I've been on the road so much lately, I don't even know where I am these days. Good thing I've been lucky enough to have Michelle helping me or I'm sure I'd end up... in a bad situation.
The SharePoint Seminar in Mexico city was great. If you wondered why SharePoint hadn't caught on in Latin America you'd have to think again. SharePoint is wildly popular in South America. Talking to Microsoft people and MVPs SharePoint is huge. This seminar we just had in Mexico city had more than 250 paid registrants and about that many attendees in a full day seminar. Luis a godfather to SharePoint in South America has really brought the community together with first the Costa Rica seminar (with over 400 registrants) for LATAM and then this second one in Mexico city. Talking to Vlad, Daniel, and Hector (pictured below) you'd think SharePoint was more popular in South America than it was in the U.S. in terms of penetration in enterprises with full enterprise licenses. User Group communities in Chili, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Costa Rica, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela and more... I look forward to meeting with those groups and helping Luis du Soldier G. with more events in the future. Very passionate community.
Speaking of situations. Heard about this swine flu stuff?
Wow! I haven't stopped checking the news, blogs, and twitter trying to get a handle on what's going on. I don't want to attempt to give you anything here you couldn't get elsewhere, but I do want to let you know... I'm safe, healthy, and have been back in the U.S. since Saturday afternoon. The SharePoint group in Mexico for the seminar we had was an awesome passionate group. It was that night that we found out about something going on.
Wed., April 29
APRIL 29 REMINDER: REGISTER TODAY!
(NEED LUNCH COUNT BY NOON MONDAY!)
Two Sessions: 12:00-1:00 and 1:30-3:00 (Please register for both)
1. Hear Joel Oleson at April Richmond SUG Meeting —REGISTER NOW!!
11:45 Registration
12:00-1:00 Meeting
Topic: “10 Steps to SharePoint Success”
2. Joel Oleson Holds An Anything SharePoint Session (Q&A)—REGISTER NOW!!
1:30-3:00 Seminar
Topic: Anything SharePoint (Ask Questions Live! or SUBMIT QUESTION HERE FOR JOEL
Join us on Wednesday, April 29, at Afton Chemical (info below.) Lunch and Topic REGISTER HERE for afternoon seminar on April 29 with Joel Oleson from 1:30 until 3:00pm, following our lunch meeting. Please continue to check back for the latest information. If you would like additional information or have some great suggestions, please email richmondsug@live.com.
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Meeting Location and Directions:
Afton Chemical
500 Spring Street
Richmond, Virginia
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Hampton Roads SharePoint User Group
Wed April 29
"Joel Oleson is coming to speak on SharePoint Successful Deployments on the 29th of April, at 6:30 pm. The meeting will be at the Va Beach Advanced Technology Center's Theater (second floor). (Maps and directions in links section) You won't want to miss this one! Joel is a SharePoint Rock Star!! Tell your friends!"
Also, we are emulating a popular SharePoint tradition, "SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night" and gathering after the meeting at a Finn McCools to continue our SharePoint camraderie. The address for Finn McCools is Landstown Commons Shopping Center, 3388 Princess Anne Rd, Suite 311. Their web site is: http://finnmccoolsvb.com/ Hope you can join us!
Va Beach City Public Schools Advanced Technology Center
Map showing ATC on TCC campus in Va Beach
Directions to ATC from Princess ANne Rd
Thursday - DOD SPUG - Travel to DC
Friday - DC customer stuff, then Speaker Dinner for SPSaturday DC (chillin with the speakers! Lovin it)
Saturday
Saturday is SharePoint Saturday DC by DUX #spsdc Mark Miller is already planning on live feeds on the event. This has potential to be the biggest and best SPSaturday ever. I'm very excited about this one. Lots of great speakers. Some people are coming from NY to attend.
"Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft SharePoint Technologies for ‘SharePoint Saturday’, on Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 at the Microsoft Technology Center on Sunset Hills Road Reston, VA. SharePoint Saturday will be an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals & MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-orientated topics. SharePoint Saturday is FREE, open to the public and is your local chance to immerse yourself in SharePoint!"
Sessions
Note the emphasis on Twitter:
SPS DC Will Raffle Prizes via Twitter
Thursday, April 23, 2009
"Since there's back-to-back jam packed sessions for SharePoint Saturday DC on May 2, we want to maximize the time and use technology to facilitate our raffle draw.
Our sponsors have been very generous so we have a lot of prizes to give away. Prizes will be drawn after each session, morning drawings will be books and afternoon draws will be training vouchers and online workshops. In order to qualify for the raffle, participants should sign-up for a Twitter account and follow @SPSaturday_DC.
Winners will be announced via twitter using sms/text messaging to your mobile device. Click here to find out how to set up Twitter and receive SMS updates from @SPSaturday_DC.
Don't forget the food drive. Bring canned goods for the raffle contest of one hour with a speaker like me! and just because you're cool like that.
SharePoint DC sold out in 26 hours!!!
If you are interested to register and be part of the waiting list, pls. email the following information to spsdc@spgur.us :
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