Why I love Sharepoint

I came to an epiphany last night while randomly walking up the stairs. I was going to blog about this aforementioned realization today but was easily distracted with other things.

All through high school and summers during college, I always worked for a subsidary of the Sauder corporation. They have an old time craft village, make tables and chairs, and are a market leader in ready to assemble furniture. One of my great joys in life is when we bring home a piece of prefab furniture that I get to put together. It means it’s time to bust out the screwdriver and get to work.

Because of this, I realized Sharepoint is pretty similar. You get a clean slate every provisioned site or site collection to solve business problems. Sometimes you don’t need a lot of tools, sometimes you need more tools like data view web parts and jQuery. The materials, work and tools make the process of problem solving fun, although we all know it can be frustrating at times.

I like trying to solve people’s problems using the Sharepiont platform. It’s so flexible to use and leverage. I love getting my hands dirty and figuring out how to solve the problems that people bring to me. I find myself wanting to do it for them most often instead of being in my consulting role. I want to get in there and do the work.

I thought I’d share what gets me excited about Sharepoint. What do you like about it?

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