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Many folks often ask about training resources for Office, SharePoint, and other Microsoft products as they prepare to deploy them to their users. Well many of you have been anxiously waiting for this and here it is. The Productivity Hub is now released to the web for immediate download!!!!

What is the Productivity Hub? Great question!

“Overview

Microsoft has developed the Productivity Hub to help support your ongoing end user training efforts.
The Hub is a SharePoint Server 2007 site collection that serves as a learning community and is fully customizable. It provides a central place for your training efforts, and includes training content from Microsoft’s core products. Microsoft also provides ongoing and updated content packs.
The Hub uses SharePoint Server’s social networking capabilities, such as blogs and discussion groups. In addition, it offers the Coach program, a change management feature to help you train end users to self-help, reducing the burden on your training and IT staff. The Coach program impacts productivity in a collaborative and positive way.
What the Productivity Hub is:

• Format: Pre-loaded SharePoint site collection, optimized for Web 2.0 functionality and easily deployed within SharePoint Server 2007 environment.
• Content: Convenient end user productivity training in a variety of formats (documents, videos, podcasts, etc.). Receive free quarterly updates of content that you will learn about through the Productivity blog.
• Blog: The Productivity blog offers tips and tricks for end user productivity. Use it as is, or your training staff can use the posts as their own to help them get started in running an internal blog.
• Train the trainer: Includes IT/Manager section to aid with deployment of the site collection, and guidance to develop the Coach program.
• Products: Office 2007 System applications including SharePoint Server 2007. Windows 7 and others will be added in the future.”

So you want the Productivity Hub but you want to know what this is going to cost you. That’s the best part. The Productivity Hub is another example of the iterative commitment by Microsoft to the SharePoint platform and is provided as a value add to it’s customers. You have already purchased SharePoint and Microsoft is simply bringing more value to the system at no additional charge.

Head on over to the download area for the Productivity Hub and get moving with your internal training efforts today!!

• Productivity Hub Download Page