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| Susan Lennon's, aka Lennon Technologies, Inc - blog |
6/21/2009
Dan Lewis did a GREAT job pulling off a tremendously successfull SharePoint Saturday on June 20th in Charlotte, NC. I had a great time - as I always do when I get to see my SharePoint Tweeps. A bonus was getting to meet some new people - and no offense to the new folks, but the highlight was getting to meet Mike Gannotti. I've followed Mike's blogs for years ( http://socialmedia.mikegannotti.com/default.aspx ) - so I knew he he would have great insight on SharePoint, but boy is he an entertaining speaker. I thoroughly enjoyed his talk.
I got to meet - officially, turns out we've shared nachos at a past SharePint event - Laura Rogers and attend her event on Out of the Box Web Parts. her talk was very interesting, too - maybe because she does a LOT of what I do - using OOB stuff, SharePoint Designer for Data View Web parts, etc - so maybe there's a reason her talk clicked with me! ;> In that same vein, I got to meet the "OTHER Heather" - Heather Waterman! That was also a treat. And like Laura and I, Heather also uses SharePoint Designer (to quote Heather, "Not SharePoint Disaster!".) Michael Lotter strong-armed Heather into presenting for the first time - and you'd never know that was her first time - she looked like a pro. Great job Heather!! I also attended Rick Taylor's talk on SharePoint in the cloud (Azure). Rick is also a professional speaker and very entertaining. I've attended sessions of his in the past at SharePoint Best Practices Conferences - so I knew he'd be enjoyable to listen too. And I wasn't disappointed! Great stuff.
And the great day was wrapped up with good food and drink afterwards at Wild Wing Cafe. So many GREAT SharePoint folks - I wish I could hang with these guys and gals more often. Next will be SharePoint Baltimore. I'll be there.... July 25th!
More SharePoint Saturday events were discussed this past weekend, to include SharePoint Saturday Raleigh (Nov 7th), SharePoint Saturday Richmond (Nov 21st) and other tentative cities and dates - check back latter!.
Thanks to everyone who attended my session - I hope you got something out of it, and if there's something you think I could add to the presentation, please drop me a comment or send me an email. Thanks again! 6/16/2009
Wow - this may be a record breaker for me - good thing my work's portal is down and I can't get REAL work done tonight - SO, I can upload my SharePoint Saturday, Charlotte presentation. This is WAY out of character for me (isn't it, Michael??!!) - I'm normally sitting in the speaker's lounge at an event with a determined grimace on my face, head down, trying to get things optimized in my virtual and polished in my presentation deck - before I "go on".
But since I gave this talk (for the first time) at Richmond Code Camp - I do have a base presentation to start from - and had minimal to do to get a presentation deck ready. I still have a LOT to do for the demos in my virtual - but hey, what else is a 5 hour drive to Charlotte good for?
So if you're considering whether or not to attend my presentation at SharePoint Saturday, Charlotte (and if not, then why not! What did I ever do to offend YOU??? JUST KIDDING!!!! Lighten up!) - here's my slide deck - decide ahead of time if it looks interesting to you or not. If it does, then I hope you'll join us at my session (whenever that may be) on Saturday, June 20th. Click here for the presentation deck. 5/27/2009Man, have SharePoint Saturdays taken off!! If you haven't checked out the site, head over to www.SharePointSaturday.org and look at how many cities have already had a SharePoint Saturday and how many are in the works!
Great job by Michael Lotter!!
I've submitted speaker sessions for SharePoint Saturday on June 20th in Charlotte, NC and also for SharePoint Saturday on July 25th in Baltimore, MD. I'll be attending regardless of whether or not I'm a speaker. Such GREAT content and even better people! Can't wait!! Not to mention we SharePoint folks know how to have a good time! 5/4/2009I got this tip from a Microsoft consultant working on the US Navy project I also work on. If getting errors when trying to save a workflow in SharePoint Designer, try clearing your web assembly cache. Here's the article telling you how to do it:
It cleared up an error I had in SharePoint Designer when unable to save any changes.
5/3/2009I had a BLAST at SharePoint Saturday DC! Great job by Dux Sy putting on this sold-out, feature-rich event. I heard nothing but rave reviews about the day.
It takes a lot to travel to these events, not to mention the preparation for a session - and I keep thinking I need to cut back, spend time on work, family, home, etc - but then I go to another SPS and get re-engaged. The people who volunteer to speak at SharePoint Saturdays are such a wonderful group of people - I can't wait until I get another chance to hang with them and absorb more SharePoint goodness!
To that end, looks like maybe SharePoint Saturday Charlotte might be the next one on my radar. I'm getting ready to submit a couple of session abstracts - so we'll see if I get picked to speak. And while I don't see SharePoint Saturday Baltimore on the web site yet, my inside sources tell me there's one in the works - so I'm reserving time in July for a trip to Baltimore!
Hope to see many of you at one of these upcoming SharePoint Saturday events! 5/1/2009
OK, so for those of you who know me - I HAD said I wouldn't be at the eleventh hour preparing this presentation (as I ususally do) because I've done it enough times before that I shouldn't have a lot to do. BUT, new laptop, expired virtual image (discovered that one right before last week's Richmond Code Camp), no SharePoint Designer installed in the BRAND NEW BI virtual curteousy of Microsoft, and the SPD I installed wouldn't work without an activation code! A couple hours later after coming back to the hotel after a great evening of socializing with the speakers and volunteers for SPSDC, I'm about ready. Ready enough to upload the presentation deck. And the virtual complete with SharePoint Designer seems to be funcitoning 100%. So here is the link to the deck. WingDing document is here. 4/27/2009Don't forget - Joel Oleson is speaking at our monthly Hampton Roads SQL Server and SharePoint User Group meeting, Wednesday, April 30th, from 6:30-8 pm. Details can be found on the UG site at http://www.hrssug.org .
In addition, we are emulating a popular SharePoint tradition, "SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night" and gathering after the meeting at a Finn McCools to continue our SharePoint camraderie. The address for Finn McCools is Landstown Commons Shopping Center, 3388 Princess Anne Rd, Suite 311. Their web site is: http://finnmccoolsvb.com/ Hope you can join us! 4/25/2009
Today is Richmond Code Camp 2009.1!! I'm honored to be affiliated with such a top-notch group of individuals. If you attended my session (thanks!) and want the presentation deck, click here. If you are challenged for a username/password when you try to link to the presentation, simply cancel and the document will still load. 4/2/2009We've heard the rumors - now it's OFFICIAL. Here's the link at Microsoft to get SharePoint Designer FREE:
And, NO - it's NOT an April Fools joke! :) |
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