Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Plain & Simple 1st Edition

The book is designed not only as a training guide, but also as an orientation and awareness tool. As a training guide it has logical chapter introductions that lead to numbered action steps (i.e., procedure) that correspond to appropriate locations on colored graphic screen shots. Colorization renders the screen-shot details more legible - a common challenge to books/e-books with busy black and white screen-shot pages that require a magnifying glass to render its text legible. In this book, the approach and procedures are systematically repeated in each lesson thus the reader need not self-re-orient him/herself when entering new lessons/chapters.This training procedure is further clarified with short side notes such as: `Tips,' `Try this,' `See Also' and `Cautions,' which support the reader's cautionary and critical reading. Furthermore, some chapters also list functions with relational descriptions - for example: `Templating' (page 15 - 17) reveals 19 items - that contain 5 types of possible meetings; 3 types of publishing, etc.; while `Content Types' (pages 29 - 30) have: 6 types under `Business Intelligence'; 10 types under `Document Types'; 14 under 'List Content Types', etc. With this, the reader sees relational, group and relative concepts better.Whether we use the book as a guide as we study Sharepoint on the computer, or use the book alone - for self-orientation - such documentation-administrative software (Sharepoint) sometimes challenges those who work with current management vocabulary, concepts and practices in the real world. These `practitioners' may find that in some areas Sharepoint provides its own definitions and procedures. For example, Chapter 4 - `Organizing and Managing Information' concepts such as `metadata' and `content types' require some reader/ document administrator orientation. Although this book offers good introductions expressed with easy words that are supported by lists of functional relationships, these concepts must still be mitigated with those used in the learners' real environment - such as within theory, methodology or even philosophy. The reader may thus, at times suspend `understanding' until a better contextual setting presents itself during training and then return to review this application in its new environment and definition.Christ Becket and Johnathan Lightfoot's book `Plain & Simple SharePoint 2010,' contributes and guides the learner with practical training on these and other highly meaningful SharePoint topics. Needless to say, Sharepoint can be designed for multitude environments and meet different purposes. One must read several books, see several training DVD's, attend many SharePoint Conferences, attain several Microsoft Certifications before one can begin to get the full grasp of the subject. `Plain & Simple SharePoint 2010' is among those that offers a very good star in that ultimate direction.

It is as the title suggested. Finally, someone walks the talk. I work for an organization that felt a grassroots rollout of SharePoint is the way to go. Great concept for some things but when faced with generational and technology diverse workforces this is not as great as it sounds. I started with the SharePoint for Dummies and I realized I have been demoted from a dummy. This book is great not only does it explain in the simple text but it gives screenshots (pictures) as well. I work alot within the disability community and always speak on the importance of delivering a message in several different formats and Johnathan Lightfoot and Chris Beckett get it, Really they do. The fact that the tips and screenshots are closely situated to the texts for which they write is an added bonus. It helps really to read and see the stuff and my retention rate with the information has been so surprising, I think I may change my occupation, just kidding. Love this book and it has been so helpful. Truly worth every penny and by the way is anyone in the market for a gently used SharePoint for Dummies book!

This book was written well. It assumed the point of view from the reader that you knew very little about SharePoint - which is true in my case. Companies are dumping content on SharePoint everywhere with almost no training for employees and even less for teaching employees knowledge management and content related solutions. This is a fair product from Microsoft. Corporate America has adopted it head on, but very few companies actually know how to leverage it. Any real training for how to best use it gets glossed over. Management thinks if you just put it out there, you are done. Aaaaggghhh!!! Has anyone ever heard about change management and technology adoption? Good book and it speaks to its name.

This is the second book I've gotten for SharePoint. The first one was supposed to be a beginner but it was all about doing things directly in code. I got elected admin for several groups' sites about a week after we first started using SharePoint, as well as 'Hey, take all our documents and build us a library site while you're at it', so I need to start at the Very beginning and work up quickly. From what I've had time to read so far, this looks like the beginner book I need to get familiar with the tool and help my customers understand how it can meet their needs.

This book appears to be good for what it is... a very entry level introduction to SharePoint. From a personal perspective, by the time I ordered the book, I was already in need of something a little more detailed and so ordered a different book which was much better suited to my level of knowledge at the time (The book I ordered was "Office and SharePoint 2010 User's Guide").However, if you are very new to SharePoint this book might be a useful introductory guide.

i bought this book because i needed help with SharePoint, but didn't want to get bogged down with a bunch of computer gibberish. However, this book was a bit TOO plain and simple. gives you the BASICS without going into ANY sort of detail about any of the advanced stuff. pics and diagrams were nice and again is a great resource if you just need to know the basics. if you need to learn about the more advanced features, this is not for you.

Simple and easy to use, but the key element here is that it only explains how to do the simplest tasks. If they spent a chapter or two breaking down something a little more complicated than the basic usage of SharePoint, I would've given another star or two.If you don't know anything about SharePoint and are afraid to touch the buttons, this might be a good place to start and does not cost very much.

I was looking for something that catered for people that had never used Sharepoint before and this fits the bill. For a growing small business moving into Sharepoint, this book is ideal. Straightforward enough for people unfamiliar with Sharepoint and enough detail for those that need to go further without overwhelming them with too much detail.

3 stars does not mean this is a bad book.This book is a very basic overview of SharePoint 2010 aimed at new users o fthe system. If you were recently given a new SharePoint space at work and want to familiarise yourself with the system quickly, this book will do that, just not in a lot of detail.If you set up SharePoint yourself then you should know all this already and you probably won't learn anything new or exciting.As a basic guide to Sharepoint 2010 it's ok. Again, if your a new user of SharePoint you will probably fnd this useful. The full colour layout is clear, neat and easy t follow. So easy it could almost be a children's book.

I found this manual to be an inexpensive and useful guide for gaining valuable insights to Microsoft SharePoint 2010. It is well illustrated and written and proved its worth in my preparation for an important job interview.Chris Allen is a Hypnotherapist, Technical Author and writer with the following books available through Amazon: Reality Shaper: The Quantum Detective Parallel Lifetimes The Beam of Interest: Taken by Storm Hypnotic Tales 2013: Some Light Some Dark Call of the Void: The Strange Life and Times of a Confused Person: 1Reality Shaper: The Quantum DetectiveParallel LifetimesThe Beam of Interest: Taken by StormHypnotic Tales 2013: Some Light Some DarkCall of the Void: The Strange Life and Times of a Confused Person: 1

Bit basic really. As a nominated SharePoint "Superuser" at work, I thought I'd brush up on my SharePoint skills. This book covers the basics, but is not really for advanced users. I learnt no more from this book than I did on the three days training I had at work. Ok if you know nothing or only want to learn the basics.

This probably won't help you with installation, setup or so on, but as a guide to general sharepoint use (which is what I wanted) it's great. Questions of the "How do I get a list of XXX" are answered quickly and easily, with screen shots to help reassure you that you're on the right track. Just the right level of detail for me.

I would recommend this to anyone just trying to get their heads around what a very useful piece of software this is.