Matthew McDermott

Matthew is a principal consultant for Catapult Systems. A Microsoft MVP (SharePoint Server), Matthew blogs about SharePoint and Microsoft technologies related to collaboration, web content management and productivity.
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Feb28

Speaking at SharePointPro Summit

Better late than never seems to be my mantra these days. I have been working on presentations and posts for the many new features of SharePoint 2010. I am excited that I’ll be speaking at the SharePointPro Summit March 16-19, 2010 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. I am covering the following IP Pro Sessions: HITP03: Enterprise Social Computing with SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2010 introduces new f...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Sunday, 28 Feb 2010 06:56.
0 Comments | Categories: Administration, SharePoint 2010, Search, Social Networking, Speaking Engagements

 
Feb27

Panel Discussion at SXSW

Just when I thought I could not possibly squeeze another session into my schedule my friend George DeMet called and asked to join him on a panel at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin. Our panel will be Saturday March 13th at 12:30. The topic is “Bringing it All Back Home: CMS Communities” We’re going to compare and contrast the different CMS products and the communities that have grown up a...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Saturday, 27 Feb 2010 11:15.
0 Comments | Categories: MVP, SharePoint 2010, Speaking Engagements

 
Feb24

Speaking at Innotech San Antonio

I am back in San Antonio Thursday March 4th speaking at Innotech San Antonio. I’ll be presenting Developing Social Applications with SharePoint 2010. This lecture focuses on the developer interfaces for the Social Computing API and Web services for SharePoint 2010. Social Computing with SharePoint involves creating people aware applications that take advantage of User Profiles, Social Data, and ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Wednesday, 24 Feb 2010 10:45.
0 Comments | Categories: SharePoint 2010, Social Networking, Speaking Engagements

 
Feb20

Upgrading from Bing Maps CTP to Version 1

I am in the process of updating all of my SharePoint 2010 projects from Beta to RC. I had a lot of fun learning how to use the Bing Maps Silverlight control for a few social computing demos that I built. Version 1 was released late last year and now it’s time to get upgraded! I figured there might be a few other folks in my position so here are the steps I followed. My Application My applicatio...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Saturday, 20 Feb 2010 09:24.
0 Comments | Categories: Development, SharePoint 2010, Silverlight, Speaking Engagements

 
Feb11

Announcing Catapult Systems Web Cast Series

Catapult Systems is taking the most popular in-person events and producing a series of web casts. SharePoint 2010 Webcast Series Wednesday, March 17th - 11:00am CST: Managed Metadata Wednesday, March 31st - 11:00am CST: Social Computing Wednesday, April 14th - 11:00am CST: Search Wednesday, April 28th - 11:00am CST: Improvements in Document & Records Management Wednesday...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Thursday, 11 Feb 2010 09:35.
2 Comments | Categories: Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Speaking Engagements, Social Networking, Search, My Sites

 
Feb4

Better Best Bets with JQuery

I haven’t blogged in a while because I have been crushed with both project work and dog training. The project work has exposed me to some JQuery techniques that I have wanted to learn. I have also been reviewing the new features of SharePoint 2010 search and FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010. There are some great new features coming out with both products, features that many of my clients ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Thursday, 4 Feb 2010 01:48.
2 Comments | Categories: Search, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010