I would like to congratulate Eric Overfield, Rita Zhang, Oscar Medina and Kanwal Khipple on the release of their new book; Pro SharePoint 2013 Branding and Responsive Web Development. I have already started reading it and it contains a lot of great information.
Date: Thursday, June 20, 2013 Arrival Time: 5:30 PM Meeting Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Cost: Free
Location: Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority Address: 3331 North First Street, Building “A”, San Jose, CA 95134 (Parking in the back of the building)
Description:
The workforce is becoming increasingly mobile – at home through telecommuting, on business trips, in sales, and in servicing. There is also an increasing expectation by customers, suppliers and partners that business be conducted in real time. Research by AIIM indicates that at least 70% of organizations have deployed SharePoint in some shape or form over the past year. According to IDC, more than 1.19 billion workers of the global workforce, will be using mobile technology by 2013.
Has your organization responded to this growth in mobile workforce? Is your business content available and accessible from anywhere, on any device, and at any time? If not, why not?
During this event, we will cover the following items:
Speaker Bio:
Deepak Ramakumar is a Principal Consultant at Netwoven. Prior to joining Netwoven, Deepak has been a lead architect and technology head for various companies like Simpson, Akamai and Intel Corp. He has been worked extensively with Fortune 500 companies implementing large scale enterprise systems for the last 17 years. He has architected and developed SharePoint solutions focused on workflows, content management, and business intelligence for the past 6 years.
Register for this event:
http://svspug06202013.eventbrite.com
Sponsored by: Netwoven
Niraj, from Netwoven, is writing a series of articles on this topic. I recommend reading the first in this series; What is Big Data?
THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED AS THE TOPIC HAS CHANGED.
Date: Thursday, May 16, 2013
Arrival Time: 5:30 PM
Meeting Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Cost: Free
Location: Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
Address: 3331 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95134 (Parking in the back of the building)
Building “C”, Room “C-119″
RSVP: Bob.Mixon@CollectiveKnowledgeSolutions.com
Please RSVP me so we have enough food and drinks for everyone.
We would like to thank Santa Clara VTA for allowing us to use their facility for our meetings.
SharePoint 2013 WCM, ECM and DM Features
Come and learn about new features around Web Content Management, Enterprise Content Management and Document Management in the new SharePoint 2013. Learn how these new features work. For business users, you will learn how the new capabilities will help improve your WCM/ECM/DM deployment efforts with SP 2013. For developers, designers and information architects, you will learn how the new features will simplify your design and development efforts.
Speaker Rajesh Agadi
Rajesh is a Principal Consultant with Netwoven Inc. Focused on EIM/ECM, Rajesh is an accomplished SharePoint and .Net Architect, Strategist, Team Leader with breadth of Consulting Skills. Has over eighteen years of experience of technical and business experience. Rajesh has architected and deployed Organizational Portals, Business Portals, Business Process, Business Intelligence, Branding and Migrations. Rajesh has worked with all the flavors of SharePoint Products since its inception.
Today, Lightning Tools announced the release of their new Business Connectivity Services tool – simply called Meta Man! Meta Man is again a standalone application. This means you do not need to Visual Studio installed to use it. If you need to connect SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint 2013 to MS SQL Server, Oracle, ODBC data sources such as DB2, MySQL and PostgreSQL, OData or web services – Meta Man is the power-tool for the job. Meta Man can generate models for both SharePoint 2010 and 2013. It will save you days of custom development and model creation.
Click here to watch a screencast or download a trial of Meta Man 2013.
I had the opportunity to attend the SharePoint 2013 Development Session, at the Microsoft Technology Center in Mountain View, yesterday. This was another great session hosted by Netwoven. I spoke with Niraj, President of Netwoven, and he indicated there will be many more free sessions this year. This is another way for you to gain new insight in to SharePoint 2013 as Netwoven has some very sharp individuals delivering the material.
I would invite you to keep an eye on the Events section of their site to see what’s coming next!
Thank you Niraj and Netwoven…
After configuring Personal sites, in SharePoint 2013, I learned the Organization Chart was not being displayed in the About Me section. After some investigation, I learned the Organization Chart in your own personal site is hidden intentionally. Microsoft indicated they did this to improve the page load performance. When you visit other individuals personal site, you will see the organization chart web part.
There is no simple workaround; changing this will require customization.
When I learn more about the type of customization required to accomplish this, I will post it!
I will be delivering another session at the Silicon Valley SharePoint User Group this Month! I am looking forward to seeing you at this free event…
Please RSVP
So we can best prepare and to make sure we have enough food, please RSVP by sending an email to Don Lamure at don.lamure@perficient.com
Session Description
In past sessions, we have learned about the need to deliberately architect and design solutions in SharePoint, improving storage/management and findability. In this session I will discuss and demonstrate how to effectively apply data and site structure taxonomies using SharePoint technologies. I will describe and demonstrate techniques and best practices for implementing a content type hub, content type structures, metadata, managed metadata and the term store. In addition, I will demonstrate how these techniques improve the storage and management of content, promote a higher degree of search result relevancy and produce aggregate content views to support various contextual needs.
When
Thursday, March 21, 2013
5:30pm to 8:00pm
Location
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
Address: 3331 North First Street, Building “A”, San Jose, CA 95134 (Parking in the back of the building)
Teams that collaborate effectively are up to 25% more productive, according to a recent McKinsey report. That’s the equivalent of having 2 extra hours every day to get work done.
In this webinar, Forrester analyst Rob Koplowitz teaches you how to turn great collaboration into real bottom-line benefits, including steps you can take right now to help your team work better together. Space is limited. Register Now
| Who: | Mindjet + Forrester Guest Speaker Rob Koplowitz |
| What: | Live Webinar: The Competitive Advantages of CollaborationLearn how effective collaboration translates into real business value, including actionable steps and real-world examples. |
| When: | March 12, 10am Pacific |
What You Will Learn
What could your team do with an extra 2 hours a day? If you and your team could use a productivity boost, you can’t afford to miss this webinar.
Space is extremely limited. Register now to make sure you get a seat.
The Call for Speakers and the Call for Sponsors is now OPEN for SPSSV. June 22nd, 2013 in beautiful Palo Alto, CA, the birthplace of the modern transistor (Well kind of). The weather will be perfect and let’s face it, better weather than where you would be otherwise.
The Call for Speakers is now OPEN. You can download the form here and submit one or more abstracts for consideration. We are looking for speakers that will target developers to end users and everything in-between. Call for Speakers will close April 5th.
The Call for Sponsors is also OPEN. We currently have openings at all levels including Platinum, Gold, Silver, Web and Raffle sponsors. Please download the Sponsor Packet for more information.