This past weekend I presented at the SharePoint Saturday event in Charlotte, NC.  I had a great time both during the event and hanging out before and after with folks.

 

My session was in the first slot (8:30AM) and I presented my "Leveraging SharePoint 2010 as a Social Computing Development Platform".  Now even under normal circumstances that's a pretty heavy way to start off a morning (it's a 300 level developer presentation).  However, after I polled the audience at the start, I found I had a full room with only a handful of developers.  So I kind of changed my presentation on the fly and did quite a bit more demo'ing of the social computing features (from an end-user perspective) and completely cut out my 3rd demo (creating an activity feed custom gatherer for twitter).  All in all I think it went quite well!

 

For those that were at the session (or my other ones in the past) know that I had an aversion to slide based presentations.  However, posted below is both the mindmap version of the presentation (just click on the thumbnail to get a very large pannable image) as well as a slide deck version (just pretend the SPSIndy logo is SPSCLT).

 

 

And finally, as promised, the icon to the right will get you a zip of all the code samples I used in the presentation.  If you are going to try and actually make this code work your self, you should probably go read this post, as it has more information about each VS project and what you may need to do to get it all working (read the comments too).

 

I want to thank the SPSCLT organizers, especially Brian Gough and Dan Lewis, the speakers, sponsors, and attendees for a great event!  I'm very happy I made the trip down and hope to see some of you at other events very soon!