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New echo for SharePoint 2007 Videos

As we near the launch of SharePoint 2010 and our very own 2010 product launch, I’ve been slowly but surely adding new videos to the website highlighting some of the core functionality of the echo for SharePoint platform. These videos cover much of what is in our live demos -– minus your ability to ask questions, of course. But if you haven’t had a chance to sit through one of our 45-60 minutes demos, these videos are the next best thing. They cover the following:

echo for SharePoint 2007 Overview  A high-level overview of the echo platform, and the problems we solve

Migrating Content and Folders from File Shares (using the Content Manager in echo)

Migrating Sites and Lists from 2003 to 2007 (using Site and List Managers in echo)

Migrating Sites from 2003 to 2007 using a Batch (same as above, but using a saved batch)

Replicating Master Page Designs (using the Master Page Manager in echo)

Replicating Workflow Changes (using the Workflow Manager in echo)

I am continuing to add to our video library, and am planning to expand to more complex user scenarios that combine multiple echo Managers to solve more complex SharePoint configuration and migration problems. I’m also taking requests, so please let me know what you’d like to see.

More echo FileLoader Videos

Following the success of our Outlook PowerTool Plus feature videos, we’ve broken out the various echo FileLoader feature videos into easily consumable bits! With echo FileLoader, administrators have flexibility and control over how content is moved from file shares, with the ability to maintain, update, and transform their content, metadata, versioning, and folder structures, no matter how complex. echo FileLoader also enables administrators to work offline, putting content and metadata management into the hands of the users who know the content, and how the folders and files should be migrated. Download the free trial or take a look at our feature videos below:

• Identify File Share Content
• Map File Share Authors to SharePoint
• Maintain File Share Reports
• Clean Up File Share Versions
• Replicate File Share Folders
• Iterate File Share Migrations
• Handle Illegal Characters
• Update Metadata

If you’d rather peruse our documentation, you can find them here: echo FileLoader User Guide, echo FileLoader Installation Guide, echo FileLoader FAQs

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.

Hello World!

Kicking off an initial post to get the site built out and formatted to where I like it. Adding a picture from the SharePoint conference last month.