For more information about the Federal SharePoint User Group, their site is located at:

http://go.spdan.com/fedspug

Well then, check out the Global SharePoint Users Group, organized by professionals in the community looking to further broaden the reach of SharePoint.  The purpose of the group isn’t to replace your local users group, but rather to supplement it and provide additional knowledge.

This month, Paul Schaeflein (@paulschaeflein), SharePoint MVP, will be presenting on the topic of PowerShell for SharePoint 2010.  Paul has done much for the SharePoint community nationally as well as in the greater Chicago area. He’s got a ton of tips and and tricks to share along the lines of best practices and contextual context for solving development problems with creative and innovative solutions.

So what are you waiting for? Head on over to the GSPUG site for more info or register now at Eventbrite for the Ground Hog’s Day Edition of GSPUG!

Who: Paul Schaeflein and the SharePoint Community
What: Global SharePoint Users Group
Where: Online – EventBrite Registration
When: 2 February 2010, 7 PM EST

With SharePoint Server 2010, the core platform of SharePoint has been kept in place, but a lot of additional capabilities have been added to make it the developers collaborative platform dream. However, with great power comes a lot of responsibility and a lot of room for error and friction.

So where do you turn when you run into such problems?  Well there are several places to turn to when you need SharePoint help to include the MSDN Forums, SharePoint Overflow, Twitter, and your local user group.

Thursday, 28 January from 5:30-7:30 PM at SnagAJob in Glen Allen, the Richmond SharePoint User Group will be meeting. And to assist in helping developers transition into the SharePoint Server 2010 mindset, none other than Josh Carlisle from B&R Solutions will be presenting on “Reducing the Friction of SharePoint Development with SharePoint 2010″.

If you’re free and able, it looks to be a great presentation and excellent information to apply and integrate into your SharePoint delivery teams.  More information about the Richmond SharePoint Users Group can be found at:

http://go.spdan.com/rspug

Who: Josh Carlisle and other SharePoint Users, Practitioners and Professionals
What: Richmond SharePoint Users Group
Where: SnagAJob, 4880 Cox Road, Glen Allen, VA
When: 28 January from 5:30-7:30 PM

http://go.spdan.com/bmorespug

Becky Isserman from B&R Solutions will be presenting “Dazzling SharePoint 2010 with SilverLight”. If you’re still diving deep into the SharePoint 2010 Server Beta 2 that was released back before Thanksgiving 2009, and UX is your thing, definitely consider attending this presentation – well worth your time.  On top of that though, the opportunity to network with others from the greater Baltimore Washington area in the SharePoint profession is a great opportunity.

Who: Becky Isserman and other SharePoint Professionals, and Enthusiasts
What: Baltimore SharePoint Users Group
Where: UMBC Research and Technology Park, South Campus, 1450 South Rolling Road, Baltimore, MD
When: 21 January 2010, 6-8 PM

This month, Kevin Griffin will be presenting on the topic of jQuery and how to utilize jQuery with SharePoint. While the topic is definitely geared more toward developers since Kevin is himself a profound .net developer, other SharePoint individuals such as architects and administrators would benefit greatly from such information.

For more information on the Hampton Roads SharePoint Users Group, check out their site at:

http://go.spdan.com/hrssug

Who: Kevin Griffin
What: Hampton Roads SharePoint Users Group
Where: Virginia Beach Advanced Technology Center, 1800 College Cresent, Virginia Beach, VA
When: 21 January 2010, 6:30-8:30 PM

http://go.spdan.com/fsjzi

It looks to be some great presentations on Thursday night with Benjamin Hodes of Microsoft presenting “Introducing Access 2010 and Access Services” along with Will Lawrence of Pontis Communications presenting “sharejPoint”.

If you’re not familiar with Access Services in SharePoint Server 2010, then you’re definitely in for a treat, empowering the end users to integrate and deploy Access solutions, centrally managed.  And if you’re not familiar with jPoint, get ready to start rethinking your UX and how your users really work with SharePoint, delivering a rich user and developer interface to build some slick applications on SharePoint.

Who: Benjamin Hodes (Microsoft), Will Lawrence (Pontis Communications) and other SharePoint Professionals, and Enthusiasts
What: SharePoint User Group of Washington DC
Where: Hire Strategy, 11730 Plaza America Drive Reston, VA 20190
When: 14 January from 6-9 PM

If you’re interested in this topic and happen to be in NYC, check out the FAST User Group meeting at the NYC Microsoft office on 13 January from 5:30-7:30 PM.

James Cooper and Tim McKinnon of Microsoft will be presenting.

For more information, check out: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=144259

Who: James Cooper and Tim McKinnon of Microsoft
What: FAST User Group Meeting
Where: Microsoft Corporation, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor, New York, NY
When: 13 January, 5:30-7:30 PM

http://go.spdan.com/kgsgk

Great group with several folks from the community that present on a regular basis to include Sahil Malik, John Miller and others.

Who: TBD
What: Capital Area .net SharePoint Special Interest Group
Where: AT&T Building, Downstairs Conference Room, 1900 Gallows Road, Vienna, VA
When: 13 January, 7 – 9 PM

Looking for more information? Check out the Philly Office Geeks announcement about the event at http://go.spdan.com/vlthc

Want to just go ahead and register? http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e2odbur03b171d7f&oseq=a013mg2t3vw7w

Who: Brett Londsale (Lightning Tools), Paul Schaeflein (Mindsharp) and the Philly Office Geeks and other SharePoint professionals and enthusiasts
What: Philly Office Geeks – Tri-State SharePoint User Group
Where: Malvern Microsoft Office, 45 Liberty Blvd., Suite 210 Malvern, PA 19355
When: 12 January from 6-9 PM

http://www.sharepointgroups.org/sites/psug/default.aspx

Jason Medero from B&R Solutions will be speaking on the topic of upgrading to SharePoint 2010. Toni Lanni will also be there from AvePoint for a raffle event.

If you’re not there in the greater Princeton area though, you can always tune in via Webex.

Use the following information to access the meeting. Feel free to tell colleagues, clients and business partners, anyone who you feel would benefit from these great presenters.

Goto https://rosetta.webex.com/rosetta/j.php?S=751383845

Meeting Number: 751 383 845
Meeting Password: PrincetonSUG

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