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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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