SharePoint for Business Professionals Wave

Your SharePoint Site Still Stinks!
8:15 - 9:45
Daren Weier, Benchmark Learning
Session Level: 100-200 Level
Audience: Anyone that uses SharePoint

Do you have an announcement on your SharePoint Portal for the Christmas party from last year? Do you continue to struggle to find documents on the shared drive when you already have SharePoint implemented? Do you still have email attachment confusion? Why is it that so many SharePoint sites sit forgotten and unused in the ditch of the information superhighway? Many of the root causes of these problems have nothing to do with technology. Two problems that will be discussed in this session are that organizational needs were not considered in the planning of your SharePoint site or that the business has changed faster than SharePoint can keep up. Come learn how governance and change management can address these issues, and revitalize your SharePoint site.

SharePoint 2010 – Why Should Business Care?
10:00 - 11:15
Don Donais, Avtex
Session Level: 100-200 Level
Audience: Decision Makers, SharePoint Users and Practitioners

SharePoint 2010 has been one of the hottest applications that Microsoft has developed within the last few years. Many organizations are either migrating or making the plunge into this new application. This session will take a look from the business perspective the different features that can help with productivity within the organization. The session includes a “walk around the SharePoint Wheel,” which includes information from:

  • Sites
  • Communities
  • Content
  • Search
  • Insights
  • Composites
SharePoint and Workflow – What's New in 2010
1:30 - 2:45
Jorge Guerreiro , K2
Session Level: 100 Level
Audience: Administrator, Developer, End User

See what’s new in SharePoint 2010 and workflow! In this session, you will receive an overview of workflow and Business Process Management and what this means with the new design tools for workflow in SharePoint 2010. See how a workflow can be created with Visio 2010 and SharePoint designers from end to end.

SharePoint in the Cloud: No-Code Solutions for SharePoint Online
3:00 - 4:15
Craig Yellick, Alto Training and Consulting

Session Level: 200 Level
Audience: Analysts, Architects or anyone familiar with SharePoint

What can you accomplish when it's not your server and you can't write code? Despite being in the cloud, individuals or Site Managers still have ample opportunities to develop solutions involving lists and workflows. In this session you can learn how, in just a few minutes, you can start from nothing and have a SharePoint site collection up and running in a Microsoft datacenter, for just a couple of bucks per user per month. Even if you do in fact control your own server, being able to develop, deploy and test no-code solutions is a great skill to master.