echo4sharepoint

Updated echo for SharePoint 2007 datasheet

We’ve refreshed our echo 2007 datasheet and made it available on our website. You can view or download here. The datasheet provides positioning, benefits, and a feature over of the current platform (2010 offering to be announced at TechEd!)

SharePoint 2010 Evolution

Headed over to London next week for the big SharePoint 2010 Evolution conference? Be sure to find me in the crowd (and hand me a business card) for a chance to win a Zune HD! echoTechnology is an event sponsor, and I’ll be in the crowd and running demos of the echo for SharePoint platform. In addition, I’ll be posting updates via Twitter and adding photos from the week to our Facebook page. See you there!

[UPDATE: Like many folks, I did not make it over to London due to the volcano. However, participants of #SPEVO can stop by the Axceler booth and register for a demo of the echo platform and still get a chance to win one of two Zune's. Wish I was at the event, but sure glad I am not caught up in the travel mess!]

Upcoming SharePoint Events

The next few months will be extremely busy as we prepare for the SharePoint 2010 launch, and my company, echoTechnology, prepares to release our new 2010 platform, which we call Davinci. Leading up to that launch, and throughout the remainder of the year, I will be speaking at a number of SharePoint community events. My primary topic is “Metadata Management in a Social Media World,” but I am mixing it up a bit for a couple events where I am co-presenting. Most of these events are free, so  I hope to see you there!

Here’s what I have lined up to date:

· Portland SharePoint Users Group, co-presenting "Making SharePoint Social" with Joel Oleson, March 29^th, 11:30am to 1pm (free lunch!)

· Central Oregon IS Users Group, co-presenting "Making SharePoint Social" with Joel Oleson,  March 30^th, Bend OR, 11:30am to 1pm (free lunch!)

· IMAGINE SharePoint, April 1^st, New York City (echo is a sponsor)

· SharePoint Saturday Charlotte, presenting "Metadata Management in a Social Media World" April 10^th (giving away a Zune HD!)

· SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference, London, April  19^th (echo is a sponsor)

· The Experts Conference, Los Angeles, April (use code ‘ECHO’)

· SharePoint Launch Party, hosting this community event with Joel Oleson and Erica Toelle, May 12^th at the Nectar Lounge in Seattle, 4-10pm.

· San Jose SharePoint Users Group, presenting "Metadata Management in a Social Media World" May 13^th (free pizza anyone?)

· SharePoint Saturday Washington DC, presenting "Metadata Management in a Social Media World" May 15^th (giving away another Zune HD!)

· Sacramento SharePoint User’s Group, presenting "Metadata Management in a Social Media World" May 20^th (more free pizza)

· TechEd, June 7^th, New Orleans (echo will be sponsoring)

· SharePoint Saturday Ozarks, presenting "Metadata Management in a Social Media World" June 12^th, Harrison, AR (Free Zune HD? Of course)

· SharePoint Saturday Tampa, presenting "Metadata Management in a Social Media World" June 26^th (waiting to confirm, but planning to attend – with a free Zune HD!)

· Worldwide Partner Conference, July 12^th, Washington DC (echo will be sponsoring)

My goal is to attend a couple SharePoint Saturdays each month, as they are fantastic events – and the best format out there for getting users/admins and SharePoint experts together. If you’ve never attended one, you need to go.

Btw – I am also looking to help coordinate a SharePoint Saturday East Bay (or South Bay) in Oakland, Hayward, San Jose, or anywhere else we can find the appropriate space. If you’re in the area and want to get involved, please ping me.

For updates, you can also follow me on Twitter @buckleyplanet

A Common Scenario With SharePoint

As I was working an almost-all-nighter a week or so ago, I was going through a number of SharePoint administrator and developer scenarios in an effort to come up with ideas for our next video to support the launch of echoTechnology’s latest free tool, the Outlook PowerTool Plus (which you can download here). I believe that some of my best ideas come to me when I am caffeine-enhanced and sleep-deprived…

echoTechnology Launches Free Tool for SharePoint: Outlook Power Tool Plus

Technorati Tags: SharePoint,echo,Microsoft,Outlook PowerTool Plus

News being posted to www.echoTechnology.com:

Free Tool Improves SharePoint Experience for Administrators and Developers

SEATTLE, Wash. - December 14, 2009: echoTechnology has announced the release of a new free tool for SharePoint -- Outlook PowerTool Plus. Outlook PowerTool Plus (OPT+) improves the SharePoint experience for administrators and developers by providing multi-document and multi-line item capability across a site collection. The product is available for free download here.

Features included in this release include:

• Moving multiple files or line items
• Copying multiple files or line items
• Deleting multiple files or line items
• Sending links for multiple files or line items by email
• Sending attachments for multiple files or line items by email
• Copying links for multiple files or line items to be pasted into documents or forms
• Check in and Check out multiple files or line items

Videos and documentation are available to walk users through each of these scenarios:

• Getting the Most Out of Outlook PowerTool Plus
• Outlook PowerTool Plus User Guide
• Outlook PowerTool Plus Installation Guide

In addition, echo has created a viral video for OPT+ on the echo4sharepoint YouTube Channel that’s definitely worth watching.

echoTechnology Launches Social Media Strategy

News being posted to www.echoTechnology.com:

echoTechnology Launches Social Media Strategy

Plans to Improve Customer and Partner Outreach and Communication

SEATTLE, Wash. - December 14, 2009: As part of the strategy around our Davinci release this spring and the launch of our free Outlook Power Tool Plus (OPT+) tool for SharePoint, echoTechnology is implementing a social media strategy to allow our customers and partners to better connect and communicate with echo.

This strategy includes the following components:

• New company blog at www.echo4sharepoint.com
  This site will feed into our corporate website via RSS, and will become the primary media relations center for the company.
  
• Profile on Twitter @echo4sharepoint
  A real-time conversation with our customers and partners, allowing echo to quickly disseminate news, updates, and SharePoint expertise.
  
• Fan page on Facebook
  A great way to continue the dialog with our customers and partners.
  
• Video channel on YouTube
  Another distribution outlet for videos of our free tools and echo for SharePoint platform.

For questions about these platforms or any other echoTechnology marketing programs, please contact Christian Buckley at cbuck@echotechnology.com

echoTechnology Releases New Videos for echo for SharePoint platform: Web Part and Workflow Management

News being posted to www.echoTechnology.com:

echoTechnology Releases New Videos for echo for SharePoint platform

Web Part and Workflow Manager Videos Made Available Online at echoTechnology.com

SEATTLE, Wash. - December 14, 2009: As part of a broader marketing strategy to promote the 'echo for SharePoint' platform, Seattle-based echoTechnology is making available today two new videos for their flagship product: 

• Managing Web Parts in SharePoint Using echo for SharePoint 2007
• Deploying Workflows to SharePoint using echo for SharePoint 2007 

The videos provide comprehensive instructions on navigating SharePoint using the echo platform, and highlight the use of a centralized blueprint website to manage workflows and web parts as a SharePoint best practice.

In addition to the release of these new videos, echoTechnology has announced a number of marketing activities this week, including the launch of a social media strategy that includes a YouTube commercial for the Outlook PowerTool Plus. You can view the spot on echo's YouTube channel.

echoTechnology Adds New Customers

News being posted to www.echoTechnology.com:

echoTechnology Announces New Customer Wins

Echo for SharePoint Platform Continues to Demonstrate Improved SharePoint Experience

SEATTLE, Wash. - December 14, 2009: echoTechnology has announced several major customer wins, including the Defense Information Systems Agency and Hartford Insurance Group. These companies have purchased echo for SharePoint to manage their SharePoint portal deployment and governance activities.

• Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is a Combat Support Agency, engineers and provides command and control capabilities and enterprise infrastructure to continuously operate and assure a global net-centric enterprise in direct support to joint warfighters, National level leaders, and other mission and coalition partners across the full spectrum of operations. DISA is based in Arlington, VA and fort Meade, MD.
• The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: HIG), is a Fortune 500 company and one of America’s largest investment and insurance companies. They are a leading provider of investment products, life insurance and group benefits; automobile and homeowners products; and business property and casualty insurance. They are based in Hartford, CT.

Late Night Installation Guides

Maybe it’s the long hours this week, maybe it’s because I’ve been working all day today (Saturday), or maybe it’s the massive amounts of caffeine, but my installation guide is getting irreverent. Here’s a sample:

Unlike the installation process, at the end of which is happiness and productivity with the help of the Outlook PowerTool Plus, uninstalling only leads to regret and despair. For your own well-being – and for the sake of the children – we recommend that you leave the software installed.

However, there may come a time when you need to remove our software from your system, such as when a renegade foreign government is threatening bodily harm to innocent civilians. Or perhaps you’re trying to install the latest version of Outlook PowerTool Plus, and the installation requires you to remove the old version before proceeding. Both scenarios are understandable.

Here is the uninstall process:

We’ll see how much gets through peer review…

Busy Weekend, Getting Ready for the Major Push

What a week this has been. Servers rebuilt, new creative, a couple new products about to be released, and design and development of our 2010 platform in full swing. This is getting exciting! We’re cleaning up some of the content and structure of our website, having moved from staging to production. Inevitably, we lost some formatting and content along the way. It happens when you’ve upgraded your site a couple times and the people who built the original are long gone. I’m trying to figure out where all the templates and master pages live, and update as I find inconsistencies. But things are looking good. More to come soon…