From the Editor - Southern California

July 17, 2008
 

Shortly before Bill Gates stepped down from his full time position at Microsoft, he attended the Office System Developers Conference 2008. Bill commented about the huge potential of Office software. Bill stated “…to make workers more productive is really a phenomenal opportunity, and I believe we're just at the beginning of that, and a key element is the broad set of software we use to empower those workers…And there's no more important piece of software for that than Office.”

But now we still live in a fragmented world. Centralizing PowerPoint presentations, spreadsheets, Word documents, portals, and special searches is critical to efficiency. Bill makes the point that “building a SharePoint Web site to find one of those templates, that's just a common sense thing to do.” SharePoint is not the fast growing product in Microsoft history by accident. It solves real problems.

SharePoint developers are in high demand these days. One of the best ways to learn is with Andrew Connell, who teaches at the Ted Pattison Group and is a SharePoint MVP. An Irvine class is now opening August 4th:

WCM401: Developing Publishing Sites with SharePoint Server 2007

Register for this course. Request discount by referring “SharePoint.LA.” Andrew will be giving away his new book Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development to every attendee.

In addition, the Mindsharp Summit in San Diego is this July.

Mindsharp Summit in San Diego this July!!

7/21/2008 - 7/23/2008: Implement Business Intelligence Solutions using Excel Services

7/21/2008 - 7/23/2008: Office SharePoint 2007 Power End User

7/21/2008 - 7/25/2008: Core Technologies in Office SharePoint Server 2007

7/21/2008 - 7/25/2008: Customize SharePoint Sites without Writing Code Using SharePoint Designer 2007

Refer to SharePoint.LA for 15% discount.

Thanks for reading,
Bruno

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