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BlogCast: Collaborating with a Team Sharepoint site

So when does a demo, stop being a demo, and become a blogcast?  When it's linked to from a blog......

I came across this demo on the Office site today, and thought it was worth blogging about. There are also links to other Office demos too.   

They are rather slick though, and I do like the home grown feel of blogcasts and how "real" they are.  Steve summed things up well with his explanation

  • Anyone can post them
  • No special software/hardware is required to either view or produce them
  • Microsoft have no control over them - in other words the IT Pro community(you!) decide which are good based on the number of hits you make on them
  • They are concise, to the point, pieces of advice/demonstrations that enable you to take action and get more value from the software you already have - they are definately NOT about getting you to buy stuff
  • Many people are creating new blogcasts every day
  • They are short hence require little of YOUR time, little of the author's time & can be accessed from low bandwidth connections
  • The are practical
  • They don't contain any padding hence they get to the point straight away unlike many webcasts!
  • They are free to view and free to produce

So I'll get back to creating some more home grown blogcasts based on what you want to see.  Mind you, looking at the statistics, all you want to do is play with your Smartphone and customise your OWA skin to something funky!

What else do you want to see?

 

Published Friday, April 29, 2005 8:25 AM by Eileen_Brown
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Tuesday, May 03, 2005 11:12 AM by Mark Wilson

# re: BlogCast: Collaborating with a Team Sharepoint site

Hi Eileen, It would be great to see how to use WSS to create a blog site - even Microsoft seems to use .text/Community Server, but surely this is exactly the kind of use that SharePoint could be put to? </Mark>
Thursday, May 05, 2005 3:55 AM by Eileen_Brown

# re: BlogCast: Collaborating with a Team Sharepoint site

Interesting concept - would be a really long blogcast though. I'll see what I can come up with and have a play around - I may splice a couple of blogcasts together taking out the pauses and waffle...
Wednesday, May 11, 2005 11:25 AM by Eileen_Brown

# re: BlogCast: Collaborating with a Team Sharepoint site

By the way - some people at Microsoft use Sharepoint to blog. have a look at http://www.bluedoglimited.com/SharePointThoughts/default.aspx for some ideas...
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