Microsoft M365 MVP, Power Platform Consultant, Founder
The Minnesota SharePoint User Group (MNSPUG) is this week. We’ve got another open forum session this month with a couple of very special guests: Bill English from Mindsharp and Sarah Haase from Best Buy. Come and join us on Wednesday July 8th and bring your questions!
Don’t forget to follow @MNSPUG and the #MNSPUG tag on Twitter for the latest and greatest.
Time to get this blog rolling again… It’s been busy, but its just going to get busier… I’ve got a bunch of half-written posts and other notes that I need to review and get published – still lots of useful stuff to share.
Anyone care? Either way I’ll continue rambling on. 🙂
We had a great turnout for the 2nd Twin Cities SharePoint Camp and had a bunch of wonderful speakers. I did a short presentation on Social Networking in SharePoint – Getting Started the Right Way. The gist of the presentation was getting folks to deploy My Sites in their environments and to understand some of the basic concepts behind their deployment. My Sites are a good thing. But like most things in SharePoint – they require proper planning and preparation. We covered the ‘why’s and the ‘how’s. A copy of my slides can be found here on the camp site: Link.
One presentation I particularly enjoyed was by Sarah Haase. She’s doing some wonderful things with SharePoint and walked us through some case studies. We hope to have her present soon at the MNSPUG. One point she made that stuck with me was that the SharePoint sites that are still being used after 6 months after deployment were (a large part of the time – I don’t remember the exact statistic) the ones where an actual plan and design were put together. A plan developed by sitting the potential users of a site down with the SharePoint pros. Sites not planned, generally were no longer being used within 6 mo. Interesting numbers. They’re also doing a really nice job showing actuals to prove out ROI for business units, which is refreshing.
Next up: February MN SharePoint User Group and then TechFuse in March.
See you then!
2009 came in with a bang on January 1st with an e-mail from Microsoft that I was named a Microsoft SharePoint MVP! What a wonderful honor and great way to start the new year.
For anyone not familiar with the MVP program, please read this excellent post by Mikhail – he sums up the description pretty well: http://www.mikhaildikov.com/2009/01/starting-new-year-with-renewed-mvp.html
A huge thanks goes out to the SharePoint community that I’ve been blessed to be a part of. I hope we can continue to learn, share and grow in the coming year. See you at the MNSPUG! ( http://www.sharepointmn.com )
Just a couple of things to mention:
I’ve still got a bunch of posts sitting around half done – hopefully we’ll get some of these wrapped up and posted soon. More to come!
*sigh*
IWKID is also in the process of moving his blog – to a SharePoint site. The URL remains the same, but content will be a bit thin until he gets things settled and moved across.
Now I just need to get all these unfinished posts up… *sigh*
There’s still plenty of organizing and cleaning up to do, but all the content from the Inetium blog location has been migrated over to idubbs. Don’t be surprised if you see the theme changing around a bit in the coming days as I get settled on something – it’ll stabilize soon enough. 🙂
Woo hoo!
For the time being, my regular content is still over at: http://blogs.inetium.com/blogs/wpreston. I’m hoping to get things migrated somewhat shortly, but we’ll see what reality does…
I keep forgetting to cross post this – so here is a link to my Shuttle Launch post with pictures.
http://www.prestonweb.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=7
Joel had some links to other pictures and posts as well.
Last Tuesday night ( thanks to a call from my dad ) I was able to see the space station and space shuttle fly over. True, its still just a couple of bright dots moving across the sky, but I still found it cool. 🙂 At 9:05, they were the only things visible other than the moon and a few planets. It was kind of fun to see it on Tuesday, the same day that the shuttle left the station, because they were basically following each other as they crossed the sky.