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  • Being on the top of your game…

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    More often than not as practitioners and professionals we find ourselves working across several tasks and projects, mentoring staff members and working on curriculum for training opportunities to help grow teams of individuals leaving little time for ourselves. This video reminded me that we all need to take a step back at times and realize…

  • SharePoint Saturday Boston #5

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    It’s been a fun time up here in Boston seeing some great folks like Talbott, Pradeepa and Geoff this weekend (and thanks to the entire SharePoint Saturday Boston team) after not being here since SPS Boston #1 back during St. Patrick’s Day Weekend of 2009. Thanks to Scott Hoag (@ciphertxt) for co-presenting as always –…

  • Office 365 and Lync for Mac

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    Recently I started doing a little usability testing of SharePoint Online within Office 365 with my MacBook Pro running Mac OSX Lion (10.7.3) and figured, “While I’m here, why not pop open the Lync client to be able to keep in touch with colleagues working on solutions?” So I double tapped the command button to…

  • Ahhh yes… E=MCt

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    After much chagrin and fun, I finally went ahead and completed the process to attain the title of “Microsoft Certified Trainer.” I can’t say that I feel all that different, but my students were ecstatic as can be seen here . If there’s anything to be said in attaining the professional certification, I’d definitely say…

  • Leaving your mark…

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    Leaving a legacy is the thing that I think so many people miss. Most folks think that you need money to leave a legacy so that folks will notice. I say that if your actions are such that of a servant leading others, then your legacy will be all the more true. Think about your…

  • SharePoint Certifications and Expirations

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    So recently on the Twitter, the question appeared, “When do the SharePoint 2007 certifications expire.” My first thought was, “Well they don’t really expire, they’re just retired,” as I thought back to some of my Windows XP and Server 2003 certifications that were now lifted to the rafters of the Microsoft arena. After a little…

  • Princeton SharePoint User Group

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    This evening, Scott Hoag and I presented a session on the Pitfalls of Migrating to SharePoint 2010 up in Princeton, New Jersey at the Princeton SharePoint User Group (PrincetonSUG, not PrincetonSPUG). If you live in the Princeton area, be sure to register on the Princeton SUG Meetup.com site so that you’re in the know about…

  • Remembering our Wounded Warriors

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    The other day I popped on Facebook and noticed in the stream of thoughts that are displayed something in Shannon Bray‘s postings that caught my eye. For those of you that don’t know Shannon, he’s a thoughtful guy that’s darn sharp in the SharePoint field. What he shared was something that definitely hit home for…

  • SharePoint Saturday Philly Slides…

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    So if you’re one of the four readers that come here regularly, you’ll notice that the slides for the session that Edmond Avanesian and I presented on are already available below… however if you’re curious about some of the other sessions from #SPSPhilly, then look no further than the Agenda listing and slides – http://go.spdan.com/rroto.…

  • Filtering through the noise…

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    Do you ever find yourself banging your head against the wall wondering why it is that non-technical folks try to provide technical solutions? Definitely recommend if you’re hitting that wall or getting advice that you don’t feel you can trust, feel free to remember to bust out your best resource – TechNet. More often than…