As part of the ISPA board, I'm pleased to announce launch of ISPA web site, it can be viewed at: http://sharepointpros.org
ISPA had been operational for sometime already, but without any web presence it was much harder to get our message across and reach disparate Sharepoint communities all around the world.
You can read about ISPA and it's mission in the following news release.
The International SharePoint Professionals Association, also known as ‘ISPA’, is an independent, not-for-profit, community-driven organization dedicated to support SharePoint professionals and groups all around the world. The primary mission of ISPA is to promote the global adoption of SharePoint Technologies by providing support and guidance to the SharePoint community as a whole - by establishing connections between SharePoint professionals, groups, resources, education and information. ISPA is led and supported by volunteers across the world, and will focus on bringing the entire SharePoint community closer together.
ISPA’s first offering to the community is support to user groups around the world through free WSS v3 web sites for any group that becomes ISPA-affiliated. In addition, one of the goals of ISPA is to facilitate an exchange of ideas between user group leaders that helps increase the likelihood of their group’s success. Therefore, ISPA is providing leaders of user groups with access to collaborative spaces where they can interact with other user group leaders, sharing ideas, resources, best practices, guidance, and most importantly - support for one another.
ISPA has also established Regional Evangelists - existing community leaders who have previously exhibited a strong commitment to the promotion of the SharePoint community, and who have pledged to carry the ISPA message throughout their particular region. These evangelists are key local contacts who are available to work with local SharePoint professionals and user groups throughout their region to help promote the community and SharePoint. If you are interested in starting a user group, have an existing one, or need guidance - the ISPA Regional Evangelists are great resources who are available immediately to assist you.
Finally, as everyone knows, no community is complete without a web site, and ISPA is proud to announce the launch of its official site, http://www.sharepointpros.org. While the web site is still in the early stages of development, plans for multilingual support and exciting functionality that will assist anyone involved with SharePoint are on the horizon.
If you have ideas for ISPA, would like to start a user group, or are looking for assistance, visit the new ISPA web site or contact ISPA at contactus@sharepointpros.org. Together, as the community we can achieve what was impossible as individuals - become a part of ISPA today!"
1 comment:
Thats a very good intiative. Just want to know where do you discuss technical issues etc on SharePoint; Is it through blogs? Well about me I am a SharePoint Developer and has extensive skills & experience on Opentext - Hummingbird Document management. Over here I am looking for some help in SharePoint development. I have to actually display SharePoint documents of a SP site on its extended blackberry portal. Now when I display the list of documents on blackberry, the clickable link of the documents takes the user to parent SP site and so it will ask for the user authentication. So give a working solution, I direct the document links to a page which retrieves the document content and display the results on browser; Code is something like this::
switch (DocExtension.ToLower())
{
case "txt":
Response.ContentType = "text/html";
break;
case "doc":
Response.ContentType = "application/msword";
break;
case "docx":
Response.ContentType = "application/msword";
break;
case "pdf":
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
break;
case "jpg":
Response.ContentType = "image/JPEG";
break;
case "bmp":
Response.ContentType = "image/JPEG";
break;
case "gif":
Response.ContentType = "image/GIF";
break;
case "ppt":
Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint";
break;
case "pps":
Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint";
break;
case "xls":
Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-excel";
break;
case "xlsx":
Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-excel";
break;
default:
Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream";
break;
}
byte[] content = oFile.OpenBinary();
Response.BinaryWrite(content);
On BB the word document and pdf documents don't come up (Cud be the device does not have right softwares). It says unsupported content types. How such a sceanrio is taken care with BB. Do we have to have softwares on BB and what softwares that would be for BB device.
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