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Social Computing + Microsoft = SharePoint

So you want to do Social Computing on Microsoft platform? Well its now a no brainer. SharePoint is the tool that allows: Source

Empower Teams Through Collaborative Workspaces

Microsoft delivers a best-of-breed collaborative infrastructure that gives end users the tools to easily create their own workspaces and share assets across teams, departments, and organizations while maintaining IT control.

Connect Organizations Through Portals

Microsoft will help bring the full insight and data of the organization to the right people at the right time by making it easy to connect people with line-of-business data, experts, and business processes across the organization.

Enable Communities with Social Computing Tools

Microsoft gives organizations the tools to deliver a broad set of social computing capabilities within their existing workspace and portal infrastructure, so end users can more easily harness the collective intelligence of the organization.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Capabilities

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Capabilities

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a new server program that is part of the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Your organization can use Office SharePoint Server 2007 to facilitate collaboration, provide content management features, implement business processes, and supply access to information that is essential to organizational goals and processes.

You can quickly create SharePoint sites that support specific content publishing, content management, records management, or business intelligence needs. You can also conduct effective searches for people, documents, and data, participate in forms-driven business processes, and access and analyze large amounts of business data.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a single, integrated location where employees can efficiently collaborate with team members, find organizational resources, search for experts and corporate information, manage content and workflow, and leverage business insight to make better-informed decisions.

•	Collaboration Allow teams to work together effectively, collaborate on and publish documents, maintain task lists, implement workflows, and share information through the use of wikis and blogs.
•	Portals Create a personal MySite portal to share information with others and personalize the user experience and content of an enterprise Web site based on the user’s profile.
•	Enterprise Search Quickly and easily find people, expertise, and content in business applications.
•	Enterprise Content Management Create and manage documents, records, and Web content.
•	Business Process and Forms Create workflows and electronic forms to automate and streamline your business processes.
•	Business Intelligence Allow information workers to easily access critical business information, analyze and view data, and publish reports to make more informed decisions.

CSC Study Identifies Emerging Wave of Disruptive Technologies That Will Reshape Business

CSC Study Identifies Emerging Wave of Disruptive Technologies That Will Reshape Business


FALLS CHURCH, Va., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- CSC (NYSE: CSC) today announced that a wave of disruptive technologies is reshaping industry, triggering new business models and altering consumer and employee behaviors, according to a report issued by CSC's (NYSE: CSC) Leading Edge Forum (LEF).

The report identifies seven "digital disruptions" that 21st century businesses must understand to position themselves for success in an emerging economy that places value predominantly in the production, enhancement and sharing of information and cultural content.

These disruptions represent the next phase in the information revolution precipitated by the launch of the Internet toward the end of the 20th century. They will stimulate the formation of new industries, extend the tremendous gains in productivity brought about by the Internet and challenge existing social, economic, political and cultural norms.

"The 'Networked Information Economy,' to use Harvard Professor Yochai Benkler's term, will come to be defined by waves of digital disruptions that continue to reshape the way we work, the way we socialize and what we value," said Alex Fuss, LEF associate and the report's lead researcher.

"The latest disruptions are powering the formation of this new economy and may be the greatest challenge to the status quo the world has ever seen, and ultimately the greatest driver of productivity."

The seven digital disruptions that will reshape business are:

-- New Media: media is becoming increasingly consumer-driven, interactive, social, customized and personal. Today's consumer is a "proviewer," a source of new content and potential threat to traditional media.

-- Living in a New Reality: we increasingly live in a blended reality that combines physical and virtual reality, improving both. Augmented reality helps businesses manage data centers virtually, students learn about weather patterns by "flying" through them, and consumers shop for clothes by building, and fitting, virtual selves.

-- Social Power: social sites are becoming the starting point or hub of our cyber experience. In the enterprise, social power has revenue power, enabling businesses to quickly tap into expertise to make more informed decisions faster.

-- Information Transparency: information that was once not available now is, shedding light on previously opaque people, places and things. Businesses will be able to "see" all their assets, bringing new levels of safety, efficiency and innovation. Consumers will benefit from highly tailored services such as, eventually, personalized medicine.

-- New Wave of Waves: new hardware and software tools are refining our ability to control radio wave signals. Old business models, like traditional broadcast AM/FM radio, are becoming obsolete. Technologies such as software defined radio and cognitive radio are shattering the need for spectrum allocation. New opportunities and architectures are emerging, such as "viral radio," enabling infinitely scalable networks with no central backbone.

-- Platform Makeover: virtualization and cloud computing are changing today's computing model, enabling anytime, anywhere accessibility for users and applications. Nanotechnology, molecular computing, quantum computing and optical computing will take us beyond silicon, providing greatly increased speed and bringing new applications, opportunities and challenges.

-- Smart(er) World: technology is becoming smarter, gradually approaching and eventually overtaking human ability to appreciate the meaning of patterns, proactively associate and correlate data, reason and make decisions. The future will bring us lifelike virtual assistants, semantic Web search, enterprise applications that identify relationships across data and information technology (IT) systems that give end users the ability to define business processes. Additionally, predictive behavioral software is improving employee performance, safety and productivity, and software that senses brain wave activity is leading to improved lie detection and, eventually, to mind reading.

While these disruptions represent distinct technology developments, many of them overlap, triggering new and more powerful disruptions. Virtual worlds are the next frontier for social networks. Social networks have a strong influence on new media. Information transparency is a prerequisite for a smart(er) world. Innovations with radio waves and wireless applications enhance information transparency. New platforms will turbo-charge the other disruptions.

"Forewarned is forearmed; businesses must be aware of these disruptive technologies if they are to successfully navigate the unprecedented changes we anticipate over the next several years and beyond," said Fuss. "These disruptions will transform the marketplace and society so completely that businesses cannot afford to wait for developments to transpire. They need to dive in head first and begin experimenting with all these technologies have to offer."

The report provides in-depth analysis of each disruption, offering specific examples of how they are shaping the marketplace, and is available for free at URL http //www.csc.com/features/2008/333.shtml.

To learn more about these "digital disruptions" join the conversation with lead researcher Alex Fuss at the Digital Disruptions blog:

http://www.csc.com/ee/lef/C20/.

Part of CSC's Office of Innovation, the Leading Edge Forum provides clients with access to a powerful knowledge base and global network of innovative thought leaders who engage technology and business executives on the current and future role of IT. Focusing on the practical use of technology, the LEF offers a CSC point of view on technology trends to help
clients understand what will happen in the future and how to benefit from change.

About CSC

CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary lines of business. These include Business Solutions & Services, Global Outsourcing Services and the North American Public Sector. CSC's advanced capabilities include systems design and integration, information technology and business process outsourcing, applications software development, Web and application hosting, mission support and management consulting. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 90,000 employees and reported revenue of $17.1 billion for the 12 months ended July 4, 2008. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.csc.com.

Paul Andrew : SPDisposeCheck v1.3.1 is released

SPDisposeCheck is a tool to help SharePoint Developers follow memory management best practices when using the SharePoint API with IDisposable objects including SPSite and SPWeb. This tool is not supported by Microsoft and is recommended to be used on Developer workstations and not on production SharePoint Server installations.It was released yesterday at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SPDisposeCheck

Paul Andrew : SPDisposeCheck v1.3.1 is released

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Windows SharePoint Services - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Changes I have added, please edit as you see fit

The Content Objects hierarchy

Because WSS is primarily used to create html delivered sites in the form of .aspx files it is logical view the WSS object hierarchy starting from that type of object. WSS represents single web pages with the SPWeb object.

The SPWeb class is part of the Microsoft SharePoint Namespace in the Assembly microsoft.sharepoint.dll. This dll is located in the GAC folder. The Web property of the SPContext class returns the SPWeb object of the current Web site. Thus the following C# code sets WebValue to the SPWeb:

• SPWeb WebValue = SPContext.Current.Web;

SharePoint content model allows the creation of SPWeb objects above and below other SPWeb objects. To innumerate subsites from a given SPWeb instance you use the method Webs.

A set of SPWebs can be collected together in a SPSite object. SPSite represents a Site Collection object in SharePoint. A SPSite will have SPContentDatabase object as a parent. This represents the SQL Server database that stores the Web Applications content. Parent to this class is the SPWebApplication object. The database represented by the SPContentDatabase object stores content for the SPWebApplication object. SPWebApplication inherits from the SPWebService class.

The following C# code will set ContentDatabases to the ContentDatabaseCollection

• public SPContentDatabaseCollection ContentDatabases { get; }

Below a SPWeb object is the SPWebList. SPWebList represents the SharePoint list object. Understanding lists is central to understanding how SharePoint manages information. Essentially everything that is managed by SharePoint will be in a list at some level. WSS 3.0 places emphasis upon lists over pages as such.

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SPList is composed of distinct elements of the SPListItem. Each SPListItem will have a set of SPFields. SPFields is the lowest object of the hierarchy.

Rober1236jua (talk) 16:56, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Windows SharePoint Services - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects

Summary: Learn best practices to follow when using Windows SharePoint Services objects to avoid retaining the objects in memory in the Microsoft .NET Framework. (29 printed pages)Scott Harris, Microsoft Corporation

Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects

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Understanding the Administrative Object Model of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Understanding the Administrative Object Model of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

The SharePoint .NET object model.  Just to review.  SPWebApplication is the Web Application sitting at either a host heater or a port.  It is an IIS web site.  SPContentDatabase is the SQL Server Database assigned to a Web Application.  Web Applicaitons contain one or more sites SPSite, and SPSite contains one or more SPWeb which are pages.

Quoting Microsoft

Some characteristics of the SPWeb class are as follows:

• An SPWeb object can be a child of another SPWeb object or of an SPSite object. If it is the child of an SPSite object, it is the top-level Web site in its site collection.

• An SPWeb object has a Webs property that returns a collection of other SPWeb objects; specifically, the immediate child subsites under it.

• The class has a very rich set of members for programmatic administration and customization of the Web site.

A hierarchy of Web sites always has exactly one top-level Web site. This site is the child of an SPSite object. You can learn more about the top-level Web site in the section Windows SharePoint Services Site Collections later in this article.

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Performance Poiont Server is being rolled up in to SharePoint 14

Last week, I covered the announcement that Performance Point Server was being rolled in to SharePoint, and highlighted the sadly light guidance Microsoft provided in its “strategic roadmap” for the future of the various components of Performance Point Server. The Performance Point Server announcement was the first really big announcement related to the upcoming releases of SharePoint and Office, currently code named SharePoint 14 and Office 14. I’ll go out on a limb and gamble that Microsoft will brand as Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010, but only after a significant amount of careful market research. Microsoft also recently announced Exchange 14 with a video on the Exchange Team

Blog.Microsoft has been unusually “tight lipped” about the next versions of the Office and Unified Communications products. While selected organizations are testing the applications, very few analysts, authors, partners, or even MVPs have had the chance to see the current builds.Click here to read more about SharePoint 14 and Office 14

From Office & SharePoint Pro Update (officeandsharepointpro_update@email.officesharepointpro.com_

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User XSL to customise the blog entry

Now to make further customisations to our blog project we open Office Designer and enter the URL of the web page in Open Site.

Desginer shows the content of SharePoint pages in a WSYWYG tool.

This gives you the ability to edit the XSL code that presents the blog information. You can work with the graphic editor, but I would imagine anyone who is ready to play around with XSL code will know enough to work with the back-end code. It's pretty clean XSL and, as you can see here, adding a new one is fairly simple

So you can customise your blog page to, say, have the categories show up on the top, like with Blogger.com.

Microsoft on Virtual Reality?

"The ultimate dream is to merge the real world and the virtual world into a totally seamless experience" -- PhotoSynth project

The point at which Microsoft will met VM and Virtual Community is PhotoSynth and SharePoint.

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Interesting Story on the Fall of US TV Preachers (Yes a New Media Link)

Today's increasingly fragmented media landscape is also to blame, said Quentin Schultze, a Calvin College professor who specializes in Christian media.

Church-based televangelism led by powerful personalities filled TV in the 1980s, but now only a handful of shows remain, he said. Among the struggling ministries are those of Oral Roberts and the late D. James Kennedy of "The Coral Ridge Hour" TV show.

"I don't see a scenario for maintaining a TV-based megachurch anymore. The days of doing that in the models of Schuller and Jimmy Swaggart and Oral Roberts are over," Schultze said. "It's amazing to me that the 'Hour of Power' was able to keep going as long as it did."

Through a spokesman, Schuller Sr., his family members and other cathedral officials declined to comment. The younger Schuller, 54, did not respond to an e-mail requesting an interview.