March'14 in Shares

A new initiative in the blog: Month in Shares.

I usually read a lot about SharePoint and technology in my own time and I believe good content deserves to be shared. Every month I'll take a look at the retweets I've made and do some sort of curation work with the highlights.

Here's March'14.
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The big event was definitely the SPC! It was nice seeing Microsoft get Bill Clinton for the opening, showing how big of a bet SharePoint is for Microsoft.

The branding discussion is very lively as well, I think it is common ground that the "SharePoint" name itself is getting diluted into a number of other brands...Office 365, OneDrive for Business, Yammer...all of them are the new "SharePoint". In my opinion, not a bad thing at all!

Without further due, here's this month's list of selected shares:

1. SPC14, SPC14, SPC14...
• Coverage of the Keynote in CMSWire, by Jennifer Mason (blog)
• Is the SharePoint "brand" slowly disappearing? by Benjamin Niaulin (company blog)
• Extensive list of key takeaways from the conference, by Sahil Malik (blog)
• Analysis of some of the key announcements from the conference, by Tobias Zimmergren (blog)
2. When should we use SharePoint OOTB, leverage 3rd party apps, or build custom solutions?
• Richard Harbridge goodness! This is the discussion we should always have in mind when implementing new project, take a look here.
• Check his blog, awesome content, one of my favorite blogs out there.
3. SharePoint 2013 Search Query Tool
• A tool to test and debug search queries against the SharePoint 2013 Search REST API, available in CodePlex.
• Made by Nadeem Ishqair (Microsoft), which has a nice blog on Search as well, called Search Space.
• Other Search experts have contributed, such as Mikael Svenson and Maximilian Melcher.
• If you haven't check their blogs, you should too - here (Tech and me) and here (Melcher.it).
4. MVPs for Open Source Contributions
• Scott Hanselman shares his thoughts and background on the recent inclusion of Open Source contributions as a self-sufficient activity to get someone awarded an MVP, here. Personally, I find this more than fair.
• You can check Scott's blog as well, he's one of the most respected professionals in the Microsoft arena.
5. Lock site collections in SharePoint Server 2007 and 2010
• Always good to remember, JOPX shares how to lock site collections (read only), a more granular alternative to locking Web Applications using User Policies.
• Check his blog too, always some nice, up to date, SharePoint content.

Lots of great content out there and great to be in a community with such amazing contributors worldwide!

Hope you've enjoyed the links.