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The September FEDSPUG Meeting will be held on Thursday, September 9th, 2010 at 2:00pm at the Microsoft Chevy Chase Office in Maryland.
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FEDSPUG meetings are the first Thursday of the month from 2:00pm-4:00pm.
Location:
Microsoft Corporation
5404 Wisconsin Ave
Suite 700
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
Room 7023
(This is on the Red Line, Friendship Heights Stop across the street from the Mazza Galeria)
September Sponsors
CorasWorks is a global leader in solutions and applications on Microsoft SharePoint. More than 1,000 organizations and 1 million users worldwide run solutions and applications from CorasWorks and our partners. Leveraging CorasWorks and its solution platform on SharePoint, organizations can accomplish their business objectives while dramatically reducing the risk, cost, and complexity associated with traditional point solutions. CorasWorks is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner headquartered in Reston, VA. For more information, visit www.corasworks.net.
September Speakers
Johnathan Lightfoot, President/CEO, Tech Force Inc. - MCT, MCDST, MCSBS, MCP
Johnathan Lightfoot is the President/CEO of TechForce, Inc., a Microsoft Partner company, who has been involved with IT for over 15 years. He has worked in various roles including Help Desk, Level II and III Desktop Support, Windows and AS-400 Server Administration and Development. Companies he is fortunate to have worked for in the past include Electronic Data Systems, Hawaiian Telcom and Norwegian Cruise Line (yes he actually worked on the ships). However the best experiences he says he has had were his nine years serving in the United States Navy. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer who specializes in MOSS 2007, WSS 3.0 and Office 2007 technologies along with providing Soft Skills training for organizations. Due to his background he is often called upon during the rollout phase of projects to provide training (Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced) and to assist End-Users, Power Users and Site Administrators with User Acceptance; as well as serving as the “translator” between customer’s and IT Departments. He is certified as an MCT, MCDST, MCAS 2007, and MCPS (Microsoft Online Services). He is currently preparing a package to gain MCLC certification. He is from Miami, FL (originally) and has lived and worked literally around the world he currently lives Columbia, Maryland with his super terrific wife Genevievette.
Johnathan is also the author of the new book “SharePoint 2010: Plain and Simple” from Microsoft Press which will be released in October 2010.
Topic: Office Web Apps in SharePoint
Presentation Synposis:
SharePoint has enabled organizations to collaborate in ways that were unheard of just 10 short years ago. With the new release of SharePoint 2010 Microsoft has provided even more effective and ingenious tools for organizations to use. However, despite all of the advances within the platform some organizations still are unable to use SharePoint in order to gain the successes and achievements promised by using the platform.
This session is devoted to the non-technical side or as I call it the “Human Factors” that need to be taken into consideration and worked on in order to achieve more success with using SharePoint. This session will focus on tasks that both Users and IT Departments can do in order to be successful with using the SharePoint platform.
Art Gelwicks is a Solutions, Consultant, CorasWorks Corporation
As a direct customer of CorasWorks at Armstrong World Industires, Art championed the licensing and deployment of the platform throughout his organization as SharePoint Architect. He applied the platform in numerous scenarios to meet business objectives and implement rapid, flexible solutions. When the opportunity presented itself to become more than just a customer, Art joined CorasWorks as a presenter and evangelist for the platform and company.
Topic: CorasWorks Project Portfolio Management “v2.0” for SharePoint has hit the streets
Presentation Synopsis:
Based on the response and success in the Federal & Enterprise SharePoint spaces with CorasWorks PPM v1.0, CorasWorks has now released their next gen of the Solution.
Project Portfolio Management v2.0 is a complete solution for end-to-end Project Management including: Communities, Portals, ePMOs, Mobility, External Integration w/other PM data sources, Resource Management, Portfolio, Program and Project Management.
• Drive project management & development through Social PPM which allows you to build communities around all levels of the solution for ideas, discussion and more.
• Gain control over complex projects: group your projects into portfolios or programs and manage the KPIs across projects, manage project schedules and roll up & summarize key metrics from
across all projects.
• Track and request project resources for individual projects or across portfolios and programs with our new Resource Management module.
Learn how leverage the new capabilities and features of 2.0 like “Social PPM” and Resource Management to improve & streamline project management.
What is the next big SharePoint event?
The SharePoint Technology Conference, October 20-22 in Cambridge, MA, is the world's premier independent event for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server technology and services. The format includes 80+ technical classes, workshops and breakout classes with content geared to IT professionals, business managers and developers. It features a dozen Microsoft MVPs, 35 expert MS speakers and solutions from 50+ exhibitors. FedSPUG members can receive a $100 discount off the Full Event Passport and/or gain free admission to the exhibits (first time registrants only - cannot be combined with other offers) by inserting the code MEDIASPONSOR when prompted on the eRegistration page linked from www.sptechcon.com.