We've been kinda quiet on the blog since the flurry of activity during the SharePoint Conference, and while we worked on some content deadlines around the office.

 

We'll try to make up for that in the coming weeks. Until then, I have two articles to share with you, both thought-provoking, but for different reasons.

 

You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em when it comes to deciding how and when to customize your SharePoint sites. Those are wise words from Lori Gowin, a SharePoint administrator who knows. My favorite part is her description of a common pitfall of out-of-the-box customization. "Despite how many times you repeat 'don’t click the X, that only closes the web part, it does not delete it from your page,' users will still do this," she says. Check it out.

 

On the more lighthearted side, Speed dating with SharePoint 2010 gives an account of a social computing presentation given by Christian Finn and Alina Fu at the Enterprise 2.0 conference this week in San Francisco. Sounds like fun. Wish I were there to see that.

 

That's all for now. See you next week.

 

Matt Evans

SharePoint End-User Content Team