Here we go...

So I was attending the SharePoint Best Conference 2013 this week and had a person ask me what was my twitter/blog/facebook? I'm afraid I told that person I have none of that. Often thought the whole blog/twitter was a silly concept and very weird to be posting about me and things I do. But then I started thinking about my career and what my current colleagues at work are trying to promote. Collaboration and social compents in our SharePoint environment. So I figured I would give it a whirl. Never been good at grammar or writing, so bare with me in any of the posts I push out.
I also felt a bit inspire by a co-worker who uses his blog to help with what he has done, like code examples or confugrations to fix an issue. I am kinda leaning to that idea as well. Though I haven't done too much development of late, I am doing some. So I will share here.

First off, the SharePoint Best Conference 2013 was a nice small little gig. Had 2 seminars/lecturers going on at the same time and the presentors were working professionals discussing their trivials and tribulations with their SharePoint experience and what it has to offer to a corporation/business. There was roughly around 150 attendees so allowed people to talk amongst themselves and get discussions going on the topic that is dear to my heart, SharePoint. The main goal was to talk to more towards the Business side than the tech side. Which was a good target audience. I think it help give some ideas and understandgin to the non-technical. There was some geek-speak that I could relate to and some pointers I picked up on how to talk to the business as well.

I attended the 3 days and was worth it. Not sure if I will be back as I love the tech more than the business side. Some of the key points I got out of the conference is

• Search was vitally important to a good implmentation of SharePoint.
• Know who your audience is and how to talk to them.
• SharePoint is a complicated platform with tons of features that no one can be a complete expert of the whole suite.
• Get the users invovle early and often. Kepp them invovle throughout.
• Governance is good, but don't make it too restrictive.

There was more little nuggets in each of the lecutres, but need to let all of it settle in my head.

Till next time...