Mar13
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...
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Saturday, 13 Mar 2010 08:38.
Feb28
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...
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Sunday, 28 Feb 2010 06:56.
Feb24
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 ...
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Wednesday, 24 Feb 2010 10:45.
Feb11
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...
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Thursday, 11 Feb 2010 09:35.
Sep11
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.
Jul6
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. ...
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Monday, 6 Jul 2009 04:30.
Jul2
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...
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Thursday, 2 Jul 2009 10:56.
May27
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...
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009 08:12.
May20
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...
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 12:01.
Jun2
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...
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Monday, 2 Jun 2008 09:57.