SUGUK meetings in March 2010
Following hot on the success of our January meetings the SharePoint User Group UK (SUGUK) have 4 meetings planned for March. If you see a meeting you really like the sound of then make the effort to get along, support the speakers and meet fellow members with an interest in the product. If you really can’t make it along on a particular evening then talk to me or one of the other regional coordinators and we’ll try our best to get the speakers along to a more local meeting.
Tuesday 9th March 2010 – Manchester
Net Monkeys have very kindly arranged the venue in the City Inn Hotel in Central Manchester. The location is very close to public transport links and there is an NCP car park very close for those who wish to drive in.
We are very happy to welcome Spencer Harbar who will be giving us a talk on Information Architecture in SharePoint, followed by Jamie McAllister who will be walking us through Multi-Lingual sites in SharePoint.
Please arrive at 6pm and we intend to run through until 9pm. As usual, we will finish off the evening by moving onto a local pub to carry on the SharePoint conversations. Spaces are limited, so please sign up here to ensure your name is on the list.
Thursday 11th March 2010 – London
For the first session of the evening we welcome back Ben Robb (SharePoint MVP) to give us an overview of BI in SharePoint 2010.
After half time pizza and refreshments Ben will be joined by Mark Macrea for our second session answering your questions on BI in SharePoint. Mark has presented on various applications of BI in SharePoint including integrated SQL Server Reporting Services and PerformancePoint. If you have a question you would really like the panel to discuss then post it when you register for the event.
Sign up here leaving your FULL NAME and plan to arrive from 18:00 for a 18:30 sharp start. SharePint at a local watering hole from 21:00.
Thursday 18th March 2010 – Leicester
Our next Midlands meeting will be moving slightly south to an additional venue in Leicester at the Samworth Enterprise Academy. A fitting venue for our theme for the evening “SharePoint in Education”. SharePoint is a key player in education up and down the UK, and we are aiming to discuss various aspects of user adoption, implementation and development.
Alex Pearce MVP – 101 Questions before Implementing SharePoint into Education. Questions that can be asked both from a technical and end user adoption point of view. Have you got everything you need for your SharePoint or having trouble getting all your staff and students on board? Maybe its just one of these questions and answers, that you need for your own school that will drive your adoption through the roof.
Arrive from 6pm for a 6.30pm sharp start
6.30pm – Session 1 [Alex Pearce]
7.30pm – Break for Snacks & Drinks
7.55pm – Session 2 [TBC]
8.30pm – Session 3 [TBC]
The final session will finish at approximately 9pm when we will be off to the pub for SharePint, and also trying out the local curry house for ShareCurry. It promises to be a great evening for all those involved in SharePoint and/or Education. Please sign up here if you wish to attend!
Thursday 25th March – Southampton
Next meeting for the South region is at Southampton University. Everyone welcome, especially newcomers, and attendance is free. Agenda is as follows:
6:30pm Penny Coventry MVP – Best Practice for Designing and Deploying Workflow using SharePoint Designer 2007. More often than not companies are never sure of the best method for building and using the workflow engine used by SharePoint. This session will briefly look at the out-of-the-box workflows using SharePoint Server 2007 and the browser and then look at using SharePoint Designer for building workflow solutions. Penny will discuss why this may or may not be the tool you need for your deployments pointing out the ease of use plus the limitations when trying to use SPD and solutions around these limitations.
7:30pm Ian Woodgate – SharePoint 2010 Records Management in 15 Minutes. A quick tour of records management in 2010.
7:45pm Break
8:00pm Symon Garfield – Answering The Ultimate Question: What is SharePoint? “What is SharePoint? This is still a question I get asked when out visiting customers… It’s kind of magical in a certain way. It’s a really special kind of product… It’s kinda like an operating system”, Steve Ballmer Microsoft CEO, SharePoint Conference 2009 Keynote speech. Despite ten years in the market, one hundred million licenses sold, over one billion dollars of sales revenues, and four versions of the product people still ask the question, “What is SharePoint?”, and even those at the top of Microsoft struggle to provide a meaningful answer. Answers range include; “An operating system”; “A business productivity infrastructure”; “A replacement for your file server”; “A web site with a database backend”; “A Collaboration platform”; “An Information Workplace Platform”; and, “A Horizontal Portal Product”. This session explores why this basic question is so hard to answer, unravels some of the mystifying answers given, and explains why you should care!
8:45pm New Speaker Slot – Go on give it a go! This is your chance to tell us what you have been doing with SharePoint. Don’t worry you don’t need to be a SharePoint guru – contributions with a business or user angle are very welcome and of interest to all!
9:00pm SharePint! We’re in a university, there are loads of pubs around, it would be rude not to…
Sign up for the Southampton meeting here.
