September 12 th , 2012

Meeting # 94http://www.sharepointmn.com

Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint

User Group

http://www.sharepointmn.com

September 12th, 2012

SharePoint Panel Discussion

Brian Caauwe, Raymond Mitchell, Sarah Haase, Tamara Bredemus, Wes Preston

Meeting # 94http://www.sharepointmn.comhttp://www.sharepointmn.com

Agenda• Introductions• Ice Breaker Question• General Question & Answer• Break• General Question & Answer• Wrap-up and Giveaways


User Group Goal / Objectives

Develop and support a local community focused on Microsoft SharePoint Technologies

• Educate user group members about SharePoint Technologies• Transfer knowledge within the community• Communicate best practices• Introduce new products / solutions


Introductions – MNSPUG SponsorsAvtex (www.avtex.com) • Technology consulting company• Practice area focused on SharePoint

Benchmark Learning (www.benchmarklearning.com)• Training on many technologies

Microsoft (www.microsoft.com)

Wrox Press (www.wrox.com) O’Reilly (www.oreilly.com)

http://www.avtex.com/

http://www.newhorizonsmn.com/

http://www.microsoft.com/

http://www.wrox.com/

http://www.oreilly.com/


www.SharePointMN.com• Website for user group• SharePoint resource documents• SharePoint resource links• RSS Feeds • Meeting Schedule• Past User Group Presentations

• [email protected] www.sharepointmn.com

http://www.sharepointmn.com/

mailto:[email protected]



Social Networking• Linked In group – The most interactive… includes job postings…

Post Job Posting on the Jobs Discussion page

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1878792

• Twitter tags - @MNSPUG and #MNSPUG

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1878792


Upcoming Schedule• Next Meeting

• October 10th 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM•TBA – Looking at Business Intelligence Session•Microsoft Technology Center•Check www.SharePointMN.com for updates!

• Ongoing Schedule• 2nd Wednesday of every month• 9:00 to 11:30 am• Microsoft Technical Center - Edina



Local and Online EventsMicrosoft Webcast Calendar of Eventshttp://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/calendar/monthview.aspx#filter

SharePoint ShopTalk (Online) – Every Thursday @ 11:30 AMhttp://sharepointshoptalk.blogspot.com/

SharePoint Legal Users Group – 3rd Thursday @ 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.http://sharepointmnlegal.com

Minnesota Developers SharePoint Users Group – 4th Wednesday@ 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.http://mndevspug.com

SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities – November 3rd, 2012 Normandale Community College, Bloomingtonhttp://sharepointsaturday.com/twincities

Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2012 – November 12 – 15, 2012 Las Vegas, Nevadahttp://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx

Anything Else?

http://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/calendar/monthview.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/calendar/monthview.aspx

http://sharepointshoptalk.blogspot.com/

http://sharepointshoptalk.blogspot.com/

http://sharepointmnlegal.com/

http://sharepointmnlegal.com/

http://mndevspug.com/

http://sharepointsaturday.com/twincities

http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx


Surveys & Giveaways!


Presenters


Quick Intro

Brian Caauwe• SharePoint Consultant• Sports Nut• @bcaauwe• http://blog.avtex.com/author/bcaauwe

htp://twitter.com/bcaauwe

htp://twitter.com/bcaauwe

http://blog.avtex.com/author/bcaauwe


Quick Intro

Raymond Mitchell• SharePoint Consultant - Rackspace• Administration, Governance, Development, etc.• Speaker & Coordinator for SharePoint User

Groups and SharePoint Saturday• WROX Blox writer and SharePoint 2010 Six-in-

One• @iwkid• http://www.iwkid.com

http://www.iwkid.com/

http://www.iwkid.com/


Quick Intro

Sarah Haase• Information Architect & Corp Librarian• Currently Efficient Information Storage/Retrieval• To date, SharePoint projects saved $1.5 M

annually• @sarahhaase• http://sarahlhaase.wordpress.com • [email protected]

http://sarahlhaase.wordpress.com/





Quick Intro

Tamara Bredemus• Mindsharp Sr. Tech Instructor – SharePoint,

SharePoint Designer, InfoPath• Addition to SharePoint started while working with

Sarah Haase• Has taught acting, stage combat, dance &

environmental rules and regulations!• @TamaraBred• http://sharepoint.mindsharpblogs.com/Tamara/ • [email protected]

http://sharepoint.mindsharpblogs.com/Tamara/





Quick Intro

Wes Preston• SharePoint MVP & independent Consultant• Business align with SharePoint & Best Practices• SharePoint 2010 Six-in-One & SharePoint 2010 –

Creating and Implementing Real-World Projects• 2012 Idera ACE & Speaker Community Leader in

TC• @idubbs• http://www.idubbs.com/blog/

http://www.idubbs.com/blog/




Ice Breaker

If you were not doing anything with SharePoint, what would you be doing

instead?


General Questions


Break


General Questions


Last But Not Least

• Please Fill Out Evaluations• Drawings for Giveaways• Today’s Presenters:

Brian Caauwe, Raymond Mitchell, Sarah Haase, Tamara Bredemus, Wes Preston

Meeting # 94http://www.sharepointmn.comhttp://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 80

Thanks for coming!

September 12 th , 2012

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