As we wind down 2011, I wanted to take some time to reflect back on an amazing year and share my top 5 observations and thoughts from the past year: 1. We have an AMAZING SharePoint community around the world and locally in the Northeast. During the past...

One of the topics that I’ve been discussing often with my customers and partners is innovation management and ideation solutions. This is a hot topic and companies are trying to find new ways to make money, save money, improve processes and increase collaboration...

This past Saturday, we had our 1st SharePoint Saturday New Hampshire . Over 150 people attended this event and there were more than 35 sessions delivered . It was an amazing event and we are grateful for all of our event sponsors that made this event...

SharePoint Server 2010 Business Intelligence Training View the course: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/hh126809 Learn how you can lay a deep foundation for your SharePoint Server 2010 Business Intelligence (BI) skills in this training course...

First, I’d like to start by apologizing for not posting to this blog recently. My wife and I had twin girls about 6 weeks ago and I have been out of the office thanks to Microsoft’s VERY generous Infant Care Leave (ICL) policy that allowed me to stay...

Getting your users excited and ready for SharePoint 2010 doesn’t have to be challenging! Visit www.iusesharepoint.com to help you get started. Content for Users: 10 Humorous Webisodes 10 Corresponding How-To Videos 45 Quick Reference Cards 25 Tips and...

Thanks again to everyone that attended, organized and sponsored the 1st SharePoint User Group in New Hampshire on Wednesday night. It was an amazing turnout – far exceeding my expectations. As requested, below are the slides that I used in my presentation...

I’ve just posted the slides that I presented at the SharePoint Connections Boston event this week. These include the slides that I presented on Monday morning during the SharePoint 2010 Development Bootcamp with Bob German and the Migrating SharePoint...

This promises to be a great event – Bring Innovation into Focus – Executive Workshop with Microsoft & Pcubed This limited seating Executive event will take place on Wednesday, May 4th, 2011 in Waltham, MA and is targeted at large enterprise customers...

I’ll be presenting at the SharePoint Connections Coast to Coast tour in Boston April 25-27. Get your team up to speed for developing, deploying and administering SharePoint 2010 sites and get on the path to success. Enter "SP100" and get $100...

This past Saturday, we had our 4th SharePoint Saturday Boston . Over 250 people attended this event and there were 35 sessions delivered . It was once again an amazing event and we are grateful for all of our event sponsors that make this event possible...

Last week, I had the opportunity to work the Microsoft booth at the SAP Boston event. There was a lot of discussion during the event about Duet Enterprise which is a product that is jointly developed by Microsoft and SAP to connect SAP to SharePoint and...

Registration is now open for our 4 th SharePoint Saturday Boston , which will be held on Saturday, April 9, 2011 at the Microsoft Jones Road office in Waltham, MA. The speaker and session lists have been published as well. This time, I will be presenting...

Thanks again to everyone that attended the “ How To Drive End User Adoption For SharePoint 2010 ” session that I presented on the Axceler sponsored webinar earlier today. As requested, the slides that I presented are linked to below. 3/11/11 Update Based...

Register today to attend the Microsoft SharePoint Conference , the premier worldwide conference dedicated to SharePoint and related technologies! The 2011 SharePoint Conference will be held October 3-6, 2011 in Anaheim, California, in the Los Angeles...

Thanks again to everyone that attended the “ driving end user adoption for SharePoint 2010 ” session that I presented at SharePoint Saturday in Hartford, CT this past weekend. As requested, the slides that I presented are linked to below. Most of the...

One of the topics that I frequently discuss with customers and partners is social computing. Many companies recognize the need for social computing technologies within the enterprise but often struggle with mapping various technology options back to business...

As we start to close the door on 2010, I’ve been reflecting on what a great year it has been. During the past year we had the official release of SharePoint 2010 and have continued to strengthen our SharePoint community via SharePoint Saturdays and user...

Thanks to everyone that attended the “ driving end user adoption for SharePoint 2010 ” webinar earlier today. As requested, the slides I presented are linked to below. The recording will also be made available soon on the SharePoint Saturday Boston webinar...

Thanks again to everyone that came out last week for the 1st SharePoint user group meeting in Rochester, NY. We had a great turnout and I really enjoyed the discussion and interaction – as well as the SharePint after! As requested, I’ve posted my “SharePoint...

Over the next 2 weeks I have many SharePoint related speaking engagements scheduled … in addition to my regular meetings and work with customers and partners. The 4 events below are all open to the public …and are at no charge! Hope you can attend some...

Today we announced Office 365 , which we believe will define the future of productivity.  Office 365 is a new cloud service from Microsoft that brings enterprise-grade productivity to everyone – helping professionals and smaller organizations get...

Since launch, SharePoint 2010 has experienced strong momentum, particularly in the form of favorable validation from the analyst community.  Gartner recently published a report by Jim Murphy, Gene Phifer, Ray Valdes and Eric Knipp: the 2010 Magic...

Building upon the tremendously successful SharePoint Saturday Boston and MA SharePoint user groups, we continue to work with our Partners and the Northeast Developer & Platform Evangelists ( Chris Bowen , Jim O’Neil and Dan Stolts ) to provide...

SharePoint Saturday Boston was held this past weekend. It was another amazing event with over 300 people in attendance. It continues to inspire and amaze me that we have so many customers and partners committed and passionate to SharePoint. Think about...