Michael Gannotti on SharePoint +

Good morning all,

In the process of uploading a new video in the Increasing Personal Impact While Maximizing Employability series. This one focuses on getting online. I am also still researching new blog options. After looking at the various platforms, level of work, etc. to put put out the kind of blog I want to do I am back to square one. While WordPress and others have fine platforms and ultimately may be where I end up I would really prefer to move to another SharePoint instance as I want to readily wrap in dashboarding, InfoPath forms, wikis, and more. Given my tight budget I may still end up on Wordpress but I am going to take a few more days this week to see if I can find SharePoint hosting that I can afford.

In the meantime the IT world and personal world goes on. This weekend marked a momentous occasion in the Gannotti household. My son Sam turned 18! I can still remember the cute baby boy I held in my arms for the first time and now wonder where all those years have gone. Next year he heads off to college, and does so truly as a much finer young man than I ever was at his age. I was really excited to be able to give him a present I had been holding on to for the past 18 years and gratified that he got such a rush out of it. His first year on this planet I went around buying news/sports magazines, comic books, baseball trading cards, and many more items and put them in a large plastic sealable Rubbermaid box. The box was then sealed and re-opened for the first time Saturday. The look on his face ad excitement was priceless. Highly encourage anyone with youngsters/newborns to think of creating a mini time capsule for your own children that you can give them when they become an adult.

Well on the IT front there have been quite a few happenings to pass along so here are some Monday morning must reads for you.

SharePoint:

• Case Study: Pfizer Takes a Two-Pronged Approach to Content Management
• Microsoft® Commerce Server 2009 is Now Available on MSDN!
• What's your governance plan?
• FREE User Clustering Web Part for SharePoint from AvePoint
• SharePoint is a Platform, a Very Big Platform
• SharePoint Documentation – Why Does it Stink?
• Upcoming User Groups and SPSaturday’s Not to Miss!
• Half of 10 Winning Best Intranets of 2009 use SharePoint
• Get hip to Mesh… it rocks!
• Looking for a good MOSS BDC Book? Check out SP 2007 Dev’s Guide to BDC
• Ferrari.com goes live on MOSS 2007!
• Using legacy FrontPage functionality in SharePoint and SharePoint Designer to create a file "drop box".
• Default Workflows in WSS
• Deploy Custom JQuery Scripts to the SharePoint Site Collection
• Final Call: Blogs and Wikis in SharePoint, live online workshop
• Tips & Tricks: Microsoft Enterprise Library Configuration

Other:

• Where to Find Windows 7 Logon Screen Backgrounds
• Download Entire Image Collections with Photo Gallery
• Advanced Image Editing in Windows Live Photo Gallery
• This Week on C9: New SDKs, Silverlight 3, Web utilities and cool Show Off Projects