User Groups

Best of Mix April 20, Springfield, IL

Darrin Bishop — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:45:34 GMT

Did not get to MIX 2010? Missed all the great announcements? If you are in the Springfield, IL area on April 20th stop by for the Best of Mix. Dave Bost of Microsoft will be in Springfield, Il to provide a Best of Mix session. Dave will recap items such as the Windows Phone 7, Silverlight 4, oData and IE9.

To register for this free event go to:

https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=147474

SharePoint Saturday Chicago Schedule Posted

Darrin Bishop — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:57:49 GMT

For those who are registered for SharePoint Saturday in Chicago you can find the schedule and information at :
http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/chicago/default.aspx

Saturday Schedule

Announcing the Central Illinois SharePoint User Group

Darrin Bishop — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:14:59 GMT

Please join us for the first meeting of the Central Illinois SharePoint User Group.

The Central Illinois SharePoint User Group provides a venue for anyone who is interested in learning more about Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. We hope to provide a means for organizations within the Central Illinois region to connect and discuss all areas of SharePoint with the help of some great speakers. If you are thinking about SharePoint, starting with SharePoint or have a long history of using SharePoint we hope you will spend the morning with the group and help spread the knowledge.

Topic: Do you Know SharePoint?
Whether you've spent two minutes or two years with SharePoint you'll get tons of little quirks, tricks, and features you never knew existed out of this presentation. We'll take a journey around the product and point out some of the lesser known features. Did you know you can get your users to enter metadata -- without knowing it?

Speaker: Robert Bogue, MCSE (NT4/W2K), MCSA:Security, A+, Network+, Server+, I-Net+, IT Project+, E-Biz+, CDIA+ is the president of Thor Projects LLC. Thor Projects LLC provides SharePoint Consulting services to clients around the country. Robert has contributed to more than 100 book projects and numerous other publishing projects. Robert’s latest book is The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users. You can find out more about the book at http://www.SharePointShepherd.com. Robert has been pleased to be a part of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program for the past 5 years. He was most recently awarded for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. Before that Robert was a Microsoft Commerce Server MVP and before that Microsoft Windows Servers-Networking MVP. Robert is the president of the SharePoint Users Group of Indiana (SPIN, www.spindiana.com). He’s also a member of the board for the Indiana Windows Users Group (www.iwug.net) . Robert blogs at http://www.thorprojects.com/blog You can reach Robert at Rob.Bogue@thorprojects.com.

When: June 10, 2009
           Doors open at 8:30 AM
           Presentation at 9:00 AM
           Open Discussion after presentation

Where: LRS
2451 W Monroe
Springfield, Illinois

LRS Eucation Center
(Directions)

Contact: Darrin Bishop, dbishop@darrinbishop.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/cisug

This is the first Central Illinois SharePoint User Group meeting. We have secured enough room, coffee and breakfast snacks for twenty to thirty attendees. Feel free to send an email to dbishop@darrinbishop.com if you plan to attend so we can ensure we have enough room ,coffee and food for all. Special thanks to Levi, Ray and Shoup, Inc. for providing the meeting space and coffee. This is a community-driven user group. At the first meeting we will be discussing dates and times for following meetings. If morning meetings to discuss SharePoint will be difficult to attend please let us know. This is the community's user group and we will make adjustment to best fit the community's needs. If you are interested in speaking or assisting the Central Illinois SharePoint User Group please send an email to dbishop@darrinbishop.com .

Learn, Understand, Share... with Joel O at the Baltimore SharePoint User Group

Darrin Bishop — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:12:16 GMT

For those of you in the Baltimore area Joel Oleson will be presenting on January 8, 2009. Joel O was a key player in the Microsoft world of SharePoint and if memory serves me correcly has spoken about SharePoint on every continent - way too many countries to list.

Joel will be speaking on 10 Steps to Success, Avoiding Failed SharePoint Deployments. If you are in the Balitmore area you should take the time to attend. Anyone wishing to help sponsor the event can let me know and I will connect you to the right people.

To attend: Baltimore SharePoint User Group

Chicago Microsoft Business Strategies Group Sept Meeting Wrap Up

Darrin Bishop — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:31:46 GMT

It was long drive, Central Illinois to Chicago for the monthly Chicago Microsoft Sharepoint Strategies Group meeting and a longer drive home I might add thanks to the night-time construction traffic. After wandering around a few city blocks (felt lucky to find the car after it was all said and done) I finally made it to the meeting space. The Chicago Microsoft SharePoint Business Strategies Group is a fairly new group that focuses more on the business use of SharePoint and not the normal technical details of the product. Last night NewsGator presented a Social Computing demonstration to a room full of SharePoint business users. Next on the agenda was a basic presentation from eCopy which will scan and dump document images into a SharePoint library. Four of us adjourned to a nearby watering hole and continued the SharePoint discussion until I needed to start the hunt for my car. A four hour ride home thanks to the midnight construction and I am back to the daily SharePoint grind today.

If you are interested in SharePoint and live in the Chicago area you should meet up with this Chicago Microsoft Business Strategies Group. Their site is available at: http://web.meetup.com/69/