Category: Community

  • SharePoint Users Group of New York

    This past week, Scott Hoag and I had the privilege of presenting a session to the New York SharePoint User’s Group, hosted by Microsoft at their offices there in New York City on the Avenue of the Americas. There were a few familiar faces in the crowd such as Paul Galvin, Mary Leigh Mackie, Randi…

  • Princeton SharePoint User Group

    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

    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…

    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…

    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…

  • SharePoint Saturday Philly

    If you’ve not been to Philadelphia for a SharePoint Saturday event – you really should consider checking it out sometime here in the near future.  Why do I say this? Because these folks have it down to a science – David Mann, Peter Senescu, Michael Mukalian and Bill Wolff. It’s a fantastic event that is…

  • Capital Area .Net SharePoint Special Interest Group Presentation

    This past Wednesday evening, Scott Hoag and I had the privilege of sharing the evening with the Capital Area .Net SharePoint Special Interest Group, hosted by Excella in the Navy League building in Arlington, VA. The crowd was lively and engaged and we even had Nick Inglis, Mack Sigman, Stacey Draper, David Berry and Cicely…

  • Capital Area .NET SharePoint User Group

    Last week I received an e-mail from my colleague and coffee drinking buddy who is one of the coordinators for the Capital Area .NET SharePoint User Group asking if I’d be interested in presenting at their monthly meeting. After checking with my com padre, Scott Hoag, further discussion ensued as to whether or not to…

  • SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach – Slide Deck

    For anyone looking around for the slides from the presentation that Scott Hoag and I presented this past Saturday at SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach on 7 January 2012 is available below… Pitfalls of Migrating to SharePoint 2010 #SPSVBhttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=hoag-usher-pitfallsofmigratingtosharepoint2010-spsvb-120109085741-phpapp02&stripped_title=pitfalls-of-migrating-to-sharepoint-2010-spsvb&userName=spdan View more presentations from Dan Usher.

  • Federal SharePoint Users Group – 1/5/2012

    I realize it’s short notice, but wanted to make sure that the word got out about this evening’s Federal SharePoint Users Group meeting where Tim Ferro will be presenting on SharePoint 2010 and the use of Event Receivers. This presentation titled SharePoint 2010 Event Receivers, is a beginning to intermediate look at Event Receivers and…