5/05/2010The New Zealand SharePoint event of the year is just around the corner and I wanted to highlight the “A” list speaker line up we have this year! 
Tood Bleeker Todd is the author of numerous SharePoint books and he has been writing about SharePoint since the first version of SharePoint. If you have ever been to one of Todd’s talks on development practices for SharePoint then you definitely don’t want to miss the chance of meeting him and seeing him present! His most famous and widely read books include Developers guide to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the upcoming Developers Guide to SharePoint Foundation 2010. Todd Bleeker, Ph.D. and MVP, is an industry leader in Microsoft-centric software development, specializing in SharePoint products and technologies. Todd is an innovative, resourceful, and competitive technologist with an intense desire to excel. Todd joined Mindsharp in 2004 as co-owner and CTO to help establish the strategic technical plan for Mindsharp's educational and consulting assets. In addition to writing and teaching cutting-edge SharePoint training courses for Mindsharp, Todd also architects innovative assets that help Mindsharp's clients improve their content management capabilities. Spencer Harbar Spence is one of the few people in the world who passed the Microsoft Certified SharePoint Master examination the first time it was launched. Since then Spence is also a tutor for subsequent MCM classes held exclusively at the Microsoft Redmond campus. Spencer is one of 46 people worldwide currently to hold the Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2007 certification, and is a Microsoft Certified Master Instructor for the Enterprise Content Management, Web Content Management, Excel Services and Security elements of the SharePoint MCM. With over sixteen years of commercial experience in the architecture, design, development, deployment and operational service management of Web based applications and hosting platforms, his broad base of fundamental skills routinely enables Europe’s largest organizations to succeed with SharePoint. Spence maintains his blog at http://www.harbar.net and also maintains MCMS FAQ!. Daniel McPherson Dan has been in the SharePoint space from the beginning and I still use his old blog Point 2 Share. Some of my favourite posts on his blog still is “Start with just one Portal” and “URLs Matter”. Lately he’s gone all social but still can hold his beer so I forgive him  . He’s a great speaker and you’d see why if you come to his session! Daniel McPherson has been involved in SharePoint since attending the first public announcement of project “Tahoe” at the Microsoft Technical Briefing in January 1999. It has had a profound impact on his career, taking him to the doorstep of hundreds of companies, of all shapes and sizes, in a range of industries and in over 25 different countries. He’s worked on projects that create solutions, evaluate possibilities, deploy to tens of thousands of users and fix problems when the sirens are sounding. After 10 years at Microsoft, spent mostly in Microsoft Consulting Services, he co-founded zevenseas ( www.zevenseas.com ), a boutique consultancy focused solely on the SharePoint platform, and is having more fun than ever before. Ryan Duguid Our own honorary “international” kiwi . Ryan was instrumental in helping get the SharePoint user groups started in New Zealand and it’s great to have him here as the Keynote speaker introducing SharePoint 2010! Ryan Duguid is a Senior Product Manager in the Office Business Platform Marketing Group at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, WA. Ryan is responsible for SharePoint Enterprise Content Management. Ryan moved to Redmond from Microsoft New Zealand where he was a Technology Specialist responsible for evangelising the Microsoft 2007 Office system, assisting customers with deployment and adoption of Office system-based solutions and developing competency and confidence within the Microsoft partner ecosystem. Ryan has worked in the IT industry in New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom for over 14 years. He is passionate about understanding people, identifying their unique problems and helping them to realise their true potential through effective and innovative use of technology. Paul Culmsee (Aka Mr Cleverworkarounds) Paul Culmsee (MCSE, MCTS, CISSP, MCT) is a SharePoint consultant, facilitator and sensemaker with 21 years experience across a wide variety of IT disciplines. Paul’s SharePoint competencies lie in planning and deployment, solution envisioning, governance, training and user engagement. As a sense maker, Paul is one of only three Cognexus Certified Dialogue Mappers in the world and is uniquely skilled in dealing with complex (wicked) problems . Paul Culmsee is a founding partner of Seven Sigma Business Solutions and his popular SharePoint blog (www.cleverworkarounds.com) attracts more than 1 million hits per month, specialising in topics such as SharePoint planning, governance, ROI and project management. Paul Swider Paul Swider is a freelance consultant and MCT. In addition he is president of the Charleston SharePoint Users Group and a contributing author of the new Professional SharePoint 2010 Development book published by Wrox Press. Straight from a barrier Island near Charleston Paul chases the tides and winds as an avid boater and sailor. Paul is grateful he is able escape the summer heat in Charleston and consults with some of the most successful companies in the US. 17 years of software consulting experience combined with certifications and speaking credentials has made Paul an authority in the SharePoint Community. Adam Cogan If you’ve seem him speak once you’ll want to see Mr Cogan again! Adam Cogan is the Chief Architect at SSW, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner specializing in custom .NET, SharePoint and Business Intelligence solutions. At SSW, Adam has been developing custom solutions for businesses across a range of industries such as Government, banking, insurance and manufacturing since 1990 for clients such as Microsoft, Quicken, and the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation. Now that’s just some of the few of the stellar speakers we have in store for you at the Conference. Head over to > http://www.sharepointconference.co.nz/ and register today as we are selling out fast! </chandima> 30/04/2010
As some of you maybe aware SharePoint 2010 is now already released and available for download on MSDN. To celebrate the launch the New Zealand SharePoint user groups are organising an unique event to be held simultaneously across three cities of Auckland, Christchurch and of course Wellington. You can now sign up to be part of this unique event by registering on the following URL The event will be hosted online if you can't physically be there. Once you have signed up you will receive instructions via email or you can contact wlgspug@sharepointservices.net.nz for more info. The event will start at 6PM in Wellington on May 13th (Thursday) to coincide with the global SP2010 launch and will be held at Gen-i "North Tower" 68 Jervois Quay, Wellington, New Zealand. If you are attending the event please meet around 5.45pm at the North Tower lobby and you will be escorted to the venue on the Second Floor. Location Map : 68 Jervois Quay – Wellington For regular updates of New Zealand SharePoint events please join a regional SharePoint user group via http://www.sharepointusergroup.net.nz . Also don’t forget to follow http://twitter/NZSharePoint for conference updates and SharePoint news. 27/04/2010WOW! What a conference! Despite ash clouds and travel disruptions the Combined Knowledge team led by Steve Smith put on one of the best conferences that I have attended. I was one of the lucky few to get on a Eurostar train from Paris to London on Friday 16th just before the major travel disruptions started. Our original flight was not due to fly till Friday evening from Paris but I was not about to take any chances so we got next available Train tickets straightaway from Paris to London. That was lucky since some of the other speakers were unfortunately left stranded in parts of Europe. AC @andrewconnell) was in Norway trying to get out. Joel, Paul Swider and Michael Noel was stranded in Dubrovnik. Bob Fox’s plane was turned away half way through from US to London. It was chaos. Steve called a “War Room” session on Saturday (17th) afternoon to figure out and re-schedule sessions since we’d lost most our speakers from the US who were supposed to speak at the conference. Eric Shupps (Eric also has a great post about the conference) was one of the only US based speakers who made along with Mike Watson who is based in Scotland. By Saturday evening we had rescheduled most of Monday and we had speakers from the UK who picked up the extra sessions. I was originally doing only one session but picked up another extra two sessions to help out. It was amazing how people were willing to step up and help where they could. It shows what a great community of SharePoint speakers we have! 
By Sunday afternoon we moved to a larger room as we had quite a few people join us and help with taking on sessions. We had Steve Smith leading with Spence Harbar, Neil Hodgkinson, Mirjam van Olst, Mike Watson and Andrew Woody along with a few others join us in the “Situation Room”. Some of the photos are on Flickr and there was a steady stream of twitter updates going on. One of the highlights was Tobias Zimmergren who drove from Sweden to London with Marianne and two others and took the Ferry and Train to get to London! Key note and Sessions Steve, Eric, Brett Londsdale and Spence kicked off the conference key note session on Monday morning. Steve showed the evolution of SharePoint from SharePoint Team Services (STS) back in 1999 through to SPS 2001 and then SPS 2003 and SP2007 (MOSS) and finally SP 2010. Each of them added to the keynote on what it was like to develop applications in those days and what it meant to them to be part of the Evolution. Spence showed the famous MCMS “WoodGrove” demo. For some of the attendees it was the first time to see actual live demos on the earlier versions of SharePoint!. 
Then it was onto the sessions for the first day. I did a session on WCM for Power Users and how to approach publishing scenarios in the Real World which I will share later on this blog. I also did a session for Planning and Upgrading to SharePoint 2010 which is already on my blog. (See previous post series). Then on the second day I followed this up with a third session which was SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Deep Dive by outlining the upgrade options and doing an actual upgrade with Craig Carpenter of Combined Knowledge. All attendees were treated to an awesome conference party on Tuesday evening with drinks and evening entertainment. It was a great SharePint party! Last day of the conference I was part of the ask the experts panels for IT Pro and Information Worker tracks. It was a great conference with over 650 attendees and a great line up of speakers who took up the challenge and delivered some great sessions. Now looking forward to the New Zealand SharePoint Conference in June! </chandima> 15/01/2010
It’s been a while since my last post and some of you may have thought that I’ve given up on the blog. No I haven’t and I really should not be making any excuses. On reflection last year 2009 has been a blast with some great events that occurred in my personal life and also my professional life (obviously SharePoint related)
Looking ahead at 2010 there are many events that will make 2010 a fantastic year. Just on reflection working on our company Knowledge Cue since 2008 has taught me a lot about work life balance and have provided opportunities which I never thought possible. You can follow Knowledge Cue happenings on our company blog. I use this (my personal) blog to engage with the wider local and international SharePoint community to share my knowledge.
This year I will be attending and in some cases presenting about SharePoint in the following events.
March 2010
Annual Information Management Summit – 9th and 10th March 2010 – Wellington, New Zealand
I will be presenting and facilitating a workshop for the annual conference in New Zealand.
Pre conference - Workshop : Applying Information Architecture Taxonomies and Structure to Your Data to Increase its Usefulness and Value
Information which is currently held and being collecting by organisations contains significant value if it is properly extracted and findable. Before anything significant can really be accomplished the information must be ordered and structured to allow for efficient location of necessary information and for applications to utilise the data and deliver additional benefits. This workshop will provide you with guidance and examples that will take you through taxonomy models and approaches to structuring data. The workshop will also outline governance policies related to Information management.
- Should you redesign or enhance your existing information architecture
- How to approach the change management of information management
- Evaluating your situation to determine if a taxonomy or folksonomy paradigm is more appropriate
- Approaches to standardising meta data across the organization
- Approaches to findability of structured and unstructured data
- Standardising meta data across the organisation
- Maintaining the structure over time with review and governance
Roundtable Discussion : Using SharePoint as a Tool for Driving Increased Productivity of Staff and What Can be Expected from SharePoint 2010
Presentation : Extracting Tangible Benefits to Working Processes from SharePoint
SharePoint is just like any other tool, it needs to serve a specific function rather just being used for the sake of it. Given that benefits of SharePoint are entirely user dependant, how do you ensure that your users are actually gaining benefits from its use? Discover how to manage people to take advantage of what SharePoint offers for Information Management.
- Identifying business areas which SharePoint can best add value
- Overcoming the common human factor barriers to beneficial SharePoint usage
- Launching SharePoint and continuing it’s development based on staff feedback
Registrations for the Information Management Summit are now available on the event web site : http://www.brightstar.co.nz/conferences/8th-annual-information-management-summit
April 2010
SharePoint Evolution Conference 2010- 19th to 21st April – London
I will be attending and presenting a session at this conference in London. With over 20 leading experts and speakers this conference will be one the premier SharePoint events in Europe.
Presentation : WCM for the power user: how to use publishing technologies in the real world – In the case of developing a WCM (web content management) site the quite often overlooked factor is the interaction of the power users in the publishing and content creation process. In this session we will look at the planning stages of a real world WCM project to ensure that the WCM site is developed with features that are available for power users to publish and manage WCM sites. We will look at how to ensure that these are used in the correct context and demonstrate the different approaches and pros and cons of each approach.
June 2010 the BIG SharePoint EVENT for New Zealand!
With the huge success of last year’s conference we will be running this year with more content and sessions including workshops. We already have some of the top speakers registered for this event and you can check out details on the web site. http://www.sharepointconference.co.nz
Conference sessions are grouped into three tracks of Business (B), Technical (T) and Voice of a Customer (V) that indicate the target audience for those sessions. Once registered, you can select one agenda item per time slot across all three tracks.
- 100 Level - Learn, No previous experience expected
- 200 Level - Extend, Some previous experience or knowledge of concepts expected
- 300 Level - Deep Dive, Technical experience expected
We will also be running a workshop series to get hands on in-depth learning experiences for you before and after the conference days!
You will also be able to attend our regular SharePoint user group events as usual throughout the year. To see what is happening in each city check out the Events website on http://www.dot.net.nz/default.aspx which highlights regular events. Also you can follow the NZSharePoint twitter channel for regular updates.
I’ll be getting back to reviving this blog on a regular basis with the continuation of my SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Planning series.
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13/10/2009
The conference of the year is SOLD OUT! Unofficial sources say that this year the attendance number is over 7000! This is going to be a huge event. Check out the official web site for details. http://www.mssharepointconference.com/ Follow the twitter channel for announcements and event information if you can’t be there here > http://twitter.com/SPConf The online SharePoint world will be buzzing with news so setup a watch on #SPC09 and keep up to date with happenings. If you are a regular reader of my blog come and say hi, I’ll be hanging out with a few of other SharePoint guys and gals. Follow me on twitter @chandimak. Look forward to seeing you there!
14/09/2009
TechED NZ is officially kicks off today. This is my Seventh year attending and my fourth year speaking! If you are looking for SharePoint content you will not be disappointed. Here is a list of all the SharePoint Sessions that’s on at TechED! Watch Darryl Burling’s blog for some great news for SharePoint training.
OFC201 SharePoint and Business Intelligence
Presenter: Steve Letford (MSFT NZ)
Mon 9/14 | 12:05-13:20 | Ballroom 2
The front end of Business Intelligence - Office 2007. Excel, Excel Services, PerformancePoint Services, SharePoint and accessing SQL data in Office
OFC202 The Value of SharePoint and Office in your Enterprise
Presenter: Ian Morrish (MSFT NZ)
Mon 9/14 | 10:40-11:55 | Ballroom 2
Are you getting the most out of your SharePoint investment? SharePoint products and Technologies is more than just a web server, there is deep integration for the desktop, Office and other applications.
OFC203 Microsoft SharePoint Online - What is it and how to extend it using SharePoint Designer 2007
Presenter: Mark Orange (MVP) Intergen Limited
Tue 9/15 | 10:45-12:00 | Ballroom 2
In March of 2009 Microsoft launched in New Zealand and Australia the new Microsoft Online Services offering that includes Microsoft SharePoint Online. SharePoint Online removes the need for an organisation to deploy, configure, monitor, patch and upgrade a SharePoint platform on premises while still allowing an organisation to take ownership and extend their SharePoint site to meet their business needs. Learn what SharePoint Online is all about, how it can be leveraged by organisations and how it can be easily extended using SharePoint Designer 2007.
OFC205 Planning the People AND the Project
Presenter: Debbie Ireland (MVP) EnvisionIT Limited
Tue 9/15 | 12:10-13:25 | Ballroom 2
SharePoint Projects differ from other IT implementations in lifecycle and approach. The time and effort in changing culture and business practices cannot be underestimated. This session will give you some practical takeaways for what to include in your SharePoint deployment including methodology around planning and execution. It also explores the required governance models around "who manages what" and provides simple techniques and examples to take the governance from theory to practice. We will also look at the People side from Sponsors to continued End User adoption post rollout.
OFC301 Deep Dive into SharePoint Features and Solutions
Presenter: Wayne Ewington (MSFT NZ)
Wed 9/16 | 15:45-17:00 | Ballroom 2
SharePoint Features and Solutions are the recommended way for enabling and deploying customisations. In this talk we will first take a closer look at developing Features, including the available tools, Feature dependencies, and Feature Stapling. We then look at how we can bundle these Features together and deploy them using SharePoint Solutions. We then finish this off by looking at how we can subsequently version and update our Features and Solutions.
OFC302 Spatialise SharePoint
Presenters: Pete Smith, Clive Trott
Mon 9/14 | 14:15-15:30 | Ballroom 2
A data warehouse provides the foundation for an enterprise business intelligence platform. How could integration of spatial data enhance the business benefits BI provides? This session will address this question and present an end to end solution covering data modelling, ETL processing and data query toolsets, all with a spatial flavour. Using a real New Zealand dataset, the session will cover MOSS, Analysis Services, SQL Server 2008, Silverlight and Business Intelligence all brought together in a single 'location intelligence dashboard'
OFC303 Breaking SharePoint. What should you know when developing applications for SharePoint
Presenter: Mat Velloso (MSFT NZ)
Mon 9/14 | 17:15-18:30 | Ballroom 2
This presentation is going to review SharePoint from the application platform point of view, covering some common issues and mistakes that software developers and architects face when creating applications for SharePoint.
OFC305 SharePoint 2007 Themes - A crash course for developers
Presenter: Mark Orange (MVP) Intergen Limited
Wed 9/16 | 10:45-12:00 | Ballroom 2
Themes in SharePoint 2007 provide an easy way for an organisation to take ownership of their SharePoint sites and stamp their identity on the user interface. Come and learn about what a theme is made of and how to construct and deploy them using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
OFC306 Planning for SharePoint 2010 - Upgrade Planning and Guidance
Presenter: Chandima Kulathilake (MVP) Knowledge Cue
Wed 9/16 | 12:10-13:25 | Ballroom 2
This session will cover how to plan for upgrading your SharePoint 2007 server farms to SharePoint 2010. We will cover the tools available today and how you can test your existing SharePoint 2007 deployment for upgrade compatibility. With the release of Service Pack 2 for SharePoint Microsoft has made available an upgrade tool. We will also cover important planning steps for a successful upgrade project and also strategies on how you should ensure that your server farm has been updated to the latest Service Pack.
OFC307 SharePoint Technology and Reporting Services Integration
Presenter: Ian Morrish (MSFT NZ)
Wed 9/16 | 14:20-15:35 | Ballroom 2
Learn how to extend SharePoint (WSS or MOSS) with the power of SQL Server Reporting Services. End Users can view, manage and deliver enterprise reports through a centralized SharePoint user interface and Report Builder 2.0. IT Pro and developers can manage and secure reports as standard SharePoint document library objects.
OFC308 Scaling Out a SharePoint Farm and Configuring Network Load Balancing on two Web Servers
Presenter: Steve Smith (MVP) Combined Knowledge UK/Asia Pacific
Tue 9/15 | 17:10-18:25 | New Zealand Room 3
In this session I will demonstrate how to add Two new servers into a SharePoint single server farm and re-assign server services like Search and Excel. Then I will Network Load Balance the two Web Servers for resilience. Surely this can't be done in an hour I hear you say. You betcha so come and get some back to basics knowledge Infrastructure knowledge.
All in all if you are a SharePoint Developer or an Administrator there is lots of sessions to keep you happy. Come and chat with us we’ll be around the market place area! Follow us on twitter @chandimak @stevesmithck.
14/07/2009Thanks a bunch to everyone who made this a fantastic event! We (Debbie, Mark and Myself) appreciate all of you who attended the conference and for the positive feedback we have received so far. We had a great time hosting the conference and it was great to meet so many of you! As a bonus to the community we have made all (bar a few) of the session presentations available on our SharePoint user groups main web site. You can view the tracks and session PDF’s on the below links. In other news I am sure that all of you are already aware that the MSFT team officially announced about SharePoint 2010 sneak peek. Early days still but worth a look. Look forward to seeing you all again at the 2010 New Zealand SharePoint Community Conference!
29/06/2009
We recently announced to all our registered delegates about the “Ask the Experts” Keynote panel that will be held at NZSPC on Friday, July 03, 2009 starting at 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM (New Zealand Time) in the Duxton Ballroom. You can now post your questions on the user group site.
So far we have received the following questions. We’ll take the best one’s and answer these at the conference. I will also post answers on my blog for some of these.
Questions so far..
User Adoption - There are lots of books about SharePoint on the market. If we customise our SharePoint user interface will these books still be useful to my users?
Web Content Management - I know there is the reusable snippets library which is great for small pieces of content. But how can I reuse whole pages so they appear in different parts of my website without sending the user to another part of the site?
Infrastructure - Can you describe some of the challenges of setting up Kerberos authentication in load balanced environments?
User Adoption - When is SharePoint not the right tool for the job?
Search - What is the easiest way to make the results of a search more useful, i.e. so that you have the context menu option for performing actions rather than just a link to the item.
My Sites - What is the best way to update everyone's existing My Sites e.g. remove their My Mail webpart and add a My Calendar web part into the same location?
Business Data Catalog - If I customise a New Item form, with Business Data Catalog (BDC) information included, how can I get the BDC lookup to populate the list. Only works when you use the standard New Item form.
Infrastructure - In a SharePoint server farm, it appears the Site Usage Reports do not work. Can access the data with SharePoint Designer, but the Usage Reports when sitting on the secondary farm server, the Site Sertting options fail.
Web Content Management - If you're using content deployment to push out published content to a read-only site, but want to add interactivity (e.g. comments on a blog), what's the best way to combine the read-only deployed content, and the read/write interactive content?
Please keep adding questions, if we can’t answer these at the experts panel I am sure these will be answered via a follow up blog post.
Follow the NZ SharePoint twitter channel for conference updates and news.
Steve Smith (MVP) is running an advanced architecture workshop next week and we still have some places left. This is one of the premier SharePoint architect workshops and is highly recommended to any SharePoint administrator. Details are on here.
21/05/2009
Just to warm your socks in this cold weather we are having two “hot” sessions coming up this month! We have Alex Dean SharePoint extraordinaire talking about SharePoint development and Internationally renowned speaker, writer and consultant Michael Sampson visiting Wellington for a session to talk about his latest book "Seamless Teamwork".
Note that one session is for a developer audience and the second one is geared towards a business audience.
Wednesday 27th of May 2009 - SharePoint Developer Session
Using the AJAX Controls Toolbox in SharePoint – Wednesday 27th of May 2009
AJAX for SharePoint can seem quite a daunting task, especially when stumbling across endless blog posts which are completely out of date and are giving wrong or misleading advice. With SP1 for SharePoint Microsoft fixed a few internal glitches in regards to using AJAX and with .NET 3.5 and VS 2008, creating AJAX Controls has never been easier. In this session Alex Dean, SharePoint Consultant and MCT will show you step by step how to configure SharePoint for AJAX, create a simple SharePoint WebPart using the Visual Studio Extensions, add the ability to customise the WebPart using the browser and finally populate an Accordion AJAX Control with the information gathered from a list on your SharePoint Site. Great example for creating dynamic FAQ pages in SharePoint.
Presented by Alex Dean of Knowledge Cue - http://www.knowledgecue.com
Alex has over ten years of experience in commercial software architecture design and development. After studying Business Information Technology in London he spent the next ten years developing and architecting information systems in London, Spain and Switzerland and got heavily involved with MOSS 2007 while it was still in its infant beta stages. He is exceptionally skilled in SDLC, Web services, Data Transformation, Object Oriented Modelling, UML, Use Case Modelling, Design Patterns, SOA and Enterprise Architecture.
He currently holds the following Microsoft Certifications and is also a Certified Microsoft Trainer. Application Developer (MCAD), Solution Developer (MCSD), Systems Administrator (MCSA), Database Administrator (MCDBA), Web Developer (MCPD), Enterprise Support Technician (MCITP), Desktop Support Technician (MCDST), Microsoft Certified Business Management Solutions Professional (Dynamics CRM), Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in SharePoint 2003 Technologies (74-132 + 74-133), MOSS 2007 (70-630, 70-542), WSS 3.0 (70-631) and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)
Alex Blogs at: http://mctalex.blogspot.com/
Please RSVP to > kirkj@paradise.net.nz for the 27th of May Developer Session
Venue: Xero Limited, Level 1, Custom House Quay – Wellington – Start at 6 PM
Thursday 28th May Regular Wellington SharePoint User Group Session
Seamless Teamwork in 60 Minutes, with Michael Sampson - Thursday 28th of May 2009
So you've got SharePoint, and IT wants you to use it for team projects. But as a business person, you're saying "How?" I can tell you.
Microsoft Press has just published my book, "Seamless Teamwork: Using Microsoft SharePoint Technologies to Collaborate, Innovate, and Drive Business in New Ways". The book helps people in collaborative teams envision how to accomplish their work using Microsoft SharePoint. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate how SharePoint can be used to support team collaboration, innovation and the carrying out of daily business activities. The book is organized around the idea of someone getting a new project to lead at their place of work, and then examines how SharePoint supports the execution of that project. While the book focuses specifically on this fictional project, the main ideas and issues faced by the users will be experienced generally by all SharePoint users. Thus you can take the main ideas and apply them to your projects. Seamless Teamwork is aimed at people in business teams who are using SharePoint. It is not a complex IT book, although IT people will benefit from its insight into how people can use SharePoint.
Join Michael on Thursday May 28 at the Wellington SharePoint User Group meeting for a whistle-stop tour of Seamless Teamwork. I'll talk about the main messages of the book, and give examples of how and why certain technology components of SharePoint can be used in specific ways within the life of a collaborative team project.
There will be a prize draw for a signed copy of Seamless Teamwork.
Intended Audience: Managers, business analysts, information workers, project managers and IT professionals who have been asked to use SharePoint and are uncertain how to begin.
Presented by: Michael Sampson, The Michael Sampson Company
Michael is an Industry Analyst and Independent Consultant focused on improving the capability of teams that can't be together, to work together. As an industry analyst, Michael helps end-user organizations understand the collaboration landscape, through independent analysis and briefings. His research as an Industry Analyst is presented at conferences around the world, and he shares his work on the Michael Sampson: Currents blog. As an independent consultant, Michael provides impartial counsel and advisory services to clients wanting to improve the capability of people and teams to work with others through collaboration technology.
Michael is the author of Seamless Teamwork: Using Microsoft SharePoint Technologies to Collaborate, Innovate, and Drive Business in New Ways, published by Microsoft Press (2009). Read what others are saying about Seamless Teamwork at
http://www.seamlessteamwork.com/2008/11/your-feedback-on-seamless-teamwork.html
Michael holds an MCom with first class honors in telecommunications-based IT, from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and is currently working on his doctorate in collaborative applications and virtual teams.
Michael blogs at http://currents.michaelsampson.net/
Date: Thursday May 28
Venue: Kiwibank Ltd - Level 6 - Radio New Zealand House - The Terrace
Start Time: 6 PM
Please RSVP to wlgspug@sharepointservices.net.nz
http://www.sharepointusergroup.net.nz
If you still haven't registered for the New Zealand SharePoint Conference we still have some places left. Go to http://www.sharepointconference.co.nz to register today!
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