Sean Wallbridge
Microsoft has produced a SharePoint Site Collection (that you can integrate into your SharePoint site, if you have MOSS – not WSS, sorry), called the “Productivity Hub”, which can help with the adoption and education of SharePoint and the other standard Microsoft Office Products (and in the near future, Windows 7, etc.).
- Where to get it: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=277fefca-d62f-41bc-943d-79002254cfee
- What it looks like (see it in action!): http://templates.wssdemo.com/sites/productivity/Pages/Default.aspx
Here’s how Microsoft describes it:
Microsoft has developed the Productivity Hub to help support your ongoing end user training efforts.
The Hub is a SharePoint Server 2007 site collection that serves as a learning community and is fully customizable. It provides a central place for your training efforts, and includes training content from Microsoft’s core products. Microsoft also provides ongoing and updated content packs.
The Hub uses SharePoint Server’s social networking capabilities, such as blogs and discussion groups. In addition, it offers the Coach program, a change management feature to help you train end users to self-help, reducing the burden on your training and IT staff. The Coach program impacts productivity in a collaborative and positive way.
What the Productivity Hub is:
- Format: Pre-loaded SharePoint site collection, optimized for Web 2.0 functionality and easily deployed within SharePoint Server 2007 environment.
- Content: Convenient end user productivity training in a variety of formats (documents, videos, podcasts, etc.). Receive free quarterly updates of content that you will learn about through the Productivity blog.
- Blog: The Productivity blog offers tips and tricks for end user productivity. Use it as is, or your training staff can use the posts as their own to help them get started in running an internal blog.
- Train the trainer: Includes IT/Manager section to aid with deployment of the site collection, and guidance to develop the Coach program.
- Products: Office 2007 System applications including SharePoint Server 2007. Windows 7 and others will be added in the future.
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