This might be more practical in the future, and we are looking for an update in this area at next week’s SharePoint Conference in Vegas...Will this happen in 2014? 2015? Hard to tell
Last year's conference announced the integration of Yammer into the O365 family, and the promise that Microsoft would learn from the start-ups' iterative development cycle
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In many cases, I have personally seen this be the case but do your homework, demo, test, and ask the tough questions. SharePoint Conferences Prior to reading this section you may want to have an Advil or Tylenol bottle close at hand. I have had the pleasure of speaking at most every type of SharePoint conference in the U.S. and a few in Canada and I can tell you that all of these conference have the very best intentions in mind; Sharing information to the attendees so they can take it back to their place of work and perform at a high level or provide this knowledge to co-workers, etc. Having spoken at over 100 conferences in the past 2 years I see a pattern developing recently thou that is starting to take the “fire” or interest out of some of the conferences
To re-iterate a bit from Nick and Christian’s posts, the whole reason for these commentaries was based on something Jeff Teper stated at the recent SharePoint Conference, which was as follows: Governance is not an issue in SharePoint 2010
In a nutshell, a bunch of SharePoint experts walk/bus/bike/fly/drive to exotic (and not such exotic ) locations to participate in a mini conference on SharePoint…all on a Saturday
In the U.S. anyway so pencil in the conference as a geeky windowless tourist destination That leaves open a big, plump mid-tier of former attendees who see the show as a standalone more than a standout for opening doors, alliances, and at least two or less clicks removed from purse strings
That debate became much more heated when Jared Spataro, Director of SharePoint at Microsoft, announced during a conference that SharePoint 2013 was being developed using a “Cloud First” strategy and that Office 365 customers could expect to have access to the benefits of the new release sooner than on-premises deployments
An experiment - Mapping the attendees on a Low-tech social network Huge thanks to Tony and the gang for humouring me and allowing me to run a bit of a community experiment throughout the conference! As many of you will know, I am passionate about disrupting the status quo and constantly seeking for ways to do SharePoint, Collaboration and social projects more effectively and seek greater alignment with business vision and goals
My theory on these writers or speakers who have these opinions (or hopeful “stock puts”) is that they do only that… write and speak but really don’t ever set foot into a client’s conference room or have more of a vested interest in LiveLink, OpenText, etc. succeeding, and don’t spend 5 days a week over months working with a client on their initial business requirements, political challenges, functional and compliance requirements, development best practices, roadmap, and governance challenges that the organization faces or will face
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I have been asked at conferences, "what about outsourcing SharePoint development and using a few information architects to control the face time"?
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