| 34 | | I'm excited to share that I'll be giving my interactive presentation on how to pitch SharePoint projects at SharePoint Saturday on April 14, 2012. In this session you'll break into teams and learn how to create a high level implementation plan and pitch for C Level executives. Get your project green-lit and win prizes. I'm teaching at the first session and then you can continue on to see many other MCM's, MVP's, architects and developers at this free one day event.
Register today at http://spsla.eventbrite.com | | 3/30/2012 2:33 PM | 3/30/2012 |
| 33 | | Hello All - I have made a few updates to the presentation that I gave at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference and posted it in my Reference Materials library.
One key update is the addition of the link on the last slide which will connect you to the Microsoft downloadable environment with the demonstrated Content Packs. Download this and play around with it and you will see its power!
Thanx again to everyone who attended and rated us so highly! | | 11/3/2011 2:00 AM | 11/1/2011 |
| 32 | | I'm excited to post that I'll be presenting at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Anaheim, CA this month.
Come and join me for my session about maximizing your corporate intranet. Entitled Oranges, Rocket Ships and Six Pack Abs I'll be focusing on best practices for driving adoption of your SharePoint intranet deployment. Through the real world journey of the SKECHERS implementation my SharePoint Architect, Walter Cruzate and I will share with you our story and the lessons learned from trying to drive collaboration in our organization.
We are speaking on Monday at 11:00am and we promise to make it fun, informative and never bore you with too many slides! Answer our quiz questions correctly and win some prizes!
Hope to see you there!
Karuana
| | 10/1/2011 5:03 PM | 9/13/2011 |
| 31 | | Women in SharePoint is excited to note it will be having lunch speaker event at the upcoming SharePoint Intelligence Conference to be held in Anaheim on August 30th.
The SharePoint Intelligence conferences gives us all an opportunity to expand our system knowledge with some amazing speakers in an affordable, one day event. I hope everyone has a chance to join us for a special event speaker Ben Girard, VP of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, six times Emmy Award Winning and four times Visual Effects Society Winner.
Registered attendees can join us Visit http://www.sp-intel.com to register and also visit http://womeninsharepointla.org. See you at the event.
Retail Price - $399
Women in SharePoint Exclusive Offer – $99! (Use promo code WISP at check out)
This is a limited offer for members of Women in SharePoint.
SharePoint Intelligence is a Microsoft Award Winning Conference. In this local, one-day, Microsoft SharePoint Conference, users of all kinds (Executives, SharePoint Administrators, SharePoint Developers, SharePoint Designers, Power Users, etc...) can attend several different types of one hour sessions to get a complete overview of the true power Microsoft SharePoint Server can bring to your organization.
The SharePoint Intelligence Conference sessions focus on Enterprise Content Management, Power Users, Workflow, Search, Development, Business Intelligence, Infrastructure and Administration.
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Top Reasons to Attend SharePoint Intelligence
· The technical classes and workshops at SharePoint Intelligence are focused on practical techniques and practices you can put to work today.
· Our one-day SharePoint conference format minimizes your time out of the office.
· Attend the SharePoint sessions that work best for you. With more than 20 classes and workshops to choose from, you can make SharePoint Intelligence your own custom SharePoint training event.
· Get answers to your questions in the classroom, or as you mingle with speakers and peers at coffee breaks or at the evening cocktail reception.
· Bring a group of developers, IT pros and business teams to improve your whole organization's skills and receive a discount! Save $100 when you register 3 or more people!
· See how the Microsoft SharePoint ecosystem is growing and evolving by speaking with technical experts from the local Microsoft field and diverse channels within the Microsoft Partner Network all in our exhibit hall.
· Learn from the brightest minds in the SharePoint universe! Many of our speakers are either Microsoft engineers or have achieved Microsoft MVP status based on their in-depth knowledge of SharePoint.
· Presentations from level 100 through level 400, so there's something for those new to SharePoint and those that are currently experts.
· Over $5,000 in free giveaways at the evening reception. |
Testimonials from past events
· Well organized, well-structured and good content. One of the best seminars I've attended! Thank you!
· It is very difficult to host this type of event and to avoid self-promotion by the presenters...yet you succeeded. Congratulations! I would recommend this conference and I would attend in the future. Overall, I found it to be inspiring.
· This one needs to be every year.
· The event was very well organized and I learned a lot on subjects I attended. Thank You!
· The conference was great. The sponsors were wonderful!! Thank you!
· I really appreciated the emphasis on that IT is to support the business and how we can become a profit driver.
· Excellent view and stories. Very much into making IT less arm-waving and vague and complex. I agree with him and took a lot of notes. He was the top presenter for the whole conference. Awesome!. And not one PowerPoint!!!
· Bob was very interesting. Easy to listen to and understand. Brought a breath of fresh air not using ugly Power Points.
· Bob McDowell's speech was brief and humorous. Thanks!
· Excellent speaker, very interesting content and timely topics covered
Read More at http://www.sp-intel.com |
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| | 8/19/2011 3:32 AM | 8/5/2011 |
| 28 | | In case you haven't heard, SharePoint Saturday will return to Los Angeles on April 2, 2011 at Santa Monica College. This free one day event will be chock full of technical, development and business user information for SharePoint pros and novices alike.
If you haven't registered yet make sure you do at spsla.eventbrite.com I'm looking forward to seeing you all there!
| | 3/1/2011 1:17 AM | 2/28/2011 |
| 27 | | I'm looking forward to seeing everyone on 11/16 at theDAM LA conference in Hollywood. I'll be speaking again on Digital Asset Managment with SharePoint.
Tonight I wrote a post on my AIIM SharePoint Experts blog on SharePoint and DAM. That will give you an overview of what I'll be presenting tomorrow.
Hope to see you there! | | 11/15/2010 11:07 PM | 11/8/2010 |
| 26 | | Thanks to everyone who attended my session at SharePoint Saturday Chicago. I had a great time with all of you and always enjoy seeing my SharePoint family!
I've uploaded both my keynote and session presentation in the Reference Material library.
Enjoy! | | 10/19/2010 1:48 AM | 10/17/2010 |
| 25 | | Thanx to everyone who filled my room today at the SharePoint Intelligence conference. I'm looking forward to seeing you all again next year around May.
As I said here is the link to my presentation from today's session.
SharePoint Intelligence ECM Strategy
I hope you take the information and put it to good use in your companies!
If you are interested in the 1/2 day course on writing an ECM strategy please drop me an email and I will add you to the list.
Hope to see some of you at SharePoint Saturday this weekend!
| | 9/16/2010 8:29 PM | 9/16/2010 |
| 24 | | Hello All - I'll be giving my ECM Workflow presentation at SharePoint Intelligence in Anaheim this week.
Also SharePoint Saturday will be here in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Airport Hilton Hotel on Sept. 18th! If you haven't registered get to it at http://spsla.eventbrite.com It's free and we'll have a great day of SharePoint education and a lovely lunch together!
See you out there! | | 9/15/2010 6:10 AM | 9/15/2010 |
| 23 | | I'm excited that I finally finished migrating my blog to SP2010! A couple of tools helped. Here my brief post on the subject. | | 7/25/2010 6:13 AM | 7/25/2010 |
| 2 | | Yes, we're a party kind of bunch! Nedra Allmond (@NedraAllmond) had the great idea to throw a SharePoint Launch Party! So we're getting together on May 12th at VLounge in Santa Monica.
| | 7/11/2010 11:08 PM | 5/9/2010 |
| 5 | | All forms of technologists have decended on Los Angeles this week for The Experts Conference. I am priviledged to be able to speak along side of some of the best minds in the SharePoint community.
If that wasn't exciting enough the entire LA SPUG meeting will be in session on Tuesday night down at the hotel. Even if you don't have a conference pass we invite you to join us.
The SharePoint community is one of the liveliest ever. Don't miss your chance to see some of its stars right here in our hometown!
See you there!
| | 7/11/2010 10:10 PM | 4/25/2010 |
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I have published my materials from the SharePoint Technology conference in the Reference material area.
Thanx to everyone to came out to my sessions. I enjoy the interaction with everyone so much and it re-invigorates me to go back and do good work for the people who depend on me!
Travel Safe! | | 7/11/2010 10:10 PM | 2/12/2010 |
| 8 | | Come out for my webcast with CMSWatch Expert, Theresa Regli on Thursday, February 4th at 11am EST. She'll give a great overview on the vendor landscape in the Digital Asset Management space. Then I'll discuss using SharePoint for DAM. Learn how you can get wow's from your marketing department!
Register at:
See you there!
| | 7/11/2010 10:11 PM | 2/2/2010 |
| 4 | |
That's right folks - we're doing it again. On the heels of our successful charity TweetUp at SPC09 we're going to do another at SPTechCon to benefit the Childrens' Defense Fund (@childdefender). Here's the details so far:
When: Tuesday night @ 7:30pm
Where: Knuckles Bar at the Conference Hotel
What: No-host bar and lots of fun.
We'll pass the basket for our local charity and set up an online method of donation.
Remember folks, sharing IS the point!
See you in San Francisco!
| 2/15/2010 | 7/11/2010 10:09 PM | 1/15/2010 |
| 1 | | For those of you attending my talk in New York on SharePoint and Digital Asset Management here is the link to Mark Miller's EndUserSharePoint.com screencast on creating a media library in SharePoint 2007. | | 7/11/2010 10:08 PM | 11/2/2009 |
| 12 | | If you're coming to the DAMLA09 conference next week stop on by the historic Roosevelt Hotel on Sunday, Nov. 8th from 5-7pm for a TweetUp. Even if you're not on Twitter its a great opportunity to gather together with people in this industry in a lovely environment.
For more information go here: http://www.damla2009.com/tweetup.html
See you there! | 12/31/2009 | 7/11/2010 9:51 PM | 11/2/2009 |
| 3 | | I'm thrilled to report I've been asked to reprise my SharePoint Conference presentation on real world examples of business intelligence and change management process for the University of New Mexico, Anderson School of Management. | 1/1/2010 | 7/11/2010 9:47 PM | 10/26/2009 |
| 7 | | UPDATED: Link updated to new download location.
John Mancini, the President of AIIM recently published an e-book called 8 Reasons You Need a Strategy for Managing Information - Before It's Too Late. He wrote a good portion and also took information from his guest bloggers, including me! I wrote the section on Workflow and Business Process engineering.
It's exciting to get published in any way and I'm priviledged to be in such good company. Go download your copy today and then read it!
My favorite quote: "'Suck it up, Princess' is not a change management plan." Love it!
| | 7/11/2010 9:52 PM | 10/5/2009 |
| 14 | | There is so much going on in Vegas we decided to get into the frey and have some fun. We'll be having a TweetUp at the House of Blues on Tuesday nite at 7pm. Check out my post and then get on over and register. Then tune in via #ShareTweetUp to keep abreast of the fun! See you there.
| 10/23/2009 | 7/11/2010 10:12 PM | 10/5/2009 |
| 15 | | Yes it's true! I will be speaking at the upcoming Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, NV in October. I'll be talking about mapping business requirements to the Microsoft Solution stack with a special focus on BI tools. See this post to get more info and I hope to see you there!
| 11/2/2009 | 7/11/2010 10:13 PM | 10/5/2009 |
| 20 | | Hey everyone - I just wanted to point your attention to SharePointGovernance.org which is a new site dedicated to, you got it, SharePoint Governance.
Help all the people involved make this a vibrant community by posting docs, questions and comments to your hearts content.
| 8/21/2009 | 7/11/2010 9:50 PM | 7/20/2009 |
| 19 | | I hope to see some of you at the Los Angeles SharePoint User Group set for July 23rd at 6pm. I'll be speaking on my favorite topic of Information Architecture and my good friend Pouneh Minovi Kaufman will be doing a live demonstration of site templates and how to use them to implement your architecture.
We always have a great time at this user group and I'm so glad to be on the Governing Committee. Come on out if you can!
| 8/28/2009 | 7/11/2010 9:49 PM | 7/10/2009 |
| 17 | | The Los Angeles SharePoint User Group will hold its monthly meeting on Thursday, August 27th. The topic will be a sneak peak of SharePoint 2010. Bring your questions for the group and review all the current information about this new SharePoint version.
| 9/25/2009 | 7/11/2010 9:48 PM | 6/28/2009 |
| 22 | | I'm so happy to have finally gotten my blog migrated over to a hosted SharePoint solution. Thanx to the folks at FPweb.net for having a worthwhile and affordable plan which allows for vanity naming! Microsoft - take note!
Thanx to Kelly Grimes of ZenMotif who helped me take my logo idea to the next level! I love it!
More features and content will appear shortly. Thanx to everyone who encourages me to keep blogging. I truly enjoy it. | 7/15/2009 | 7/11/2010 9:46 PM | 6/28/2009 |
| 21 | | Hey everyone - The LA SPUG group is meeting again on June 25th. I'll be giving an overview of the how's and why's of Twitter for business and then we'll see a great presentation on social networking implemented in SharePoint by the speakTECH folks.
You can see the full event announcement at: http://socalspug.org/pages/junelmeeting.html
You can register for the event at: http://www.quickstart.com/socalspug It's going to be great so please come and bring your friends. Remember there is free food & parking at our facility!
See you there!! | 7/10/2009 | 7/11/2010 9:50 PM | 6/23/2009 |
| 29 | | Hello All - tomorrow I'll be doing a webinar for Axelar on the 7 steps for getting executive buy in for your SharePoint projects. There's still time to register and I hope you'll join us!
Here's the link: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/686822547
| | 5/25/2011 7:55 PM | |
| 30 | | Once again I get to speak at the Digital Asset Management conference in New York which I always enjoy. I've posted my presentation in the reference material section though it does not include the live demo of SharePoint on the iPad.
I highly encourage you to check out SharePlus by Southlabs as your SharePoint client. It's a great little piece of software and I love the offline support.
See you all soon and thanx to the Henry Stewart folks for being so accomodating as usual!
| | 6/9/2011 12:21 PM | |