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The video is an in-depth discussion of the impact of microblogging platform Twitter.com within the SharePoint community. The presentation of the video is a back-and-forth discussion between Quest SharePoint Architect and author of uber-popular blog sharepointjoel, Joel Oleson and Principal Architect for Sogeti Consulting and Co-Founder of the Baltimore SharePoint User’s Group Eric Harlan.

Twitter is a mainstay within the SharePoint community. It has a great impact on conferences, most notably SharePoint Saturday events. It has introduced the community to a growing new crop of speakers that will become the future experts and MVPs of tomorrow.

Today’s Webcast, hosted by SharePointJoel.com author and SharePoint Evangelist Joel Oleson, is a topic that many organizations need to take more time to figure out a strategy for, backup and recovery procedures. My golden rule that applies to most organizations that have implemented SharePoint is: “If the right person, loses the wrong document, then it is cause for trouble”
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Webcast: Effective Backup and Restore Strategies for Your SharePoint Service

Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009
Time: 8 a.m. Pacific / 11 a.m. Eastern / 4 p.m. United Kingdom / 5 p.m. Central Europe

Chaos in SharePoint backup and recovery arises when you’re not sure where your data is or when to back it up. When this occurs, users have to wait weeks for IT to retrieve their lost data. Join SharePoint expert Joel Oleson to learn how following a consistent backup and recovery governance plan can streamline processes, help you meet SLAs, and keep users productive. He and other special guests will review goals for developing the plan, provide you with prescriptive guidance to achieve them, and describe native and third-party tools that can help along the way.

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Webcast Recap

Brent Ozar provided a good perspective from the DBA side of the house while Joel delivered the presentation on various strategies and considerations for SharePoint backup.
Many were probably expecting 10 minutes of strategy and 50 minutes of sales demo for this webcast, but the majority of the presentation was strategy and there was mention of other leading vendors as well in the SharePoint space.
Overall, I thought the webcast was put together well, time ran short at the end so Joel offered to answer all questions directly on his blog. www.sharepointjoel.com

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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.

Technorati Profile

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