National SharePoint Experts would be in Nashville to speak at the world’s business-oriented conference on SharePoint and Microsoft Office System called The SharePoint Information Worker Conference 2008 from February 4-5, 2008. The conference is designed for business web and application professionals who needs to stay on leading edge technologies on MOSS 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services business applications.

More of the conference news found here.

SharePoint Solutions has released Alert Manager 2007 which expands the alert of SharePoint through the following features:

Alert Pipeline is a free add-in for SharePoint which expands its alert capabilities. The description of the add-in are as follows:

A study conducted by Network World results in SharePoint being the de-facto standard for enterprises. More than half of organizations who have deployed Exchange Server are already using SharePoint and additional 12% of them would be deploying SharePoint in the next year.

It is too bad that Knowledge Network was already dropped. Several months back, I worked for a few months on the beta version of Knowledge Network; but unfortunately it was canned before we could implement that in the enterprise level.

There is buzz that Red Hat and Alfresco Collaboration Solution for SMBs is the SharePoint killer.

In an excerpt:

Microsoft has released the Accessibility Toolkit for SharePoint 1.0

This is described as:

The Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS) provides templates, master pages, controls, and web parts along with technical documentation that enable designers and developers to advance the accessibility of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 based web sites and applications for people with disabilities, especially those who are vision impaired.

This is a quote published at ComputerWorld about Chevron Oil’s SharePoint implementation.

Integrating SharePoint at Chevron Oil is being done with care, said Louie Ehrlich, CIO for Chevron’s global downstream operations, which primarily involve refinery functions. “We’re playing with things and being cautious,” he said. “We don’t have a clear strategy.” Ehrlich said the challenge becomes finding ways to integrate such new technologies into Chevron’s overall budget imperatives.

It is definitely challenging to integrate SharePoint in the overall budget imperatives if you do not have a strategy.

Comments from ComputerWorld.

Tisson Mathew, Aivea has written a whitepaper titled: Microsoft SharePoint Moves Into Enterprise Content Management. This provides perspective on the power and rise of SharePoint as a powerhouse in ECM.

In an excerpt:

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1) was released by Microsoft.

Overview