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Tamara Bredemus

THANK YOU SPONSORS!Use #SPSOmaha in your tweets to thank them!

SLIDES AND DEMOS POSTED SPS events omahaHeyTamara.Com

AGENDA•Build a Demo Site Collection•Metadata vs Folders•List vs Spreadsheet•Company Templates

- BUILD IT ONCE. SHOW IT OFTEN

Step-by-step instructions for build available at HeyTamara.com

TAMARA BREDEMUS•Director of Collaboration Services•SharePoint since 2008•Code Free•Blog: HeyTamara.com•Twitter: @TamaraBred

Ideas expressed in this session are mine andshould not be considered the opinion of the City of Minneapolis.

LET’S GET STARTED

BUILD A DEMO SITE COLLECTION

WHAT KIND OF SITE COLLECTION?•Collaboration Team Site w/o Publishing Feature enabled•Collaboration Team Site WITH Publishing Feature enabled• - No custom site templates•+ Fancy navigation

Add more demo sites to demonstrate the usefulness of each Site Collection or Site Template.

BUILD A DEMO SITE

COLLECTIONCollaboration Team Site

w/o Publishing Feature enabled

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BUILD A DEMO SITE COLLECTIONGet rid of get started with your site.

Metadata vs FoldersA Tale of Two Libraries

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TELL YOUR USERS, NO MORE FOLDERS!

You are kidding?Right?!

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SHOW.DON’T TELL.

VIEW VIDEO OF DEMO 

METADATAVS

FOLDERS

•Pictures of animals•Metadata Library•Choice columns•Views

•Folder Library• Folders for types of animals•Sub-folders for size•Sub-sub-folders for color

What you will need

DEMO

List vs SpreadsheetSet users free from copy and paste

Get out of the spreadsheet.

I need to add MY updates before the meeting.

Who saved over my changes?

Copying and pasting into the master.

LISTVS

SPREADSHEET •Spreadsheet•SharePoint•Views

What you will need

DEMO

LISTVS

SPREADSHEETImport a spreadsheet

LISTVS

SPREADSHEETImport a spreadsheet

LISTVS

SPREADSHEETImport a spreadsheet

LISTVS

SPREADSHEET •Change column types•Create views

Import a spreadsheet

Company TemplatesNo more hunting for the graphic standards

COMPANYTEMPLATES

•Company document templates•Content type for each template•Document Library

What you will need

Steps to create content types

DEMO

THE POWER OF VIEWSBONUS ROUND

POWEROF

VIEWS•Announcement list•Display Date column•Page (Landing Page)•Summary view• Filter by Display Date and Expires

What you will need

DEMO

WHAT DID WE LEARN

•HARD TO SELL WHAT THEY HAVEN’T SEEN.•BUILD IT ONCE.•SHOW IT OFTEN.

QUESTIONS?Slides posted on:• SPS events omaha• HeyTamara.Com

THANK YOU SPONSORS!Use #SPSOmaha in your tweets to thank them!