Jeff Dunmall, co-CEO and Stephen Kearns, Principal Consultant recently participated as Partners in the Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview Launch Event. First a little terminology – the Technical Preview is an “engineering milestone” indicating that product development has been...

Hi All – I was at the Microsoft Technical Preview Press Event this morning to participate in a panel discussion with members of the press. Session was hosted by Jason Brommet and the good folks at High Road communications. ITWorld Canada picked up the event and some of the partner discussion: http:/...

The Good Experience Live (GEL) conference is hosted by Mark Hurst (author of my favourite must-read user experience newsletter) and Phil Terry of Good Experience out of NYC. This year GEL will be held on April 30 and May 1, and I believe there are still spaces open if you haven't registered yet....

I am well rested and ready for the final day of Fast Forward. I was bright eyed and waiting for the gym doors to open this morning at 6:30. Ran for an hour, lifted some puny weights, left feeling buff (all is relative my friends), and sauntered into the main conference room about 5 minutes ago. The familiar...

It is 5am here in Vegas. I am in town for the Microsoft Fast Forward search conference, on the cusp of day two. ( www.fastforward09-micro.com ) Last evening I returned to my room after dinner with the intention of writing this post. Many of my peers were preparing for a big night in Sin City, which leads...

I've blogged before about TED - it's such an amazing site and an amazing conference. I really hope that I get to TED one of these years... I've just listened to Gates talk this year at TED. He's not talking about technology but about global health and the work of his foundation . Very...

imason's Ivan Neganov recently presented at the Toronto SharePoint Camp . In his session, he talked about automated deployments of SharePoint/MOSS-based solutions. Deployment with SharePoint/MOSS is among the least-understood areas, and it is not trivial. Most people resort to the first option (the...

Some of imason's Sharepoint gurus presented this past weekend at the Toronto Sharepoint camp. Boyan , Jim , Bob and Ivan all presented. A good review of the day can be found here , including this high-praise for Jim & Boyan. Jim Schwartz and Boyan Tsolov showed how they have managed to stretch...

I want to thank Ed Musters, Bill Brockbank, and Eli Robillard for putting together a great SharePoint camp. It was great to see so much community interest from developers, administrators, architects, and business users. I had a great time presenting and have already thought of some great ideas for the...

Tomorrow is the Toronto SharePoint camp and that means getting geared up to talk about SharePoint with all sorts of people in the SharePoint space. I love these type of events because you really get to find out all of the exiting ways SharePoint is being used. My topic is an interesting one because it's...