Sean Wallbridge presents his top 5 lists relating to SharePoint tools, activities, websites, reasons to upgrade to SharePoint 2013, and 3rd party components. He invites collaboration to find the best suggestions, and says he will repeat the exercise in the future as his interests change. The document outlines Sean's favorites and solicits alternative recommendations from readers.

1. The book of 5’s – Part Duh!
Sean Wallbridge, SharePoint MVP | @itgroove,
www.itgroove.net
Q1 2014 Edition – Thursday, January 23, 2014

2.  I’m presenting 5 points
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How this works
Suggestions/Recommendations/Favourites - Relating to SharePoint
approaches, products, services … well, whatever I think of
 Let’s collaborate
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You might have better suggestions
It’s okay to agree with one of mine – let’s find the “best” 5 together
 If this goes well
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We’ll repeat it sometime in the future (my tastes change, so might
yours…)

3. 5 Tools Outside of SharePoint I Can’t Live Without
My Top 5
What do you think?
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SnagIt
Camtasia/Jing
OneNote
Notepad ++
Mobile (iPhone, iPad)
Google!
Greenshot – open source
Tethering
Firefox and Chrome (Firebug)
Colorzilla
Teamviewer/Join.me
Cloud Storage (doesn’t matter what kind)

4. 5 Things I Like to Do with SharePoint … (that might catch
on)
My Top 5
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LED Screen Dashboard
The ORB
Coffee Light bulb
Passwords
Finance Integration (QuickBooks)
What do you use SharePoint for?
 Generate Shortened Vanity URL– sent to user via
Lync!

5. Top 5 Websites/Blogs I Follow
My Top 5
What do you think?
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SharePointReviews.com
Twitter
YouTube Search on SharePoint
Slideshare.net
news.google.ca
TheRegister.co.uk
Reddit.com/r/sharepoint
Xkcd.org (chris)
Sharepoint-videos.com, Visual SP
Google Alerts
Stackexchange

6. 5 Reasons to Upgrade to SharePoint 2013
My Top 5
What do you think?
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Drag and Drop into Libraries
Apps and the App Store
Inline Search (and continuous crawl)
Quick View
Work Management (consolidated tasks)
Office Web Apps
PowerPivot
Internet Facing Public Licensing
Access Services 2013
Popularity Trends

7. We didn’t get
past this point
last time…
How about now?

8. 5 Favourite 3rd Party Components for the SP End
User
What do you think?
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Harmon.ie
SharePlus
MetaVis Information Manager
Colligo
Muhimbi
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Nintex
Metalogix ControlPoint
Quest
Colligo Briefcase
Workspace
Archetonomy (Mega Drop Down)
Acceleratio (SPDoc Kit)

9.  @itgroove on Twitter
Questions?
 www.itgroove.net
 Facebook.com/itgrooveservice
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