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Have questions about SharePoint, Zune, Xbox, social sites like Facebook and Twitter, or other techie questions? Then ask the SocialMedia Samurai!! Tune in to to my Samurai Live sessions where I don my Samurai getup and answer your questions to the best of my ability live online. |
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2/8/2010
Our online profiles say much about us to the world at large and can have a huge impact on us personally and professionally, for good or bad. As we post our status on Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites, post pictures, we build an image of ourselves that is readily accessible by prospective employers, schools, new relationships, and so on. More often than not the context for the moments we capture and share is not present with those status postings, pictures, videos, and the like. Much as putting on a set of clothes or uniform might define peoples snap judgment of us so to does our online profile build an image that can result in a positive or negative judgment of us. To think otherwise is at best naive and to insist that schools, employers, and others act otherwise is to ignore realty and is not a recipe for success. As we seek to make ourselves an attractive applicant for a university or job we strive to build a resume’ that paints us in a certain light to these same institutions. We need to take the same care in how we manage our online profile.
In this Social Media Samurai special episode of Michael on the Go I discuss the impact that your online profile can have on your personal and professional life. If you are active on social network sites, have a daughter or son who is active, then in this episode I have some food for thought. Too often we separate common sense care of our image and reputation from our activities online. This can lead unintended consequences down the road. Conversely, a well maintained online profile can be a great boon to an individuals reputation and be a help to them professionally and personally. As the father of a college student, and volunteer with high school teens I see on a daily basis the good and bad that occurs in online profiles. In today’s episode I cover: 1-The explosion of social media 2-Online disclosure 3-Who’s looking at your online identity 4-Positive and negative aspects of online identity. I had been hoping to do this session more formally in a scripted Social Media Samurai setting complete with teleprompts as I feel it is an extremely important topic not just for us techies but even more so for the younger generation that has grown up fully immersed in social media. However, my real day job has kept me too busy to have time for a formal sit-down so I have gone ahead and set out my thoughts, while driving, around this area of discussion. If you, or a young person you know is engaged in online social computing then hopefully you will find some useful food for thought or talking points for discussion in this episode.
Social Media Profile Impact Video
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2/7/2010Happy Sunday to all! Well I am sucking down the caffeine as I have a packed day ahead. After church with the family this morning it is off to an early Sunday meeting with the teen group my wife and I volunteer for. Then we are having our own little Gannotti house Super Bowl party with my parents who are visiting from California (BTW Skype with older parents rocks! Set them up yesterday). Lastly, before I head off to bed I have to complete my mid year discussions paperwork as I have my mid year review with my manager tomorrow. Busy, busy, busy! Before I kick off the crazy day though I do have this weeks must reads. So grab your favorite morning beverage and enjoy :-) SharePoint: Office: Other Tech: 2/5/2010
**The following is a repost of a BackSeat Driving episode from my previous blog
In this edition of BackSeat Driving with Michael I am joined by special guest Rob D'Oria of Bluethread. Rob demonstrates V2 of Bluethreads exciting solution for SharePoint known as StoragePoint. If you have needs around large volumes of files in SharePoint and have struggled with concerns around storing all of that content in the database then this video is for you. For more information see BlueThread at http://www.bluethreadinc.com
StoragePoint
Since I moved my blog to its new location I have been pinged a bunch by folks asking where are all my BackSeat driving episodes? I am going to start slowly re-posting some of them here but more importantly if you are someone doing interesting things with SharePoint, are an ISV or partner with a cool solution, etc. and want to get it exposed here (as well as the possibility of cross exposure on the official Because It’s Everybody’s Business site or official Windows Phone blog depending on the content) then let’s do a new BackSeat Driving video together. I have directions on how to get featured in one here and would love to showcase you and your work/solution/ideas.
So what are you waiting for? Jump in the “backseat” and let’s ride! ;-)
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Re-Post:
How To Get In A BackSeat Driving With Michael Video
Since moving my blog I have gotten a number of inquiries about how to get involved in a BackSeat Driving with Michael video. The process is actually pretty simple and straightforward. In this video explain what it takes leaving one final question….. When will we see you in the backseat?
BackSeat How to Video
With the proliferation of data in the Enterprise space and the increasing demands of corporate compliancy regulations the topic of eDiscovery has increasingly become a hot button with many customers. Understanding how investments made in the Microsoft platform can enable the robust eDiscovery requirements of today's business is critical for many organizations as they look to get more out of their existing investments and spend less on additional systems. We are after all in a time where it is imperative to make every penny count. Thankfully, wile many may not be aware, the Microsoft platform provides a rich, robust, set of tools for delivering the type of eDiscovery system that so many organizations are seeking. Best of all, it does so within the context of a set of tools that can in turn be repurposed for other enterprise needs therefore eliminating expensive one off acquisitions.
To get familiarized with the Microsoft platform capabilities there are two upcoming webcast being offered by Microsoft (same event but 2 different days to accommodate different schedules). I highly encourage you to check it out or to let others in your organization know about it if compliance and/or eDiscovery is on your plate. The following is the webcast official write-up:
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Harnessing the Microsoft® Office Platform to Reduce Information Governance & eDiscovery Risk and Cost with MatterSpace® ELM
Monday, Feb 8, 12:00 - 1:00 PM, EST OR
Thursday, Feb 11, 12:00 - 1:00 PM, EST
Our Program:
Attendees will learn how to use their Microsoft Office platform investment to handle their enterprise information governance and eDiscovery requirements--while mitigating cost and risk. For the first time, corporate IT and legal departments can pair their Microsoft FAST:SharePoint:Exchange infrastructure with ONE single solution--MatterSpace ELM--to create an enterprise framework for Evidence Lifecycle Management (ELM). Discover how that combination eliminates the need to license multiple, niche software applications to accomplish all the digital content identification, preservation, search and retention archiving facets of information governance and eDiscovery objectives. The result: overall software costs are reduced and the likelihood of important information falling through the cracks is eliminated.
Our Speakers:
- Nate Treloar, Microsoft Search Evangelist , who will discuss how Microsoft FAST: SharePoint: Exchange 2010 delivers the underlying foundation to enable a single process application to tie together the steps in the eDiscovery process across an organization's IT infrastructure.
- Steve Lilley, WorkProducts Founder and CEO, who will discuss how ELM bridges the current marketplace gaps in identifying, collecting, managing and preserving digital content across all of the required steps in eDiscovery.
- Shawn Owens, WorkProducts VP Product Management, who will provide a brief demo and client case study of how the Microsoft/MatterSpace ELM combination addresses the larger compliance and information governance objectives across an enterprise.
Our Audience:
Executives in IT, information security, compliance, risk management, records management, attorneys, and litigation support professionals.
Register Now
Monday Feb 8, 2010, 12 noon - 1:00 ET or Thursday Feb 11, 2010 12 noon - 1:00 ET
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar
2/4/2010
This mornings video concludes a series of recording created last week during Charlotte travels where I received requests for content via Twitter.
SharePoint, due to its uses in records management, information delivery, and even multimedia handling, can be an effective tool for use in the education sector. In this episode of Michael on the Go I discuss some of the ways in which SharePoint can be configured for use in the Education sector including use as an LMS (Learning Management System) SCORM Compliance, and more.
SharePoint And Education Video
The following are some resources for SharePoint in education:
Some are some SharePoint LMS vendor solutions:
If you have additional resources that should be listed please post them in the comments section and I will include them in updates to this as appropriate.
2/3/2010
This mornings video continues a series of recording created last week during Charlotte travels where I received requests for content via Twitter.
When presenting SharePoint 2010 to clients I often tell them that SharePoint is not really a product but rather an infrastructure. Covering a wide array of Enterprise workloads SharePoint is comprised of a number of services that traditionally would be separate products that require an organization to integrate together. With SharePoint you could theoretically install it all on a single server and have search, forms services, Access Services, and more all in one machine instance… but would that be a good idea. In this episode of Michael on the Go I answer a question poised to me via Twitter on whether or not it is okay to load all the services for SharePoint up on a single server instance.
SharePoint Architecture Video
Resources to go along with today's video:
2/2/2010
Just an FYI to direct your attention to. Over the next several weeks I will be tweaking my site with some new features, additional categories, content areas etc. Early this morning I launched a new wiki Resource area. This evening while preparing for a late 8pm client meeting I added a new Category for Productivity Adventures and went back and categorized some pertinent posts. I have also gone back and begun branding my Social Media Samurai posts and as soon as I create a graphic for Productivity Adventures I will begin to do the same for those posts. If you look in the upper right hand corner of the site just below the RSS feed link you will see a link to get the mobile optimized view of my site that will work on all mobile devices with a WAP enabled browser and better.
So keep your eyes open and you will start to see a number of other features popping up. I also welcome any suggestions.
Update: I have created a new Microsoft Tag that points to my sites mobile view. I will be having new business cards made up that include this. In the meantime here it is ;-)
With folks pinging me on a daily basis about resources for social media, SharePoint, how I do things, and more, I thought it about time that the Social Media Samurai bring together all that information to one place. With that in mind I have set up a Resources Wiki here on Social Media talk. At present it is focusing on information about me, user group listings, and software/services/hardware I use. I am very excited about the user group listings and to jump start that I have imported the listing I had on my old blog. If there are listings there you see that are no longer valid please email me at michaelgannotti@live.com If you do not see your group listed there is a link on the SharePoint user group page, as well as next to the pending page link for Social Media user groups, to a User Group Listing Request list/form.
This mornings video continues a series of recording created last week during Charlotte travels where I received requests for content via Twitter.
Microsoft InfoPath is an XML form tool that facilitates creation of rich forms easily by business users via the InfoPath client, or very complex ones via developers from within Visual Studio. With the release of SharePoint 2007 Enterprise users of InfoPath could render these forms via a browser with them being server side rendered via DHTML (Ajax was not yet a ratified standard when SharePoint 2007 shipped in late 2006). Due to limitations of DHTL there were certain instances where certain applied features in the form were not compatible with a DHTML rendered view. This time around though with SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Ajax is everywhere within SharePoint as well as XHTML. Combine these with SharePoint’s server side rendering of InfoPath 2010 forms as well as the addition of the new InfoPath forms web part and it is a whole new ball game. In this episode of Michael on the Go I discuss some of the changes and new features of InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise that will knock your forms socks off.
InfoPath 2010 Video
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Michael Gannotti works as a
principal technology specialist for a very large software company. The opinions
expressed herein, however, are my own personal opinions and do not represent my
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