{"id":163,"date":"2009-02-01T01:18:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T07:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idubbs.com\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2009-02-01T01:18:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T07:18:41","slug":"twin-cities-sharepoint-camp-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/2009\/twin-cities-sharepoint-camp-follow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin Cities SharePoint Camp &#8211; follow-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a great turnout for the 2nd Twin Cities SharePoint Camp and had a bunch of wonderful speakers. \u00a0I did a short presentation on <strong>Social Networking in SharePoint &#8211; Getting Started the Right Way<\/strong>. \u00a0The 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. \u00a0My Sites are a good thing. \u00a0But like most things in SharePoint &#8211; they require proper planning and preparation. \u00a0We covered the &#8216;why&#8217;s and the &#8216;how&#8217;s. \u00a0A copy of my slides can be found here on the camp site: <a href=\"http:\/\/nhmn.com\/files\/2009.01-TC-SharePoint-Camp\/Social-Networking-in-SharePoint-Get-Started-the-Righ-Way-Wes-Preston.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Link<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One presentation I particularly enjoyed was by Sarah Haase. \u00a0She&#8217;s doing some wonderful things with SharePoint and walked us through some case studies. \u00a0We hope to have her present soon at the MNSPUG. \u00a0One 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 &#8211; I don&#8217;t remember the exact statistic) the ones where an actual plan and design were put together. \u00a0A plan developed by sitting the potential users of a site down with the SharePoint pros. \u00a0Sites not planned, generally were no longer being used within 6 mo. \u00a0Interesting numbers. \u00a0They&#8217;re also doing a really nice job showing actuals to prove out ROI for business units, which is refreshing. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Next up: February <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharepointmn.com\" target=\"_blank\">MN SharePoint User Group<\/a> and then <a href=\"www.nhmn.com\/techfuse\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">TechFuse <\/a>in March. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>See you then!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a great turnout for the 2nd Twin Cities SharePoint Camp and had a bunch of wonderful speakers. \u00a0I did a short presentation on Social Networking in SharePoint &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-sharepoint"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgWQ1-2D","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}