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1 Year at Microsoft!

1 Year at Microsoft!

Last week marked the one year anniversary of my employment with Microsoft in sunny Redmond, Washington. It’s been an honor and a privilege to work with the SharePoint product team after so long as a partner and community member. It’s really amazing how much work goes on to make SharePoint the best product it can be. And, I had no idea how much work went into content design, both the in-product experience and writing and maintaining user assistance articles. I’m

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4th Week at Microsoft!

4th Week at Microsoft!

I’m closing in on my 4th week as a Microsoft employee. It’s been great meeting new people, reconnecting with others and generally learning about and exploring this vast place and my new role. Some highlights so far have been watching The Future of SharePoint event live on-campus with product team members, receiving my first big assignment of documenting the SharePoint mobile app and participating in the Collab 365 Summit which had a live segment filmed about a mile from my office. Collab

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Live from UnJiveWorld 2015

Live from UnJiveWorld 2015

I’m at a customer-organized conference in San Jose, today, called UnJiveWorld 2015. Does it surprise you? My #Workstyle is “Powered by Customer Love.” My #workstyle has me out visiting @jivesoftware customers and future customers. A video posted by Tom Resing (@resing) on Oct 14, 2015 at 11:26am PDT I’ll post updates on my Jive Community blog from the event, as the day goes on. I posted my first blog, Live blogging from UnJiveWorld, straight from the Jive Mobile App on

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My 2014 Community Activity Recap

My 2014 Community Activity Recap

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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A Great SharePoint Fest Experience

A Great SharePoint Fest Experience

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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Upcoming Speaking Events May and June 2014

Upcoming Speaking Events May and June 2014

I’ve got a few events coming up I’d love to see you at. Microsoft TechEd North America May 12-15 I’ll be presenting at and attending one of Microsoft’s biggest technology events of the year next week in Houston, Microsoft TechEd North America 2014. If you’re attending, please attend my session OFC-B311 – A Practical Use of External Data Sources on Wednesday, the 14th from 8:30AM-9:45AM in Room 360A on the 3rd floor of the George R Brown Convention Center. You

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SPTechCon San Francisco 2014 Highlights

SPTechCon San Francisco 2014 Highlights

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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Book Drawing for Free SharePoint Webinar Registrations

Book Drawing for Free SharePoint Webinar Registrations

Update 7/9 1PM: Added info on the book. In celebration of Rackspace’s Summer of Sizzling SharePoint I’m running a SharePoint 2013 Inside Out Book Drawing! The More Registrations, the More Books I Giveaway! For every Webinar Registration that has my name in the registration form comments box I’ll put an entry in the Magic Hat for the book drawing. If I get more than 1 registration with my name in the comments form, I’ll mail out 1 copy of SharePoint

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SharePoint Session Picking Advice

Going to the Microsoft SharePoint Conference November 12-15, 2012 in Las Vegas? There are so many sessions, how do you choose? I got an email from a friend with the following question and so I thought I’d publish my response, because I’d probably give it to you too if you asked. Question Hey Tom, I will be going to the conference in Las Vegas and could appreciate your suggestions for the best events/sessions to attend. First time there so any

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Join Me at 4 Upcoming Events

SharePoint Saturday San Antonio is October 6th. I hope you know that already and have RSVPs. Other than that, I’ll be at quite a few events over the next 6 months including these below: October 6th 2012, Region 20 ESC, San Antonio, TX I’ve helped organize SharePoint Saturday San Antonio. It’s a free, all day event with 26 technical presentations by 25 veterans of the industry including past and current MVPs, an MCM and a keynote by Microsoft Information Worker

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