September 12 th , 2012

1. September 12th, 2012 SharePoint Panel Discussion Brian Caauwe, Raymond Mitchell, Sarah Haase, Tamara Bredemus, Wes Preston

2. Agenda • Introductions • Ice Breaker Question • General Question & Answer • Break • General Question & Answer • Wrap-up and Giveaways

3. User Group Goal / Objectives Develop and support a local community focused on Microsoft SharePoint Technologies Educate user group members about SharePoint Technologies Transfer knowledge within the community Communicate best practices Introduce new products / solutions

4. Introductions – MNSPUG Sponsors Avtex (www.avtex.com) • Technology consulting company • Practice area focused on SharePoint Benchmark Learning (www.benchmarklearning.com) • Training on many technologies Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) WroxPress (www.wrox.com) O’Reilly (www.oreilly.com)

5. www.SharePointMN.com • Website for user group • SharePoint resource documents • SharePoint resource links • RSS Feeds • Meeting Schedule • Past User Group Presentations • sharepoint@sharepointmn.com www.sharepointmn.com

6. Social Networking • Linked In group – The most interactive… includes job postings… Post Job Posting on the Jobs Discussion page http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1878792 • Twitter tags - @MNSPUG and #MNSPUG

7. Upcoming Schedule • Next Meeting October 10th9:00 AM to 11:30 AM TBA – Looking at Business Intelligence Session Microsoft Technology Center Check www.SharePointMN.com for updates! • Ongoing Schedule 2nd Wednesday of every month 9:00 to 11:30 am Microsoft Technical Center - Edina

8. Local and Online Events Microsoft Webcast Calendar of Events http://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/calendar/monthview.aspx#filter SharePoint ShopTalk (Online) – Every Thursday @ 11:30 AM http://sharepointshoptalk.blogspot.com/ SharePoint Legal Users Group – 3rd Thursday @ 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. http://sharepointmnlegal.com Minnesota Developers SharePoint Users Group – 4th Wednesday@ 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. http://mndevspug.com SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities – November 3rd, 2012 Normandale Community College, Bloomington http://sharepointsaturday.com/twincities Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2012 – November 12 – 15, 2012 Las Vegas, Nevada http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx Anything Else?

9. Surveys & Giveaways!

10. Presenters

11. Quick Intro Brian Caauwe • SharePoint Consultant • Sports Nut • @bcaauwe • http://blog.avtex.com/author/bcaauwe

12. Quick Intro Raymond Mitchell • SharePoint Consultant - Rackspace • Administration, Governance, Development, etc. • Speaker & Coordinator for SharePoint User Groups and SharePoint Saturday • WROX Blox writer and SharePoint 2010 Six-in-One • @iwkid • http://www.iwkid.com

13. Quick Intro Sarah Haase • Information Architect & Corp Librarian • Currently Efficient Information Storage/Retrieval • To date, SharePoint projects saved $1.5 M annually • @sarahhaase • http://sarahlhaase.wordpress.com • sarah@splibrarian.onmicrosoft.com

14. Quick Intro Tamara Bredemus • Mindsharp Sr. Tech Instructor – SharePoint, SharePoint Designer, InfoPath • Addition to SharePoint started while working with Sarah Haase • Has taught acting, stage combat, dance & environmental rules and regulations! • @TamaraBred • http://sharepoint.mindsharpblogs.com/Tamara/ • tamara@mindsharp.com

15. Quick Intro Wes Preston • SharePoint MVP & independent Consultant • Business align with SharePoint & Best Practices • SharePoint 2010 Six-in-One & SharePoint 2010 – Creating and Implementing Real-World Projects • 2012 Idera ACE & Speaker Community Leader in TC • @idubbs • http://www.idubbs.com/blog/

16. Ice Breaker If you were not doing anything with SharePoint, what would you be doing instead?

17. General Questions

18. Break

19. General Questions

20. Last But Not Least • Please Fill Out Evaluations • Drawings for Giveaways • Today’s Presenters: Brian Caauwe, Raymond Mitchell, Sarah Haase, Tamara Bredemus, Wes Preston

21. Thanks for coming!