If you’ve been following me for any time now, you know that I’m all about community. I look for different ways I can participate, try to use the site for a launch pad of new ideas for SharePoint sharing, and introduce people to the ideas that are springing up around the community. This is one of those times…

Geoff Varosky and the team who put on SharePoint Saturday Boston have come up with a plan to record the sessions that were delivered on September 25, 2010. Did you catch that? Today is October 15th, 2010. Unless we can go back to the future, there has to be another way, and that’s what Geoff has come up with.

Starting on October 25th, he is going to do live broadcasts, repeating the sessions that were delivered in Boston. The people who presented in Boston will be the hosts, so you’ll get the real thing, no substitutes. These will be live broadcasts where you can ask questions and participate, just as if you were there. The sessions are recorded and made available, free to the public.

The reason I’m excited about this is that it’s a new way to expose all the GREAT content that’s coming out on SharePoint Saturday’s that is usually limited to a specific location. The regional speakers are delivering fantastic case studies with tips and tricks they have discovered on their own, but will never be heard again outside of their session.

If the format works out, I would like to document the process of getting this done for other SharePoint Saturdays and help build a repository of recordings from around the world!

There is enough room for 1000 people to attend each live session. The recording will be made available as soon as possible after the session. Please check the sessions below and see what interests you. You’ll get a reminder notice a couple days before each session. As a hint: If you give a bogus email address, you get no reminder notice. Makes sense, right? This isn’t for marketing, it’s for communicating updates to you.

So have at it. We look forward to an exciting experiment here and to your feedback below.

Geoff, great idea.

Mark

Below are the list of sessions, dates and times they will be available. Follow the corresponding links below to register for each webinar. 11:45 AM EST – 11:55 AM EST Welcome and Sign-In 11:55 AM EST – 12:00 PM EST Speaker Introduction 12:00 PM EST – 1:00 PM EST Presentation Session Presenter(s) Date/Time Register SharePoint Development & Customization: Overcoming Hurdles and Avoiding Pain Geoff Varosky & Mark Rackley 10/25/10 11:45 AM Register Things that should be easy in SharePoint Development Eugene Rosenfeld 10/29/10 11:45 AM Register SharePoint in the Cloud Matt Lathrop 11/1/10 11:45 AM Register The Seven Most Important (Non-Technical) SharePoint Success Factors Richard Harbridge 11/5/10 11:45 AM Register See Beyond The Numbers: Data Visualization in SharePoint 2010 Sadalit Van Buren & Chris McNulty 11/8/10 11:45 AM Register Driving end user adoption for SharePoint 2010 Chris Bortlik 11/15/10 11:45 AM Register Sandboxed Solutions: Developing High-Powered Solutions with Low-Trust code Bob German 11/19/10 11:45 AM Register Dashboards for SharePoint Susan Lennon 11/22/10 11:45 AM Register SharePoint 2010: Service Applications Jason Gallicchio 11/29/10 11:45 AM Register Governance Best Practices in SharePoint 2010 Scott Jamison 12/3/10 11:45 AM Register 11 Strategic Considerations for SharePoint Migration Christian Buckley 12/6/10 11:45 AM Register Implementing SharePoint for Enterprise Search: Methodology and Mechanics Nicholas Bisciotti 12/10/10 11:45 AM Register Project, Project Server, and SharePoint 2010: Which to Use When Brittany Kwait 12/13/10 11:45 AM Register Advanced Development on the 2010 Ribbon Shai Petel 12/17/10 11:45 AM Register Assuring Accessibility and Privacy Compliance in SharePoint Sites and Social Computing Larry Concannon 1/3/2011 11:45 AM Register Get more Social with SharePoint Jeff Willinger 1/10/11 11:45 AM Register SharePoint Security: Through the Looking Glass V2 David J Pileggi, Jr. 1/14/11 11:45 AM Register Automating SharePoint with PowerShell Talbott Crowell 1/21/11 11:45 AM Register The Best of Both Worlds – Connecting SharePoint to the rest of the Enterprise using BizTalk Andrew Babiec 1/24/11 11:45 AM Register Traversing The Term Store Russ Edelman 1/28/11 11:45 AM Register SURVEY RESULTS: How is your company using SharePoint? Mark Miller & Derek Weeks 1/31/11 11:45 AM Register