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8/26/2010 9:34 AMUpdated Productivity Roadshow Schedule and Registration
Update: I forgot to mention we will be giving out a limited number of copies of Office 2010 Pro plus assorted other goodies so sign up today if you use SharePoint or are moving in that direction and are in the area.
The following represents the finalized dates and agenda for a series of events throughout the Southeast US I will be participating in as a part of our district resources. Please note that there will be no longer be a social event (SharePint) as previously indicated. The events are for Greater Southeast District Microsoft customers only.
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“Enterprises should realize that they gain the highest return on workplace initiatives that focus on individual worker productivity as well as enterprise and team collaboration and innovation.” The Gartner Group
Microsoft invites you to be our guest at an exclusive event showcasing how the Microsoft Productivity Platform can help your business:
· Adapt to the ways next-generation workers prefer to work, communicate, and find information
· Support the growing number of mobile and deskless workers who need to stay connected to the business when they don’t have access to a PC
· Explore the challenges and opportunities of moving your data and critical systems from an on-premise data center to the cloud
Get the details on the latest Microsoft technologies and exclusive insights to help your business realize faster ROI through increased productivity.
Experience the Microsoft® Productivity Platform firsthand to discover:
· The Best Productivity Experience Across PC, Phone, and Browser: Microsoft is the only company to offer the best productivity experience across the three screens to accommodate every work style and business need.
· A Unified Productivity Platform: Microsoft uniquely offers a broad portfolio of software covering the major information workloads in your business: Unified Communications, Collaboration, Enterprise Search, Business Intelligence and Enterprise Content Management.
· The Cloud on Your Terms, at your pace: Microsoft is the only company to offer a financially-backed SLA to guarantee your uptime.
We invite you to spend a few hours with us to meet and hear from our resident experts at Microsoft to learn how your organization can benefit from The Best Productivity Experience Across the PC, Phone, and Browser, A Unified Productivity Platform and The Cloud on Your Terms, at your pace. Register for a location near you. |
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877-673-8368 and reference the Event ID listed by your city or click on the Register Now button below to register online.
Registration: 1:00pm to 1:30pm
Discussion: 1:30pm to 4:30pm |
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Ft. Lauderdale
Event ID: 1032458480
Monday, August 30, 2010
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Birmingham
Event ID: 1032458484
Monday, September 13, 2010
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Tampa
Event ID: 1032458483
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
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Raleigh
Event ID: 1032458490
Monday, October 4, 2010
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Charlotte
Event ID: 1032458488
Monday, October 18, 2010
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Alpharetta
Event ID: 1032458492
Monday, November 1, 2010
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8/23/2010 2:14 PMThree Must Have SharePoint ECM (Enterprise Content Management) ResourcesThis morning while waiting for my turn as part of an all day client onsite one of our reps contacted me. They had a client looking for some information about online resources around Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Content Management resources. I grabbed the following 3 solid starting points for him and his client and am passing along here to all of you who may have similar interests. Happy ECMing  8/20/2010 7:05 AMUpdate... dates and format changing..Register For The Future Of Productivity Roadshow Near You And Hang Out After For A SharePint
Update: the events date/locations have changed. Please see the updated schedule here http://socialmedia.mikegannotti.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=461
Update: Forgot to add... at each session we will be giving away several copies of Office 2010 Pro at the end of each session as well as other goodies during each session. :-)
So the dates are finally locked and registration is open. My compadre, Brent Whichel of Office 411, and myself are hitting the road and coming to a city near you in the in the Southeast. Following each session we will also be holding a SharePint at a local establishment for 2 hours for anyone who wants to hang and socialize (the one exception being Birmingham where we will be having a SharePoint following the Birmingham SharePoint user group meeting that I am speaking at which corresponds to our visit). Check out the invite below and sign up today.
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“Enterprises should realize that they gain the highest return on workplace initiatives that focus on individual worker productivity as well as enterprise and team collaboration and innovation.” The Gartner Group
Technology is changing the nature of work, and the workplace as well…it has become an increasingly challenging environment. A few things play into that challenge:
Consumerization of IT
· Insecure, risky consumer-grade applications installed by enterprise users
· Demand for popular capabilities (social networks, IM, blogging, mashups, etc.) at work
· Sharing of enterprise data on public networks (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.)
Multigenerational workforce
· 3 generations – Boomers (b.1946-1962), GenX (1963-1980), Millennials (b.1981-2000) with different workstyles and attitudes toward technology
· 80 million Millennials in US, 3.6B worldwide – 4 million enter US workforce each year
· Boomers deferring retirement, second careers
Rise of the Cloud
· Main customer concerns: control, security – still questions about cloud in minds of some
· 80% of large enterprise IT managers are at least in trials for cloud computing
· Most enterprises looking at hybrid cloud/on-premise deployments
Infrastructure cost and complexity
· Too many systems/vendors in data center
· Average $1 B company maintains 48 disparate financial systems
· Complicated by M&A activity, need to maintain legacy systems
Diverse and distributed workforce
· Remote workers – 84% of organizations have a remote workforce
· Increasingly sophisticated mobile apps, mobile devices
Increasing use of contingent staff, contractors, outsourcing |
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Ft. Lauderdale
Event ID: 1032458480
August 30, 2010
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Tampa
Event ID: 1032458483
September 7, 2010
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Birmingham
Event ID: 1032458484
September 13, 2010
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Charlotte
Event ID: 1032458488
September 23, 2010
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Raleigh
Event ID: 1032458490
October 4, 2010
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Alpharetta
Event ID: 1032458492
October 11, 2010
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Join us to see the Future of Productivity…discover how your organization can benefit from the best experience on the pc, phone and browser. We invite you to spend a few hours with us to meet and hear from our resident experts at Microsoft to learn how Microsoft can help you improve productivity, collaboration and drive down cost in your business. Register for a location near you.
8/18/2010 6:12 AMJoin Me For A SharePint Tonight At The Upstream Brewing Company In Omaha NebraskaProductivity Pundits Brett Austin and myself will be in Omaha Nebraska for a client ADS (Architectural Design Session) for the next three days. While there it's only natural to have a SharePint social! Come hang out with Brett and myself at the Upstream Brewing Company http://www.upstreambrewing.com from 7-9pm. The social is a BYOB (Buy Your Own Beer). We hope to see you there to socialize, talk productivity, and have some fun. :-) Downtown ~ Old Market 514 South 11th Street
Omaha, NE 68102 8/7/2010 8:27 AMUpcoming SharePint Meet-ups, Webcasts, and MoreStarting this week I will be hitting the road with overnights almost every week for the next few months. At each stop I will be hanging out for a SharePint social and would love to kick back with you! I have already started posting some of these events at the new social media site for my district, http://www.seproductivity.com Some immediate events include a SharePint event in Charlotte NC this Tuesday night and another in Omaha NE the week after that. Following these will be weekly ones in Ft Lauderdale FL, Tampa FL, Birmingham AL, Atlanta GA, Raleigh NC, Charlotte NC, and Jacksonville FL. I will be posting details for these as well as the upcoming weekly productivity webcasts and Coffee Talk morning show throughout this week as the final event details are nailed down. Be sure to visit http://www.seproductivity.com to see the latest event listings. Also, with your visits you will see the site finally starting to take shape. Yesterday, resident Productivity Pundit Marvin Mitchell installed the SharePoint Productivity Hub on the site and he will be adjusting that for anonymous access this week. In the meantime you can access its content under the Resources dropdown navigation. There will also be a doubling of listed pundits over the next week and you will start to see the regular contribution of content by those pundits over the next two weeks. Finally, are you a Microsoft Partner/ISV with solutions/offerings around Microsoft productivity products? The contact me if you would like a listing on our Solutions Central. Well I hope to see you in one of the cities I will be visiting as well as online for the upcoming productivity weekly webcasts and morning show. In the meantime it’s a beautiful Saturday here in North Carolina and I have to go pick up and spread rock for a new walkway. After that I will be kicking back for the second to last day of my parents visit from California as well as first day of my son Sam’s return from his college (stayed in Ohio to work this summer and took 3 classes). So have a great one, mark your calendars for a SharePint, and enjoy the rest of the weekend. Ciao! 8/2/2010 10:20 AMVideo: Social Media and Paolo Tosolini – TechReady 11
Social media websites and usage has exploded on the Internet. This explosion combined with the consumerization of IT have created new challenges as well as opportunities for organizations. In this special TechReady 11 Michael on the Go episode I speak with social media expert and pioneer Paolo Tosolini ( @tosolini ). Long an advocate of harnessing the power of social media for enterprise usage Paolo is also one of the driving forces behind Microsoft’s award winning Academy Mobile. Harnessing the collective power of employee innovation Academy Mobile has served as a case study for the transformative power of social media when leveraged by an organization. In today’s episode Paolo and myself conduct an escalatorcast and Paolo lets us in on his thoughts around the consumerization of IT, the democratization of content creation, and more.
Paolo Tosolini
8/1/2010 9:28 AMVideo: Blogging 101 Series – Why Blog?
As organizations wrestle with the prospect of blogging but first question to come to mind is the most basic… why blog? A number factors come to play that should have all organizations, irrespective of size, looking to leverage the power of blogging. Amongst these drivers are the democratizatizion of the Internet, scaling beyond traditional communications and marketing, one to many conversations, evolution of electronic conversations, as a baseline to Facebook and Twitter, and to be a part of the online conversations and not merely the subject of them.
In today’s Social Media Samurai I run through these common drivers and more presenting the case as to why all organizations should be leveraging the power of blogging.
Why Blog Video
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7/29/2010 10:46 AMVideo: Loke Uei Tan and Windows Phone 7 Development – TechReady 11
Smart phones are everywhere. Not a day goes by without some news story about the latest iPhone, Android devices and more. This year though Microsoft is making a huge splash back in the market with Windows Phone 7. While out here my conference roommate was lucky enough to get one and after seeing it in action for a few days all I can say is, WOW! The consumer focused functionality is off the hook and as a collaboration specialist I have been absolutely blown away by its deep capability around Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. Ultimately though in this world of smart phones and user experience it still comes down to applications. With Windows Phone 7 the opportunity for development is better than ever. In this special TechReady 11 Michael on the Go episode I speak with Windows Phone Senior Product Manager Loke Uei Tan about Windows Phone 7 development and developer opportunities. Loke is THE man in Windows Phone development evangelism and I was glad I had the opportunity to catch up with him on the latest in Windows Phone dev.
Windows Phone 7 Video
7/27/2010 9:32 AMTechReady 11: Tuesday 7-27-2010 Live** A quick note about me blogging during TechReady. I am very excited to be here in Seattle with other Microsoft technology professionals from around the world. This annual internal event is a great opportunity to network, learn the latest and greatest info and see where Microsoft is going as a company. However, much of what will be shown/discussed is internal only information. So, while I will be interviewing product and field folks outside of sessions, and while I will be blogging throughout the day my impressions, if you are looking for leaked internal info this is NOT the place to look. I feel privileged to be out here and appreciate the confidence the product teams place our way so I will definitely be respecting that confidence. 2:42pm – Just wrapped up interviews with Paolo Tosolini (it’s our Escalatorcast ;-) on Social Media in the Enterprise and another with Loke Uei Tan on Windows Phone 7 Development. Both are great guys and I think both interviews came out great. So stay tuned as I will be posting those next week. Also, had a great lunch prior to that down at Pikes Marketplace. Enjoyed fish tacos while in a planning meeting with Jim Wright, Marvin Mitchell, Valerie Verburg, and Brent Whichel. We hammered out some of the synchronizing around our upcoming productivity road show and looks like they will start the last week in August and be each Monday and and Tuesday till we have visited Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, Birmingham, Atlanta, Charlotte, and Raleigh. Tomorrow we will be meeting with some folks at corp around this and a follow-up phase two effort so looking forward to synching up with folks there. For now I have one more session then off to the hotel to clean up, grab something to eat then off to SharePint. 10:26am – Just bumped in to long time Microsoftie and great guy, Jerry Smith and got to hang out for a bit and talked some planning around our upcoming Southeast productivity road show. Jerry has been with Microsoft some 17 years here at corporate and knows pretty much everyone. Really looking forward to working with him this upcoming year. Also, ran in to Valerie Verburg and was great to finally put a face to the name and voice. Valerie manages many of our small business accounts in the southeast but out of Redmond. So, while I have worked with her quite a bit today was the first time I actually got to meet face to face. Since our upcoming road show will be touching many of her accounts throughout the southeast she is going to join us for lunch today down at the Pike Street Market area to talk planning and how we can help those organizations that she frequently interacts with. Still haven’t been able to track down Paolo but right now am sitting in a great productivity session and afterwards will try and hunt him down before lunch. Well need to shut the PC down and tune in to my session here. Ciao for now :-) 8:47am – Sitting in a great briefing on cloud services. Will be heading over shortly to roust up Paolo for an interview. Had a great breakfast talk with Brent Whichel and my manager Jim Wright and I think we are putting together a great plan that will benefit customers here in the Southeast US as well as everywhere (via virtual presence on www.seproductivity.com) all kicking off end of August. I also found out that Windows Phone guru Loke Uei Tan is working TechReady as well so I am going to see if I can track him down for an interview today or maybe tomorrow night to talk Windows Phone 7. Everything I have been seeing here on it has me definitely re-energized and jazzed about that space, especially in the integration points for productivity. Lastly here I swear I have Laura Rogers ( @wonderlaura ) has a long lost twin sister and she is sitting 2 seats in front of me. I had to do a double take and I am sure she was thinking who is this nut staring at me as I tried to sort out no, Laura isn’t here but I am looking at her ;-) At any rate Laura if you read this I think you have an unkown sibling and she is also focusing on IT and SharePoint ;-) Well time to run need to see if I can grab Paolo for interview on Social Media. Ciao for now. 6:21am – Just sipping some coffee to start the morning. Looking forward to some great sessions today as well as some planning meetings around some activities that will be kicking off starting the end of August. I am also going to be tracking down Mr Podcasting himself, Paolo Tosolini, for an interview today. Right now need to get showered up and head in for breakfast. 7/27/2010 1:18 AMCome Join Me For An Informal SharePint This Tuesday Night!
Update: I was just informed that I listed this as both Tuesday and Thursday. I have corrected and it is tonight, Tuesday night. Hope to see you there!! :-)
This Tuesday night I will be heading down to the Tap House in downtown Seattle Washington at 8:30 pm. I would love to see those who can make it to hang out for a bit and socialize. It is a BYOB (Buy your own…) but think it should be fun. Bring your camera and lets get set for a good time!
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