I'm incredibly proud and pleased to announce that after 9 months of work (all volunteers!) and 2 very well received/tested beta versions, the final release of the Community Kit for SharePoint: Enhanced Blog Edition 2.0 is now available on the CKS...
Background Some of you might recall that I used to post monthly or bi-monthly "Recommended Reading" lists on this blog, but I stopped doing so back in March because I simply could not keep up with all of the useful content that so many people...
Okay, the press release has just been posted, so please take a quick look at it first. Essentially, we've announced two very significant product releases from NewsGator and Atlassian as follows: NewsGator Social Sites (on SharePoint) Atlassian SharePoint...
When the Community Kit for SharePoint 2.0 pre-release was announced almost 4 months ago, the Enhanced Blog Edition stood out due to its innovative XSLT driven Modular Theme Framework (MTF), which enabled EBE themes to be easily packaged up and simply...
Microsoft's Virtual Earth technology powers the maps on Live Search and many other web-based applications, but many people have wondered how to get VE maps to work on SharePoint. Several months ago, the SharePoint Designer team blogged about a way...
Quite a few SharePoint customers have asked about how to implement blogs internally within their companies as an open, direct, and efficient communication channel for executives to get feedback from employees. One often requested feature that SharePoint...
About 3 months ago, I pre-announced the kick-off of the Community Kit for SharePoint (CKS) 2.0 effort, and fairly quickly, over 20 volunteers signed up to help. After just 2 months of work (mostly on nights and weekends), the CKS team has accomplished...
The Windows Live Writer team just announced the availability of Beta 2 of their excellent offline blog writing tool, which now has support for the blog functionality in WSS 3.0 and consequently MOSS 2007. I’ve been using a pre-Beta 2 build of the tool...
As mentioned previously , the Community Kit for SharePoint is one of the top 3 community oriented initiatives sponsored* by the SharePoint product group. (The other two are the SharePoint Community Portal and the SharePointPedia, the latter of which will...