SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration is the indispensable guide for IT and business people wanting to use SharePoint to enhance business collaboration. The roadmap focuses on the business and human side of SharePoint, rather than the technology.

Can’t wait to get my hands on it. You can pre-order a copy here. You can register for a replay of Michael’s Webinar with Colligo here.

Colligo Contributor and Reader behavior is the same here. The latest version is downloaded – in Reader that is the end of the story as it is a reader with no write access.  In Contributor uploading documents will act as SharePoint is configured.

SharePoint Options               Contributor

No version history                Changes uploaded & current version over-ridden

Major Only                             New Major version created

Major & Minor                        New Minor version created

Colligo presented a session on email management.  Much of the content was drawn from the webinar we did with Kathy Hughes (Microsoft MOSS MVP).  The webinar is recorded here: http://www.colligo.com/articles/ResourceCenter.asp.   

In surveying the room, I would say that 25% of people were actively either had or were in the process of moving email into SharePoint.  Around two-thirds (including the aforementioned 25%) viewed email management as a topic on their radar to address in the months ahead. 

Special thanks to Fiazan Hassan and Zee Subzwari from Xelleration (a Colligo partner in SoCal), as well as David Constantine from QuickStart for hosting me in LA for the day.

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Designs and Creates Enterprise Publishing Portals Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Event Overview

Join this session to learn valuable lessons and strategies from the implementation of MOSS 2007 publishing portals at Microsoft. Learn planning and development approaches for rich publishing portals. See customizations and lessons learned in the process of building these flexible, extensible platforms across the Microsoft enterprise. Walk away knowing how to more deeply leverage, customize, and extend native MOSS 2007 functionality.

Presenters: Kiley Williams, Microsoft IT Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation and Martin Cai, Microsoft IT Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Register Here.

Melanie is posting a lot of other interesting information on LinkedIn and is finding an active Colligo community on Twitter.

1 Best SharePoint Information Site 2009
Winner – SharePoint Reviews

The newcomer on the block which contains reviews of 100’s of SharePoint Products

2 Best SharePoint Webpart Provider 2009
Winner – SharePoint Boost

Creating easy to install and use webparts as if they are going out of fashion

3 Best SharePoint Administration Tool 2009
Winner – ControlPoint from Axceler

Finally a way of really managing all those user permissions across all of your servers and sites. Oh, and very useful for moving complete sites.

4 Best Website built on SharePoint 2009
Winner – Cadbury

Chocolate and SharePoint have never tasted so good.

5 Best SharePoint Training Package 2009
Winner – CBT Clips

Still the best solution to show End Users how to use SharePoint.

6 Best SharePoint Offline Solution 2009
Winner – Colligo Contributor from Colligo

Allows SharePoint to be with you even when the network isn’t. Don’t forget to download the free reader on the right.

7 Most Useful SharePoint Webpart 2009
Winner – Batch Check-in from SharePoint Boost

Lets us finally get rid of the ‘Checked Out’ annoyance after we have move lots of documents.

8 Favourite Free SharePoint Webpart 2009
Winner – Google Search Webparts

Keep your users in SharePoint as they Google away.

9 Most Fun Free Webpart 2009
Winner – Picture Puzzle Widget from Spring Widgets

Spring Widget have lots of snazzy free webparts including cat clocks with moving tails

10 Biggest SharePoint Mess-up 2009
Winner – Microsoft for 180 day expire error on SP 2.

Thanks a lot Andy. We are very flattered, indeed, that you selected Colligo Contributor as a winner this year!

I was pleased to see that Colligo Reader is the Top Rated Freeware product at SharePoint Reviews. Colligo Contributor Client also received a 5/5 rating. Thanks to all the people who were kind enough to do a review of both these products. I noticed that they just put a product description of Contributor Add-In for Outlook up there recently, but it hasn’t received any reviews yet. We’d love to get a few reviewers if anyone is so inclined. You can get a 30 day full function evaluation copy of the Add-In here.

SharePoint is evolving at full tilt with new use-cases cropping up every day. In these challenging times, supporting new requirements can be daunting for IT departments already stretched to the limit. Colligo has responded with the launch of Colligo Contributor 4.0, a significant new release that provides important enhancements across the entire product line, and introduces two exciting new products.

Join Dave Foster, Vice President of Product Development at Colligo and me as we discuss how SharePoint is moving beyond the portal and how Colligo can help you respond rapidly with off-the-shelf client solutions. You’ll see a hands-on demonstration of Colligo Contributor 4.0 (to be released in June) and learn how to get more horsepower from your SharePoint investment.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• How organizations are expanding their use of SharePoint
• What is known about the next version of SharePoint
• What’s new in Contributor 4.0 – New features and interfaces
• How to manage email attachments in SharePoint
• How to integrate Windows Explorer with SharePoint
• How to use SharePoint as a Network File Share Replacement
• How the Contributor SDK can speed the development of custom SharePoint client applications

WHAT – Supercharge Your SharePoint Deployment With The New Colligo Contributor 4.0

WHEN & WHERE – Tuesday, June 30, 2009
8:00 AM Pacific / 11:00 AM Eastern
4:00 PM London / 5:00 PM Paris
Online Webinar

PRESENTERS – Barry Jinks President & CEO, Colligo Networks Inc., David Foster, VP, Product Development, Colligo Networks Inc.

COST – COMPLIMENTARY

Register HERE
Even if you can’t make the date, please register and we will send you a link to the on-demand webinar when it’s available.