Next week I’ll be running a series of workshops, Train the Trainer, that will give the participants resources, slidedecks and training on how to become an in-house SharePoint trainer. This 5 part series of EUSP Live Online Workshops runs for five days, 2 hours per day.
Jeff Deverter from Rackspace has to have one of the best designed swag shirts that I’ve seen.
The SharePoint Community keeps rolling along. This week there are 10 public events posted from around the world on the SharePoint Community Calendar.
I’m in LA this week speaking at the Experts Conference. I’m trying a little experiment here with Shutterfly to see how their image manager works. I’ll be uploading new images throughout the day and the little widget below should pickup all the new entries.
Many times we see people approach SharePoint with the idea of “Tell me what SharePoint is, and I’ll let you know if I can use it or not.” This is a tough one to get around for two reasons. First, there’s no such thing as a 30 second overview of SharePoint. Second, talking about a technology does not show how it can be used to solve problems.
Last week EUSP was accused of being a “cesspool of bad practices“. Rather than argue the point, I decided to fully embrace the concept of cesspoolism. I put out the word on twitter, saying I was looking for an acronym for ‘cesspool’ that would best define EndUserSharePoint.com.
The responses were pretty amazing:
“Critics Envy Superb SharePoint [...]
So how DID you learn about SharePoint? All stories welcome.
At EndUserSharePoint.com, we have the same type of thing enabled, but most people don’t know it. In our comments section for each of the articles, you as the commenter have the ability to display an image along with your comment
May is shaping up to be a fun month with two SharePoint Saturday’s within distance of New York City.
If you are anywhere within range of Washington DC on May 15th, there’s only one place to be: SharePoint Saturday DC. This is shaping up to be the largest non-conference event SharePoint has ever seen.
