SharePoint Dan

For anyone looking around for the slides from the presentation that Scott Hoag and I presented this past Saturday at SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach on 7 January 2012 is available below…

I realize it’s short notice, but wanted to make sure that the word got out about this evening’s Federal SharePoint Users Group meeting where Tim Ferro will be presenting on SharePoint 2010 and the use of Event Receivers.

This presentation titled SharePoint 2010 Event Receivers, is a beginning to intermediate look at Event Receivers and Event Handlers in SharePoint 2010. We will discus the different types of event receivers but focus on those related to list item events. Some basic C# code will be shown and explained followed by a demo. Throughout the presentation real world examples and stories will be used in order to show the ease of use and power of list item event receiver features in SharePoint 2010.

If you don’t know Tim, or anything about Event Receivers, I’d definitely recommend hitting up the session either in person or online to learn more about the topic – oh and Tim’s a pretty sharp guy too.

Registration details are available at:

http://www.meetup.com/fedspug-wspdc/events/46235312/

This past weekend the SharePoint Saturday Richmond crew put together a fantastic event hosted at the Greater Richmond Convention Center downtown. It was a great opportunity to see friends I hadn’t seen in a while as well as to meet a few folks in the community that I’d been chatting with for a while and just never met in person.

Nevertheless, I presented two sessions with a few friends in the community… slide decks are available through the SPSRIC site as well as through slideshare.net/spdan.

Last night, a colleague and I presented at the DC SharePoint User’s Group that meets yonder in Reston, VA at HireStratey. It’s been a while since I’ve done a talk and for those watching they might realize that this is a slightly updated version of a talk that I gave down at the Hampton Roads SUG two years ago.

So without a lot more text to read through here’s a link to download a PDF of the presentation:

http://www.slideshare.net/spdan/sugdc-sharepoint-worst-practices-setting-the-stage-for-disaster

Or to watch it here:

During the Holiday break I threw a quickly developed poll up on Survey Monkey to see what folks perceptions were of their favorite SharePoint Practice in the Washington, DC area.  The results were eye-opening. Okay, not really. The results were non-scientific backing, further lacking turnout and non-repudiation controls.  One major control that was lacking was the ability to limit individuals to a single vote (I have a hunch some individuals may have double voted). Further with only a small subset of the SharePoint community voting, the results were incomplete and only took into account the perceptions of those voting.  What this poll did show was that there were indeed individuals near their computing devices that had the stamina to click on a link and then make a selection followed by clicking on a submit button – well played friends.

Nonetheless, there were 34 practices that were entered into the poll and the top ten practices that were selected in order of popularity in this very non-scientific poll:

So what does all of this mean? Not much, except that folks were able to click through a poll.

I’m sure that the raw data could be spun in some manner or fashion, but due to the non-scientific collection means and lack of controls in place, I figured it would be more interesting to make note of the practices that did show up in the top ten. Each of these practices do great work in the DC area, Nationally and Internationally.  All of the practices listed likewise  have great people working for them, that in turn have excellent results.

So what’s next?  Speaking with my friend and caped crusader, Joel Ward, we’ve tossed around ideas of how to better poll the community but from a different angle. Perhaps rather than just voting on the best practice to work for, we take an inside look with practice members and managers to find out more about their methods, their approaches and what their expertise is.  Call it reporting and showcasing SharePoint excellence throughout the community.

Practices in original non-scientific poll – ActioNet, Applied Information Sciences, Aquilent, Inc., BlackBlade Associates, Booz Allen Hamilton, Bravo Consulting Group, CACI, CDW, ComSys, Deloitte, Digicon Corporation, HP, i3 Solutions, InfoReliance, Information Strategies, Innovative-e, JHC Technology, Juniper Strategy, LLC, Lockheed Martin, MetroStar Systems, MicroLink, Microsoft, Northrop Grumman, Planet Technologies, Portal Solutions, Perficient, RDA, Satory Global, Smartronix, Inc., Sogeti, Summit 7 Systems, Watkins IT, WinSmarts

The SharePoint Users Group of DC will be convening for their monthly meeting this Thursday at the Hire Strategy facility in Reston Town Center, 11 November 2010. There will be two speaker sessions, both of which look quite interesting feature the use of SharePoint Designer 2010 as well as overall Best Practices for SharePoint implementation and adoption.  Activities kick off at 6 PM. In case you don’t have the address handy for Hire Strategy, they’re located at 1875 Explorer Street, Suite 520, Reston, VA 20190.  Session topic synopsis’s…

SharePoint Designer 2010 for Business Use – John Stover – SusQtech

SharePoint Designer 2010 has been completely overhauled. While still the tool for managing Master Pages and Page Layouts, this session will focus on using SPD for Business Use. Learn about Workflow, Business Connectivity, External Data sources, and Data Views. This is a live session using SPD with SharePoint and not a PowerPoint session!

Best Practices for SharePoint – Hemendra Patel – Idea Integration

As SharePoint implementations and adoptions has become more popular, most organizations have begun creating a rules and processes that are absolutely needed for success. The goal for Today’s topic discussion is to share such rules and processes (Best Practices).

If you’re going to attend, please be sure to RSVP so that they’re able to have a decent head count for food.