Tulsa SharePoint Monthly Meeting Review

dmccollough — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:46:56 GMT

On Monday April 13th, I attended the Tulsa SharePoint Monthly meeting.

We had 3 speakers giving short talks about a variety of topics.

First up was Shari Alexander, founder and President of Presenting Matters, LLC. Her business specializes in teaching business presentation strategies.

Her topic for our meeting was How Geeks Can Communicate with the Rest of the Business World.

She had an excellent presentation and gave us some very good information on asking Powerful Questions that will help any technical person effectively communicate with non-technical people.

Next up was Eric Gesinski, of Tulsa Marketing Online. His business specializes in Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

His topic presented 6 things you should do for SEO and 6 things you shouldn’t do for SEO.

Eric’s presentation was not specifically geared towards a SharePoint Solution but was about SEO in general and was very informative and I feel that the information that was presented can be applied to a SharePoint public facing web site.

I know I came away with a much better understanding of how to do SEO and since my last 2 projects at SpringPoint Technologies have been public facing SharePoint publishing portals, I know I will put the information to good use.

Last up was the President of our user group Dennis Bottjer. Dennis is a Microsoft MVP and a Solutions Architect for SpringPoint Technologies.

His topic was Avoiding Common SharePoint Mistakes. Dennis gave us some very good information about Debugging Steps, Warmup Scripts, IIS Compression, dispose of objects properly, Search and Backups.

Overall this was a very informative meeting and we had a pretty good turnout.

Our meetings are always the 2nd Monday of each month.

We meet at the Tulsa Community College Northeast Campus, which is located at 3727 East Apache, Tulsa Ok 74115. Meetings start at 6:00 pm and last until around 8:00 pm.

Hope to see everybody at the next meeting.

David M. McCollough

Vice-President & Secretary

Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group

Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group Monthly Meeting

dmccollough — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:33:00 GMT

When: Monday April 13th @ 6:00 PM

Where: TCC (Tulsa Community College) Northeast Campus, 3727 East Apache Tulsa, Ok 74115

Speakers: Sheri Alexander, Eric Gesinski, Dennis Bottjer

Cost: Free

Topics:

1) Shari - Geek Speak: How Geeks Can Communicate with the Rest of the Business World

2) Eric - Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tips for SharePoint.

3) Dennis - Avoiding Common SharePoint Mistakes

Geek Speak: How Geeks Can Communicate with the Rest of the Business World

Business Presentation Strategist Shari' Alexander is going to share with use the secrets behind successful presentations. She will help you become more persuasive and influential in your communications and, more importantly, show you how to create a technical presentation that doesn't make your listeners' heads hurt. Come and learn the speaking skills that will help you make a positive impression on your clients and supervisors.

Shari's Biography:

Shari Alexander is the founder and president of Presenting Matters, LLC, a business presentation consulting firm. She has worked with executives, international speakers, along with other organizations and individuals that want results-driven business presentations.

Shari started out as an actress at a young age. She carried her passion to college, where she was a theatre major. She later gained extra training at the University of London and studied under directors from the Globe Theatre. She then ventured into an actor's life. It was then that she soon realized the term "starving actor" was meant to be taken literally. Shari founded Presenting Matters when she discovered her unique ability to combine her theatrical background with a marketing perspective and influential communications. This is how she has helped so many organizations increase revenues, productivity, and employee morale. She is now a professional speaker, corporate communications consultant, and speech and presentation coach.

Shari has been named the 2007 Emerging High Impact Professional Speaker by the National Speakers Association-OK and one of the 2008 Tulsa Top 40 Under 40. Her articles on effective presentations and communication have been published internationally. Her clients have included an front-line sales associates and entrepreneurs to Emmy Award Winning executive and an ESPN announcer.

Topic: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tips for SharePoint

The popularity of SharePoint is increasing by leaps and bounds. SharePoint is no longer thought of as a fancy file share buy a viable Web Content Management Platform. As such, public facing SharePoint sites must rank well within popular search engines such as Google. This presentation explores some concepts and strategies for making SharePoint sites more attractive to SharePoint Sites.

Eric's Biography:

Eric Gesinski began his information technology education by learning how to program in Basic at age 8. His first job was doing programming for a technical programming services company, at age 16. He progressed from there by earning a Bachelor's Degree and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Tulsa.

Eric has over 10 years of IT experience. While doing IT work as a full-time job, Eric began studying internet marketing, making money online using SEO skills as well as his pay per click expertise.

Eric now runs Tulsa Marketing Online, a Tulsa-based internet business, helping local companies take their offline businesses online and moving them upward with SEO, PPC, and other internet marketing strategies.

Topic: Avoiding Common SharePoint Mistakes

The longer one works in a discipline one learns certain tricks of the trade. This presentation explores common mistakes that are made or forgotten during installation, design, development, and deployment. The information shared in this presentation applies to an audience of both SharePoint Administrators and Developers. Attendees should leave the presentation with simple solutions to common real world issues.

Dennis' Biography:

Dennis Bottjer is the solution architect for Microsoft Managed Gold Partner, SpringPoint Technologies LLC, which provides custom software development services across the central southwest region. For three consecutive years, Microsoft Corp. has designated Bottjer as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) -an outstanding member of the technical community who provides third-party feedback to the software giant. Bottjer has worked for FORTUNE 100 Companies before bringing his enterprise experience to SpringPoint. He has over 11 years of experience in the IT industry and holds MCP and MCTS certifications for ASP.NET and SharePoint. Bottjer is proudly serving hit technical community as the President of the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group and as the INETA Membership Mentor for Oklahoma.

Blog: www.DennisBottjer.com Twitter: @dbottjer

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David M. McCollough

Vice President Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group

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