Help Typhoon #Haiyan Victims and #SharePoint MVPs & Experts Will Help You #rescueph

Posted by Dux

On Nov 8, 2013 , the deadliest typhoon ever recorded in history devastated the Philippines. Typhoon Haiyan was stronger than hurricanes Katrina and Sandy combined. Countless lives have been lost and a lot of help is needed. It is estimated at least 10,000 people have perished.

Help Typhoon #Haiyan Victims and We’ll Help You!

Between now and December 31, 2013. Anyone who donates $99 USD or more to a charity of your choice that will benefit victims of Typhoon Haiyan and emails me a proof of your donation, can secure a FREE one hour remote SharePoint consulting session ($99 = 1 hour session, $198 = two 1 hour sessions, etc) with any of these global SharePoint MVPs & leading experts:

Name	Expertise
Marc D Anderson	Client-side development
Paul Papanek Stork	Architecture, Administration, Development
Tom Resing	Architecture, Development, Infrastructure
Vlad Catrinescu	Infrastructure, PowerShell
Veronique Palmer	SharePoint Strategy Management, User Adoption
Eric Riz	Adoption, Governance, Change Management
Dux Raymond Sy	Yammer, Project Management, Sustainable Adoption
Jennifer Mason	Business Solutions, Training
Cathy Dew	Branding, Taxonomy, Requirements Gathering, IA
Susan Hanley	Governance, Knowledge Management
John White	BI, Nintex Workflows
Jamie McAllister	Solution Design, Development, Training
Mikael Svenson	Search
Kris Wagner	Office 365 & Infrastructure
Doug Ware	BI, Development, Architecture
Benjamin Niaulin	Search, Migration, Branding, Infrastructure
Naomi Moneypenny	Yammer, social computing
Amanda Perran	IA, ECM, Solution Design
Jason Himmelstein	BI, Architecture, Solution Design
Jack Fruh	Powershell
Nick Inglis	IA, Records Management
Joel Oleson	Social Computing
Hilton Giesenow	Architecture, Infrastructure, Development
Agnes Molnar	Search, ECM
Rodrigo Pinto	Development
Thomas Vochten	Infrastructure
Todd Bleeker	Development
Sarah Haase	ROI, Governance, Adoption
Ruven Gotz	Taxonomy, IA, Governance
Noorez Khamis	Development, Architecture
Nicolas Georgeault	Architecture, Training
Bjoern H Rapp	Architecture, Development
Mike Ferrara	Strategy, Architecture, IA, ECM
Andrew Connell	Development, Workflow, ECM
Gokan Ozcifci	Infrastructure
Tim Ebenezer	Development, Workflow, Mobile
Trevor Seward	Infrastructure, Powershell, BI
Ishai Sagi	Infrastructure, Development, Training
Michelle Caldwell	Vision Alignment, Strategy, Project Planning
Doug Hemminger	Architecture, Development
Anders B. Skjønaa	Strategy, Architecture, Governance
Kenneth Lo	Office 365, ECM
Prasanna Adavi	PPM, Project Server, MS Project
Jennifer Pearecy	Strategic Planning, Architecture
Rodrigo Pinto	Development, Architecture
Ivan Padabed	Development, Architecture
Larry Kuhn	Office 365, Yammer, Information Architecture
Rob Windsor	Client Side Develompent
Roger Haueter	Office 365, Powershell, Development
Chris McNulty	Strategic Planning, Architecture, Enterprise Social
Ragnar Heil	Search, Yammer, Infrastructure, Social
Keith Tuomi	Development, Composites, Performance
Sean Wallbridge	Planning, Training, Composites, Security
Colin Philips	Development, Branding, BI
Thuan Nguyen	Intranet Strategy, Solution Architecture
Dan Holme	Strategy, Governance, Architecture
Elczar Adame	SharePoint Online, Development
Frank Binoeder	Infrastructure, Backup, Upgrades
John Holliday	Records Management
Asif Rehmani	Adoption, Training, Business Solutions
Eli Robillard	Patterns & Practices, Secure Development, Architecture
JC Gonzalez Martin	Troubleshooting, Auditing, Architecture
Alex Pearce	Office 365 Education
Jason Warren	Infrastructure, Administration, Powershell
Mark Kashman	SharePoint Online, SkyDrive Pro and SharePoint mobility
Eric Overfield	Branding,UI,Responsive Design
Antony Clay	Vision, Requirements, Governance, Change Management
David Patrick	Development, BI, Administration, SQL Tuning
Jethro Seghers	Office365, Yammer, Training
Fabian Imaz	Development, Architecture, Infrastructure
Tiago Costa	Project Server, Development
Karim Roumani	Cloud, Infrastructure, BI
Will Saville	WCM, Branding
Daniel Glenn	Workflow, SharePoint Online, Infrastructure

What can you do with in the one hour session? Mentoring, coaching, training, troubleshooting, presentation, etc. This is a first come, first serve opportunity. Once the expert has fulfilled their committed engagements with a donor(s), he/she will not be available.

So hurry and send in your proof of donations and indicate which expert you’d like to engage with! Remember, your company may even match your donation.

Other Ways You Can Help

If you are a SharePoint expert or organization and you want to participate, join the Operation ShareLove Yammer network and let me know your expertise & how much time you want to commit in hours. (It will take 2-4 days for me to post your name)
Please help spread the word about this fund drive by sharing the following message via e-mail, blogs, FB, etc:

Help Typhoon #Haiyan victims and #SharePoint MVPs & experts will help you http://bit.ly/SP4Haiyan #rescuePH

As the great Martin Luther King Jr. once said: “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” Let’s do our part and help!

Thanks for all your support! Feel free to leave a comment or any questions you might have.

5 Steps to Best Engage at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2013 in Houston #wpc13 #mspartner

Posted by Dux

1 more day to go and it’s the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2013 in Houston! Over 16,000 people are expected to attend this annual event! It’s quite overwhelming and you may be at a loss on how to best connect and engage with your fellow attendees.

I’ve been fortunate to have attended multiple WPC events in the last few years and here are the 5 steps I learned on how to best engage with folks at WPC:

Step 1: Connect with Social Media

A lot of the real-time WPC13 updates and communications happens in social media specifically on Twitter. If you don’t have a Twitter account, go ahead and create one now. Then start following the official WPC account, the #WPC13 hashtag and if you like, follow me as well 😉 Also, check out the latest #WPC13 stats.

If you want to learn more on how to best maximize social media at #WPC13, check out this 15-min video I created for Microsoft Project Conference 2012:

Step 2: Setup your WPC Connect profile

With WPC connect, you can setup your profile and find out who else is attending. You can reach out to folks and schedule meetings at the event.

Step 3: Schedule sessions and see who’s attending

Once you’ve setup your WPC Connect profile, use the session and meeting scheduler to schedule sessions you want to attend. Even better, you can interact with the speaker and session attendees prior to the session directly on the session page:

I’d also like to invite you to attend some of the sessions that I am delivering:

Mon, Jul 8

4:30pm-5.30pm EL02: Maximize Your Personal Brand
Room: GRBCC 340AB
Track: Emerging Leaders

Tue, Jul 9

10:30am-11:30am BL09: Lead the enterprise social revolution: how to drive sustainable adoption
Room: GRBCC 310AD
Track: Business Leadership

3:35pm-3:55pm US34t: Getting Social in the US
Room: Enterprise Social Theatre
Track: US Subsidiary

Wed, Jul 10

2:30pm-3:30pm US09: Delivering solutions and driving revenue with enterprise social in the U.S.
Room: HOA: Ballrooom of the Americas E
Track: US Subsidiary

4:35pm – 4:55pm BL19t: Three ways to deliver enterprise social success with mobile technologies
Room: Enterprise Social Theatre
Track: Business Leadership

Step 4: Network, network, network

There’s lots of great opportunities to meet and network! From the session rooms, to the dining hall and even the hallways. This year, you can even connect with fellow partners at the WPC13 Commons

Step 5: Participate in after hour activities

As you may already know, connecting with your fellow WPC13 attendees doesn’t end after the daily sessions end. There are a lot of after hour activities during WPC. I’d like to invite you to these after hour events:

Sun, Jul 7: 7pM-10pm WPC13 SharePint

Wed, Jul 10: 5:30pm-8pm HSPUG Fundraiser for SnowDrop Foundation

Stay tuned on social for last minute parties and happenings. I guarantee that it will be a lot of fun! Check out how much fun I had during #WPC11 Enterprise Party:

See you in Houston!

See You on May 21 in Dublin @ Ready Steady PMO Conference #pmot

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I’m very excited to let you know that I’ll be speaking at next week’s Ready Steady PMO Conference in Dublin, Ireland.

storm-technology_logo I love that the its entire focus is on practical tips, techniques and tools that will enable you to tap into the value of a full blown enterprise project management strategy without the long lead times, upfront financial investment and hefty resource demands.

Ready Steady PMO is brought to you by Storm Technology . I have the honor of kicking off the event showcasing the value of Project Online and how your organization can quickly benefit from it.

Additionally, here’s what you’ll learn:

Getting to “go” – top tips on what to do to get the fundamentals of a PMO in place without the serious frustration and financial outlay
Starting smart – first-hand insight (touch it, feel it, see it) into Project On-Line to see how the impossible is now possible minus the long lead-times and hefty technology investment
Visibility and value – quick wins along the way that make getting real visibility into projects easy and make status reporting stress-free
What’s hot and what’s not – pan-European insights into who is doing what, what’s working and what’s not in the world of project and portfolio management.

Here’s what you need to know:

When is it? – 21 May 2013 – 9.00am to 2.00pm
Where is it? – Microsoft Head Office, Sandyford, Co Dublin
How to register – simply email rturley@storm.ie
Other benefits – you can earn five professional development units (PDUs) towards maintaining your PMP credentials

Looking forward to see you!

May 20 Webinar: #ReimagineSPDev: A better way to customize SharePoint 2013

Posted by Dux

One of the exciting things with SharePoint 2013 is the ability for organizations to utilize and build apps. Not only is this available for internal usage, it can be made available publicly through the Office Store.

Here’s a great resource that provides an overview and detailed guidance on developing apps for SharePoint 2013.

Additionally, I’d like to invite y’all to a FREE webinar on May 20 that provides a great overview of the history of SharePoint customizations and where the SharePoint development platform is going. The session will also highlight the benefits of the cloud app model and answer any questions that you may have.

The webcast will be broadcasted on Channel 9.

So what are you waiting for? Register now!