As those of you who follow EndUserSharePoint.com know, I have a high regard for the work being done by Christophe Humbert at Path to SharePoint. Over the weekend, he announced what he will be working on over the next few weeks, and some of this stuff looks VERY interesting.

From Christophe Humbert:
Just a quick heads-up on what you can expect on my blog and demo site in the weeks to come:

• Image rotator
• Easy Tabs
• Calendars
• jQuery
• HTML calculated column
• iframes
• Guest posts

All of Christophe’s solutions are no assembly, meaning there is no developer code and deployment on the server needed. Any power user with site manager permission will be able to implement his solutions.

Definitely worth following. — Mark

Resources:
Path to SharePoint
What I’m Working on

Today, at 1:00pm EST, I’ll be moderating a live online workshop on how to Create a Dashboard in WSS. This is a hands-on session. We give you your own SharePoint sandbox where you can implement nine dashboard type solutions in WSS. Watch the screencast below to see the Visual Status solution and then read about the other solutions.

I look forward to seeing you there. — Mark

Just something to lighten my day:

I have been working on a cross-cultural project with Ayman El-Hattab from the Egypt SharePoint User Group over the past month. He has put together a series of screencasts, in Arabic, regarding SharePoint Content Types. Ayman sent me a note, saying screencasts, a slidedeck and images from the most recent Egypt SharePoint User Group are available for download.

I’m really happy to be presenting these. SharePoint is a world-wide community of users and this content proves it. Thanks, Ayman. Your work is appreciated.

Regards,
Mark

Description of the resources:
"Content types are incredibly cool and fundamental to how SharePoint works with Data and Information. Is this session we�ll explore the power of custom content types development and see how we can use them for customizing the visual appearance, introducing new behaviors and much MORE !"

About Ayman El-Hattab:
Ayman M. El-Hattab works at ITWorx since October 2008, and since then has been working on building solutions using Microsoft Office, SharePoint 2007, .NET Framework 2.0/3.0/3.5, Microsoft SQL Server, C#, XML,ASP.NET and others.

Note from Mark Miller: Last week I did a quick screencast on an idea for a multi-media library. I love it when people take my ideas and expand on them.

This is an excerpt from his article. You can read the entire case study on his site: SharePoint Kevin

Author: Kevin Hughes
I was inspired by the screencast on EndUserSharePoint.com called 5 Minute Screencast: Create a Multimedia Center in SharePoint.

I decided to create a solution along these lines for our company intranet. However, in looking further into the solution I found that many things were probably included in the workshop on this topic that I was missing by just watching the screencast.

Being one to try to find my own solutions to these sort of things I set out to create my own solution.

Criteria:

• The Media Library would be built within a SharePoint site
• The Media Library was to use Lytebox to display the videos
• The Media Library needed to be dynamic enough that an end user could use it by only uploading new videos to a SharePoint document library
• The end user would not need to create any code
• The end user would not need to create any new pages (more on this later)

Read the entire article.

If you would like advanced notice when the next live online Create a SharePoint Multi-Media Resource Center workshop is scheduled, please register below.