February 16, 2010 - 12:50, by Dostalek, Kevin
Earlier this morning I presented a revised version of my Social Computing with SharePoint 2010 presentation at the local Microsoft office as part of their "Morning Perk" series which highlights new technology paired with customer case studies. I had the honor of once again sharing the stage with long-time customer and friend Dr. Ron Thieme, VP and CIO of AIT Laboratories.
Although breakfast was late, we ended up with a full house and overall a great event. As I promised in my session, you can grab a full sized copy of my mindmap by clicking on the thumbnail below.
I think I also mentioned in the presentation, that for those that would prefer a more traditional presentation of this infomration, you can find a PDF of my slides that I used at SharePoint Saturday a few weeks back in
this blog post (scroll to the bottom, and click on the title slide image).
Ron's presentation can be downloaded (in PDF form) by clicking on his title slide to the right. You can also visit
AIT Labs corporate website to find out more about this dynamic and growing company.
Thanks again to all that attended and those that helped in organizing the event. As always, please feel free to contact me with questions/comments or if you are interested learning more about these topics and how
Ambassador Solutions can help, we're ready and waiting.
February 1, 2010 - 11:45, by Dostalek, Kevin
We also had a great group of volunteers that really helped with all the logistics of the day including: Andy Bradley, Tuong Do, Keith Oswalt, Karyn Williams, John Boomershine, and Mike Ticker. The folks at our facility, the
Gene Glick Junior Achievement Center, were also great all day long!
I also heard from all the sponsors that they really felt appreciated by both the organizers and the attendees and were looking forward to future opportunities to be involved in similar community events in Indianapolis!
Support these folks because without them “free” events just can’t happen!
For my part, in addition to having a speaking slot (more on that below), I was put in charge of speaker management and service. This was certainly the most rewarding part of the entire experience for me as I got to meet and interact with a lot of great folks from the SharePoint community, both local and from other regions. In addition to the event on Saturday, we all had a great time out at
Scotty’s Brewhouse for the speaker dinner on Friday night. I have a
few pictures from that here.
All the speakers did an outstanding job, both inside the walls of their sessions, as well as outside in the hallways. I saw numerous side conversations going on as our expert community played good-will ambassadors to all. Please join me in thanking all the speakers including: Andy Hoffman, Chris Geier, Daniel Galant, Darrin Bishop, David Petersen, Enrique Lima, Fabian Williams, Hope Foley, James Curtis, Jeff Willinger, Jennifer Martinez, Jennifer Mason, Jim Grabinski, Joe Mack, John Ferringer, Kevin Dostalek, Marcy Kellar, Ram Gopinathan, Rob Wilson, Sean McDonough, Steve Pietrek, and Woody Windischman. If you want to follow all these fine SharePoint experts easily on Twitter, I’ve created a Twitter list that you can
follow here.
A few statistics that we have about the event:
- Registrations – 372
- Attendees - 250
- Sponsors – 10
- Speakers – 22
- Sessions – 20 (in 4 tracks of 5 each, then we also had a welcome and closing session)
My Session:
So I presented “Social Computing with SharePoint 2010”. Unlike my nSpin presentation from a few weeks ago which was developer focused, this presentation was in the “Business and End User Track” and so was a bit less technical. I had a pretty experienced SharePoint audience, however not very experienced when it came to “social” especially inside the enterprise. I love this topic because it virtually presents itself and demo’s very well. To add a little bit of fun to the demos I mocked up the Dunder Mifflin corporate organization, complete with about 30 of “The Office” profiles as employees (all under the Fair Use Copyright exemption for Educational use only of course :) This was pretty well appreciated by the audience, but it also made putting in all those status updates, social tags, and comments much more self-entertaining as well [that’s what she said].
Thank you to everyone that attended the session. For those that missed it, I’m doing a slightly altered version of it along with a customer on February 16th at the Microsoft offices.
Go here for more information. If you’d like a copy of my slides, you can download them by clicking on the thumbnail on the right- although about 50% of the presentation was demo.
Do you have a favorite memory from SPSIndy or any other feedback for the organizing committee? If so, please post it below!
January 15, 2010 - 13:57, by Dostalek, Kevin
Here is the mindmap and code samples from the presentation I gave last night at nSpin entitled "Overview of the SP2010 Social Platform for Developers". NOTE: This is NOT the presentation I'm giving at SPSINDY. To view/download the whole mindmap just click on the thumb below:
As for the codesamples, here are a couple notes:
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General
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These are all VS2010 projects
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You will need to change some of the hardcoded SPSite URLS to yours- anywhere you see
http://sp2010
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The first and third projects must be run on a SharePoint 2010 server. As such, you need to insure that your project's framework targets are .Net 3.5 and the CPU targets are either x64 or AnyCPU -- do not try to use x86 for these. The second project doesn't matter. If you load the solution file, these will all be set properly.
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The first project is a visual webpart (AreaSpecialist) that accesses the user profile manager to pull down out a profile image, and allows the user to "give them Kudos" as it tracks their peer rating.
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You'll need to change the deploy location in the project settings.
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Remember to create the custom property in the user profile service application called "KudosRating" of type integer.
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This version of the code has the elevated privilege implemented.
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The second project is a windows form application (SocialBrowser) that allows a user to browse around your portal or the internet and it automatically adds any comments that have been made by folks within your organization to the datagrid at the bottom by accessing the SocialData webservice.
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The third project is a command line application that is a custom gatherer that imports and publishes twitter feeds to the SharePoint activity feed.
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Don't forget to create the custom profile property "TwitterAccount" and fill in a couple in your user's profiles.
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You need to run the "RegisterTwitterActivityApplication" at least once successfully (it's presently commented out in Program.Main).
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After you register the twitter application, doublecheck that "Twitter" is available as an ActivityType at the bottom of your "Edit Profile" screen (and check the box if it isn't already).
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Remember to deploy the RESX files to \14\Resources
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Remember to deploy the twitter image (if you want to use it) to \14\Templates\Images
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To download all the sample code projects click the image below:
All content posted here is free for anyone else to (re)use so long as you attribute it. If I get at least 10 requests in the replies to this blog post, I will record a camtasia screencast and post it for everyone that couldn't attend last night.
January 11, 2010 - 13:02, by Dostalek, Kevin
Hey everyone!
I just wanted to drop a note to all about two speaking engagements I've got lined up here in the month of January. I hope if any of the topics below are of interest that you'll be able to come and check them out.
The first is a SharePoint 2010 Development topic for the nSpin group that is coming up THIS THURSDAY.
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nSpin SIG meeting following the Indy .Net UG meetin |
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1/14/10, 7:30ish (.NET UG starts at 6) |
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Overview of the SharePoint 2010 Social Platform for Developers |
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200-300ish |
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SharePoint Developers |
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In this session we're going to run through a brief overview of the new social features in SP2010 just to provide a bit of context and then immediately dive into a talk about how you can leverage these features as a social computing platform as you build out custom socially aware applications within the enterprise. Specifically we're going to look at the User Profile Service, the Social Data Service, and Activity Feeds. |
The second is a more general overview of all the new social features in SP2010 being delivered at the SharePoint Saturday event on January 30th. This will be a great event-- we have 21 speakers lined up in 4 tracks. As of last week, there were already 175+ attendees signed up! We absolutely will run out of space, so if you are interested in this event, then you need to go and register immediately! Here's the details around my session:
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SharePoint Saturday Indianapolis |
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1/30/10, ~11:00 (slot 2), event starts at 8:00 |
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Social Computing with SharePoint 2010 |
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200 |
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General |
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In this session we'll explore the many social computing features in the new platform including improvements to MySites (MyProfile and MyNetwork), Search, Blogs, and Wiki's as well as looking at new features such as Social Tagging, Comments, Ratings, and the Activity Feed. In addition to the feature tour, we'll also discuss the business case for social computing within the enterprise and key considerations as you formulate your plans. |
Hope to see lots of folks at these events and their related after-hours activities. If you make it to any of them, be sure to stop by and say hi!
October 12, 2009 - 13:17, by Dostalek, Kevin
I recently did a presentation at the Indianapolis SharePoint Developers group, nSpin (a SIG of the IndyNDA) on how to use the Community Kit for SharePoint Extended Blog Edition (CKS:EBE) to customize your blog running on top of SharePoint.
Due to other environmental factors outside of our control, we ended up having to compress the 85 minute presentation into 30 minutes. There were also quite a few people that couldn't make it and were asking me for slides. Well, I'm not really a slide kind of guy-- this particular presentation was about 33% Animated MindMap and 66% demos. So anyway, I decided to record it over the weekend as a screencast for everyone!
Hope you enjoy it, it is split into two parts below (sorry Viddler had trouble encoding it as a single file). Please let me know if I got anything wrong- I'm always looking to improve. If anyone out there is wanting a live version of this presentation (speaking engagement) or any others for that matter, now or in the future, please keep me in mind and drop me a line.
PART 1
Customizing CKS:EBE Part 1 Video
PART 2
Customizing CKS:EBE Part 2 Video