Inside Information

For those who want to be ahead of the SharePoint game this is one blog you will want to keep in mind. You may even want to subscribe to the RSS feed if you are one of those "first to know" people.

http://blogs.msdn.com/mikefitz/

This blog belongs to Mike Fitzmaurice, the Senior Technical Product Manager for Microsoft's Information Worker Division, which encompases SharePoint. The Information Worker (IW) is Microsofts target audience for SharePoint.

NOTE: The term IW is one that Microsoft has adopted. The definition of the IW group is seems to vary depending on who you ask. My introduction to the term had a simple Litmus test: "If you use Outlook in the morning, then you are an Information Worker".

Here is an interesting blog by Mike Bower giving a breakdown of the Information Worker:

http://blogs.msdn.com/bowerm/archive/2005/01/06/347803.aspx

He defines The Knowledge Worker, The Structured Task Worker and The Data Entry Worker The Data Entry Worker as subsets of the Information Worker.