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SharePoint March 2009 Event Archive:

Here at the top are the videos of the event from both days. (Just click to watch.)

Underneath are the download links where you can download both videos for play on your portable players.

Videos from both the March 10 and March 12 Sessions:

Download the videos here to put on your iPhone:

Download link for March 10, 2009: (You will need to right-click the link and choose "save link as..." This will open a dialog box

which you can use to point to the location where you want to save the file.)

http://www.skillcasts.com/learntrends/sharepoint.mov

Download link for March 12, 2009:(You will need to right-click the link and choose "save link as..." This will open a dialog box
which you can use to point to the location where you want to save the file.)

http://www.skillcasts.com/learntrends/SharePointFollowupSm.mov

Here are the other archives of the sessions:

SharePoint Questions: Session One - March 10, 2009 at 8:00 am

This page lists the SharePoint Questions from the Conference on Tuesday March 10 and the session on Thursday Mar 12, 2009:
If you look at the "For Name" column, that is who we think the question was directed to...

or Name	From Name	Category	Question Description
		Comments	We are a learning solutions company - we are interested in the synergies between learning management systems and sharepoint
Michael Palko		ROI	Who drove budget and decision on this (fantastic) implmentation and how widespread is this in the org?
	Jim - SDSU	Functions	Searchable - how's the metadata/tagging capabilities?
	Mgreth Podcenter	Add-Ons	Have you already tried the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint ?
Michael Palko	Antoinette	Add-Ons	What embedded player are you using for the podcasts?
		Usage	Are you a SharePoint podcasting server for pods?
Michael Palko		Legal	What legal department hurdles did you have?
		Other	Maybe the speakers can also jump on Tweetchat to answer questions? #learntrends
		SP Version	What version of SP are people using? Is there much of a difference between 2007 & earlier versions?
Allison		Comments	Can she talk about the 'discussions'
		Buy-In	Is anyone going to talk about why Sharepoint was chosen over alternatives for their organization's use?
Allison	Steve Tuffill	Comment	Can you confirm Allison that there is no other formal repository other than this at Intel?
	Mark Sylvester	Stats	Of the 80K employees, how many are using this, just Trainers?
		Functionality	Does SP allow for creaton of a 'portal like' feel that would integrate those blogging/discussion tools?
		Add-Ons	Is anyone here using the MySites functionality in Sharepoint 2007?
		Comments	How did you begin the discussion and raise awarness that there was a discussion or blog?
jip		Technical	I would be interested if you find the name of the "shell" you are referring to
Tom Smith		Perception	Do others see that same thing when they roll out - immigrants vs natives
		General	I'd like to know what "Web 2.0" thinking is please?
		Add-Ons	Using SharePoint to capture? Or other tools?
		Comments	I was hoping to see more about the course team sites. We are interested in such use down the road (coming from Auburn University)
		ROI	Has SP been more of a content repository space than interaction space? And what are the implications?
		Functionality	What permission level should students have in a sharepoint site?
Matt		Comments	Are you talking about SP sites in support of a particualr course like you would see with Blackboard? If so...I have an interest there as well
		ROI	As a complete sharepoint newbie, I would love to hear more about where sharepoint fits in with other learning and performance support systems, both commercial and free/web-based stuff –
		Comments	I have the same interest - where knowledge in sharepoint is made available via 'elearning' to the right target audience at the right time...
Andrew Smith		Discussion	Will you be able to put a bit more about what are you doing via discussion
Michael Glazer		General	What is average age of BM employee?
Matt		Functionality	We are looking at the same things...portal has great funtionality and the team sites have different...I am very interested to see if/how otheres are using the combo
		Comments	Do you think that the attention to UI is an indicator of the difference in user types between the other two presenters and this, an agency/communication co?
		Functionality	Which web part are you using for the pick your partner?
		Functionality	I wonder if Michael is using SP Designer to get some of the clean look?
Michael		Technical	Where are these 'activities' stored?
Michael		Functionality	Do you have a Wiki site on BM?
Michael		Comments	How do you set up a class so that students can register for it
		Comments	Master pages in SP Designer maybe?
		Add-Ons	Any groups using SP as a front end (or in tandem with) an LMS?
		Microsoft	SP Designer free soon?
		Add-Ons	Are you using any tools to track usage or retention on your modules?
		Comments	I am look for the link here to SP. Does anyone have any success stories?
		Functionality	How do you handle distribution regarding public facing, push mechanism occur in other instances
		Functionality	In regard to searching, is there a way to keep authenticated pages from showing up in public facing searches?
		Functionality	What other patterns are missing?
		Functionality	Let's discuss a pattern library on the Ning site
Jay		Functionality	Great suggestion - and would be great if relative advantages/disadvantages of using SP for each pattern compared to other tools would be cool
		Comments	Support collaboration in primary process (great in providing access to specific groups), provide info related to clients, provide learning roadmaps
		Functionality	Silly question from SP know-nothing: given all these uses, could SharePoint be a good tool for ePortfolio support?
		Skill Level	I would think that good UI design for SharePoint is a rare skill set?
Brian		Comments	By design, do you simply mean the look/feel?
		Tutorials	Does anyone know of any free tutorials availble for sp Development training?
		Functionality	One challenge I've had with SP forums is that you need to click into each message to see it in its fullness. Has that changed in recent version?
		Comments	Critical mass has been our biggest problem!
		Technical	I am interested in learning more about different ways SP users authenticate users to the site in a corporate environment.
		Functionality	What exactly is a "safe environment"? Maybe that's going to be answered soon...
		Technical	What's your bookmarking server ?
		Microsoft	Are there licensing issues for making Articulate available for everyone?
Celia		Comments	Question for HP - is SP rolled out enterprise wide?
		Corporate	Did this get instigated at the department level or top down?
		Methods	How have many of you marketed the discussions and blogs within your company?
		Comments	What are the opinions out there regarding SP wiki
		Comments	So you used SharePoint as an LMS?
	Ashley	Technical	I love this look -- what did you use to design it? designer 07? (during brian’s session)
		Add-Ons	What LMS work with SP?
Anne		Technical	What do you do about FireFox when it's an external audience?
	Allison	Functionality	I'm still curious about the amount of time it takes to adapt the look and feel, even with SP Designer.
	SDSU	Technical	Thx all but what about end-users who are Mac only?
		Functionality	I would like to know more abut how to create a site just like this one!
		Functionality	Examples of SP as LMS sounds like something for the pattern library
	Nancy White	Technical	The browser issue has been much bigger when users are less technically inclined and less willing to do work arounds.
		Functionality	Are the new hires' paperwork done within SP?
		Technical	How big of an effort to create a nicer looking SP than
		Functionality	Is the look something we should pursue
		Microsoft/Add-Ons	I've seen an application around SP 2007 which looked very good and acted like a graphical user interface around all the data (kind of YouTube for all kind of learning modules and document) Something called Microsoft Academy. Do you know it;s exact name?
	T DeVries	Add-Ons	Do you using the Learning Kit as your LMS or alongside a different LMS?
		Functionality	I'd like to hear a discussion of using SharePoint for web 2.0 capabilities versus doing the same thing with open source software.
Andrew		Functionality	We also want to be able to track usage and retention in a meaningful way

For Name	From Name	Category	Question Description	Possible Solutions
	Tony		Smaller teams of mixed abilities - good concept
	Mark Sylvester	90-9-1	Is 1-9-90 overcomable? Thought it was a 'natural law'
Mark Sylvester	Andrew Smith	90-9-1	What is 90-9-1?	Link to Jacob's original post on 1-9-90 http://tinyurl.com/vvyzf
	Tony	90-9-1	Great point about adoption outside the platform
	Mark Sylvester	90-9-1	Does offtheplatform=informal and ontheplatform=formal?
	Tom Smith	90-9-1	Yes, absolutely Michael - identify needs, then cater for them within the SP platform as a more efficient alternative.
	Tony	90-9-1	I'm hoping that Kevin-Celia-Dominika will chime in on this topic - slow growth adoption
Mark Sylvester	Michael Glazer	90-9-1	@Mark not necessarily from my perspective. at least for me, both can be informal. what's your opinion?
	Dominika Merzenich	90-9-1	I think 'lead by example' is important, some people struggle to be the first one (example in a forum or a blog or a wiki in such a sharepoint community)
	Mark Sylvester	90-9-1	Dominika - that's the ONE in 1-9-90 - struggle inthe beginning is finding your 'ones'
	Anne Adrian	90-9-1	Another approach is to leave mistakes (i.e., misspelled words) for others to change
	Tony	90-9-1	Did any of the presenters overcome 90-9-1?
	mark.padding@lsi.com	Adoption	I would like to understand if tools come with Sharepoint to be able to customize of if it costs additional to buy the tools to be able to customize.
	Michael Glazer	Adoption	Tom made a nice point on Tuesday that communicating the benefits of using SP was a key part of his adoption strategy. I think that's important.
Celia Bohle	Tony	Adoption	Get early adopters who have respect / visibility and who will be the 1 percenters
Mark	Andrew	Customization	There is a lot of customization you can do just by adjusting and editing the web parts displayed on a page.
	mark.padding@lsi.com	Customization	Does IT have to give control then or some level of rights to be able to customize?	Yes, it takes the correct permissions level to be able to do that.
	William	Adoption	No, we are stilll working on early adoption. Many people are still afraid of Wiki \ Blog concept
	Tom Smith	90-9-1	Depends on the team - in a few we're at 100%, in most we're far less, overall 90-09-01 is probably accurate
	Anne Adrian	Adoption	It is a mindset change for some so the adoption takes a little longer for the participation
	Mark Sylvester	90-9-1	We have a client that set the 'success' bar at 10% and was 'thrilled' when they hit 11 - they feel like they are on a roll - I was surprised at their reaction, but it is making a lot of sense for them
	Tom Smith	90-9-1	Is part of the issue who can contribute. We've tried to limit contribute permission to only those for who it's relevant.
	Michael Glazer		And our learning evals for learning effectiveness and business impact are higher now than before.
	Tony		Okay - so I'm hearing that going in with 10% expectations is a good strategy
	Anne Adrian	90-9-1	Lurking is still very important
	Tom Smith		Also interesting to hear what people see as a success rate - do we base it on those who contribute or those who read/lurk?
	Steve Tuffill	Adoption	We had a Wiki set up, and it was initially really hard to get anyone to contribute... We also had a blog, to which anyone could contribute. There were prizes for the best blog... this helped getting people contribute. Great ideas Michael P
	Mark Sylvester		People do what they are motivated (or incentivized) to do - pure human nature
	Tom Smith		Plus there's the question of people's online/ 'in person' personas. Some are more/less outgoing when online.
	Kristin Whitehead		Yep, I agree. There has to be some incentive
Michael Glazer	Mark Sylvester		MG - that's the point, isnt it?
	William to Jerry?	Legal	I think it is not as straight forward as other communication needs. Additionally there are legal concerns around posted non-monitored content
Michael Palko	Steve Tuffill		I liked the example of give a penny take a penny, Michael P! That seems to be a great rule for the way people contribute to a lot of things in life...!
	Mark Sylvester		We recommend 'calling on people' harder to do in the virtual world
	Anne Adrian		It is a mindset change
	MarK Sylvester		Ah - quality v quantity
Kevin	Tony		Senior mgmt support is a great help / motivator - as well as a behavior shifter especially over time
Jerry	William		We are trying to focus all collaboration to SP. Moving away from other tools
	Tony		Did others have senior mgmt support?
	Anne Adrian		Mindset of expectations of openness and sharing has be communicated and bought into it
	Todd Hudson		It's should be about results. Not just pointless participation.
	Mark Sylvester		This speaks to corp culture though - open v closed
	Anne Adrian		Yes there is senior mgmt support but our efforts have been targetted to smaller teams. Senior mgmt have not really participated (yet)
	Mark Sylvester		This speaks back to something on Tue - mgmt=boomers - individual teams populated by natives
	William		(Manager Mandate) Forcing people to use SP does not work. Another thing that does not work is deploying SP without Training and govenence.
	Tony		William and Mark - great points!
Anne	Rob Robertson		That is the best approach (IMHO) its two pronged...show the sr mgmt tht you have a plan for mitigating their percieved risk while finding a user group with a real problem that is solved by SP
	Tom Smith		There's also the question of being an 'SharePoint cop' to borrow Tony's phrase - should we close off alternatives which slow down adoption (e.g. use of network drives). Something we're considering is a 'no email day' (I think Disney do this) to encourage alternative methods of communication.
	Anne Adrian		What happens with the small groups success is that they end up modeling how it works and the benefits to others
	TSYS team		I like the idea of 'no email day' or no 'IM day'
	Rob Robertson		Ack! no IM day??
	TSYS team		We don't think it's the tool as much as the practice(?) or change in behavior
	Tammy Devries		One of the things that I have heard in the SP Conferences is that most companies are implementing SP not really knowing how they would use it. Install first, plan later... which is obviously problematic all around.
	Anne Adrian		As long as they turn off Twitter for the
	William		Lots of Manager Buy in, Sponsership, and Business buy in.
	Tammy Devries		We got SP primarily as a Content Management System. It was a transition in response to Y2K
	William		We did a lot of comparison with current tools. Lotus Domino, Open Source, etc..
	Rob Robertson		If you are not solving a particular problem you are already behind the 8 ball
	Mark Sylvester		Related to this discussion is a GREAT blog post that talks about how to better understand how to sell the concept internally - http://opposableplanets.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/pirates-and-leaders-unite/
	Michael Glazer		Great point, Kevin.
	Tony		Any examples of what a business case for this looks like?
	Tony		Interesting approach - point need to get started
	Tony		Did anyone have to go through legal dept review?
Kevin	Rob Robertson		Same approach - it falls under our electronic communications policy...which was originally written with email in mind but serves us well
	Tony		Great - thanks
	Mark Sylvester		We have a client that is still wiating (3 mos now) for legal approval to start
	Michael Palko		SP was the default...already had it in-house
	mark.padding@lsi.com		Does MS provide free, asych training online?
Celia Bohle	Tony		That's right, you integrate these under SP. Good point.
	Tony		Thanks Celia - anyone else?
	Mark Sylvester		So SharePoint=umbrella for sm tools?
	mark.padding@lsi.com		Our IT is rolling out SP but in a very controlled non-collaborative manner. Our department rolled out a Joomla CMS in a few weeks and have all of the features up and running
	Anne Adrian		SP was the only platform that did it all. Having the flexibility of internal and external was a big plus for us.
	mark.padding@lsi.com		This was easier for us - cost no money - and we are more responsive to our own requests than IT is to us
	Steve Tuffill	Transition from Open source	We had been using MediaWiki for a long while, but this was no longer supported by the IT Department. So we had to suddenly start to use SharePoint as a wiki. This was incredibly hard for some people. So this was the transition from Open Source to SharePoint.
	Steve Tuffill	Transition from Open source	It was a fairly steep learning curve...
	Tom Smith	Transition from Open source	It was default for us too, I'm not sure which alternatives if any were investigated by our senior IT team.
	Steve Tuffill	Transition from Open source	There is no Missing Manual for SharePoint. Someone should write one!
	mark.padding@lsi.com	Transition from Open source	We've integrated joomla with moodle to provide community and learning tools
	mark.padding@lsi.com		IT doesn't understand training needs/features/tools
	Rob Robertson		Created a few 3 (i think) templates each with a specific purpose. Kept it as simple as possible
	Tony		How would I find templates and what this process looks like?	Steve Tuffill: http://www.intranetjournal.com/sharepoint/ Here is one I found... Sitepoint is a great organization for getting good information about SharePoint: http://www.sitepoint.com/ You could grab some Web Parts from this list: http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mkruger/archive/2007/06/26/free-sharepoint-web-parts-3rd-party.aspx Brian Dusablon: I've also customized lists, etc and saved them as templates as well - which are easy to distribute. Rob Robertson: We were lucky to have a dev that created them
	mark.padding@lsi.com		So if it is a steep learning curve, does MS not supply ascych training modules?
	Tom Smith		Needs analysis - yes, as far as we're able, but with so many team sites, we're a bit limited. We try to categorize department sites, course sites, committee sites etc., and provide appropriate templates.
	TSYS team		Many of the resources available online are much more technical, not written with the end user in mind	Steve Tuffill: Intro to SharePoint: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=538577 - That URL has a host of really good stuff down the bottom: (How To's and Tips) Steve Tuffill: Here's the link again: http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mkruger/archive/2007/06/26/free-sharepoint-web-parts-3rd-party.aspx Brian Dusablon: I will post my resource links to the Ning site. Tony Karrer: (@TSYS) I completely agree - they are feature/function focused. There's a gap there.
	Brian Dusablon		I didn't find much in my research prior to developing the orientation site. I've spent a lot of time in Google search, with not much luck.	Tony Karrer: (@Brian) That's my experience as well
	Celia Bohle		I liked the idea of coming up with patterns for different purposes. like sharepoint does also provide (team site, project site, etc) but just more user friendly.
	Dominika Merzenich		Yes, adopted templates
	Tom Smith		Yes, lots of 'how to' sites from the technical point of view, but not much on the management/rollout process.
	Brian Dusablon		Templates are good. Easiest thing to do is create templates for standard deployments	Brian Dusablon: I've also customized lists, etc and saved them as templates as well - which are easy to distribute.
	Mark Sylvester		Ironic that there is not a sharepoint community - Tony, maybe we should create one	Michael Palko: I'm following several SharePoint folks on Twitter - big help! Brian Dusablon: I've also customized lists, etc and saved them as templates as well - which are easy to distribute. Brian Dusablon: If you're using SP 2003, check out http://www.sharepointcustomization.com Brian Dusablon: That's what I started with, but it hasn't been updated for 2007 and beyond. Brian Dusablon: I'm available for discussion/support via Twitter and the Ning site.
	Rob Robertson		I think its a matter of knowing what problem you are solving and then its easier as the SP expert to match the sharepoint webparts to meet the need...not sure just looking at templates is the right approach (sorry if I sound like a broken record)
	Celia Bohle		I tried accessing the site yesterday and today but it has been extremely slow. That is why I have not contributed yet.	Mark Sylvester: On it right now - seems OK Steve Tuffill: (@Tony Karrer): It must be the HP firewall

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