Happy New Year!
Wondering what I did in 2012? I hope I saw you at one of these events, but if not, you have a good idea how to find me next year. In 2013, I’ll no doubt be engaging the SharePoint community by in person presentations, webinars, organizing events, book writing, blogging and tweeting once again.
Take a look below to see how I’ve been measuring my community impact and feel free to let me know what you think. Am I applying my talents and experience to the right places in the community? Would you like to see more or less of my contributions in any of these areas? For example, one way I plan to expand this year is with more book writing and more conferences like SPTechCon.
Highlights
Gave 13 presentations at 11 events to approximately 450 attendees. Organized 11 Tuesday night meetings of the San Antonio SharePoint User Group and 1 SharePoint Saturday San Antonio. Continued promotion of SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out while drafting SharePoint 2013 Inside Out for publication in 1H 2013 by Microsoft Press. Gained about 500 twitter followers after joining Rackspace in April and published 15 original blog posts.
Outside of the details on my personal output below, my thought leadership and community participation had one public response that made me smile more than the rest. Todd Carter, an MCM instructor and Microsoft Veteran, wrote a post declaring the Rackspace Cloud “in some cases blows the competition away.” I was flattered that Todd responded to my request in such a prominent way. Collaboration is one of the highest forms of response to community work, at least from my way of looking at it.
Speaking Engagements
SharePoint Saturday Austin
January 21st 2012
Topic: Integrate External Data with the Business Connectivity Services
Link: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/austin/speakers/36/TomResing.aspx
Number of attendees: 30
Webinar in Lighting Tools SharePoint Webinar Series
Feb 2012
Topic: Integrate External Data with the Business Connectivity Services
Link: http://lightningtools.com/webcasts/
Number of attendees: 40 + plus downloads (unknown)
Innotech San Antonio
March 2012
Topic: Bring Business Data into SharePoint
Link: http://www.innotechconferences.com/sanantonio/
Number of attendees: 35
SharePoint Saturday Houston
April 2012
Topic: Mapping Mashups with SharePoint Designer
Link: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/houston/Pages/meetings.aspx
Number of attendees: 30
Featured Free Rackspace SharePoint Training Webinar
July 2012
Topic: SharePoint Development in the Cloud
Link: http://www.rackspace.com/blog/upcoming-webinar-sharepoint-development-in-the-cloud/
Number of attendees: 25 + plus downloads (unknown)
Baton Rouge TECH Day & SQLSaturday
August 4th, 2012
Topic 1: Mapping Mashups with SharePoint Designer
Topic 2: Integrate with Business Connectivity Services
Link: http://sqlsaturday.com/150/eventhome.aspx
Number of attendees: 80
Webinar in Rackspace Week of Free SharePoint 2013 Webinars
August 2012
Topic: SharePoint 2013 Web Architectural Changes
Link: http://www.rackspace.com/blog/sharepoint-2013-week-of-webinars/
Number of attendees: 30 + plus downloads (unknown)
SharePoint Saturday Ozarks
Sept 9th 2012
Topic 1: Mapping Mashups with SharePoint Designer
Topic 2: A Mapping Web Part in 45 minutes
Link: www.sharepointsaturday.org/ozarks/
Number of attendees: 45
Presentation to Austin SharePoint User Group
October 2012
Topic: Mapping Mashups to the App Model
Link: https://www.facebook.com/Austinspug
Number of attendees: 30 (most of them dancing pic1 pic2 + video!)
SharePoint Connections
October 2012
Topic: Mapping Mashups to the App Model
Link: http://www.devconnections.com/shows/fall2012/sessions.aspx?s=192
Number of attendees: 30
Webinar in Rackspace Week of Free SharePoint 2013 Webinars
Friday, November 30th
Another App Store? What for?
Link: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/158221488
Number of attendees: 25 + recording downloads
Webinar in Rackspace Week of Free SharePoint 2013 Webinars
Monday, December 17th
Another App Store? What for?
Link: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/166846897
Number of attendees: 25 + recording downloads
User Group
Role: Lead Organizer of the San Antonio SharePoint User Group since January 2009
This year, I’ve recruited and coordinated the speakers and sponsors, arranged the venue, picked up the dinner, procure and handed out giveaways and organized and attended SharePints. I’ve written a monthly newsletter, wrote and sent the invite and managed registration. I’ve MC’d 10 meetings this year and handled the surveys. I organized an 11th meeting MC’d by Jeff Deverter. Most speakers were authors, MVPs, MCMs or Microsoft employees this year including 3 Rackspace MVP presentations.
Next year, we’re looking to expand the leadership of the user group. I’m very excited about that. It should allow us to do even more!
Link: http://sasug.net
Members: 828 members in mailing list
Meeting Schedule: 10+ Meetings a year
Average Attendees per meeting: around 35
Event Organizer
Event: SharePoint Saturday San Antonio, TX
Date: Oct 2012
Link: http://sharepointsaturday.org/sa
https://www.facebook.com/spssanantonio
Total number of event attendees: 155 checked in on Eventbrite, (98 checked in before 9AM, 70 filled out and handed in the 6 sponsor scavenger hunt card at 4PM)
Role: I lead the event, recruited speakers, recruited and organized the sponsors, ordered the speaker shirts, made sure everything was paid for, made website updates, coordinated a Windows Phone App, Spoke at the opening and closing general sessions and organized a SharePint.
Forum Activity
Answered questions in the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and 2013 forums
Link to forum profile:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/profile/tom%20resing%20mcm
Answer Questions, Ask Questions, Vote and Edit on SharePoint.stackexchange.com
Link to SharePoint.StackExchange.com: http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com
Link to forum profile: http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/2899/tom-resing
Answer Questions, Ask Questions, Vote and Edit on stackoverflow.com
Link to stackoverflow.com: http://stackoverflow.com
Link to forum profile: http://stackoverflow.com/users/17063/tom-resing
Blogging
Tom Resing’s SharePoint Blog: http://www.tomresing.com/blog
16 new posts in 2012
Reach: Blog has an average of 6k unique visitors per month
Rackspace.com/blog
2 posts http://www.rackspace.com/blog/author/tom-resing/
SPTechWeb SharePointers
http://www.sptechweb.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=36835
Book Publishing
Co-author of SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out published by Microsoft Press
Published: October 2011
Link: http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-SharePoint-Foundation-2010-Inside/dp/073562724X?tag=resingnet-20
http://twitter.com/resing – Grew from 1,912 followers in January to 2,577 in December
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