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AUSTRALIASHAREPOINTCONFERENCEMARCH 8+9 2011

EVOLUTION OF SHAREPOINT AND THE COMMUNITY

Joel Oleson

SharePoint Technical Evangelist

Quest Software

@joeloleson

Visits:

Aug 2006Sydney SPUG

May 2007Sydney APACSPCSPUG

Mar 2008OBS:SydneyMelbourne SharePint

Sep 2008TechEd AUS/NZSydney

July 2009Brisbane SPUGSydneyMelbournePerth SPUG

SHAREPOINT TEAM SERVICES

Team SitesListsTemplatesSite Search

SHAREPOINT PORTAL SERVER 2001

WorkspacesPortalWeb partsSearch/IndexingDocument Management

HOW DO WE GET INFORMATION?

• Remember the days of Newsgroups?

• Remember when the source for documentation was MSDN and TechNet?

• What would happen if you couldn’t use the Internet to support SharePoint?

WHAT IN THE SHAREPOINT PRODUCT MAKES THE COMMUNITY

SO DIFFERENT?

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• SharePoint Team blog

• Bil Simser

• Sahil Malik

• Andrew Connell

• Mike Gannotti

• Spence Harbar

• Heather Solomon

• EndUserSharePoint

• Debbie Ireland

• Mark Orange

• Nick Hadlee

• SharePoint Magazine

• Paul Culmsee

• Chandima

• SharePoint Land

• William Cornwill

• Kathy Hughes

• John Ackery

• Adam Cogan

• Elaine van Bergen

SHAREPOINT BLOGS OR PEOPLE?

• Award

• Paintball

• MVP Summit

• Global Connections

THE GLOBAL MVP PROGRAM

SHAREPOINT USER GROUPS

HAVE A SHAREPINT!

“Wherever there is a gathering of SharePoint people you will likely find a SharePint. From foreign cities at global events, in bars around the world, people are getting together to SharePint’s – Andrew Woodward

WHAT WOULD SHAREPOINT DO WITHOUT TWITTER?

#AUSPC

TWITTER IMPACT ON SHAREPOINT• Twitter's popularity at SPC in 2009 resulted in over

20,000 tweets over 4 days. @EUSP people cleverly placed plasma screens in the conference, exclusively streaming Twitter. #AUSPC

• SharePoint Conference

• TechEd SharePoint Track

• SharePoint Connections

• SharePoint Best Practices

• SharePoint Community Conference

• SPTechCon

• Share2010

• TechFest

• TechReady

• Code Camp

• Dev Days

• PDC SharePoint Track

• The Experts Conference SharePoint

• Office Dev Con

• SharePoint Airlift

• SharePoint Forum

• SharePoint Roadshow

SHAREPOINT CONFERENCES

• In April 2008 – James Karl Buck, and his translator were detained covering anti-government protest in Egypt. Buck managed tweet simply “arrested.”— less than 24 hours later — he was able to tweet: “free.”

THANKS – ENJOY THE CONFERENCE!

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