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for SharePoint can seem quite a daunting task, especially when stumbling across endless blog posts which are completely out of date and are giving wrong or misleading advice.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!