Add a Twitter widget to SharePoint 2010 Online

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Overview

Embedding a public Twitter timeline to your SharePoint 2010 online website has never been easier. It only takes one line of code to make it work.

Similar to timeline feeds on twitter.com, integrated data feeds are dynamic, real-time, interactive, and allow your guests to easily reply, favorite and retweet directly from your SharePoint pages. Web page visitors unfold Tweets to see details. The embedded Twitter widget includes a text box which encourages visitors to tweet a response, or to begin a new conversation. Additionally, there is an option to automatically show media like photos and video, so when expanded the content is highly visible and shown centered and in front.

Portable Website Solution using SharePoint 2010 Online

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Suppose you create an awesome website in SharePoint 2010 and want to deploy that solution to a different environment, or as a duplicate site within the same infrastructure. Can it be done? Most certainly, and it is easy to achieve.

With Microsoft SharePoint 2010, it is easy to create great website solutions that include comprehensive data sources, with forms, HTML, JavaSripts, workflows, and more. After website solutions are deployed they can be used right away, or turned into site templates which can be easily and quickly implemented in a similar environment, or to a different hosted SharePoint 2010 online domain.

Using SharePoint for a Project Work Site

The Project Work Site, aka the virtual Project Management Office (PMO), is used by the project team and key project stakeholders to manage the project--it holds the project management system and contains the project management processes, guides, templates and artifacts.

Using SharePoint for Disaster Recovery

Using SharePoint to provide near real-time status of systems as they are brought online during IT Disaster recovery testing

Our requirements were to build a dashboard that would show the current status of readiness for the disaster recovery environment as it was brought online. We were having difficulties communicating across teams the current status of readiness and needed something that was near real-time.

I was asked to look at building a Dashboard, so I analyzed what was needed, and recommended using SharePoint. We used existing scorecards that were developed by each team so that as the scorecards changed, the dashboard would update. The design methodology proved very beneficial during testing exercises. The team said the tool was outstanding. It showed very clearly when platform components were available for the next team to commence work. The tool provided transparency and visibility into all aspects of the readiness of the DR environment.

Using SharePoint for Change Management

Advanced Web Site Development with SharePoint and InfoPath: Introduction to the Technology Infrastructure Council

Mission: The Technology Infrastructure Council enables the implementation of new systems or modifications to existing systems that deliver the intended value while ensuring they meet all standards. It ensures operational efficiencies are delivered in design and integration, and minimizes risk and leverages existing technologies