How I use the Fab 40 Application Templates from Microsoft

Something that I have trouble with in my organization is trying to explain to users all of the things that Sharepoint 2007 can do. There are so many things to explain and so little time.

Thank God for the Microsoft Fab 40 Application Templates. These templates not only help me deploy quick solutions for many of my companies business needs, they also help when it comes to educating users.

I have created within my companies Intranet Portal, a Labs Website (grabbing the idea from Google Labs). In this Labs Portal I have made available to most of my organization all 40 templates. As the company Sharepoint Admin I get asked for ideas all the time, now, after a quick explanation, I simply point my users to the Labs Website and let them play with all of the different templates until they find something we can build upon.