The End of SharePoint Conference

Yes, it ended on Saturday and today is Sunday. I was exhausted after I came back and barely finished my dinner.

It went very well yesterday. Vanessa Williams (not the one you saw on TV) gave her key note speech regarding her experience to implement SharePoint. You may want to check her blog for more information.

Then I joined the session of lessons learned from an administrator but had to leave early to setup my machine for my presentation. Brian Whipple from PHE gave us his experience from a PM prospective. Then I presented some simple, no code ideas to use customized workflows to automate some business process. It was a great experience and I had everyone out for lunch On Time !

After lunch, I joined The Importance of Taxonomy for SharePoint Deployments session and hooked with the speaker Mack Sigman. I told him I would like to get more story from him and those have nothing to do with IT or SharePoint. He was in the US Navy and I would like to write some story if it is possible.

I sat in shortly in the next two sessions since the topics changed and I had chances to chat with others. At the end, we presented the check to Children Miracle Network and back on the road driving.

According to Gary, the next conference is November 7th and 8th 2008. If you missed this one, come join us and share your experience together.

First Day of SharePoint Conference

Today is the first day of Northern Virginia Regional SharePoint Conference at Dulles Holiday Inn. There were more vendors there, more people there, more speakers (including myself) and more tracks. Cool day.

There were three tracks for Developers, Administrators or Managers. I followed the developer track though I haven't done any heavy weight coding for a while. However, this is a better way (at least to myself) to learn ideas from others, not necessary has to be done with coding.

Ed Hild expanded his using workflows to do site provision and it was one of the topic made my eye opened. This was the third time he talked about the same topics and he added lots more than I expected. Especially he used event handler and out-of-box approval workflow to do the same thing without deploy a VS.Net workflow. I also like ed's style a lot. He has the whole thing on his blog, go check it out.

Also exciting was met some people from a training more than two years and exchange ideas. This is a very long day (from 7 AM to almost 6 PM) but very good one.

I am going to have a short speech to present some no-codes workflow examples tomorrow. If you are coming, join us and have fun.

See ya!

2008 Summer Regional SharePoint Conference

SharePoint User Group of NoVA is going to have the 2nd regional SharePoint conference from June 27 to 28 (Friday and Saturday) at Holiday Inn, Washington Dulles.

Last conference was small but very successful. If you are leaving in or close to great Washington DC area, don't miss this good opportunity to learn and share your information and experience.

The details of it are here.

Did I mention, compare to other conference, this is very inexpensive one.

Hopefully I can see you there.