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It turns out that SharePoint is very sociable, at least according to Gartner. They recently published their Magic Quadrant on social software and SharePoint is up there as market leader in this space. Microsoft is ranked #1 on Ability to Execute and overtook several competitors (including IBM) to become...

This video continues my Office Mini demo series with a look at a new feature of Outlook 2010: mail tips If you have any suggestions for features to include in this series, please leave me a comment.

This video continues my series of demos showing Office 2010 features you might not be aware of. This demo shows how to trim a video in a PowerPoint presentation. If you have any suggestions for features to include in this series, please leave me a comment.

This Office Mini demo shows a feature that's been around a while but largely unreguarded: insert text. If you've any suggestions for features to include in this series, please leave a comment.

This video continues my series of mini demos highlighting some features of Office 2010 you may not be aware of. This video shows how to quickly remove the background from an image. If you have any suggestions for features to include in this series, please leave me a comment.

This video is another mini demo to show features of Office 2010 that you might not be aware of. In this demo, I show how to make use of templates from Office.com to quickly produce new documents. If you have any favourite Office 2010 features or things you'd like to see me show, leave a comment...

This video continues my series of mini demos showing features of Office 2010 that you might not know about. In this video, I show how to save an Office document to SharePoint without leaving the client. If there’s a feature you’d like to see demonstrated as part of this series, let me know.

This is the first in a set of mini demos showing some of the simple yet powerful things you can do with Microsoft Office 2010. This video shows how to add SharePoint keywords from within an Office document.

There are some training courses for SharePoint 2010 available at a subsidised rate. These are designed to teach you what you need around key aspects of SharePoint as well as helping you pass the exams. These courses are immensely valuable for anyone wanting to get a competency around SharePoint. SharePoint...

This video introduces SharePoint Workspace 2010, showing the core functionality. SharePoint Workspace can be used to collaborate with other SharePoint Workspaces users or as an offline client to SharePoint Server 2010.

This video continues my series of short business intelligence screencasts. In this demo, I show the Management Dashboard for PowerPivot in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This video is available for download from my SkyDrive .

In this video in my BI Bites series, I introduce the new in-memory analytics tool from Microsoft: PowerPivot. I show the Excel add-in and the new tab as well as introducing the range of data sources that can be used in a PowerPivot application. This file is available for download from my SkyDrive...

This video continues my series of BI Bites demos showing pieces of the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack. This demo shows more of SQL Server Report Builder 3.0 and how to build a report using pre-built report parts from the report part gallery. This video is available for download from my SkyDrive...

This demo introduces another tool in the Microsoft BI stack: SQL Server Report Builder 3,0. Report Builder can be used to create rich reports. In this video, I show building a table using the inbuilt wizard to report on data from SQL Server. This video file is available for download from my SkyDrive...

This video continues my series of bite-sized BI demos. This follows on from the previous BI Bites video, where I showed how to connect a Visio 2010 diagram to data in Excel. In this video, I show how to publish a Visio diagram to SharePoint 2010 using the new Visio Services feature so display the diagram...

This video continues my series of demos showing Microsoft's Business Intelligence solution in bite sized chunks. This video introduces Visio, part of the Office suite, as a tool for drawing rich diagrams and tying them into live data. This video is available for download from my SkyDrive .

I am continuing my series of short business intelligence demos with this look at how easy it is to create a BI dashboard in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 that can contain a range of different components. This file is available for download from my SkyDrive .

This video is part of a series showing the Microsoft business intelligence offering in bite-sized chunks. This video shows how to use Dashboard Designer to create a PerformancePoint Services dashboard for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This video is available for download from my SkyDrive .

This video continues my BI Bites series with a look at a dashboard in PerformancePoint Services for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This video is available for download from my SkyDrive .

This video continues my series of bite-sized BI demos by showing another element that can be built in Dashboard Designer for PerformancePoint Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This video shows how to build an analytics chart from a SQL Server data cube. This video is available to download...

This video is part of a series of bite-sized Business Intelligence demos. This video builds on the previous two to show how to put together a scorecard in Dashboard Designer for PerformancePoint Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This video is available for download in my SkyDrive...

This video continues my series of demos showing the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack in bite-sized chunks. This carries on from the previous demo, where I showed how to create KPIs in PerformancePoint Services for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. In this video, I show how to create a custom indicator...

This video continues my series of bite-sized BI demos. In this video, I show how to create rich KPI in Dashboard Designer for PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint Server 2010. This video is available for download in my SkyDrive .

This video continues my series of bite-sized BI demos. In this demo, I show how to use PerformancePoint Services' Dashboard Designer to create a data connection to a SQL Server Analysis Services data cube.