Apr28
Join us for the May 12th Meeting of the Central Texas SharePoint User Group! "PlanviewPRISMS.com - Adding Value through Customizing SharePoint 2007" May 12th Meeting Description: Planview, Inc. has just recently deployed a new interactive website called PlanviewPRISMS.com, which is based on the MOSS 2007 platform. In this session, Michael Donahoo, Planview SharePoint Administrat...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Wednesday, 28 Apr 2010 09:34.
Apr24
Microsoft is hosting another round of MVP Chat Sessions where you can ask deep technical (or ridiculously frivolous) questions of SharePoint MVPs like me, Bill English, Sahil Malik, Shane Young, Clayton Cobb, Asif Rehmani, Agnes Molnar, Darrin Bishop, Rob Bogue, Saifullah Shafiq, and Serge Tremblay.
You can use the link in the Chat Center on MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/chats/default.a...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Saturday, 24 Apr 2010 03:58.
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...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Saturday, 13 Mar 2010 08:38.
Mar11
Cross posted from: http://blogs.msdn.com/mvpawardprogram/ Do you have tough technical questions regarding SharePoint for which you're seeking answers? Do you want to tap into the deep knowledge of the talented Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals? The SharePoint MVPs are the same people you see in the technical community as authors, speakers, user group leaders and answerers in the MSDN forums....
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Thursday, 11 Mar 2010 01:58.
Mar8
It has been a while (OK, a long while) since I have published a series of posts on a topic. My last series, SharePoint Image Search, has been very well received. This series will walk through the Building Blocks that I have created to demonstrate and improve the SharePoint end user experience. I have been using many of these techniques in my developer focused demos for SharePoint 2010 (and in som...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Monday, 8 Mar 2010 01:07.
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...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Sunday, 28 Feb 2010 06:56.
Feb27
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.
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 ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Wednesday, 24 Feb 2010 10:45.
Feb20
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.
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...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Thursday, 11 Feb 2010 09:35.