Today, October 16th, 2020, nearly 1.4 million registered voters in King County, Washington should have their ballots and voting guides from the state and county. The amount of information can be overwhelming. If you’re like me, you have 39 different items to vote on. Take some time to read the words on the printed pages you’ve received. Voting is one of the top ways to make your voice heard in the United States. We’re so lucky to live in cities
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Update, December 11th, 2020: Me, my wife and daughter have enjoyed 2 years off Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. I feel more connected than ever to the people I care about without the distractions of their business. I’d love you to join us in defunding them by deleting your accounts. Here’s a graphic from Professor Scott Galloway that might understand how badly Facebook is misleading people who use their properties. Update, August 9th, 2019: It’s been more than 8 months since
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Update 3/7/20: Added Oregon State’s Online Bachelor’s in Computer Science Update 5/22/17: Added Techbridge girls in the list of other resources In more than 20 years in technology, I’ve met plenty of great women developers. And yet, men outnumber women in tech by a large margin. Major tech companies are being challenged to increase diversity and inclusiveness. Learning coding is a big opportunity for people of all types. With the help of a female friend, I’ve compiled a list of
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Search google or Amazon for the words “social intranet” and you won’t find a lot of great resources. Why is that? I started a conversation on twitter today asking a similar question and was lucky to have a number of very experienced intranet developers respond. Who Cares? When I do a search for “social intranet” on the Jive Community, I see a totally different picture. Consulting companies are talking about it: Making Good on the Social Intranet Promise, by Wes Goldstein,
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I’ve been a fan of Nintex, as a company, for quite a while. I know they’ve got smart people like Mike Fitzmaurice working there. I’ve recommended their solutions for workflows and forms to many of my consulting customers over the years. At Rackspace, I even wrote a blogpost highlighting a neat Cloud Computing workflow in Office 365. And, for the past year, I’ve watched and participated in the new Nintex Community site powered by Jive Software. Happy First Anniversary! Nintex
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The quality of communication is important. Quantity is also important. Both effect your team’s productivity in different ways. Over the years, the tools available have dramatically increased our ability to communicate effectively. And, improvements are still being made. Quality versus Quantity A friend at a conference said to me, “[Our activity stream platform] at work is great! I ask a question and get all kinds of responses in the same day.” I replied, “That’s great! Finding answers at work can
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Happy Holiday Season! Did you see me speak in the last 12 months? If not, I haven’t been doing a great job letting you know where I’ve been. Take a look at this recap of activity to get an idea of where you might find me in the next 12 months. I’ve been measuring my community impact on a 12 month basis from October to November. What do you think? Am I applying my talents and experience to the right
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SharePoint Fest Denver 2014 Last week was the 5th annual SharePoint Fest Denver. My first SharePoint Fest was SharePoint Fest NYC in June. Both were great events. The feedback I received from attendees of all 4 sessions at both shows was great and I’m looking forward to presenting at a third SharePoint Fest in Chicago in December. If you haven’t attended a SharePoint Fest in your city when it comes through, I encourage you to try one. There were many
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SPTechCon San Francisco 2014 wrapped up last Friday. I was there from end to end, presenting in the first time slot Wednesday and the last time slot Friday. Here are some of my highlights from the show: Andrew Connell’s Keynote Andrew encouraged attendees to get used to the fact that Microsoft is moving to the cloud. As an example, he pointed out that Yammer has no executable install file. It is cloud only. And further, SharePoint Social will not be
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The video recording of the sessions @geektrainer and I delivered for Microsoft Learning are now available in two places. Originally, Chris and I delivered the full day workshop live to help viewers learn about some highlights of material that can help you get your preparation for Exam 70-489 started. Developing SharePoint Server Advanced Solutions on MSDN Channel 9 Option 1: Visit MSDN’s Channel 9 for Developing SharePoint Server Advanced Solutions delivered in 6 videos. Each module averages an hour of presentation and demo
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