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Minnesota SharePoint User Group

December 2009 MNSPUG – Recap

Well we had a little hiccup with this months meeting – between some double-booking of the room and enough snow to seriously impact travel efforts on Wednesday – but we still worked through it.  We didn’t have our usual on-site meeting, but all of our experience with Live Meetings this year and the ongoing support of Microsoft (Thank you Nick Stillings!) we did pull of a pretty successful online-ONLY meeting.  We peaked out a little over 100 folks visiting. 

Thank you everyone for your participation!

This month’s meeting was about SharePoint 2010 and Enterprise Content Management.  This broke down to the major areas of document management, records management and web content management.   

The slide deck is available now – the meeting recording will be available soon.  (I’ll update this post once it’s available)

SharePoint 2010 Overview Presentation

We had our first 2010 SharePoint Overview presentation today as part of the series of presentations we do at New Horizons Minnesota.  This is still early information, so keep in mind that the content in this deck will continue to evolve as we get closer to RTM and we keep refining the content and presentation.  I’ve posted the slide deck on the Minnesota SharePoint User Group site (MNSPUG) – HERE. 

Oh, and it sounds like ‘New Horizons’ is reverting back to ‘Benchmark Learning’ soon…  so links, etc will likely be changing. 

November MNSPUG – SharePoint 2010 Preview

November’s Minnesota SharePoint User Group meeting on Wednesday, November 11 will be a special, ALL DAY session!  This super-sized user group will be chock full of information on SharePoint 2010 as well as highlights from the SharePoint conference in Las Vegas. 

The first part of the day will be an overview of SharePoint 2010: A Walk Around the Wheel.  Stick around for lunch, and listen in on "Preparing for 2010: The Top Things to Do Now."

In the afternoon, we will be offering four different breakout sessions, each taking a deeper look into various aspects of SharePoint 2010. We’ll have 2 different "tracks," a Business Track and a Technical Track.  We will split the room in half and these breakout sessions will be going on simultaneously.

On top of this day full of new content, we’re going to have our first MNSPUG-associated "SharePint"!  Yes, after Raymond and I heard about all the other SPUGs out there and how critical the socializing/drinking component of their user groups are – we thought you’d want that opportunity too.  We’ve been missing out with our morning meetings.  🙂 So, this month we’ll be over at Major’s in Bloomington and will reserve some space, please come to socialize over a pint and hear more stories from Las Vegas!

We hope you can join us for at least part of if not the whole day! There will be lots of new information and demos, as well as time for Q&As. 

For more details on sessions, schedule and registration, see the MNSPUG site. 

July MNSPUG Recap

Great session this past week with the Minnesota SharePoint User Group.  Our panel this month consisted of Bill English from Mindsharp, Sarah Haase (Twitter: @sarahhaase) from Best Buy, as well as Raymond Mitchell (Twitter: @iwkid), Neil Iversen (Twitter: @romangeeko) and myself from Inetium.  Lots of great questions from the group – both in the room and online. 

We only had 70 or so folks in the room, but had OVER 50 on the Live Meeting, which was very exciting – that offering is definitely growing quickly.  Thanks to Nick Stillings from Microsoft handling the tech details during the meeting so we could concentrate on the conversations. 

The session recording is available HERE – and yea, it includes video – yikes! 

July MNSPUG

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.    

November Minnesota SharePoint User Group

Raymond and I are working on next week’s MNSPUG session – SharePoint and Social Networking.  It looks like we’re going to have a full house for this month’s MNSPUG meeting.  As of early last week we had 175 folks registered, which generally means we’ll get around 140-150.  So make sure you get there early for a good seat.  There will also be a Lunch and Learn session following the MNSPUG session with NewsGator presenting their SharePoint integrated products. 

Two other quick notes/reminders:

  1. Microsoft isn’t hosting soda anymore.  🙁  There are a number of businesses in the office complex for soda and other beverage options.  Microsoft continues to have coffee, tea and water available.   
  2. There’s still a lot of road construction going on near the Microsoft office, but as of the last time we checked, you can still access the parking ramp for the 8300 building.  Allow yourself a few more minutes to navigate the mess.  

See you on Wednesday! 

(as requested, I’ll hold off on cutting my hair until after this week’s session 🙂 )

April SPUGs

Oh how the monthly SPUG events just sneak up on you. 

April 1 – Iowa SharePoint User Group
April 2 – Nebraska SharePoint User Group
Kirk Hofer will be delivering a variation of the SharePoint Search presentation Brian and I did at the March MNSPUG – reviewing the SharePoint search landscape and walking through configuration of Search Server 2008 Express integrated with Windows SharePoint Services v3. 

April 9 – Minnesota SharePoint User Group – (click to attend)
Erik Mau will be presenting on the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) features of MOSS 2007. 

April 9 – Lunch and Learn – eDocument Resources (click to attend)
Immediately following the MNSPUG meeting there will be a Lunch and Learn session exploring the ‘better together’ story with SharePoint and eDocument Resources – an advanced ECM and workflow solution. 

See you there!

Minnesota SharePoint User Group Announcements

A few annoucements posted on the Minnesota SharePoint User Group (MNSPUG) site today (yes, I’m cross-posting myself):

February MNSPUG Meeting:  SharePoint Development Overview
Neil Iversen will be presenting.

Lunch and Learn (post MNSPUG): KnowledgeLake – Content Management Business Solutions

February MODIG Meeting:  Feature Development
The first meeting of the new Minneapolis Office Developer Interest Group (MODIG)
Neil Iversen will be presenting.

We hope to see you there!