Today, I want to focus on SharePoint in academic organizations. How does SharePoint help educational institutions? How do on demand educational tools align to empower them? The usual educational staff and teacher complaints stem from frustration with the time it takes to get access to needed data. More often than not, too many systems need to be utilized to get access to required data. This also subsequently requires remembering access information and passwords to all those systems. SharePoint has been deployed at many K-12 and higher level educational institutions. Many of them have been our customers over the years. There …

The Offer Access to All of our SharePoint Videos (current and the ones that are added regularly to the site) for 1 full year for $179.55. After the year is over, the access is automatically terminated and there is no recurring charge. Here is the link: http://www.1shoppingcart.com/SecureCart/SecureCart.aspx?mid=E3B7E8B5-AFFB-470E-8E74-F741CA168A51&pid=c36e3c7b07f346538b103f76408d8808 You can use the above link and then use the following coupon code: sp10disc (please be sure to click Apply button after entering the coupon code) That will give you a 10% discount on the regular price of $199.50 making the total to $179.55. The membership will start automatically right after the payment …

Check out the SharePoint Easy Start page!   After years of teaching, consulting, writing and speaking on SharePoint, I realize that each of us is still learning and discovering the power of all you can do with SharePoint. You might be a beginner or have been using SharePoint for a number of years. You might be using SharePoint 2007 or maybe you were one of the first to jump on SharePoint 2010. In any case, we are all still continuing on our SharePoint journey and it is important for us all to understand how the different pieces on the SharePoint …

Do you learn best by watching examples/demonstrations? Do you want the ability to be able to watch the videos anywhere you are regardless of presence of an internet connection? If the answers to these are yes and yes then you might find that our DVD-ROM based video tutorials are just what you need! We are dedicating this newsletter to highlight our top DVDs and provide you with some more information on what you should expect to find inside of each video tutorial package.   SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services Business Connectivity Services (BCS) is one of the Most powerful features …

Lots of good free videos can be found on Channel 9. All have been recorded at the conference in The Hague – Netherlands. http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/spc10 Videos from Andrew Connell, Ted Pattison, Scot Hillier, Steve Fox, Spence Harbar and many more. A couple of my presentations are available as well (one on Workflows and the other on Data Views). Enjoy!

These videos were posted on July 26, 2010. More videos coming later this week. Check out the list of all new videos on the site. Working with SharePoint Security Groups The built in SharePoint security groups are explored in this video – Owners, Members, Visitors and Viewers. It is shown how the user experience changes when you add them to one or more of these groups. Also, some best practice guidance is provided to help you get started with these groups. Edit List and Library content in Datasheet view The datasheet view provides an Excel/Access type of spreadsheet view which …

Have you checked out our videos presenting no-code solutions on SharePoint, SharePoint Designer and InfoPath at YouTube? If not, here is the URL to it. Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/user/asifrehmani.

A written article can only convey so much information. As they say, an image is worth a thousand words. Building on that saying, my belief is that a video is worth a thousand images. At http://www.SharePoint-Videos.com, we have 174 videos so far (and more being added every week) which total up into dozens of hours of video tutorial based training. Since our videos are task based (about 8 – 12 minutes for each video), we needed a way to tie the videos together to have it flow like an article. In addition, we also needed a Wikipedia style way of …

For the first time ever, we are offering a Huge discount on our Annual Site Membership. With an annual membership, you can watch all of our current videos on the site in addition to all of the ones we will be creating throughout the course of the year (New video updates are posted to the site every week).  From now until Friday, Feb 26th, you can use the coupon code ANSPFEB (please remember to click on Apply button after putting in the code to activate it) to take $40 off the yearly subscription price - originally $199.50. You will get 12 months …