Melbourne SharePoint Usergroup (MSPUG)

Tech Ed Preview

A number of our usergroup members will give an intro into their Tech-ed presentations including, 

·        COS307 | Exploring the Office Developer Story in Microsoft Office 365

·        DEV312 | Supercharging your SharePoint 2010 Solutions

·        OFS214 | What do Existing BPOS customers need to do to prepare for Office 365

·        OFS215 | Microsoft Office 365: The Future of Productivity

·        OFS307 | High Octane Internet Sites on the SharePoint Platform

·        OFS309 | From Zero to Productivity with Office 365

·        OFS310 | The SharePoint Developers Guide to Project Server 2010

·        OFS312 | Extending Visio to enable a Business Process Modelling solution in SharePoint

We’ll spend some time discussing these presentations and whether there’s suitable interest for a presentation to MSPUG.

Create a flashy news scroller without even thinking about using flash
Jonathan Grasso, Stargate Group

A brief overview on how to create a news scroller/fader for sharepoint.

Functionality includes: automatically cycle between news items on a time. Hover on a news article to skip to it directly, or simply hover on the news itself to pause the and read the article

Easy implementation – only uses one webpart, one sharepoint list, and a custom css and jquery file.

In this presentation I will go over the steps taken to create the news scroller in sharepoint, including the trials and pitfalls associated.  Also, I will be briefly mentioning the required technologies: jquery, css, html, dataviews and sharepoint lists.

The Gruen Transfer – SharePoint Designs that Rock
Design Panel Members

We’ll go through a number of award winning intranet & website designs that have been done using SharePoint & rate the good & bad.