Before I go any further, I should apologize for my longer than intended absence from SharePoint Blank. You see, the thing is that SharePoint 2010 ate my homework. No, actually, a better and more truthful explanation would be that I was eaten by the monster of SharePoint 2010. Which is not to say that SharePoint 2010 is (or will be) a monster. Unless we're talking "monster" in the sense of "monster hit," in which case, yes, I do genuinely believe that SharePoint 2010 is going to be a monster.
Let's back up, shall we? As you can probably tell, I've got SharePoint 2010 on the brain. Since Bamboo was a member of Microsoft's Technical Adoption Program (TAP) for SharePoint 2010, I've been living, breathing and, yes, blogging SharePoint 2010 for months now, but I've limited the 2010 content to just a single post here in SharePoint Blank. That was a conscious decision in recognition of the fact that most of you wouldn't have had the opportunity to get your hands on it yet. Well, not legally anyway, but we won't get into that. That lack of access will hopefully soon change, however, as the feature-complete SharePoint 2010 beta was made available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers earlier this week, and the open public beta is expected to follow in short order.
I'm really looking forward to blogging SharePoint 2010 in what I suppose we can call the "trademark SharePoint Blank style," but to be honest, I've been going back and forth on a couple of aspects of the logistics of doing so. First, there's the question of when should I start? I'm really anxious to get cracking because I'm genuinely excited about the giant leap forward that I think SharePoint 2010 represents, and especially so regarding the end user enhancements. But the main question I'm mulling over is when would it be most appropriate to begin that blogging? When the public beta is opened to everyone? When the product is officially released?
The other (and admittedly less compelling) question I'm asking myself is where to post the content, here in SharePoint Blank, or over in the SharePoint 2010 blog?
I've got my own leanings as to the answer to both questions, but if anyone has an opinion on either or both of the abovementioned quandaries, I'd love to hear from you as I continue to weigh the pros and cons.
In the meantime, when next we meet, I'll answer the question of what's up with the Twitter-like Web Part for SharePoint idea that I floated here a couple of months ago.
Posted
Nov 20 2009, 11:51 AM
by
John Anderson
John Anderson joined Bamboo Solutions as Manager of Content & Syndication in May 2008 after a 12-year career at AOL. New to SharePoint at the time of his hiring, John was tasked with creating a new blog for the just-launched Bamboo Nation community in which he would document his daily SharePoint learning process. Thus was born the end user-centric SharePoint Blank, for which John authored 200 posts within a year, and which he continues to write today. John writes SharePoint Blank in addition to his responsibilities as Bamboo Nation's de facto managing editor and, while he has learned much about SharePoint in his first year, he gleefully awaits the release of SharePoint 2010, and the reset button that release will represent for SharePoint Blank.