It’s all about Groove and SharePoint Workspace

From Nov 10th to Nov 14th, I will be at Barcelona for Microsoft TechED.

Like last year, you will be able to find me on the Groove booth.

I will also be speaker on a session dedicated to Groove.

Here is the abstract :

How to extend and integrate Groove

This session will provide attendees with a global overview of available methods to extend Groove capabilities. Using Forms, we will explain how to create customized applications for your Groove workspaces. We will also explain how to integrate Groove with external applications such as SharePoint or to create secured distributed applications. The session will be illustrated by several demos…Some of them will be Business oriented, others will be more playful!  

While “Office for students” operation is starting, Hommes & Process just published an article (in french) related to Groove usage in Education and Reseach sector.

Learn more there : http://weblog.hommesetprocess.com/fr/2008/10/succs-story-hom.html

“Office Ultimate 2007 for Student” operation allows students to get Office 2007 for 52€.The great news is that Groove is included in Office Ultimate !

But, this operation is also an opportunity to provide students with complementary resources, useful for studies.

For example, students benefit from Groove workspace templates they can reuse and adapt to fit their daily needs: project management, group management, former students network… Made of specific tools, these templates provide students with a quick start.

>> Download available shortly <<

Students can also benefit from a specific offer on the GrooveIT! products line. This range contains products that offer integration between Office components and is more precisely focused on Groove. For example, GrooveIT! for Outlook provides a link between Outlook and Groove to easily transfer emails, tasks, contacts, RSS feeds and events from Outlook to Groove workspaces. Sharing information with friends or colleagues, archiving, synchronizing several computers… there are several use cases…

With the same idea, GrooveIT! For My Documents enables documents to be stored in a Groove workspace directly from within Word, Excel or PowerPoint. It also provides search and SharePoint integration capabilities. As a summary, a full set of features to work more effectively with Office products.

>> Learn more about GrooveIT! for students operation (FR) <<

Then, because life is not only made of work, a funny application to integrate your WIFI Rabbit Nabaztag with Groove is available. Define some alerts on incoming messages or on workspaces updates, you will bo notified by your rabbit !

It’s NabazGroove !

>> Learn more about NabazGroove <<

Finally, game is also available. It’s developed using SilverLight – the new Microsoft technology to create rich and dynamic content – and integrated into Groove workspaces. Staying with Nabaztag, this interactive game can be played with several users. The goal: Align the rabbits!

It’s NabazGame !

>> Learn more and download NabazGame <<

To learn more:

- NabazGame presentation : http://blog.fbarbin.com/nabazgame

- NabazGroove presentation : http://blog.fbarbin/nabazgroove

- GrooveIT presentation: http://www.grooveit.biz

- “Office for students” operation  : Office for students (FR)

- Hommes & Process : http://www.hommesetprocess.com

- Nabaztag : http://www.nabaztag.com

In last june, I wrote a first article for IT PRO Magazine. This first one was an introduction to Groove (What Groove does, How it works…etc). 

A new article dedicated to Groove and SharePoint is now available in the October Edition. It covers both technical (how) and fonctionnal (why) aspects of integration between this 2 products

It was an on-going project since July…

A new design to celebrate the first anniversary of this blog !

I spent a lot of time migrating all existing posting from the former platform to this new one. About 100 posting to set up again, links to recreate, images to export, import and resize… A tedious task that obliged me to reduce the number of postings written during the summer period

But… this new redesigned blog is now up and ready

The URL(*) is also be more easy to remind : http://blog.fbarbin.com

And “icing on the cake”, this new blog is written in both english and french

Your feedbacks and comments are of course welcome ! (**)

(*) : Do not forget to update your RSS reader with this new URL : http://blog.fbarbin.com/feed/ 
(**) : But please, do not tell me you preferred the former version

As said in a previous posting, the first meeting of the French Speaking Groove Community was planned for Sept 25. If you read french, visit this page to get a detailled feedback : http://www.groovons.org/2008/09/29/retour-sur-la-rencontre-de-la-communaute-groove-du-25-septembre-dernier/