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Axceler Evangelism, On the Road in May

  

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I am on the road once again, having just wrapped up events in Boston and St. Louis (SharePoint Connections and SharePoint Saturday St. Louis, respectively) and am reporting from beautiful San Diego, where the regional SharePoint Connections event kicked off today. It’s yet another opportunity to network with local admins and end users, and associate with other passionate members of the SharePoint expert community. I thought I’d share a quick overview of the four events in which I’ll be participating this month. If you’re planning on attending any of these, please stop by and say hello!

Upcoming events and my sessions are as follows:

SharePoint Connections San Diego, May 2 - 4
Manchester Grand Hyatt (schedule)

• SharePoint’s Social Computing Scorecard
  Tuesday May 3^rd, 4:00-5:15pm, Randle Ballroom D
  A deep dive into the leading social networking contenders (Ning, Jive, Box), comparing and contrasting their capabilities against SP2010 capabilities, and why they are important to the enterprise. This session will catalog the rise of commercial social media tools, outline social media in the enterprise (business value, changes to social informatics in the workplace, data and intellectual property concerns), and present a scorecard of the primary features of the leading solutions against SharePoint 2010 features in the enterprise, with guidance on how to build comparable solutions in SharePoint, and with answers to concerns about security, IP rights, data management, network impact, and employee productivity. Attendees will walk away with a better understanding of what SharePoint 2010 is capable of, and some ideas for how they can augment their own designs and planning.
• Enabling Social Media through Metadata
  Wednesday May 4^th, 8:30-9:45am, Randle Ballroom D
  Many companies, whether considering further investment in their SharePoint 2007 deployments or planning upgrades to SharePoint 2010, are reviewing their social media strategies. Users are chomping at the bit to deploy and use the new, natively supported social media features in SharePoint 2010. But most administrators do not fully understand the taxonomy and data governance issues within SharePoint that are associated with these kinds of solutions. The intent of this presentation is to walk participants through the taxonomy and governance implications of the social media capabilities within SharePoint 2007 and 2010, to provide them with the information they need to prepare their organization for these tools, and to provide guidance, best practices, and working examples on how to approach setting up and managing metadata, aligning these tools with their broader corporate content management strategies, and to maintain manageability of their SharePoint environment through governance.
• SharePoint Migration: A Phased, Iterative, and Error-Prone Process
  Wednesday May 4^th, 3:30-4:45pm, Randle Ballroom B
  The purpose of this presentation is to outline some of the more common pitfalls to SharePoint migration planning, helping the user to develop a more robust plan and more realistic timeline by outlining and discussing a high-level migration project plan. This presentation is tool and migration-method-agnostic, and is based on PM and business analyst best-practices.

SharePoint Saturday Houston, May 7
Norris Conference Center - City Centre (schedule)

• Mastering SharePoint Migration Planning
  Orange Track (IT Pro), 1:30-2:30pm
  In this session, we will walk through a ten-phase migration methodology that supplements existing project management processes with best practices. We’ll examine tactical steps within the phases, and guide attendees through this extensive (and iterative) approach. Attendees will leave with a clear picture of the gaps within their current planning efforts, and actionable steps to get back on track.

SharePoint Saturday Michigan, May 14
Walsh College (Troy Campus) (schedule)

• SharePoint’s Social Computing Scorecard
  Business Track, 9:15-10:15am

TechEd North America, May 15-19, Atlanta
Axceler is a Silver Sponsor, so please stop by our booth!