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The Federal Chief Information Officer, Vivek Kundra, has announced that the Federal Govt will officially begin the usage of cloud computing.

In accordance with this announcement, Kundra has revealed a new government site Apps.gov. This site is the location where you can find pre-approved cloud computing applications that are to be used by agencies, departments, components, and sections.

Applications are broken down into 4 categories:

Business Applications which contains 33 sub-topics

Productivity Applications which contains 7 sub-topics

Cloud IT Services which contains 4 sub-topics

Social Media Applications which contains 9 sub-topics

The government is making a big push with the adoption of approved social media applications.

FriendFeed, YouTube,  MySpace, TwitVid (video app for Twitter), and photo sharing application Flickr are all subsequent to open enrollment.

Implications

Cloud computing will greatly reduce IT costs within the federal government. There will be issues to be ironed out with security issues and policies will have to established in Phase 1 of this new approach to computing within the federal sector.

Mike FitzMaurice (NINTEX) – Building Business WorkFlows with No Code

FitzMaurice is the Vice President of Product Technology at Nintex. He started with Microsoft in late 1997 in Microsoft Consulting Services, often creating collaboration and messaging solutions. Mike was a part of the consulting squad that helped the very first early adopter customers beta test “Tahoe”, which would become SharePoint Portal Server 2001. And was part of a team that authored best-practice deployment solutions for optimal usage of SharePoint Server 2001 and SharePoint Team Services in a corporate intranet. Mike FitzMaurice became a Technical Product Manager in time to bring SharePoint Server 2003 and WSS 2.0 to completion, and has not strayed from SharePoint ever since.

Register HERE

Nintex is a leading global innovator of software products that extend Microsoft technology, with over 1000 customers in 60 countries, including 40 Fortune 500 companies. The company focuses on building software that bridges the gap between that which can be bought from Microsoft today and common functionality requested by customers – with a passionate commitment to innovation and user experience. As a Microsoft Gold Partner, Nintex aligns with Microsoft’s strategic and architectural direction to ensure that Nintex and Microsoft products work in harmony, both today and into the future.

5:30 - 5:45 Registration, Food and Beverages, Networking and News

Discussion of events and news in the local SharePoint community.

5:45 - 6:15 Topic: SharePoint Tips and Tricks

Audience: All
Technical Level: 100-200

6:15 – 7:30 Topic: Mike FitzMaurice – Building Business WorkFlow with No Code

Audience: All
Technical Level: 200

7:30 -7:45 Round Table Q and A, Raffles and Giveaways

Round table discussions will be held on specific challenges facing the members. If you have an issue that you would like to have addressed by the group submit your questions to phillysharepoint@rjbtech.com

Where: Microsoft Great PA District Office, Malvern, PA

The meeting is free, but space is limited. REGISTER NOW!! If you have already registered, it is not necessary to register again.

Pennsylvania based RJB Technical Consulting has announced a seminar to be held next Wednesday. The topic will be leveraging social media within the SharePoint platform in the hopes of improving your organization, expanding corporate reach, and lowering costs in a down economy.

The Benefits of Social Media and How it Can Lower Your Organization’s Costs.
July 8th, 2009 (9:00 AM - 12:00 PM)

This seminar will focus on the benefits of social media within SharePoint and how it can help lower your organization’s costs.
Join RJB Technical Consulting and take advantage of this opportunity to learn how to improve your organization by lowering costs while expanding your reach.

Speaker - Russ Basiura

Recommended Audiences:
Technology Executives, IT Managers, Business Executives, Vice Presidents, CEO, CIO, COO, CTO, CFO, IT Directors, Business Managers, Business Owner, Business Professionals, Controller, Business Decision Maker, Technical Decision Makers

Click Here to Reserve Your Spot

Agenda
8:30 AM Breakfast and Registration
9:00 AM Introduction of Social Media
9:30 AM The Benefits of Social Media & How it Can Lower Your Costs
11:00 AM MySites and Social Media Within SharePoint
11:30 AM Panel Discussion, Q & A, and Raffle
12:00 PM Lunch

Registration is FREE, but space is limited. Register now to reserve your seat

Location:
45 Liberty Blvd.
Great Valley Corporate Ctr, Suite 210
Malvern, PA 19355

Phone:
610.834.3900

The next meeting of the Philadelphia Area Sharepoint User Group will be on Wednesday, June 24th at 5:30 PM. The topics for the evening will include; Creating a Custom Wiki Template, All About MySites, and Search Engine Optimization for SharePoint Sites. The meeting will be held at the Microsoft Great Valley Corporate Center, PA District Office in Malvern, PA

Creating a Custom Wiki Template
A SharePoint Specialist from RJB Technical Consulting will show how to develop and utilize a custom Wiki template within SharePoint. A custom template is not available out-of-the-box with SharePoint, but with a little bit of code it is indeed possible. There are various ways to customize not only the entry screen, but the final Wiki page itself.
Highly recommended for anyone thinking of implementing a Wiki solution.

All About MySites
See highly customized MySites live and in action. One of the SharePoint Specialists from RJB Technical Consulting will demonstrate the integration between MySites and Outlook 2007 and show how Outlook Today can be configured to your users MySite. He will also discuss “Personalization Sites” and show how you can provide role-based MySites for your users that include dashboard functionality. See how workflow, KPIs, Excel Services and SSAS cubes can be integrated to provide a rich, highly functional work environment that increases end user efficiency. Russ will end the evening by showing how one company utilized the social media functionality of their users MySites to improve communication in a global enterprise.

A tip sheet for getting started with Microsoft SharePoint MySites will be distributed.

Search Engine Optimization for SharePoint Sites
Internet facing SharePoint Sites require special handling if you want them to be ranked on major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. In this session, we will breakdown SEO techniques that apply to all websites and those that are specific to optimizing SharePoint.

Join us for an interactive discussion led by one of RJB Technical Consulting’s SharePoint Specialists for useful advice on increasing SharePoint Site visibility on major search engines.

Meeting Agenda
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 at 5:30 PM

5:45 - 6:00
Topic: Tips and Tricks - Custom Wiki Template
Audience: Developers and Administrators
Technical Level: 200

6:00 - 6:45
Topic: All About MySites
Audience: Anyone
Technical Level: 200

7:00 - 7:45
Topic: Search Engine Optimization for SharePoint Sites
Audience: Site Administrators
Technical Level: 100

7:45 -8:00
Round Table Q and A, Raffles and Giveaways

Round table discussions will be held on specific challenges facing the members. If you have an issue that you would like to have addressed by the group submit your questions to phillysharepoint@rjbtech.com.

Saturday Mar 14th, 2009 kicks off SharePoint Saturday Boston to be held at the Microsoft Office on Jones Rd in Waltham, Mass.
Expect multiple sessions on various tracks ranging from developer, administrator, end user, project management and more from respected SharePoint professionals and MVPs.

Topics Include (but certaintly not limited to)
Best Practices for Configuring your SharePoint – Site Hierarchy and Features, Security and Configurations, and Performance Guidance

Administration - SharePoint Administration with PowerShell 2.0

Dazzling SharePoint with Silverlight

Mapping Mashups with SharePoint Designer

Building the Perfect SharePoint Farm - A Walkthrough of Best Practices from the Field

Speakers Include:
Michael Cummings
Dan Usher
Eric Kraus
Geoff Varosky
John Stover
Becky Isserman
Joel Oleson
Michael Lotter
Sean Bordner
David McWee
Tom Resing

Mindsharp’s Bill English will be presenting in a MindSharp seminar. Details below.
Event Information
March 5, 2009 5:30pm – 7:30pm Sheraton Reston
11810 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, VA 20191

Findability Architecture in Microsoft Technologies:
The buzz around Google continues to grow, as does the need to understand Findability and what it means to your organization. Findability refers to the quality of being locatable. At the item level, it’s how easy it is to discover or locate an object. At the system level, it’s how well an environment supports navigation and retrieval. As the premier educator in Microsoft enterprise technologies, Mindsharp believes effective Findability is central to business efficiency, and Microsoft provides the real answers and proven methodologies to ensure you have a solid solution in place.

As Findability becomes increasingly important to your business, it’s more critical to understand:

· What Findability is, and why it’s so important
· The problems that companies are having with Findability
· How e-discovery will affect your Findability architecture
· How data leakage affects Findability designs
· An overview of the Findability tools in the Microsoft Ecosystem
· A proposal for creating a robust Findability architecture

To make this essential seminar an even
greater value, you’ll also receive:
4 Free Posters: SharePoint Search and Findablity Topology, SharePoint Topology, Governance and Taxonomy, Permissions Management.
Free Drinks and hors d’oeuvres

Located:
Sheraton Reston Hotel
11810 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, Virginia 20191
Register for this FREE EVENT!!

https://www.mindsharp.com/Default.aspx?page=Registration&id=990&days=1
Or call 952-230-6560 to register over the phone
Bill English
Bill is an author and educator specializing in SharePoint products and technologies. As an industry leader on this exciting topic, he has authored 13 books on Exchange and SharePoint products since 2000. Bill is the co-owner of Mindsharp…read more.

Event Information
March 5, 2009 5:30pm – 7:30pm Sheraton Reston
11810 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, VA 20191

Or call 952-230-6560 to register over the phone

Register HERE

Host: Business Wire

Speaker: John Blossom, author of Content Nation: Surviving and Thriving as Social Media Changes Our Work, Our Lives, and Our Future.

Bonus: Chris Phenner will show some new “Mobile Virtual Goods” from NYC developer ThumbPlay

Heads up for all attendees of Refresh Baltimore.
The date and location for Refresh Baltimore have been changed to adjust for conflicts with Outlet(http://outletbmore.wordpress.com/)

The new date is February 18th, 2009.
It will be held at:
MICA - Room 110
1300 W Mt Royal Ave
Baltimore, MD 21217

The featured presenter will be Michael Jovel of www.bmoreinteractive.com .
Topic: Adobe AIR

Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is a cross-platform runtime environment that allows designers and developer to create rich internet applications using Flash, Flex, HTML or Ajax, that can be deployed on the desktop. This presentation will include a brief introduction to AIR and show examples of applications that make use of several of the new capabilities which include windows, menus, clipboard, access to the file system, etc.

The sponsor for this event will be EEI Communications http://www.eeicom.com/training
EEI Training is an Adobe Authorized training provider with training centers in Hunt Valley, Columbia, Silver Spring, and Alexandria, VA. They offer over 140 classroom based training course in topics such as Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, Adobe Photoshop, Acrobat, HTML, XML, AJAX and much more

What is Refresh Bmore?
Refresh is a growing community of web-developers and designers who meet once a month to share ideas related to our industry. Our goal is to educate each other with new ideas so that we can help refresh the city of Baltimore, Maryland.

Please make sure to RSVP
Follow them on Twitter http://twitter.com/refreshbmore

The video in this post is my response to the horrible incidents that lead to
the post heard round the world that lead to Michael Arrington’s leave of absence from TechCrunch.com

I also weigh in on my current viewpoints on the current state of blogging as a media outlet and journalistic standards and changes that should be made.

What are your views on the content contained within the video? Agree? Disagree?