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Written by: Shadeed Eleazer

The UMBC Tech Center was the backdrop as the Baltimore SharePoint User’s Group gathered for a great evening of discussion of SharePoint and its unique iterations that it becomes when applied to each member’s unique environment.

The evening’s guest was Juan Santiago, Project Manager and Business Analyst for VA based i3 Solutions. His topic was Building Business Processes in SharePoint. After a round of announcements which recapped SharePoint Saturday NYC, which both BSPUG co-founders Eric Harlan and I attended and delivered two sessions each, to the explosion of SharePoint Saturday events throughout the calendar month of November 2009.

I recently prepared a slide that I delivered that touched upon the business value of SharePoint Saturday and why companies should take part in the events throughout the region.

Juan’s session was videotaped in HD for future viewing on the Baltimore SharePoint User’s Group site.

All-in-all a great session. Feedback was excellent from attendees.

Next month, BSPUG will welcome Solutions Architect Fabian Williams.

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