Want to stay up-to-date with all of the happenings around SharePoint? The two best methods I have found are Twitter and my.live.com. For those who haven’t been bit by the social networking bug yet, you may be missing out. I recommend creating an account on Twitter and checking out Joel’s post on 100 SharePoint People to Follow on Twitter. Then, download TweetDeck and set up a few custom search columns. Trust me, there is business value in this. For those who swear off micro-blogging, here’s a second option. Create a Live account and add a page to your my.live.com site. When you add content, you can choose the advanced option and enter an RSS feed URL. The result is a web part that will pull posts from your feed. Here is a screenshot of my dashboard. Here are some feeds to get you started: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Team Blog http://feeds.feedburner.com/sharepointteamblog?format=xml Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/rss.xml
Live Search Results: “SharePoint” http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=sharepoint&mkt=en-US&src=IE-SearchBox&qb=1&format=rss Live News Search Results: “SharePoint” http://search.live.com/news/results.aspx?q=sharepoint&form=QBNB&format=rss Michael Gannotti on SharePoint + http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mikeg/_layouts/listfeed.aspx?List={1B3BBB8F-4B5A-4F72-94C4-94CB80BC3866} SharePoint Joel’s SharePoint Land http://feeds.feedburner.com/JoelsSharepointLand?format=xml Andrew Connell’s SharePoint Blog http://feeds.feedburner.com/AndrewConnell Jeremy Thake at wss.made4the.net http://feeds.feedburner.com/Made4thenet SharePointBlogs.com Main Feed http://www.sharepointblogs.com/MainFeed.aspx Twitter Search: “SharePoint” http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&q=sharepoint