May 18, 2010 - 13:01, by Dostalek, Kevin
Wow, I seemed to have gotten quite behind in posting the resources from all my recent presentations! Sorry about that! Anyway, SharePoint Saturday Huntsville was a blast (pun) that was on May 1st earlier this month.
I got to present twice during the day, with the morning session being my Introduction to Social Computing with SharePoint 2010. The mindmap for that presentation can be downloaded by clicking on the thumbnail below:
In the afternoon I presented "Creating a Kickin' Public Facing Blog with the CKS:EBE". That one was lots of fun, and you can download that mindmap by clicking on the thumbnail below. Also don't forget to click on the TAG off to the right -->>>> labled "kickboard", as I have many screencast versions of this presentation that go into more depth than I was able to during the Huntsville session.
Thanks to everyone that came to my sessions, all of the event organizers, especially
Cathy Dew for all her hard work, the other speakers and all the volunteers. It's truly an honor to be part of such a great community!
April 12, 2010 - 11:30, by Dostalek, Kevin
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!
March 26, 2010 - 09:48, by Dostalek, Kevin
I'm honored to be speaking at the SharePoint Saturday in Charlotte, NC on April 10th. I'm doing a slightly tweaked and expanded version of my "Leveraging SharePoint 2010 as a Social Development Platform" presentation which is probably my current favorite session to do (although it doesn't have quite the wow factor and broad audience appeal as my End-User Social Computing w/ SP2010 session). My only big decision point is whether to do the PPT version or the MindMap version of the slide content (but really it's 80% demos anyway).
Anyway, looks to be a great time and I will certainly enjoy meeting lots of new people (it's my first "east coast gig") as well as reconnecting with lots of others.
You can find out more information about this event on their official website:
See ya there!
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!