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Top Blogger Web Part – No code required

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - May 28, 2009

Laura Rogers posted an interesting business requirement at Stump the Panel of End User SharePoint: Here’s a question that came in from jlschu1: I am trying to create a web part on a SP blog site that will display the top bloggers for that site. There is a large group of…

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How to Display SharePoint Blog Post Archives

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - January 15, 2009

While browsing End User SharePoint Forums I stumbled upon an interesting questions from idosp: How does one go about setting up an Archiving “list” on a SharePoint OOB blog? Where all the Nov 2008 entries display? Dec 2008? Jan 2009, etc.? Can this be done with OOB? Indeed, most blog…

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Your corporate intranet ?= Web 2.0 + Wikipedia

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - May 2, 2008

When talking about intranet portals from end users perspective, the most important “feature” for them is content. Yes, a Silverlight photo gallery is very cool but employees are visiting intranet to find more information about company, to perform their jobs better ([:)]), etc… While consulting customers on intranet solution architecture,…

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Word cannot publish this post – part 2

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - May 2, 2008

I already wrote how trilled I am with the ability to publish SharePoint content directly from Word 2007. If are looking to create a blog site that will allow all users to contribute you will need to setup user permissions correctly. By default, Blog Posts list requires approval, but contributors…

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Word cannot publish this post

Misc - Toni Frankola - April 6, 2008

Few days ago, while working with Word 2007 to publish blog post to our intranet site I received an error “Word cannot publish this post“. The error is described in the following KB article, but suggested solution did not solve my problem. The problem was caused by inappropriate security settings:…

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Blogging from Word 2007

Misc - Toni Frankola - April 4, 2008

I just love Word using Word as a client tool for publishing blogs. It is a really good example of software + services model. For years I have been working with different end users that are using custom and Microsoft solutions to create web content. While using Word as you…

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Blog commenting policy

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - July 19, 2007

As you all know SharePoint comes with a Blog site template. The template is very nice, although it misses some standard blog features. The biggest advantage of this blog template is the ability to use MS Word 2007 as you primary blog editor. You can do everything, even upload pictures,…

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