Top Ten Tips from SharePoint Saturday UK   

There are good, bad and ugly sides to all forms of SharePoint deployment – on-premise, Office 365, hosted, managed and hybrid. Which deployment type is best depends on what the business requirement is for SharePoint. (Mark Miller, "Something Awesome")

The US Patriot Act is a bad thing for cloud adoption, and has a big impact on privacy, regulation (Mark Miller, "Something Awesome")

Use of exclusions in robots.txt, and using rel="nofollow" in links, is essential on internet facing SharePoint sites to ensure only the "good" bits of the site are crawled, and not stuff that has a negative impact on page rankings (Dan Haywood, SEO for SharePoint Sites)

Content accelerators are an essential tool in ensuring your global SharePoint farm has acceptable load times around the world for all users (Paul Grimley, "Deploying SharePoint 2010 Globally")

A good way of encouraging SharePoint adoption in a large enterprise is the use of "stop/start" flyers – e.g. stop sending attachments by email, start sending links to a shared document instead (Symon Garfield, How We Did it: Collab at a European Central Bank)

An interesting presentation given by Becky Isserman was all about how to use Silverlight with SharePoint and how the majority of web browsers can output a basic form of HTML 5, but was not supported in SharePoint, it certainly gave us an insight of what could be in the next version of SharePoint. Who knows… (Becky Isserman, “HTML 5 vs Silverlight”)

SharePoint Middle tier was a presentation given on how one off projects could be achieved in shorter time scales. The advantages of creating data access views and how to get external data in by using SharePoint designer. (Mark Anderson, “Developing in SharePoint’s Middle Tier”)

SPServices and Jquery great libraries for SharePoint for making SharePoint more sexier and slicker. (Mark Anderson, “Developing in SharePoint’s Middle Tier”)

Developing for SharePoint Online and the only way to develop against it is to use SandBox solutions. The deployment for this is quick and easy, no more down time, self-contained and does not affect other site collections. For a more robust solution a Farm Solution is recommended. (Arri Bakker, “Developing for SharePoint Online”)

SharePoint online cheaper way for small businesses to get enterprise level applications for less. (Arri Bakker, “Developing for SharePoint Online”)