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Toronto SharePoint Saturday coming up July 11, 2009
If you haven’t registered yet for Toronto SharePoint Saturday then you ONLY have a couple days left until the event.
The schedule has been posted on the site and can be downloaded directly: SPS TO Schedule.
Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Toronto's SharePoint Saturday, on July 11, 2009 at Microsoft Canada on 1950 Meadowvale Blvd in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. SharePoint Saturday will be an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions by respected SharePoint professionals and MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-related topics. SharePoint Saturday is FREE, open to the public and is your local chance to immerse yourself in SharePoint! -
Eli's SharePoint 2007 Resources
What's Here
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Preview: The practical limits of people and SharePoint
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Infusion's Falcon Eye for Surface goes to the Superbowl
This came through internally on Friday from fellow Infusionite Kartik Subramani. Congrats to everyone involved!
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AC/DC, Excel, and You
Microsoft Excel. 80% of the world's business logic, and the top 1% of it's rock.
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Free MOSS 2007 Developer and Infrastructure Training
Courtesy MikeFitz:
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Flurry of press yesterday around today's B2TR Release
Here's the industry buzz. . .
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Office System Beta 2 Technical Refresh Now Available
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Great article on Site Definitions
Ameet Phandis wrote a terrific article on writing custom site definitions that somehow slipped under the radar when it was published on ASPAlliance in January. In the article, Ameet copies an SPS definition (SPSTOC) as his starting point, most articles use STS to begin. Nice work!
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How I Work: Bill Gates (MS) vs. Marissa Meyer (Google)
In this fascinating series, a dozen people talk about how they organize their work. For Bill Gates, it's
- Three monitors to organize the desktop,
- Outlook and SharePoint,
- a Tablet PC with OneNote, and
- a whiteboard.
Be sure to check out Marissa Meyer, Google VP, Search Products and User Experience. Marissa spends one day a week (Saturday or Sunday) doing "e-mail for ten to 14 hours straight." Honestly, I didn't realize Google VPs personally moderated Google Groups, because really, what else could be so time-consuming?
Marissa uses GMail for 10-20 personal messages a day, but finds it comes up short for serious e-mail management where she relies on, um, PINE. Yes, PINE. Of meetings at Google, she notes that "We are a very laptop-friendly culture. It's not uncommon to walk into a meeting at Google where everyone has a laptop open." Unbelievable stuff, but I feel she's holding out on some productivity magic.
And sure enough. "To keep track of tasks, I have a little document called a task list. . . . It's just a list in a text file. . . . Using this, I can plan my day out the night before: 'These are the five high-priority things to focus on.' But at Google things can change pretty fast. This morning I had my list of what I thought I was going to do today, but now I'm doing entirely different things." Slow down Marissa, I can't keep up. This amazing futuristic world you live in seems too fantastic for mere words. But seriously, anytime you decide life's too short for 12 hour e-mail binges, 11 hour workdays, and people physically lined up at your door from 4:00 to 5:30 waiting to have critical questions answered, I can help you set up this thing called SharePoint. . .
But there's a lesson in them thar hills. Marissa is a bright person who does a great job - the Google user experience is wonderful. I'll assume she uses what works for her. Are they the best tools? Honestly, I don't know her world. I can only say that I have used those tools - every one - and if I still did, I'd average 67 hours of work per week (11x5 + [(14+10)/2]) too. Could she boost productivity by spending some up-front time building better aggregators and filters for her world? Probably. How? That would make a really good series.
- Three monitors to organize the desktop,