SharePoint Awards Time

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As the FA Cup approaches its final, hopefully with the Villa involved, it is time for me to announce all the finalists in my Andy Dale SharePoint Awards 2010.

Thank you for all the suggestions for whom to include this year in each category. I have spent considerable time checking out all of the suggestions and come up with five finalists in each of the ten categories. Thank you also to the Office Talk consultants for your input.

So far this year it has been a good year for both Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services with no major cock-ups. So I have replaced the ‘Biggest SharePoint Mess-up’ Award although if Microsoft release another Service Pack or put the launch date of SharePoint 2010 back I might bring it back.

Here are lists of all the chosen finalists in each category and you can start voting for the ones that you think should win at the end of this blog. As with programmes like ‘Dancing on Ice’ the scoring system will be in two halves. First half will be a rating between 1 and 5 based on how many online votes each finalist gets. The second half will be a score between 1 and 5 from our panel, of 12 SharePoint Experts, for each of the finalist. This will give each one a score out of 10. In the event of a tie as they are my Awards then I will have the final say on the winner. Hope that all made sense.

1. BEST SHAREPOINT INFORMATION SITE 2010 FINALISTS
a) EndUserSharePoint.com
b) SharePoint Magazine
c) SharePoint Reviews
d) SharePoint Information
e) Bamboo Nation

2009 WINNER – SHAREPOINT REVIEWS

2. BEST SHAREPOINT WEBPART PROVIDER 2010 FINALISTS
a) Bamboo Solutions
b) Quest Software
c) Amrein Engineering
d) Kwizcom
e) SharePoint Boost

WINNER 2009 – SHAREPOINT BOOST

3. BEST SHAREPOINT ADMINISTRATION TOOL 2010 FINALISTS
a) DocAve Administrator
b) StoragePoint
c) Ideara SharePoint Management
d) ControlPoint

WINNER 2009 – CONTROLPOINT FROM AXCELER

4. BEST WEBSITE BUILT ON SHAREPOINT 2010 FINALISTS
a) Swatch
b) Carbon Trust
c) Chilis
d) Hamilton Island
e) Chinook Centre

WINNER 2009 CADBURY

5. BEST SHAREPOINT TRAINING PACKAGES 2010 FINALISTS
a) CBT Clips
b) Combined Knowledge CBT
c) Microsoft Standalone Trainer

WINNER 2009 – CBT CLIPS

6. BEST SHAREPOINT OFFLINE SOLUTION 2010 FINALISTS
a) Digi Link
b) Colligo Contributor
c) Infonic
d) Epona Outlook Integration
e) MyDocs

WINNER 2009 – COLLIGO CONTRIBUTOR FROM COLLIGO

7. MOST USEFUL SHAREPOINT WEBPART 2010 FINALISTS
a) SharePoint Text Size Zoom
b) Column\View Permissions
c) Bamboo sharePoint video Library
d) Lightning Conductor Web Part
e) Notification WebPart

WINNER 2009 – BATCH CHECK-IN FROM SHAREPOINT BOOST

8. FAVOURITE FREE SHAREPOINT WEBPART/ADD-ONS 2010 FINALISTS
a) Free Lightbox Web Part
b) Google Charts
c) Search & Replace
d) Bamboo World Clock
e) Visualizer (Digital Assets)

WINNER 2009 – GOOGLE SEARCH WEBPARTS

9. MOST FUN FREE WEBPART 2010 FINALISTS
a) Daily Dilbert
b) Sudoku
c) Count Down
d) Currency Converter
e) Hello User

10. BEST SHAREPOINT APPLICATION 2010 FINALISTS
a) MediaRich Digital Asset Management
b) ShareKnowledge – E-Learning Solution
c) Accounts Payable System
d) CRM Solution
e) Room Manager for SharePoint

NEW AWARD

Good luck to all Finalists. Please encourage every SharePoint person you know to vote below for each category.

Voting closes midnight 7th April 2010