SharePoint Cincy 2013 is this week!

 

Don't forget… SharePoint Cincy 2013 is coming soon! April 19th (That's this Friday!)

Third Annual SharePoint Cincy Event!

Register NOW!  http://www.sharepointcincy.com/

 

I've been asked to bring back my SharePoint Governance presentation, "SharePoint Governance… It May Not Be What You Think It Is…". I've updated it to include SharePoint 2013 and Office 365. Governance was a big topic, its gotten bigger! (and still only an hour allotted!)

 

Choose From Multiple Tracks:

This conference promises to have something for every level of your organization and every IT professional who has an interest in SharePoint. Here's this years tracks:

• Driving Business Value with SharePoint
• Application Development in SharePoint
• SharePoint Implementation and Administration
• Business Intelligence and Data Management
• Site Owners, Content Managers & Power Users
• Bonus Track: Exploring What's New With SharePoint 2013

 

The tracks:

Track 1: Driving Business Value With SharePoint

Subject: Converting an Email Culture into a SharePoint Culture
Presenter: Robert Bogue – President, Thor Projects, LLC and SharePoint MVP
 
Subject: SharePoint: Driving Business Value Through Data Centralization
Presenter: Adam Solzmon – PCMS Datafit, SharePoint Practice Leader

Subject: How to Manage Business 'Transformation' Using SharePoint as the Engine
Presenter: Rich Kurz – Ascendum, General Manager, Solutions

Track 2: Application Development in SharePoint

Subject:  Updating Your Developer’s Skill Set for the New App Model
Presenter: Sean McDonough – Bitstream Foundry - Owner
 
Subject: F5 Tornado – A Whirlwind Introduction to SharePoint 2010 Development
Presenter: Patrick Tucker – Strategic Data Solutions, Principal Consultant SharePoint

Subject: Unleashing the Power of the Content Query Web Part
Presenter: Peter Serzo – High Monkey Consulting, SharePoint Practice Architect

Subject: Claims Based Authentication and SharePoint
Presenter: Justin Kobel – KiZAN Technologies, Principal SharePoint Consultant
 

Track 3: SharePoint Implementation and Administration

Subject: SharePoint 2013 Administration
Presenter: Tom Resing - SharePoint911/Rackspace, Consultant SharePoint MVP

Subject: Managed Metadata A to Z – Plan, Implement, Make it a Success!
Presenters: Stacy Deere-Strole – Focal Point Solutions, CEO, Stephanie Donohue – Focal Point Solutions, SharePoint Solutions Architect
 
Subject:Advanced SharePoint Troubleshooting
Presenter: Clint Richardson – Applied Information Sciences, Infrastructure Consultant

Subject: Integrating SharePoint with Office Web Apps (WAC) Server
Presenter: Brian Jackett – Microsoft, Premier Field Engineer - SharePoint

Track 4: Business Intelligence and Data Management

Subject: SharePoint BI – A Parable of Choices and Choosing Wisely
Presenter: Peter Serzo – High Monkey Consulting, SharePoint Practice Architect
 
Subject: Managing Your Business With Dashboards and Disparate Sources
Presenter: Chris Murphy – Ascendum, SharePoint/BI Solutions Delivery Manager

Subject: Integrate External Data with Business Connectivity Services
Presenter: Tom Resing - Rackspace, SharePoint MCM and MVP

Subject: Now I Have SharePoint. Where's the BI?
Presenters: Jim Klosterman – PCMS Datafit, Senior Consultant, Harold Loyd – PCMS Datafit, Senior Consultant

Track 5: Site Owners, Content Managers, & Power Users

Subject: The Secret Sauce for Building Sophisticated Applications as an End-User with SharePoint
Presenter: Bill Crider – Sogeti, Senior Manager

Subject: Lists: Used, Abused and Underappreciated
Presenter: Wes Preston–TrecStone, LLC, Owner/Principal Consultant and SharePoint MVP
 
Subject: Branding In SharePoint 2013
Presenters: Matthew Tallman – Cardinal Solutions, Principal Consultant David M. Ginn – Cardinal Solutions, Principal Consultant

Subject: ECM on SharePoint - 13 Ways to Make it Rock!
Presenter: Jeremy Minich – KnowledgeLake, Systems Engineer
 

Bonus Track: Exploring What's New With SharePoint 2013

Subject: Where is SharePoint Headed and Why Should You Care? (a panel discussion)
Potential Panelists: Sean McDonough, Wes Preston, Shane Young...
 
Subject: Build Your SharePoint 2013 Lab in the Cloud with Azure… for FREE!
Presenter: Keith Mayer – Microsoft, Senior Technical Evangelist

Subject: Re-Introduction to Workflow
Presenter: Robert Bogue – President, Thor Projects, LLC and SharePoint MVP
 
Subject: Combining your BI collateral with PerformancePoint Services - A Working Session
Presenter: Tavis Lovell – SharePoint 911/Rackspace, Senior SharePoint Consultant

 

Who should attend?

• Application/Software Developers
• Information Architects
• SharePoint Administrators
• IT Business Leaders
• Knowledge Workers
• IT Professionals

Last Chance to Sign Up for SharePoint Cincy 2012!

 

 

SharePoint Cincy – March 16th, 2012

Northern Kentucky University’s Center for Applied Informatics and MAX Technical Training are bringing a major SharePoint event to the Cincinnati area! SharePoint Cincy will be held at the METS Center located in Erlanger, KY. The METS center is near the Cincinnati airport (CVG) and has lots of free parking.

You’ve got to be registered to attend and it’s filling up fast. Last year was a sell out and this year is a bigger and better event!

See the site for the agenda, speakers and registration: http://www.sharepointcincy.com

 

SharePoint Cincy – Two weeks from Today!

 

SharePoint Cincy – March 16th, 2012

Northern Kentucky University’s Center for Applied Informatics and MAX Technical Training are bringing a major SharePoint event to the Cincinnati area! SharePoint Cincy will be held at the METS Center located in Erlanger, KY. The METS center is near the Cincinnati airport (CVG) and has lots of free parking.

Only two weeks left!

You’ve got to be registered to attend and it’s filling up. Last year was a sell out and this year is a bigger and better event!

See the site for the agenda, speakers and registration: http://www.sharepointcincy.com

Lots of great speakers will be there! (And I will be speaking there too :-) )

 

 

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SharePoint Saturday Dayton! June 30th, 2012

 

 

We’ve had SharePoint Saturdays in Columbus, last year we had our first in Cincinnati, and now we have one coming up in Dayton!

There’s not much to report yet… but save the date!  June 30th, 2012.

 

Check here for updates:

http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/dayton/default.aspx

 

and follow #SPSDAYTON on Twitter.

 

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Cincinnati SharePoint User Group Lightning Round this Thursday Evening!

 

Below is my post from last week about the “Lightning Rounds” presentations for this Thursday’s Cincinnati SharePoint User Group meeting.  (and yes… I did mistype it as “Lighting Rounds”… oh well…)

So far we have presentations lined up for these topics: (exact titles TBD)

• Do you need a File Upload Web Part to allow uploading of files without giving access to the Document Library?
• Tricks for personalizing content to users
• Enable consistent deployment from the development environment to the production environment using PowerShell to create easily maintained code that SharePoint admins can trust
• SharePoint & SQL Reporting Services
• How to Give Back to the SharePoint Community with a Blog and the MSDN Forums

We still have room for one or two more presentations!  Send us a one paragraph topic proposal and your estimate of presentation length. Send it to point2share@gmail.com or just post a reply to this article with your email address and I’ll get back to you. Don’t worry about your email address as I will keep your reply unpublished and private.

 

Mike

 

 

 

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The Cincinnati SharePoint User Group meets the first Thursday of every month at 6:00 PM at MAX Technical Training in Mason, Ohio (directions). The next meeting is 2/2/2012.

 

Lighting Round!

February  is our "Lighting Round" meeting where everyone is welcome to submit a proposal to speak for anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes. These have been a lot of fun in the past and no matter your interest in SharePoint, there will be something interesting!  (Think “SharePoint Saturday in 90 minutes”)

If you have never spoken at a SharePoint user group meeting before, this is just about the easiest way to get started. Pick your favorite aspect of SharePoint, or the latest cool SharePoint related thing you have done, and tell us about it. You don't even need slides, and if you do create slides, you probably won't need more than five or so. Keep it short, keep it interesting and have fun! (And when you are done, you can put "User group speaker" on your resume and be well on your way to SharePoint Saturday fame!)

We are looking for topics like these:

• administrator
• developer
• best practices
• worst practices / war stories / don’t try this at home
• end user
• site owner
• customization tricks
• SharePoint Online / Office 365
• SharePoint for small groups and / or non-profits
• or anything interesting about SharePoint!

But… no sales pitches!

 

To get the ball rolling I will start us out with this little presentation...

How to Give Back to the SharePoint Community with a Blog and the MSDN Forums
In 10 minutes we will create a blog site, do a little customization, setup an automatic Twitter feed and configure Google Analytics so you will know if anyone is reading your blog.
In the next 5 minutes we will setup an MSDN Forums account and start answering questions!

 

Now it’s your turn!

 

Send us a one paragraph topic proposal and your estimate of presentation length. If you don’t know how to reach me or someone in the user group then just post a reply to this article with your email address and I’ll get back to you. Don’t worry about your email address as I will keep your reply unpublished and private.

 

Mike

 

p.s. If there’s anyone reading this from “vendor land” and you would like to make a door prize donation to the Cincinnati SharePoint User Group, or even sponsor a meeting, please contact me.

 

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Cincinnati SharePoint User Group Lightning Round in February!

 

The Cincinnati SharePoint User Group meets the first Thursday of every month at 6:00 PM at MAX Technical Training in Mason, Ohio (directions). The next meeting is 2/2/2012.

 

Lighting Round!

February  is our "Lighting Round" meeting where everyone is welcome to submit a proposal to speak for anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes. These have been a lot of fun in the past and no matter your interest in SharePoint, there will be something interesting!  (Think “SharePoint Saturday in 90 minutes”)

If you have never spoken at a SharePoint user group meeting before, this is just about the easiest way to get started. Pick your favorite aspect of SharePoint, or the latest cool SharePoint related thing you have done, and tell us about it. You don't even need slides, and if you do create slides, you probably won't need more than five or so. Keep it short, keep it interesting and have fun! (And when you are done, you can put "User group speaker" on your resume and be well on your way to SharePoint Saturday fame!)

We are looking for topics like these:

• administrator
• developer
• best practices
• worst practices / war stories / don’t try this at home
• end user
• site owner
• customization tricks
• SharePoint Online / Office 365
• SharePoint for small groups and / or non-profits
• or anything interesting about SharePoint!

But… no sales pitches!

 

To get the ball rolling I will start us out with this little presentation...

How to Give Back to the SharePoint Community with a Blog and the MSDN Forums
In 10 minutes we will create a blog site, do a little customization, setup an automatic Twitter feed and configure Google Analytics so you will know if anyone is reading your blog.
In the next 5 minutes we will setup an MSDN Forums account and start answering questions!

 

Now it’s your turn!

 

Send us a one paragraph topic proposal and your estimate of presentation length. If you don’t know how to reach me or someone in the user group then just post a reply to this article with your email address and I’ll get back to you. Don’t worry about your email address as I will keep your reply unpublished and private.

 

Mike

 

p.s. If there’s anyone reading this from “vendor land” and you would like to make a door prize donation to the Cincinnati SharePoint User Group, or even sponsor a meeting, please contact me.

 

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SharePoint Cincy 2012 Early Bird Discounted Registration Now Available

 

 

Need I say more!

Go here http://www.sharepointcincy.com/ and click Register Now before 2/29/12.

 

 

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My Blog’s Year in Review…

 

I’ve seen that a number of bloggers have posted a “year in review” article, and someone asked where mine was, so…

 

2011?

 

79 blog posts

Spoke at 7 events including user groups, SharePoint Saturdays and SharePoint Cincy

Volunteered at TechEd in Atlanta

Wrote a book!

Wrote a magazine article

Taught way too many classes (my day job!)

Updated two courses we have in the Microsoft Courseware Library (CWL)

Got about 3000 points answering questions in the MSDN forums (but I still don’t know what a point is)

Even got in about 100 flights on my R/C airplanes!

 

2012?

 

The blog? I have a lot of started, but never finished blog articles left over from last year, so I’ve got plenty of topics

Speaking? Already scheduled to speak at SharePoint Cincy 2012 and at the SharePoint Summit 2012 in Toronto, with a few more events pending

Going to the MVP Summit in Redmond!

Planning on TechEd again this year in Orlando (fingers crossed)

Books? Two outlined, and one in progress…

Magazine articles? In the works…

Classes? I’m sure I’ll be busy. It’s my day job you know.

New courses? A new SharePoint Designer 2010 class scheduled for completion by the end of the month and probably five or six others by the end of the year.

MSDN forums? I’m in there almost every day so I’m sure I’ll get more “points”.

Definitely a lot of R/C airplane and helicopter flying in the plans.

 

 

There… I did my mandatory year in review, and even did a 2012 forecast…

 

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SharePoint Saturday Cincinnati is ... well this Saturday!

 

Cincinnati’s first SharePoint Saturday is in three days! Are you registered yet? If not, go here now: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/cincinnati/default.aspx

With twenty different presentations you can’t miss!

 

I will be giving two presentations:

  SharePoint Governance... It may not be what you think it is...

and

  SharePoint 2007, 2010 and Office 365 for Site Owners and Power Users

 

 

                                Tweet it! (#SPSCincinnati)

                                     Blog it!

                                         Be there! 

                                             and Learn!

                                                                and remember… it’s FREE!

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If you missed SharePoint Cincy 2011…

 

SharePoint Cincy 2011

If you missed SharePoint Cincy 2011 then you missed out on a full day of everything SharePoint! Two fantastic keynote presentations from Microsoft and Kroger, twenty breakout sessions with speakers from all over the country and a fantastic group of sponsors. I have not forgotten the most important group… the attendees! There was networking and social collaboration going on in every room and around every table.

SharePoint Cincy 2012 – March 16th 2012

Add March 16th, 2012 to your calendar.  Towards the end of the day I was frequently asked “when is this going to be done again?”  During the 5:00 update the SharePoint Cincy team announced that due to the success of this first event that they are going to do it again. So, see you in March 2012.

 

Thanks to the speakers

(Notice how many of these are local talent. The Cincinnati area has a strong base of SharePoint expertise!)

Fred J. Studerstuder, Microsoft Corporation
Catherine AllshouseCatherine, The Kroger Company
Tim Beamer, Dell
Scott Brickey, Strategic Data Systems
Mike Buob, Sogeti, USA
Steve Caravajal, Ph.D., Microsoft Corporation
Bill Crider, Ascendum
Mario Fulan, Information Control Corp (ICC)
Rob Joy, K2
Pat Kern, Procter & Gamble, Global Shared Services
Rob Kerr, BlueGranite
Sean McDonough, Idera
Jonathan Mast, SharePoint 911
Matt Morse, PointBridge
Raveen Rajavarma, Ascendum
Mike Smith, MAX Technical Training
Matthew Tallman, Sogeti, USA
Tom Washek, Microsoft
Eric Weissmann, DSC Consulting
Shane Young, SharePoint 911

Thanks to the sponsors and exhibitors

Without these people the event could not happen…

Ascendum
AvePoint
BrainStorm Inc.
CBTS
Center for Applied Informatics @ NKU
Dell
Information Control Corporation
K2
MAX Technical Training
Microsoft
PCMS IT Advisor Group
SDS - Strategic Data Systems
Sogeti
The Circuit

The Cincinnati SharePoint User Group
The Dayton SharePoint User Group

 

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SharePoint Cincy – Last Chance to Sign Up!

Only one day left! You’ve got to be registered to attend.

SharePoint Cincy – March 18th, 2011

 

Northern Kentucky University’s Center for Applied Informatics and MAX Technical Training are bringing a major SharePoint event to the Cincinnati area! SharePoint Cincy will be held at the METS Center located in Erlanger, KY. The METS center is near the Cincinnati airport (CVG) and has lots of free parking.

See the site for the agenda, speakers and registration: http://www.sharepointcincy.com

 

Lots of great speakers will be there! (And I will be speaking there too :-) )

 

 

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SharePoint Cincy – Major SharePoint Event Coming to Cincinnati!

 

About time!

We now have our own local event!

 

Northern Kentucky University’s Center for Applied Informatics and MAX Technical Training are bringing a major SharePoint event to the Cincinnati area! SharePoint Cincy will be held at the METS Center located in Erlanger, KY. The METS center is near the Cincinnati airport (CVG) and has lots of free parking.

 

See the site for the agenda, speakers and registration: http://www.sharepointcincy.com

 

 

Are you, or do you know a SharePoint “guru”?

Are you a SharePoint guru who would like to speak at SharePoint Cincy?  Click here and summit a proposal. Do you have a recommendation for a speaker or a topic?  Then click here and tell us about it!