There are some great training opportunities for local IT professionals who are looking at up skilling in SharePoint. 3grow are hosting a great training event in Auckland late August for SharePoint Architects and System Administrators by way of a great 5 day hands on boot camp event with Steve Smith of Combined Knowledge and Spencer Harbar facilitating the class. Check out the training modules and registration details here. If you are looking for Information Architecture and Planning then Paul Culmsee is hosting his SPGOV+IA class in Auckland and Wellington! TechED 2011 New Zealand If you are attending TechED NZ watch out for some great sessions on SharePoint. This will be my fifth year speaking at TechED. My session will be on SharePoint High Availability Solutions. As usual I will provide a series of article leading onto and post Tec ...[Read More]

There are many courses/classes that claim to “Teach Information Architecture and SharePoint” however these are full of platitudes and usually is delivered in a 1 day and tries to cover complex topics and end up being a complete waste of time. Recently some readers on my blog commented and asked me on why it’s hard to implement an information architecture with SharePoint. The reality is if you listen to someone talking and putting IA into a box then you are pretty much on the wrong track. Which is what most classes try to do and end up having more confused participants at the end. I’ve always looked at SharePoint IA in a complete different view. And this is a common shared view with some of my good friends in the community. In particular Paul Culmsee from Cleverworkarounds/Seven Sigma who has developed a very unique approach to “how do I ...[Read More]