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  • SharePoint User Group of Washington DC

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    The Washington DC SharePoint User Group will be meeting this Thursday, 14 January from 6 til 9 PM at the Hire Strategy Offices in Reston, VA. For more information, check out the SUG DC site at: http://go.spdan.com/fsjzi It looks to be some great presentations on Thursday night with Benjamin Hodes of Microsoft presenting “Introducing Access…

  • Next Generation Advertising and Internet Business

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    Interested in leveraging scoped and personalized advertising for search results within a portal? Supposing that you’re using FAST from Microsoft, you’re potentially left wondering how you can make this model work. With the next generation advertising and Internet business capabilities of FAST’s AdMomentum (AdMo), advertisement management is simplified. If you’re interested in this topic and…

  • SharePoint Special Interest Group – Capital Area .net

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    The Capital Area .net SharePoint Special Interest Group will be meeting this Wednesday, 13 January from 7 til 9 PM at the AT&T Building in Vienna, VA. For more information, check out the SSIG info at: http://go.spdan.com/kgsgk Great group with several folks from the community that present on a regular basis to include Sahil Malik,…

  • Office Geeks – Tri-State SharePoint User Group

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    Live in the Tri-State area of the Philly Office Geeks? Looking for a some SharePoint goodness?  Look no further than the first meeting of the Tri-State SharePoint User Group on Tuesday, 12 January from 6 til 9 PM at the Malvern Microsoft Office. It looks to be a packed meeting with Brett Lonsdale from Lightning…

  • SharePoint Users Group – Princeton Edition

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    Live near Princeton? Interested in SharePoint? Check out the Princeton SharePoint User’s Group on Wednesday, 13 January from 5:30 til 730 PM. For more information, check out the Princeton SharePoint User Group info at: http://www.sharepointgroups.org/sites/psug/default.aspx Jason Medero from B&R Solutions will be speaking on the topic of upgrading to SharePoint 2010. Toni Lanni will also…

  • Thanksgiving 2009

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    Just another day in the life of Dan… that’s what I tell myself every morning as I get ready for the day. It’s been a perplexing year with several life changes and challenges – whether family related, work or things in the social and technical communities that I’m involved with. Today is Thanksgiving though, the…

  • Predictions for SPC 2009

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    For some reason people like predictions as to what “could” happen at a conference or event. It seems that whenever there’s an Apple developer’s conference there’s a new or refined product released causing a mad rush to Apple stores. For conferences like VMWare’s VMWorld, there typically isn’t a mad dash to MicroCenter to pick up…

  • SharePoint Saturday Richmond

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    Live in the greater Richmond metropolitan area? Looking for some great SharePoint information in a low key setting where you can easily interact with the Pros? Then check out SharePoint Saturday Richmond, a grass roots event with excellent speakers to boot. If you’re free on 21 November, head on over for SPS Richmond. Registration opens…

  • VMWare Fusion 3.0 – Coming Soon

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    Similar to several other applications, with the introduction of Snow Leopard (Mac OSX 10.6) it’s all about optimization of processor cycles using the 64 bit architecture of the underlying Darwin platform. With this upgrade it several software vendors are working expeditiously to release upgraded applications that better leverage memory and the platform. For virtualization on…

  • ShareClave 2010 Unconference

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    Not going to the SharePoint Conference 2009 in Vegas due to circumstances beyond your control? Live in the Northern Virginia area? Want to know more about SharePoint 2010? Check out ShareClave, the 2010 Unconference on 24 October in Reston, VA at the Microsoft Technology Center. The agenda is a hybrid conference / unconference schedule. The…