Win-an-eBook Wednesdays is a small three day contest that we hold every week. The Prize? An O’reilly eBook for your choice! Furthermore, if you win, you also get the chance to ask the community whatever question you want and be the judge for next week’s contest!
The only thing you have to do to enter is answer the following question: What is your proudest accomplishment involving SharePoint and why?
This week’s judge is Stephanie Cole, winner of last week’s contest (She got a free Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer Reference eBook)
Stephanie’s Comments:
Answers for this could range from setting up an environment/site for a worthy cause, figuring out a really elegant solution to a code problem, making progress learning SharePoint as a beginner, writing a book, whitepaper or popular blog post, persuading Management to adopt it at one’s company, passing a certification exam, helping a team member get started… the possibilities are endless and could apply to any aspect of SharePoint life.
You have until Friday 19th (10pm GMT) to answer this question!
PS: And guess what, answering this discussion also gives you points for being “top member” and winning the SPDocKit contest!
Some years ago we built a company portal/intranet using SharePoint 2003 for a larger
Swedish company. This portal is still up and running, with the same concepts, design
and information architecture (still on SP2003). Serving 1000 of employees in their everyday work and
adding business value for more than 7 years.
I know I missed the contest deadline, but wanted to share just the same.
My proudest accomplishment to date was being able to provide a solution to a department that they would not find hard to understand and be able to use during a lunch hour meeting. Their team needed to be able to co-author documents and to see each other’s appointments. The items they were working with should not be available to anyone else. I created a team site, with a couple of document libraries for different types of a documents, and a calendar. Using Christophe’s solution for color coding calendars using jquery and a calculated column, we had the calendar created for the team in just a few minutes time. I added a content editor webpart with a “legend” for the color calendar and then provided step-by-step instructions to the 5 members of the department on how to link the team calendar to their individual Outlook calendars.
The department was happy with the solutions provided, and they are now using their team site actively. Their calendar solution has been shown to a couple of other departments who are interested in implementing a simple solution in the near future.
“Build it and they will come” doesn’t work. Solve their problem and share it with others does!
