SharePoint Musings

I have been using SharePoint since about the middle of April 2004. I consider myself to be an expert on SharePoint. I by no means know everything but I have learned a lot and continue to learn everyday about the things that make SharePoint actually work and about the things that make it NOT work. One thing that I would like to pass on to any person that thinks that SharePoint is just another web site is this. 'Put it in front of a user and tell them, there you go there is your web site'. Guess what, you just gave them a web site. (nothing on it, no content, no users, no interaction) they will never return to that site because they don't know what to do with it and even if they did go to it there is nothing there for them.
Now take that same user. Sit them down in front of the "web site" you have given them, show them how to add users, show them how to upload a document, show them how to add a link to a link list, show them how to make a discussion, show them how to add pictures and create their own sub sites and you have just given them the ability to take everything that they currently have on their own computers and share it with every other person they work with. This is what SharePoint is about, its about giving people the power to take control over the information they currently have and share it with the people that need that information.