SharePoint 2007 Collaboration For Dummies Review

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Well, I need to learn yet another platform. This it is SharePoint 2007, Microsoft's latest iteration in its evolving online initiative.
"SharePoint 2007 Collaboration For Dummies" is strictly an end-user book. It says virtually nothing about the server side of SharePoint.
The book's greatest strength and weakness are the same: it covers a lot of territory. The weakness of that approach is that in a bit more than 300 pages, you can't cover every detail about everything. Likewise, most readers will not want to wade through every detail about everything. So it is up to the author to compromise.
And author Greg Harvey does a pretty good job of compromising. He takes the reader very much by the hand and walks them through the basics of SharePoint for the end-user. It is a very elementary approach. Harvey does not talk down to the reader, but it is clear that he assumes practically zero knowledge about SharePoint and its component parts . . . which probably isn't a bad idea overall, but it can become a bit boring for those familiar with many of the concepts.
The title is a bit misleading since the collaborative aspects covered are mostly the mechanics of creating groups, permissions, libraries and the like. The book most certainly is not about project management using SharePoint 2007.
Overall, this is a good, if not excellent, book for the absolute SharePoint 2007 novice who has little, if any, knowledge of collaborative environments such as Wikis and the like. The one aspect I criticize is that it often feels like a reworked help file.
Jerry

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If you're looking for a way to help your teams access what they need to know, work together, and get the job done, SharePoint can do just that. SharePoint 2007 Collaboration For Dummies shows you the easiest way to set up and customize SharePoint, manage your data, interact using SharePoint blogs and wikis, integrate Office programs, and make your office more productive.
You'll learn what SharePoint can do and how to make it work for your business, understand the technical terms, and enable your people to collaborate on documents and spreadsheets. You'll even discover how to get SharePoint help online.
Work with SharePoint's information-sharing and team productivity tools
See how data is stored in lists and libraries and arrange access for your teams
Use SharePoint's meeting workspaces and add the capability for virtual meetings online
Create blogs where team members can share ideas and wiki libraries to keep information up to date
Keep everything on track with task lists and workflows to assign and monitor projects and progress
Integrate Word and Excel, or connect SharePoint to Outlook 2007 so you can access information from your inbox
Use Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to create custom workflows for your SharePoint task lists

With tips for designing the perfect SharePoint site and ideas about enhancing your team meetings with meeting workspaces, SharePoint 2007 Collaboration For Dummies helps you put this great collaboration tool to work right away.
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

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