them.
We are going to award the honours to four people who you think deserve to be rewarded for going the extra mile to help SharePoint users or promote SharePoint. These four SharePoint Super Stars will then become the first four entries on the brand new SharePoint Walk of Fame. This is a new edition to SharePoint Village and will be found off the Home menu.
To nominate a SharePoint Super Star for a possible entry on to the SharePoint Walk of Fame then please email andy@sharepointvilalge.com by midnight 31st August 2011. Please send us the name of your nominee and a brief reason why.
As SharePoint Village approaches it's 1st Birthday on 1st September it is time to reflect on what an exciting first year it has been. It has been twelve months where SharePoint 2010 has really taken off and many of our shopkeepers have created Web Parts and applications that use this new technology.
One of our newest shops is Layer2 who are SharePoint experts in Germany. Their terrific SharePoint products include a 'Meeting Manager' which promises to Keep your meetings organised and moving forward with up to date information is an often difficult task. Create a SharePoint Meeting Workspace for your meetings, organise and keep everyone informed with ease, providing a uniform approach with better meetings and faster decisions. Layer2 are also working with the exciting new Office 365. The video below shows how to connect your CRM to SharePoint in 'The Cloud'.
We say a big welcome to Layer2 "Willkommen zu Ihnen" and hope that other German SharePoint companies will join the SharePoint Village soon.
Training shopkeeper Combined Knowledge continues to be the leading SharePoint Training provider in the UK. Their End User Adoption Solution is receiving many great reviews.
Birthday Celebrations
Help us to celebrate as 1st Birthday celebrations by sending us a birthday message to andy.dale@sharepointvillage.com and we will publish these on our special Birthday Wall during the whole of September. We are also looking for some birthday words to our SharePoint Village song so please get your thinking caps on. You can sing the current SharePoint Village Song below;
Share Point, there’s no need to feel lost.
I said, SharePoint, there’s too much info around
I said, SharePoint, overload getting you down.
There’s no need to be frustrated.
Share Point, there’s a place you can go.
I said, Share Point, when you’re searching so slow.
You can browse there, and I’m sure you will find.
The right SharePoint solution.
It’s good to visit the Share-Point-Vill-age.
It’s good to visit the Share-Point-Vill-age
They have Web Parts for you all to install,
You can shop there like at the mall ….
It’s good to visit the Share-Point-Vill-age.
It’s good to visit the Share-Point-Vill-age
You can find SharePoint news, you can buy a new book,
You can just take a real good look …
Share Point, are you listening to me?
I said, SharePoint, what do you want to see?
I said, Share Point, you can make real your dreams.
But you got to know this one thing!
Where else offers you more software.
I said, Share Point, there’s a village out there,
And just go there, to the Share-Point-Vill-age.
But don’t you forget the dot com.
It’s good to visit the Share-Point-Vill-age.
It’s good to visit the Share-Point-Vill-age
SharePoint Village is delighted to announce that the Andy Dale SharePoint Awards, now in their third year, are to become the 'SharePoint Village Awards' and all the voting will take place within SharePoint Village. We hope that the new home for the Awards will mean that even more votes of cast this year than last.
So we are looking for nominations for finalists in each of the 10 following SharePoint Categories.
1. Best SharePoint Information Site
(sorry you can't nominate SharePoint Village)
2. Best SharePoint Web Part Provider
3. Best SharePoint Administration Tool
(Control Point are going for a hat-trick)
4. Best Web Part Provider (Who creates, offers and supports the best range of Web Parts)
5. Best SharePoint Training Package
6. Best Offline or Mobile SharePoint Solution
(We have added Mobile devices into this category)
7. Most Useful SharePoint Web Part
8. Favourite FREE SharePoint Web Part or Application
9. Most Fun SharePoint Web Part
10. Best SharePoint Application
So please email andy.dale@sharepointvillage.co.uk or complete a SharePoint Village Contact Form to nominate a SharePoint company, application or Website for any of the 10 Awards. Please state clearly which category, company name, product and include a link to their website.
This is how last year's Andy Dale Award's went to help you with your nominations;
