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Presenting SharePoint Overview to AITP San Antonio Tonight

I’m excited to be presenting to the San Antonio Chapter of the Association of Internet Technology Professionals (AITP) tonight. I love their mission of supporting students through scholarships and student chapters. I will be presenting a quick demo of SharePoint 2010’s new editing features and then Alex Holcombe will follow up with some of his great SharePoint demos from AIS past work. Here are some meeting details from the organizer: The meeting will be at Matamoros Restaurant Y Cantina 12844

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SharePoint is My Blog Platform

My friend Jeff recently wrote about something about SharePoint that needs to change on Google and Bing. Autocomplete shows a negative picture of SharePoint when you type SharePoint followed by the word is and then a space. I hope this post will start a trend of positive posts about what “SharePoint is” for many others like us. Let’s change autocomplete! SharePoint is a tool Jeff evangelizes and one that has been my area of technical specialty for since late 2006

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Don’t Miss SharePoint Saturday San Antonio April 2nd

SharePoint Saturday is coming to San Antonio for the second time this Saturday, April 2nd. We’ve already gotten 150 RSVPs and why not? We’ve had a tremendous response from sponsors and speakers. I’ve put some highlights in the slides below and a map to the event below that. Personally, I don’t know what I’m more excited about: The keynote and breakout session from MSDN Regional Director Vishwas Lele covering the future of SharePoint integration with the cloud services from Microsoft.

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SharePoint Overflow 2.0 needs 70 more commitments

To date, more than 2700 questions about SharePoint have been answered on SharePointOverflow.com. But the site may not last. The host, StackExchange has given an get up or get out order. In order to keep SharePointOverflow alive, the site must convert to StackExchange 2.0. In order to convert, the community needs around 70 more volunteers to register at Area51.StackExchange.com and commit to the SharePoint Overflow proposal Update 3/10/2011: Don’t forget to build up your reputation on StackOverflow.com, ServerFault.com, SuperUser.com or

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