MBUG – Melbourne SharePoint Business Users Group-The new user group with a focus on business issues of

SharePoint projects, specifically for content publishers, content owners and content creators. MBUG will also engage with SharePoint power users in organisations. ie knowledge managers, intranet managers, community managers business managers etc.

 Our MBUG Launch will take place at 11.00 am on Wednesday, 14 September followed by a Networking Lunch.

Pitcher Partners Consulting will be sponsoring the lunch and venue.

This is a great opportunity for the SharePoint community to discuss and share business topics.

 Key Topics will be:

1. Governance – Who owns what?
2. Use Adoption
3. IA and Taxonomies
4. Collaboration
5. Upgrading the 2010 the Business Benefits
6. Enterprise Social Networking
7. Content Management
8. Workflow and Business Process
9. Security
10. Business Intelligence
11. The Extranet
12. Portal Design

If you have a topic you wish to share with our community get in touch with Rita Arrigo (8612 9274) #mbug

At Australian SharePoint Conference in 2010 I was lucky enough to interview Arpan Shah – the then product manager for SharePoint Enjoy!

For Part 1:

http://youtu.be/3oBSfi1d8Rk

For Part 2:

http://youtu.be/XhxljvmQYeE

As I am getting together the next conference content, enjoy my chat with  Ishai Sagi

http://youtu.be/ty71ZG5CCCk

As Chris Beaumont heads to his 50^th year, the ultimate Art Trip is evolving starting with the Venice Biennale.

The Theme for this year Biennale is Illumination- as illuminate – light and Nations. With over 89 countries involved and inspiration from Tintoretto the potential discussions and ideas are bound to be passion fuelled and enlightening. Rachel Griffiths  is a special guest for the opening of The Golden Thread by Hany Armanious at the Australian Pavilion.

Love this Tintoretto

Looking Gorgeous in Dolce and Gabbana

So I watched my friend Rachel prepare for the logies – it involved wearing  a backpack vacuum cleaner, distracting a young baby that knew her mother was going out for the evening and organising herself for a early flight for her and her three children the next morning.

The result she looks incredible!

Now Live on YouTube

William Cornwill and I , have recently produced our first ShareCast. The ShareCast about providing value to the community in bringing resources from various places such as blogs, twitter feeds, announcements, technical papers, etc… into a single place making it easier for people to get to the information about SharePoint 2010.

 Episode 1 of The ShareCast is now live on YouTube http://bit.ly/bCOzUr

The Links I discuss are the following:

SharePoint Composites

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDMhBrSHSy4

SharePoint in Plain English

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s12Jb5Z2xaE

Endusersharepoint.com, SharePoint as a Disruptor

http://www.endusersharepoint.com/EUSP2010/2010/03/31/sharepoint-as-a-disruptor/

Paul Swider’s 40 SharePoint Jokes

http://www.paulswider.com/the-fantastic-40-sharepoint-jokes.html/

The SharePoint User Group

Check out the Weekly Video’s Including SharePoint Governance Don’t Get Stung

http://www.thesug.org/pages/home.aspx

Enjoy