What a big year 2010 was! SharePoint 2010 launch, conferences, getting married and two trips each to US and UK not to mention Australia. The year just flew by! Great thing is that 2011 is going to be even bigger with some great SharePoint community events already planned. I finally managed to upload some of my past presentations from last year (2010) and past years to Slide Share. These can be downloaded/viewed from SlideShare.

New Zealand SharePoint Community Highlights of 2010

The local SharePoint community had a great year with the Second NZ SharePoint conference and also the SharePoint 2010 launch event organised across the major New Zealand cities of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. This event was a huge success with a large number of online and event attendees. Overall there is an increase in the number of local SharePoint community events throughout New Zealand and more people have attended user group sessions. You can go to http://www.dot.net.nz or http://www.sharepointusergroup.net.nz to sign up for events. There is also a RSS feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/NZDOTNET or for Wellington SharePoint events at http://feeds.feedburner.com/NZSPUG.

Finally to wrap up the 2010 year we had the first ever SharePoint Saturday NZ event in Christchurch. This was a huge success and will be another annual event to watch out for.

What’s in store for 2011?

Here is a summary of some of the events that is coming up which I will be part of.

New Zealand SharePoint Conference 2011 – March 16-17th in Wellington

This year we see Joel Oleson return to be one of the key note speakers along with Mark Miller of Endusersharepoint.com. Go check out the web site and register while you are there – http://www.sharepointconference.co.nz. Some of the other notable international speakers include Dux Raymond Sy, and Rolly Perraux and others. As usual this is “the” SharePoint event for New Zealand you should be attending.

SharePoint Best Practices Conference 2011 – United Kingdom – April 11-13th

This is the European conference – http://www.sharepointbestpractices.co.uk where you get to meet and learn from over 60 expert speakers about SharePoint ranging from end user engagement to technical deployments. if you are in Europe then London is the place to be for this conference in April.

Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 – Anaheim, California - October 3-6th

Undoubtedly the biggest SharePoint party of the year where Microsoft will host the conference and the biggest party. Check out http://www.mssharepointconference.com and you can also enter the “SharePoint Journeys” video contest which will get you a free pass to the conference!