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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Mar13

Configuring Profile Image Export in SharePoint 2010

It’s no secret that I am thrilled with the new social features of SharePoint 2010. I am most excited about the new Profile Picture handling. I strongly believe that the more we can show the faces of our colleagues to one another the more connected we will feel. Clearly Microsoft feels that way as witnessed by the many features that make use of the Profile Image like the Activity Feed and Colleagu...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Saturday, 13 Mar 2010 08:38.
6 Comments | Categories: SharePoint 2010, Social Networking, My Sites, Administration

 
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

 
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

 
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

 
Sep11

Speaking at SharePoint Conference 2009

I will be speaking at the 2009 SharePoint Conference in October. I cannot publish all the details but my topic is: Developing Social Applications with SharePoint 2010 This lecture focuses on the developer interfaces for the API and Web services for SharePoint 2010. Social Computing with SharePoint involves creating people aware applications that take advantage of User Profiles, People oriented ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Friday, 11 Sep 2009 06:38.
0 Comments | Categories: SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2007, Speaking Engagements, Social Networking

 
Jul6

Windows Live Writer and Twitter

I just found a plug-in for Windows Live Writer that posts updates to Twitter when you publish a new post to your blog. Twitter Notify lets you format the tweet and prompts you when you publish a post. ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Monday, 6 Jul 2009 04:30.
2 Comments | Categories: Social Networking, Tools, Web Publishing

 
Jul2

Add “Click to Call” to SharePoint People Search

At Catapult we recently implemented Unified Communications all the way to our phones. I love the functionality and reach provided by the UC solution. I love getting voice mail in my Inbox. I have to be more careful about my Communicator Status, but that is easy. We needed an easy way to enable calling and lookup inside the company. We already had People search so I decided to add the ability to c...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Thursday, 2 Jul 2009 10:56.
0 Comments | Categories: My Sites, Search, Social Networking

 
May27

TechNet Edge Social Networking Interview

UPDATE: OK, The video is back up! While I was hanging out at Tech•Ed 2009 I was interviewed by David Tesar from TechNet Edge about Corporate Social Networking and SharePoint. Right now it’s the feature on the TechNet Edge site. If it rolls off the home page you can go directly to it here. If that link does not do it, there is a SharePoint tag that should make it easy to find. Right in the...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Wednesday, 27 May 2009 08:12.
2 Comments | Categories: Social Networking, Speaking Engagements, SharePoint 2007

 
May20

OFC315 Social Networking and User Profiles for Business

My second breakout session at Tech•Ed ‘09 has been posted on Tech•Ed Online. I loved that the audience awoke early enough on the last day of the conference to attend my session at 0900! Coffee in hand they endured my jokes, dog photos and screaming flying monkeys. I forgot to mention that you can follow me on Twitter @MatthewMcD (I currently have 97 followers…can we make it to 100?) and look m...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Wednesday, 20 May 2009 12:01.
0 Comments | Categories: Development, My Sites, SharePoint 2007, Social Networking

 
Jun2

Speaking at Austin SPUG

I'll be presenting my Social Networking talk at the Austin SharePoint User Group meeting June 11th, 2008 from 6 to 8 pm. Social Networking and User Profiles for Business SharePoint offers many features that facilitate personalization in the corporate environment. Organizations are often eager to adopt the features yet spend little time exploring the extent to which personalization and profi...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Monday, 2 Jun 2008 09:57.
0 Comments | Categories: My Sites, Social Networking, Speaking Engagements, User Group