Kolz Blog

I'm very happy to see an increasing amount of SharePoint specific content targeted at information workers (i.e. end users) being posted on Office Online at the SharePoint Server 2007 Help and How-to center and in voice guided training courses. We will also release a SharePoint End User Training Kit later this year that companies can deploy onto their SharePoint environment -- more details will be forthcoming. Lastly, we will soon launch the end user focused "Get the 'Point" blog at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint as the primary channel for the SharePoint product group to engage the information worker community in an interactive dialogue about how SharePoint enables collaboration, business productivity, planning, compliance, and community building to be easy and customizable to suit diverse business needs. While discussing ways in which a wiki oriented SharePoint site can optimize the brainstorming process by providing a more effective way to capture and share ideas (yes, we will release a "brainstorming" SharePoint application template in a couple of months!), my colleague, Janet Galore, pointed out a useful article that she had recently written about how to stir up ideas and capture them by using a group blog. While Janet's suggestions might seem trivial or obvious to long time readers of this blog, most end users are still struggling with concepts such as blogs and wikis and how to best utilize them along with many other features in SharePoint. The new Get the 'Point blog will focus on these topics. <Lawrence />