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The SharePoint Technology Conference registration kicks off today at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport located in Burlingame, CA. Close to 60 classes being held over a three day period featuring many of the brightest minds the SharePoint community has to offer.

Full Itinerary Details HERE

Workshops include but are not limited to the following:

906: SHAREPOINT AND SEARCH SERVER: GETTING THE RIGHT RESULTS EVERY TIME
By Joshua Haebets

606: ADMINISTERING SHAREPOINT USING POWERSHELL
By Darrin Bishop

903: ECM, EXTRANETS AND CUSTOMIZATION
By Errin O’Connor, Michael Goodloe, Ben Stegink and Alex Obraztsov

804: DOCUMENT CAPTURE AND INDEXING – A CASE STUDY
By Mike Stuhley

806: DATA MOVEMENT, STORAGE, ARCHIVING AND RECOVERY
By Randy De Meno

801: BUILDING SCALABLE, HIGH-PERFORMANCE SHAREPOINT APPLICATIONS
By Andreas Grabner

701: SHAREPOINT CONTENT TYPES: KEYS TO MANAGING INFORMATION TAXONOMY
By Bob Mixon

*Full Listing of Workshops is Listed HERE

Keynote Speakers:
“SharePoint: Today, Tomorrow and the Future”
Wednesday, January 28
8:30 am – 9:15 am
Tom Rizzo
Tom Rizzo, Director of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, has worked at Microsoft for the past 10 years in a variety of roles in Microsoft¹s server products, including Exchange Server, SharePoint, BizTalk Server SQL Server.
Tom is also the author of a series of Microsoft Press books.

“Calculating SharePoint’s ROI and its Impact on your Business”
Thursday, January 29
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Errin O’Connor
Errin O’Connor is the founder and chief executive officer of EPC Group and the author of “Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Inside Out,” by published Microsoft Press. He has completed more than 93 individual SharePoint implementations and has worked with some of the largest organizations in the United States.

SharePoint Knowledge Base is offering a SharePoint camp free of charge to the public. Expect to see a wide range of individuals from the SharePoint community. Below is the official writeup.

Anyone who is in the GTA area is hopefully excited about the FREE Toronto SharePoint Camp this Saturday.

If you are new to SharePoint come out and learn all about it, if you want to meet some cool SharePoint people come out and network, if you want to come out and trade witty banter with me, come out and do so!

ALL WALK IN ATTENDEES ARE WELCOME. It’s from 8am - 6pm. This is a wonderful opportunity for businesses, individuals, and tech guys like us to share our experiences and knowledge freely with one another. If you are going and want to meet up for a “SharePint” or to network feel free to leave me a comment or email at harb rich@ hotmail.com (without the spaces).

For more information: http://www.torontosharepointcamp.com/Pages/Default.aspx (including session details, or the schedule)

Hope to see you there,
Richard Harbridge

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Mesh U, Toronto’s annual Web Conference dedicated to the discussion of building projects online for designers, developers, and analysts has announced that Ryan Singer of 37signals and Chris Wanstrath of Githhub.

When:
April 7th and 8th, 2009

Tickets
Tickets are $469 + GST. 30 student tickets will be offered for $50 each + GST; post-secondary student ID must be provided to qualify.

Mesh U 2009 Organizers
• Mark Evans – Director of Community, PlanetEye Inc.
• Mathew Ingram - technology and business writer, Globe & Mail
• Mike McDerment - CEO, FreshBooks Online Invoicing
• Rob Hyndman - business lawyer, Hyndman | Law
• Stuart MacDonald - entrepreneur, marketer, founder Expedia.ca

Register Here

Subscribe to MeshU Blog

We’ll be meeting on the third Thursday of February 2009 for what promises to be a great presentation overall.

BSPUG Co-Founder Eric Harlan will be leading a presentation on Federated Search.
He will provide an overview, best practices discussion and walk through configuration of Federated Search.

It will be held at our location sponsor UMBC Tech Center. We are still awaiting word from our sponsor whether we’ll be meeting in the main building (1450) or the hands-on labs (1442)

Doors open at 6pm for FREE food and beverages.
For more information on directions and BSPUG in general, log-on to www.baltimoresug.org

-Mr.Shadeed

SharePoint Saturday features top notch speakers and discussions

In the true spirit of collaboration and community, SharePoint Saturday features an impressive lineup of SharePoint speakers that will provide quite an educational experience.
The event is FREE and offers a great opportunity for organizations to learn more about SharePoint to enlighten a future business decision and for technical employees to pick up a new skillset.
All ranges of the SharePoint spectrum will be represented at this conference.

SharePoint Saturday VA Beach Speakers
Becky Isserman
Dean Halsted
Dux Raymond Sy
Jacob Lauzier
Joel Oleson
John Holliday
John Holliday
John Miller
John Stover
Kevin Israel
Mark Miller
Michael Lotter
Paul Galvin
Robin Edwards
Sean Kyle Bordner
Susan Lennon
Tim Yagla
Todd Bleeker

The event will be held at the ATC in Virginia Beach, VA.

Event Giveaways

All attendees receive the opportunity to win some of our fantastic giveaways, such as:

One full training course ($2995 value), courtesy of Mindsharp
One full training course ($2995 value), courtesy of Ted Pattison Group
One MOSS 2007 WCM online course, Feb 9-13 ($995 value), courtesy of Ted Pattison Group
One training course ($3000 value), courtesy of Learning Tree
Point admin toolset ($954), courtesy of idera
Web part(s) ($500 value), courtesy of Bamboo Solutions
$200 Best Buy gift card, courtesy of Quest
Zune 4GB Flash Player ($99), courtesy of B&R Business Solutions
Several copies of SharePoint Designer 2007 SharePoint books

The SharePoint Saturday staff is on Twitter as well. Sign up to follow them HERE

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SharePoint Evangelist Joel Oleson was the special guest tonight as he presented 10 ways to avoid failed deployments on the SharePoint platform.

CommVault and Bamboo Solutions provided sponsorship for the event which included t-shirts and other giveaway items.

Representatives from the leading SharePoint companies such as AvePoint were in attendance.

Joel’s presentation is loose and relaxed and he likes to use helpful metaphors and analogies to describe SharePoint and its many facets.

Video of the presentation will be available on Collaborpedia and www.baltimoresug.org

After the presentation, myself, BSPUG co-founder Eric Harlan and Joel all drove over to a local eatery and watched Florida take home the National Championship.

I was really impressed with Joel’s understanding and application of social media. Prior to meeting him, I thought that his combination of SharePoint expertise combined with his presence online is the reason he has achieved Rockstar status as a SharePoint Evangelist.

In order to spread the good word about SharePoint, you have to meet organizations where they communicate and share ideas. Joel is the ideal case study for that notion.

All-in-All, a great night for all who attended and we look to host great events such as this in the future.

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A Better Way to Manage Microsoft SharePoint Data
Attend this webinar to learn how you can protect, archive and search your SharePoint Documents. CommVault® solutions let you recover individual documents and meet compliance requests. Only CommVault provides a single, unified, Windows-centric approach. Attend this webinar to see a demo and tips about how CommVault Microsoft solutions perform backup and granular recovery, content indexing, compliance for your SharePoint environment, and integrations for Windows, Exchange, SQL, Active Directory, MBS & LCS/OCS.
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Time: 1:00pm EST
To attend this webinar: Register Now!
What’s New? CommVault Simpana® Overview
We have an exciting session planned for you. You’ll hear from the local CommVault Engineering team and get information regarding the latest functionality available in the CommVault Simpana software suite. No doubt, you will find this webinar very rewarding. Attend to learn more about our software and how our Protection, Archive, Replication, Resource Management, and Search modules can help you manage and protect your data.
Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Time: 1:00pm EST
To attend this webinar: Register Now!
Thank You,
The CommVault Federal Team

We (co-founders Eric Harlan and myself) are in the homestretch in preparations for the Joel Oleson presentation on January 8th, 2009 @ 6pm. This is a great way to start the New Year for the Baltimore SharePoint User’s Group and I couldn’t be happier to host Joel and I’m glad he is making the trip.

Around the Web

The event has been mentioned on several blogs. Here’s a few links.

SharePoint Joel

http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=157

Bamboo Nation

http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/bambooteamblog/archive/2009/01/05/joel-oleson-to-present-in-baltimore-on-thursday-january-8th.aspx

Mann Software.com

http://www.mannsoftware.com/blog/archive/2008/12/31/joel-oleson-in-baltimore.aspx

Darrin Bishop.com

http://darrinbishop.com/blog/archive/2009/01/02/119.aspx

Official Presentation Overview

It’s been a great year here at BSPUG. We’ve turn 1 this year, had some Great
sessions and Great Speakers come through and our code camp was a huge hit.
Let’s all Cross our fingers that next fiscal year will be just such a
success.

Speaking of next year’s success, we’ve got some awesome news.  On January
8th (one week up from our normal date) we will be having Joel Oleson come
out to speak at BSPUG!

For our new members, we will be meeting at UMBC Tech Center, 1450 Rolling
Road, Halethorpe, MD. Doors open at 6pm for food and refreshments.

Joel will be giving a presentation on 10 Steps to Success, Avoiding Failed
SharePoint Deployments. Joel is a SharePoint evangelist. Joel’s well-read
blog, sharepointjoel.com is one of the top IT blogs and is the number one
SharePoint IT blog. It is consumed daily in over 102 countries.

At Quest Software he is guiding the strategy of the SharePoint group and is
working on new designs for tools to help IT administrators.

As most of you know, we strive to be as consistent as possible and we only
mess with our meeting dates if there is a very good reason, we understand
this is very close to the holiday season and a double whammy is it’s a week
ahead of our normal scheduled meet. However, if you can make it for this
special guest presentation please do, its going to be a good one!

Details

The session will be recorded and photos will be available on the BSPUG site as well as here on collaborpedia.com

6pm kicks off our food and beverages for the evening. Presentation will begin at 6:30pm

Location: 1450 South Rolling Road, Halethorpe, MD

Parking: Free (Directly to the Left of UMBC Tech Center)

Recent Updates

CommVault has graciously stepped up to be the Food Sponsor for the Event.

Bamboo Solutions will be sponsoring a $500 gift certificate to the Bamboo Online Store.

Photo Source: Joel on Twitter.com

The Philly tech scene is showing some signs of great events and wonderful people who attend and contribute to make Philadelphia a tech community on the rise.

January?s Net Tuesday will be about Blogging for Nonprofits.

Whether you?re thinking about starting a blog or want to make your existing blog more effective, we?re planning a program that will :

feature nonprofits that are using blogs successfully to raise awareness, raise funds, find volunteers and achieve their mission — and how they are doing it
share techniques, strategies, tools and resources for effective nonprofit blogging
explore thorny issues , such as how to reconcile the need for a blog to have a personal voice, yet also represent the many voices of an organization

We’ll be using an “open panel” format, featuring some local non-profit bloggers, including:

Andrew Schwalm and the First Person Arts blog and Malcolm X Park Blog
Daniel Pantano and the Academy of Vocal Arts Opera Blog
Judah Ferst and the Buzzing 4 Change blog
Larry Blumenthal and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton blog
Maryann Devine and the smArts and Culture blog

In addition to an informative, interactive discussion about issues confronting new and veteran nonprofit bloggers, we’ll have lots of practical tools and opportunities.

Nate Gasser, of Rock River Star, will demonstrate creating a new blog during the evening with one of the attendees (maybe you?).

We will also introduce an idea to provide ongoing support and encouragement for new and current nonprofit bloggers.

This promises to be another intersting, fun and useful Net Tuesday event.

Source: phillynewmediahub.com

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