2010 SharePoint for Business Users Wave
SharePoint for the Uninitiated 8:15 - 9:45 Daren Weier, Benchmark Learning
Session Level: 100–Beginner
Audience: Anyone who is brand-new to SharePoint, and wants to understand the big picture of what sharePoint does, how it does it and why you should care.
Everybody is talking SharePoint, and you don't know the language. What exactly is SharePoint, and why is everyone talking about it? If you are new to SharePoint, or just trying to get the big picture, come and learn about the business problems that SharePoint solves, and the many different ways to implement a SharePoint solution. You will learn to translate words like "web part", "site collection", "governance", "information architecture" and other SharePoint-speak terms. Discover what it takes to implement a successful SharePoint site, without being drowned in "geek-speak".
SharePoint Lists: Used, Abused and Underappreciated
10:00 - 11:15 Wes Preston, Inetium
Session Level: 200–Intermediate
Audience: People who use SharePoint Lists and Libraries on a daily basis would benefit by attending this session.
Lists are used as the core of many things in SharePoint but they are rarely used as well as they can be. Learn the top tips and tricks for getting the most of your lists: How to build them smarter, how to display them more clearly, and how to use them in your environment more effectively. Also see how these practices evolve from 2007 to 2010.
SharePoint 2010
1:30 - 2:45 Don Donais, Benchmark Learning
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How Your Site Stinks: Why No One is using Your SharePoint Portal Work Together
3:30 - 4:45 Daren Weier, Benchmark Learning
Session Level: 200–Intermediate
Audience: IT project managers and SharePoint site owners who are responsible for the implementation of SharePoint portals.
You invested time, money and energy to implement SharePoint, but now the site is sitting there like left over birthday cake in the company fridge. Why isn’t your site building collaboration like it’s supposed to and what you can do about it? This session is a broad overview of the soft-skills that often make or break a SharePoint site, including site ownership and management (governance), site design, change management, project management and process management.