Gearing up for the Best Practices Conference

By on August 10, 2010 in Best Practices, Conferences, Records Management, SharePoint Development

 
Well, the date is fast approaching for the annual SharePoint Best Practices Conference hosted by MindSharp.  This will be my first time speaking at the conference, and I must admit I’m getting pretty excited about it.
The thing about this conference that sets it apart from others is that it really focuses everyone’s attention on [...]

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SharePoint Saturday DC – The Wave Builds

By on May 16, 2010 in Uncategorized

If the recent turnout at the SharePoint Saturday event in Washington DC is any indication, we are in for a wild ride as the SharePoint 2010 wave starts to build.  Out of nearly 1200 registrations, over 900 people attended.  Let me say that again – there were more than 900 attendees!
Now, I’ve spoken at SharePoint [...]

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SharePoint Developer Center Goes Live

By on May 12, 2010 in Microsoft, SharePoint Development

Checkout the new SharePoint Developer Center at http://msdn.microsoft.com/sharepoint.  Lots of cool stuff, including links to how-to videos, articles and code samples.

I’m particularly excited about the new online SDK content.  Microsoft apparently listened and learned from our collective cries of “Help!” when the 2007 version was released without enough quality supporting documentation.  This time is [...]

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MER 2010 Conference on Records Management

By on May 5, 2010 in Records Management

I’ll be giving a talk on SharePoint 2010 Records Management at the Managing Electronic Records (MER 2010) Conference in Chicago on May 18th. 
Click here for more information: 
S23 – Managing Electronic Records using SharePoint 2010

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Pressed for Words

By on April 29, 2010 in Blogging, WordPress

Well, it’s official.  I’ve switched my blog from BlogEngine.Net to the truly amazing WordPress platform.  Don’t get me wrong – I love the BlogEngine product.  It is thoughtfully designed and elegantly written.  It’s just that I got fed up dealing with comment spam.
If you’re using BlogEngine, then it’s just a matter of time before you [...]

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Interesting Discussion of the Impact of SP2010 on other ECM Players

By on March 23, 2010 in Content Management, Microsoft Corporation, Records Management

A few days ago, John Mancini, president of the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), posted a rather loaded discussion question on the AIIM Linked-In group.  The question was “How will SharePoint 2010 effect the existing ECM players?”.  It quickly generated responses from a broad spectrum of people, many of whom are either employed [...]

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Interesting Perspective on how SharePoint is Capturing the ECM Market

By on March 3, 2010 in Content Management, Microsoft Corporation

Technorati Tags: ECM,SharePoint
Check out this postby Lee Dallason why he thinks Microsoft has been so successful in redefining ECM around the capabilities of the SharePoint platform.  To put it simply, it’s because of a brilliant marketing strategy and not because of SharePoint itself.
Dallas boils it down to three key points:

Microsoft focused on solving [...]

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SharePoint Job Tweets Now Available @SPDEVNET

By on December 20, 2009 in SharePoint Development, SharePoint Jobs

As we all know, the economy is still struggling, and although the IT sector is rebounding well, the developer job market has always been and continues to be somewhat finicky. The key is to have a steady stream of opportunities. This is one of the primary goals behind the SharePoint Developer Network- [...]

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New SharePoint Job Listings Available Online

By on December 20, 2009 in Uncategorized

The SharePoint Developer Network(SPDEVNET) jobs board is now available online at http://jobs.sharepointdeveloper.org, and you can subscribe to the RSS feed directly from the site.  The goal of this exercise is to make it easier for SharePoint professionals to find work, and also to provide a community resource for SharePoint developers to share business opportunities, [...]

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New PowerShell Script Simplifies Content Migration into SharePoint 2007 and 2010

By on December 15, 2009 in Content Management, Records Management

Mattias Wollnik from Microsoft has created a nifty PowerShell script that makes it much easier to move content from file shares into SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 beta sites.   The FCI SharePoint Uploadscript is based on the File Classification Infrastructure(FCI) provided by Windows Server 2008 R2.  The FCI allows administrators to setup policies that control [...]

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