SharePoint

Run With the Vikings

Location: We meet in front of the conference hotel.

A 25 minute run at a relaxed pace.

Registration

Coffee & Breakfast with fellow track followers. Join your chosen main track's table in the breakfast area. We encourage attendees and speakers alike to join, get the discussion going first thing and set the scene for the rest of the day.

Conference Opening

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SharePoint – Employee Profiles Using MySites

For many, SharePoint is first and foremost a technical platform with many great features. At Thermo Fisher, usage of employee profiles was a top priority when SharePoint was introduced. In this session you will hear a great case of how the My Site functionality of SharePoint was successfully introduced to achieve measurable benefits.

• "Fostering employee adoption of My Site profiles" by Brian Duke (USA), Thermo Fisher Scientific | Download slides

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SharePoint – How To Approach User Adoption

When implementing collaboration and user communities on SharePoint, success does not come easy. Often it hinges upon finding a few dedicated and inspiring community managers, who can leverage the technology and create a contagious enthusiasm within the organization. In other cases, avoiding techy language and 'speaking human' may be critical to convince business users.

In this session you will hear two different case studies about how to achieve the holy grail of user adoption.

• "SharePoint: It’s Geek to Me" by Beth Baxendale (USA), Perkins Eastman | Download slides
• "What’s the Buzz: Find the SharePoint Sweet Spot in Your Organization" by Sue Brown (USA), Arkema | Download slides

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SharePoint – How to Leverage its Social Features

Until now, most SharePoint implementations have focused on collaboration. As a result, the more recent social features of SharePoint 2010 are not yet widely used. This session will show you how you can evolve: When the basic SharePoint platform is successfully rolled out and its collaboration features widely adopted, how do you then get more mileage out of the technology by leveraging the social features?

• "Let’s Get Social: Effective Strategies for Leveraging the Social Computing Features of SharePoint 2010" by Susan Hanley (USA), Susan Hanley LLC | Download slides

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SharePoint – Convert your websites too!

While SharePoint is best known as an intranet platform, some organizations have chosen it as the CMS for their entire web presence, including external websites. In this session you will hear the case of DePaul University, who have selected SharePoint as their university-wide solution.

• "DePaul Sharepoint Conversion" by Deborah Maue (USA), DePaul University | Sharon Miller (USA), DePaul University | Download slides

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SharePoint – Lessons Learned in a SharePoint Deployment

Two years ago, the Smithsonian Institution selected SharePoint to replace their intranet publishing and enhance internal collaboration. With nineteen museums and research stations, as well as the expected collection of administrative activity, the quantity and variety of data under management is large. Converting existing subsites and communities has yielded useful lessons for others undertaking a similar process, and reflections on expectations met and missed, and real-world outcomes is intriguing.

• "Lessons Learned in a SharePoint Deployment" by Carmen Iannacone (USA), Smithsonian Institution | Jigesh Patel (USA), Smithsonian Institution | Download slides

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