My friend Hilton Giesenow from The MOSS Show posted his interview of me talking about Search and Social stuff in SharePoint 2010. You can listen to the interview online or download it for later. Episode 26: Enterprise Social (and Search) in SharePoint 2010 Read More →

Last February a bunch of MVPs got together to share their thoughts on Office and SharePoint 2010. The folks at Microsoft just posted the content on the Get The Point blog. I am happy that the stuff we talk about is still as relevant today as it was back then! http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/Blogs/GetThePoint/ Matthew Read More →

I am honored to be presenting at VSLive in Redmond August 3-6. The conference will be help on the main Microsoft campus. I am presenting content near and dear to my heart:Enterprise Social Computing with SharePoint 2010 and Developing Social Applications with SharePoint 2010. I am really looking forward to getting out of this Texas heat! Read More →

Upgrade My SharePoint! August 11th Meeting Description: You have SharePoint 2007. You want SharePoint 2010. What are you going to do? You should come to the August 11th meeting of the Austin SP User Group and learn all of the in-depth details. Shane Young, SharePoint MVP, is going to take you on a dive through the upgrade process and the key considerations along the way. This session will be mostly demo focused and topics will include: Read More →

I am heading up to Dallas today to speak at the DFW SharePoint user group. I have been having a lot of fun with my updated Enterprise Social Computing with SharePoint 2010 session. I introduce the key concepts and features of Social Computing with SharePoint 2010. I highlight how companies gain value out of the Social Computing capabilities of SharePoint. Introduction to the “Social Vision” for SharePoint 2010 What’s Important: Tagging, Rating and Notes What’s happening: Activity Feeds Where is it: Social Search Who can help: People and Expertise Search Who is out there: Extending Social Features Read More →

I recently downloaded and installed the LinkedIn Social Connector for Outlook and noticed a problem, the Add option was not available. How do you fix it? While setting up my new company, AbleBlue, I had a “transition” account for email before switching to Microsoft BPOS. This meant that I had 2 Outlook profiles and my new profile was not set up for the Outlook Social Connector. On the View Tab locate the People Pane and choose Account Settings. Read More →

Join us for the May 12th Meeting of the Central Texas SharePoint User Group PlanviewPRISMS.com - Adding Value through Customizing SharePoint 2007 May 12th Meeting Description: Planview, Inc. has just recently deployed a new interactive website called PlanviewPRISMS.com, which is based on the MOSS 2007 platform. In this session, Michael Donahoo, Planview SharePoint Administrator will discuss the following: Business needs and requirements gathering MOSS 2007 customizations Lessons learned Future enhancements Michael Donahoo has been developing custom SharePoint solutions since 2005. Read More →

Microsoft is hosting another round of MVP Chat Sessions where you can ask deep technical (or ridiculously frivolous) questions of SharePoint MVPs like me, Bill English, Sahil Malik, Shane Young, Clayton Cobb, Asif Rehmani, Agnes Molnar, Darrin Bishop, Rob Bogue, Saifullah Shafiq, and Serge Tremblay. You can use the link in the Chat Center on MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/chats/default.aspx to get it on your calendar. Read More →

It’s no secret that I am thrilled with the new social features of SharePoint 2010. I am most excited about the new Profile Picture handling. I strongly believe that the more we can show the faces of our colleagues to one another the more connected we will feel. Clearly Microsoft feels that way as witnessed by the many features that make use of the Profile Image like the Activity Feed and Colleagues list. Read More →

Cross posted from: http://blogs.msdn.com/mvpawardprogram/ Do you have tough technical questions regarding SharePoint for which you’re seeking answers? Do you want to tap into the deep knowledge of the talented Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals? The SharePoint MVPs are the same people you see in the technical community as authors, speakers, user group leaders and answerers in the MSDN forums. This is the first time we have brought these experts together as a collective group to answer your questions live. Read More →