SharePoint 2007 Collaboration For Dummies [Paperback]

Greg Harvey (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0470413425 | ISBN-13: 978-0470413425 | Publication Date: May 11, 2009 | Edition: 1

If you’re looking for a way to help your teams access what they need to know, work together, and get the job done, SharePoint can do just that. SharePoint 2007 Collaboration For Dummies shows you the easiest way to set up and customize SharePoint, manage your data, interact using SharePoint blogs and wikis, integrate Office programs, and make your office more productive.

You’ll learn what SharePoint can do and how to make it work for your business, understand the technical terms, and enable your people to collaborate on documents and spreadsheets. You’ll even discover how to get SharePoint help online.

• Work with SharePoint’s information-sharing and team productivity tools
• See how data is stored in lists and libraries and arrange access for your teams
• Use SharePoint’s meeting workspaces and add the capability for virtual meetings online
• Create blogs where team members can share ideas and wiki libraries to keep information up to date
• Keep everything on track with task lists and workflows to assign and monitor projects and progress
• Integrate Word and Excel, or connect SharePoint to Outlook 2007 so you can access information from your inbox
• Use Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to create custom workflows for your SharePoint task lists

With tips for designing the perfect SharePoint site and ideas about enhancing your team meetings with meeting workspaces, SharePoint 2007 Collaboration For Dummies helps you put this great collaboration tool to work right away.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Here's just what you need to know to make SharePoint collaboration work for you!

You're not looking for technological wizardry. You just want to help your teams access what they need to know, work together, and get the job done. This book shows you how to do just that with SharePoint! Learn to set up and customize the program, manage your data, interact using SharePoint blogs and wikis, integrate Office programs, and get to work.

• Ready, set, share — understand what SharePoint can do and set it up for your business

• Manage your data — see how data is stored in lists and libraries and arrange access for your teams

• Manage your meetings — use SharePoint's meeting workspaces and add the capability for virtual meetings online

• Open up communication — create blogs where team members can share and provide feedback

• Keep things on track — with various types of task lists and workflows to assign and monitor projects and progress

• The Office team — integrate Word and Excel®, or connect SharePoint to Outlook® 2007 so you can access information from your inbox

• Design new workflows — use Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to create custom workflows for your SharePoint task lists

Open the book and find:

• What SharePoint does to make collaboration easier

• How meeting workspaces can enhance your team meetings

• Tips for designing the perfect SharePoint site

• How to use surveys and discussion boards

• Ways to make the most of SharePoint lists

• How Office SharePoint Designer lets you customize business processes

• A translation of all those SharePoint technical terms

• How to get help online

About the Author

Greg Harvey, PhD is the bestselling author of many For Dummies books, including all editions of Excel All-in-One For Dummies and Windows For Dummies Quick Reference. He has taught business classes at San Francisco's Golden Gate University and holds a doctorate in comparative philosophy and religious studies.

Product Details

• Paperback: 360 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (May 11, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470413425
• ISBN-13: 978-0470413425
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 9.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #132,497 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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More About the Author

Greg Harvey has authored tons of computer books, the most recent being Excel Timesaving Techniques For Dummies and Roxio Easy Media Creator For Dummies, and the most popular being Excel 2003 For Dummies and Excel 2003 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies. He started out training business users on how to use IBM personal computers and their attendant computer software in the rough and tumble days of DOS, WordStar, and Lotus 1-2-3 in the mid-80s of the last century. After working for a number of independent training firms, he went on to teach semester-long courses in spreadsheet and database management software at Golden Gate University in San Francisco.
His love of teaching has translated into an equal love of writing. For Dummies books are, of course, his all-time favorites to write because they enable him to write to his favorite audience, the beginner. They also enable him to use humor (a key element to success in the training room) and, most delightful of all, to express an opinion or two about the subject matter at hand.
Greg received his doctorate degree in Humanities in Philosophy and Religion with a concentration in Asian Studies and Comparative Religion last May. Everyone is glad that Greg was finally able to get out of school before he retired.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Okay introduction to using SharePoint 2007, August 31, 2009

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Jerry Saperstein (Evanston, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SharePoint 2007 Collaboration For Dummies (Paperback)

Well, I need to learn yet another platform. This it is SharePoint 2007, Microsoft's latest iteration in its evolving online initiative.

"SharePoint 2007 Collaboration For Dummies" is strictly an end-user book. It says virtually nothing about the server side of SharePoint.

The book's greatest strength and weakness are the same: it covers a lot of territory. The weakness of that approach is that in a bit more than 300 pages, you can't cover every detail about everything. Likewise, most readers will not want to wade through every detail about everything. So it is up to the author to compromise.

And author Greg Harvey does a pretty good job of compromising. He takes the reader very much by the hand and walks them through the basics of SharePoint for the end-user. It is a very elementary approach. Harvey does not talk down to the reader, but it is clear that he assumes practically zero knowledge about SharePoint and its component parts . . . which probably isn't a bad idea overall, but it can become a bit boring for those familiar with many of the concepts.

The title is a bit misleading since the collaborative aspects covered are mostly the mechanics of creating groups, permissions, libraries and the like. The book most certainly is not about project management using SharePoint 2007.

Overall, this is a good, if not excellent, book for the absolute SharePoint 2007 novice who has little, if any, knowledge of collaborative environments such as Wikis and the like. The one aspect I criticize is that it often feels like a reworked help file.

Jerry