SharePoint Saturday, Twitter and Facebook

by michaellotter 10. December 2008 11:03

Just recently I was in Kansas City for "KC Day of Dot Net" event and was talking to Becky about how to better promote the SharePoint Saturday event in Virginia Beach on January 10th and she said I should be doing it through Twitter and Facebook.  If anybody really knows me I'm not the most social person because I'm always working a lot of hours and I like to keep a low profile but I figured I would give it a valiant effort and see what happens.  When I got back to NYC I created 2 new Twitter accounts http://twitter.com/michaellotter and http://twitter.comspsaturday and a new Facebook group called SharePoint Saturday and event for Virginia Beach and started using all my new resources with some help from Becky.  

A couple of days has gone by and I'm following a few people and few people are following me on Twitter and I've added the Twitter blog widget to my blog and a link to the SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach site.  Beyond that I'm still getting my feet wet with the whole thing and trying to find out which third party Twitter application works best for me.  I can remember back in April at the Pittsburgh Code Camp (great code camp!) I met Amanda Laucher and she tried to convince me to do Twitter then but I told her it wasn't for me because it was way to social (I was having a hard enough time with my blog).  She was so fanatic about it, a group of us even joked around with her that she would be the first Twitter MVP.  The value of Twitter is still being measured but it does seem to be a good vehicle for getting information out and meeting new people.  Last night I met Jeremy Thake and he introduce me to his SharePoint Dev Wiki.

Now Facebook is a different story and it's probably because I'm not using it correctly yet because of it's complexity but I'm getting some good tips from Becky and I'm sure it will bring great value in the future.  Currently I just like posting pictures that Heather takes and taking credit for them. Smile  I've created a badge for my Facebook account because this is the only way I know how to invite people outside of search for them on Facebook.

Michael Lotter's Facebook profile

Well I better get back to work on all my SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach and New York City items before I run out of time.

Cheers 

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SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach - Registration is now open !!!

by michaellotter 30. November 2008 06:04

Registration is now open for SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach.  Please vist the site or click here to register.

 

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SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach - Call for Speakers

by michaellotter 30. November 2008 05:22

SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach event is currently having Call for Speakers and looking for sessions for all tracks (Administration, Development, Design, Architecture and End User).  The current list of sessions already submitted is listed below.

 

    Cheap & Easy Wildcard Search for MOSS  
Everyone loves to use wildcard searches when looking for files on their PC. But when they attempt to use wildcards in SharePoint, search results come up empty. This session will teach attendees how to fix that problem, and quickly drive adoption of SharePoint search. We will discuss how to add new functionality to SharePoint Search by creating our own web user control with the Query Object Model. After we have the design and code laid out we will then create a web part using the web user control as a basis. In the end attendees should have the ability to visualize web part design and create a custom search utility in a real world business scenario.
 
 
Developing and Packaging Third-Party SharePoint Solutions  
The market available for third-party SharePoint developers is relatively untapped considering the vast size of its user base. Microsoft provides us with the tools and paradigms to make custom solutions deployable across any configuration. As long as we follow some basic rules and understand what we can expect in more complex SharePoint installations, customers can expect a seamless, professional deployment experience and support calls can be minimized. 

In this session, we will write a simple, custom SharePoint Feature (with some edge-case peculiarities) to highlight some of the issues you might encounter when preparing your product for release. The result will be an installation executable (none of that stsadm funny business).

After this session, attendees should be able to develop their own SharePoint Features and package them with the correct tools to provide their customers with the ability to deploy them into their environments.
 
 
SharePoint as an Enterprise Development Platform  
So you stood up MOSS 2007, and maybe even put together a nice site or two for your intranet/extranet/public website… now what? SharePoint gives you an extraordinarily rich platform to serve as the foundation for all of your .NET enterprise applications. We’ll talk about several development tools built right into SharePoint, how to establish some that are missing, and how to organize your development efforts around SharePoint to maximize the return on your SharePoint investment. The intended audience for this session would be software/solutions architects and IT leadership. Due to time constraints, we will briefly cover important technical topics at a high level, many of which will be covered in more detail in other sessions. These topics will include but are not limited to Application Architecture, Team Development, Web Services/Windows Communication Foundation/Service-Oriented Architecture, custom ASP.NET application development within the SharePoint framework, and integration with existing applications.
 
 
SharePoint Security Management for the Business User  
With MOSS or WSS v3 the new site collection and sub site security capabilities are astonishing but there are so many new options available that it’s really hard to truly understand what is possible and how to effectively manage security.  The complexity of managing security even gets more complicated when working with sub sites because of how the screens display the security groups.   This session reviews all the different options that are available and then goes into detail on how to effectively use the options with and without inheritance at the site collection and sub site level.  List, Library, Folder, Item and Document level security is reviewed to finish up the session.  This session uses demo’s frequently to actually show what screens and options are being talked about so everyone can get a clear picture of what is really being talked about.
 
 
Tuning Memory Management in SharePoint  
When I began working with SharePoint Portal Server 2001 and SharePoint Team Services there weren’t a lot of options available for tuning anything especially memory.  When SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Windows SharePoint Services, IIS 6 and SQL 2005 were available we started seeing more options for tuning SharePoint installation and it was really necessary because of the new capability of scaling out the farm and RAM limitation of Windows Server 2003 32 bit.  Now with MOSS and WSS v3 having more functionality and more screens/options for performance tuning memory management has become a necessary action to make the farm run as smoothly as possible.  This session shows and gets into those details on what can be done to make your farm memory management as efficient as possible.   

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SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach

by michaellotter 30. November 2008 01:42

Last year I found out about Code Camp’s through a colleague and thought they were a great idea because it was a way to giveback to the community things I've learned from my consulting career, practice on my speaking and presentation skills and hopefully meet some really great people and make some friends in the process.  Through the past year I’ve spoke at 20 different events mostly up and down the East Coast on InfoPath 2007, InfoPathForms Services, InfoPath Template Parts, SharePoint Application pages, SharePoint branding and SharePoint Security for Business User and have had a really great time doing it.  I’ve had such a great time that I’m hooked on the whole Code Camp meaning and started to think about doing a event myself called SharePoint Saturday up in NYC.  I talked with several people about the whole idea at the Hartford Code Camp (Talbott Crowell) and got a lot of positive feedback.  So, I mentioned it to all my work colleagues and a couple other people at the NYC SharePoint User Group and they thought it was a great idea too.  With all this positive feedback I decided to give it a shot and start planning for the event.  While the SharePoint Saturday NYC event was being planned out, I talked with Kevin Israel at the Richmond Code Camp and told him about the whole idea and he thought it was really cool idea and gave me some really good pointers about running the whole event.  Several weeks later I got im from Kevin and he told me Susan Lennon and himself were talking about doing a SharePointSaturday event in Virginia Beach and was wandering if I would be interested in helping them organize it and without hesitation I said yes.  I was thinking to myself this is so cool that SharePoint has gotten so big that local community events are being done just for it.  The planning is in full swing now and everything is moving along pretty nicely with the organization of the event and we now have a great website that Josh Carlisle and B&R Business Solutions helped out with.  The content on the site is a little skimpy but keep checking back because new content is always being added, so please keep checking back to see what new information is being posted on the home, speaker and session pages. 

Cheers

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