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SharePoint Summit 201: Powerful New Topics – Discover New SharePoint Practices

May 14 to 16 at the Fairmount Royal York in Toronto

More than 57 speakers and 72 sessions!

You will have the chance to explore broad and integrated business solutions offered on the complete SharePoint platform

5 Major Reasons to be there:

1. Stay connected with the SharePoint Community
2. Maintain and improve your knowledge of SharePoint Best Practices
3. Learn from your peers’ experiences in implementing business solutions
4. Rise of the cloud
   - Increase volume of your data in your SharePoint solutions
   - Social networking within your enterprise
5. New and improved location

SharePointReviews.com is looking for expert contributors. If you have experience in deploying various SharePoint-bases solutions and would like to share some of your ideas and content, your article and bio will be published on the site and shared with thousands of readers. Your articles will also be included in our newsletter.

What we are looking for is business-oriented, no-code content that will provide our readers with valuable solutions and expand their knowledge about SharePoint and related technologies. If you have any best practices, ‘how to make SharePoint better’, use cases examples to share, we would love to publish those. Size of the article is irrelevant - content quality is what’s more important. If you feel any of your blog posts/articles are relevant, we can also republish those.

If you are intereted, or have any questions, please e-mail me directly at igordin - at - sharepointreviews.com

Best regards,

Inna
@innagordin

SharePoint Conference 2011 will be the only conference to hear experts from Microsoft and around the world share their experience and knowledge about a variety of topics such as cloud services, best practices & real world project insights.  The session content will cover products including SharePoint and SharePoint Online as part of the soon to be released Office 365.

The 2009 conference sold out fast so don’t miss your chance. Have you attended the SharePoint Conference in 2009? Share your feedback and experience in our new Conference and Events section - click here, fill in your feedback and mark conference attended ...

Another SPTechCon Boston is in the books, and I’m happy to report that attendance more than doubled since last June! The bi-annual conference is held once in San Francisco and once in Boston, and it is certainly turning into one of the more popular SharePoint conferences on the circuit. The only downside to the large increase in attendees is the fact that the venue was overcrowded. That will be addressed next June as the conference will move to another hotel that can suit the bigger crowd. But I look at overcrowding as a good thing, as the show is gaining momentum!

So what about the overall vibe of the conference? And what about the quality of sessions provided and the overall experience as an attendee? This is a question that is always asked of me. And it’s honestly a very difficult one to answer. I personally would recommend several conferences, and they would probably be all for the same reasons. I am fortunate to have many friends in the community, whom I enjoy spending time with while I’m there. That’s a big factor for me, but it’s probably not for someone looking to learn about SharePoint. I also have the goal of meeting with vendors to see what new things they are doing, which may not be something that interests a newcomer either. And it struck me that my opinion of the show is not really what matters. Why write a post about it, when what we really are concerned with is YOUR opinions? ...

In just a few short days, SharePoint Conference 2009 (SPC09) will finally be upon us. Not only is this the biggest and most important SharePoint conference on the calendar, but this year's conference signifies the lifting of that pesky SharePoint 2010 NDA. We've all been salivating at the tidbits of information and screenshots that have been shared so far by Microsoft, so next week will be a bit overwhelming. The conference recently sold out, and there will be an expected 7,000+ attendees crammed onto the strip! If you've got an "STSADM rules!" coffee mug or a 12 hive shortcut on your desktop, then you're probably going to be at this conference.

With the massive amount of information that will be available during the conference, Mark Miller from EndUserSharePoint.com (EUSP) will once again be offering a platform for live blogging. During the Best Practices Conference a couple of months ago, many of us were able to live-blog the sessions for those that were not able to make it. This year will be no different except that Mark's got over 150 people signed up to blog! If you can't make the conference, then make sure you stay glued to his site and twitter. The appropriate hashtag for the conference is #spc09, so make sure you're following it. As usual I will be taking photos and video and posting them on our flickr and youtube feeds, respectively.

If you were lucky enough to grab a conference pass, then please add us to your list of people to meet. Inna Gordin and I will be all over Mandalay during the conference, so please DM us on twitter (@mikecferrara, @innagordin) if you'd like to meet up. If you're looking for extracurricular activities while you're out there, then check out the activities signup page below on EUSP. There's plenty to choose from there, but I'm going to rep the event that I will most definitely be at, #ShareMNF! If you're a football fan, then join Matt Gowin and I at the Hard Rock Casino at 5:30PM PST for Monday Night Football. Although the "official" SharePint event will be held on Sunday night, there will be many a SharePointer sharing a pint every other night during the conference. ShareMNF will be no different!

All the relevant links for the conference can be found below. We hope to see you there!

Quick links:

#spc09 | @SPConf | #SharePoint | #SharePint | EUSP Media Streams | Joel's 10 Steps to Prepare for SPC09 | Session hashtags | SPC09 extra event listing | Share LasVegas event signups

Today SharePoint Reviews would like to congratulate Axceler for their Best of Tech-Ed 2009 award for ControlPoint. This year's Tech-Ed conference in LA featured 11 product categories, and Axceler won in the Productivity & Collaboration category.

A total of 35 finalists representing all product categories were selected by the Windows IT Pro editorial staff. Attachmate Reflection 2008, Idera SharePoint Admin Toolset, K2 Blackpoint, and the Site Administrator for SharePoint by Quest were the other product finalists in the Productivity & Collaboration category. With over 170 products and services competing for the "Best of" awards, all finalists deserve our praise.

Check out all of the Best of Tech-Ed 2009 winners.

This week during TechEd, Ted Pattison and Andrew Connell are officially announcing their new joint venture, Critical Path Training. The new company is an "evolution of Ted Pattison Group which built its reputation as the industry leader in advanced technical training with SharePoint 2007". Joined by other industry experts, they plan to make Critical Path Training the de facto standard for SharePoint education.

They are currently offering four training paths tailored for developers, admins, information workers, and designers. Each path includes location-based and online training depending on the clients' needs. A unique service offered by Critical Path Training is their Continual Learning Program, which offers a preloaded Amazon Kindle 2 with all training materials pertaining to the purchased course(s). This will be a welcomed addition for organizations looking to increase their own digital revolution.

If you're fortunate enough to have made it out to TechEd this year, visit booth #227 on the Expo floor for a chance to win a preloaded Kindle 2 from Critical Path Training!

Head over to www.criticalpathtraining.com to learn more.