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Norwegian SharePoint Community, second meeting

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The second meeting in the newly started Norwegian SharePoint Community group (link: here) were recently held. The meeting was fully booked (just as the 1. meeting), and there were a waiting list to attend. In other words a popular and most welcome initiative in the SharePoint community in Norway!

3 sessions were held, and the focus this time was usability and front end development experience and advice.

The first usability session, held by Anita Jenbergsen from Bouvet, elaborated on the added functionality to the https://www.statoilhydro.com/ site after its initial release. The functionality has had a very positive effect on usability for editors and includes:

  • Richer image handling and upload process
  • Custom Create Site and Create Page dialogs
  • Reporting dashboard for the items in the publishing pipeline and common tasks

The Front End session raised and answered some common front end issues that usually have to be dealt with in SharePoint development projects. The presenters, Ine Pettersen and Stig Nicolaisen (both Bouvet), demonstrated examples from https://www.statoilhydro.com/, REC intranet and Wilh. Wilhelmsen (WW) group intranet along with CSS best practices developed in the https://www.statoilhydro.com/ site.

Kristin Halvorsen from Objectware convinced the audience in the second usability session of some key points to be aware of in the initial phases of SharePoint projects to ensure usability.

The https://www.statoilhydro.com/ SharePoint site has with this received a lot attention in the Norwegian SharePoint Community as the 1. meeting included a session with Frank Jusnes, from Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS), focusing on the development process in SharePoint projects.

You can watch the sessions online, as they were recorded with LiveMeeting 2007 and RoundTable, link: here (supply a name and search).

 Running the sessions with LiveMeeting allowed participants nation-wide to attend, and this sets the standard for community meetings in the future! Unfortunately the Front End session were not recorded.

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