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Build a SharePoint collaboration site for your Super Users

Posted by jaygolden on March 10, 2008

This clicked with me a couple of weeks ago. Here I am as an Administrator of a global SharePoint 2007 environment and I am struggling with a way to get all of my Super Users on the same page (no pun intended). This has to change and fast. So I started to think about all of the activities that will start to take shape.

  • The Super Users associated with various site collections will need training.
  • They all have to start thinking about naming conventions for the various content types
  • Best practices need to start forming for how they are going to manage content security
  • I’ve been considering the idea of a newsletter
  • Custom list for submitting SharePoint bugs
  • Collection of links to training material (internal processes and procedures as well as general SharePoint material)
  • Calendar for tracking activities around the SharePoint environment (not to be confused with an internal events calendar)
  • Blog site for internal blogging between the Super Users

So I started to build an administration site that I will use to pull these Super Users together. This will be a collaboration site for the users that will help push this tool for the business…

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