Thank you to everyone who supported my recent 2013 speaking tour in Central America. I was able to visit three countries, tour an American Embassy and witnessed a volcano eruption. The SharePoint community is loud and large in the region and I am already looking forward to next years events.
Speaking in Costa Rica
Visiting the American Embassy in Costa Rica
Antigua, Guatemala
Antigua, Guatemala
SharePoint event in El Salvador
SharePoint va fêter ses douze ans d’existence en 2013. Cela coïncidera avec la sortie de SharePoint 2013 la nouvelle version.
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Formación gratis en SharePoint realizada por un grupo de los mejores expositores de SharePoint de diversos países.
Spanish:
Sharing the Point Sur América 2013 es una iniciativa conducida por las comunidades de SharePoint diseñada para ayudar a educar a usuarios sobre el potencial de la plataforma de SharePoint. El grupo formado por algunos de los mejores evangelistas y expertos de SharePoint estarán en esta gira que presentara los usos y mejores prácticas de SharePoint en el mundo real.
Esta formación es gratuita y subvencionada personalmente, con el objetivo de ayudar al crecimiento de las comunidades de SharePoint en Latinoamérica así como proporcionar oportunidades de obtener nuevos conocimientos a los asistentes.
Fechas de Gira
STP Georgetown, Guyana 3 de Setiembre, 9:00 am
STP Caracas, Venezuela 9 de Setiembre, 9:00 am
STP Bogotá, Columbia 10 de Setiembre, 9:00 am
STP Quito, Ecuador 11 de Setiembre, 9:00 am
English:
Sharing the Point Tour South America is a series of events with presentations by many of the world’s most well known SharePoint Evangelists: Joel Oleson, Michael Noel, Eric Harlan, Paul Swider, Ricardo Munoz. (Not all speakers may be able to make all events) The purpose of the tour is to bring SharePoint to places that wouldn’t normally be on the travel circuit for SharePoint Conferences. Sessions will be in English. Translation may be provided in Spanish.
Tour Dates
STP Georgetown, Guyana 9:00am on Tuesday, 3 September
STP Caracas, Venezuela 9:00am on Monday, 9 September
STP Bogota, Columbia 9:00am on Tuesday, 10 September
STP Quito, Ecuador 9:00am on Wednesday, 11 September
Why Come Here?
All of these speakers have spoken all over the globe at all of the major cities of the world. We want to give back. You’re familiar with Doctors without borders. We aren’t doctors. We are a bunch of SharePoint Speakers that want to help out and connect with people in places that are under served and rarely get any training.
We offer this *free* training with the help of sponsors as well as personal time and money to subsidize the training to help grow the SharePoint community and help provide opportunities to grow our fellow IT friends. We LOVE connecting with people who have never had the opportunity to hear a SharePoint speaker. It litterally changes lives as people connect with the global community and become part of the personal and business growth opportunities sweeping the world.
We are happy to say we have launched communities in Kenya, Philippeans, Vietnam, Uraguay, and have spoken at User Groups and SharePoint Events in Johannesburg, Capetown, South Africa, China, Santiago, and Buenos Aires. Our joy is in seeing individuals grow and businesses bring and share local success to their communities.
We are looking forward to meeting you!
Esperamos ansiosamente el conocerlos nos vemos en Setiembre
Atte. El equipo de Sharing the Point.
Microsoft Venezuela y LatinShare tienen el agrado de invitarle a un prestigioso evento del tour mundial de Sharepoint: Sharing The Point South America 2013, el cual es una iniciativa conducida por las comunidades de SharePoint diseñada para ayudar a educar a usuarios sobre el potencial de la plataforma de SharePoint. El grupo formado por algunos de los mejores evangelistas y expertos de SharePoint estarán en esta gira que presentara los usos y mejores prácticas de SharePoint en el mundo real.
Esta formación es gratuita y subvencionada personalmente, con el objetivo de ayudar al crecimiento de las comunidades de SharePoint en Latinoamérica así como proporcionar oportunidades de obtener nuevos conocimientos a los asistentes.
Fecha: Lunes 9 de Septiembre 2013
Lugar: Auditorio Fundacion Polar. Segunda Avenida, Los cortijos de Lourdes. Edificio Fundación Empresas Polar.
Hora: 8:00 am – 11:00 am
Confirmar su asistencia AQUI!!!
My new theme for this fall is; Inspire! Teach! Awe!
The remainder of 2013 I’ll be traveling 80 days and visiting 14 countries to inspire, teach, and awe. As part of the tour, I’ll be speaking at six major conferences around the globe in addition to smaller community events. My discussions will focus on new cloud-based technology and development skills that can be used regardless of geographical location.
I’ll be demonstrating my latest technology setup, which allows me to work and run a business from anywhere in the world using Windows Azure, Office 365, and CloudShare. Along the way I’ll be giving away signed copies of my most recent SharePoint book.
In between trips I’ll be working with our new healthcare consulting company and healthcare clients and do hope to awe with our new release based on SharePoint 2013 coming out over the next weeks.
My first stop will be in South America, so take a moment to visit the STP site and register for events if you’re in the area.
Expect photos and lots of adventure along the way!
Cheers,
Paul
In case you missed it, the European SharePoint Conference 2014 programme is now available and I’m delighted to announce that I am speaking at Europe’s largest SharePoint event in Barcelona, Spain from the 5-8th May 2014.
I will be conducting a session on “A Developers Perspective on the Social Architecture of SharePoint 2013” aimed at Developers.
“A Developers Perspective on the Social Architecture of SharePoint 2013”
“In this session you will learn the new architecture and topology of the new social infrastructure in SharePoint 2013. See how you can leverage these new social computing features from within SharePoint or externally hosted applications. In addition learn where data is stored, how to access feeds, SkyDrive Pro and the velocity cache. Watch and learn from demonstrations of the new community features and how to extend these features using code. All source code will be available for download following the session.”
The European SharePoint Conference will be run over four days and will feature over 100 informative SharePoint sessions and 6 preconference tutorials providing you with a fantastic opportunity for learning and building your SharePoint skills. Check out the full Conference Programme to see all sessions and topics that are being covered by myself and world renowned SharePoint experts.
If you want to deepen your SharePoint expertise, to understand the trend of the SharePoint market, and to learn how to leverage Microsoft Office 365 for your business, including the revolutionary Enterprise Social wave, the European SharePoint Conference is the best place to be in 2014!
Prices start as low as €995! There is also special group discounts for bookings of 3 or more people.
Book Now and I’ll see you in Barcelona in May
Two Facebookers. Sauvik Das, a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon and summer software engineer intern at Facebook, and Adam Kramer, a Facebook data scientist, published research about their study of the self-censorship behavior collected from 5 million English-speaking Facebook users. It reveals a lot about how Facebook monitors our unshared thoughts and what it thinks about them.
In short, every key stroke you enter while on Facebook is tracked and can be analyzed. The research of self-censorship is interesting but clearly raises some concerns about privacy.
The research paper can be found here, I found it to be a very insightful read.
This will be our last stop in Central America this month. Join us for this free one day event! Register here!
In case you missed it, the European SharePoint Conference 2014 programme is now available and I’m delighted to announce that I am speaking at Europe’s largest SharePoint event in Barcelona, Spain from the 5-8th May 2014.
I will be conducting a session on “A Developers Perspective on the Social Architecture of SharePoint 2013″ aimed at Developers.
“A Developers Perspective on the Social Architecture of SharePoint 2013″
“In this session you will learn the new architecture and topology of the new social infrastructure in SharePoint 2013. See how you can leverage these new social computing features from within SharePoint or externally hosted applications. In addition learn where data is stored, how to access feeds, SkyDrive Pro and the velocity cache. Watch and learn from demonstrations of the new community features and how to extend these features using code. All source code will be available for download following the session.”
The European SharePoint Conference will be run over four days and will feature over 100 informative SharePoint sessions and 6 preconference tutorials providing you with a fantastic opportunity for learning and building your SharePoint skills. Check out the full Conference Programme to see all sessions and topics that are being covered by myself and world renowned SharePoint experts.
If you want to deepen your SharePoint expertise, to understand the trend of the SharePoint market, and to learn how to leverage Microsoft Office 365 for your business, including the revolutionary Enterprise Social wave, the European SharePoint Conference is the best place to be in 2014!
Prices start as low as €995! There is also special group discounts for bookings of 3 or more people.
Book Now and I’ll see you in Barcelona in May
Join the RealActivity team and the Microsoft team at the Venetian Hotel and Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada from March 3-6th and be the first to hear about the roadmap and exciting new features we’re bringing across SharePoint, Yammer and Office 365. This week will be loaded with cutting edge content, hands-on labs, workshops, discussions, showcases, and networking events. President Bill Clinton will deliver the keynote address.
Just for fun! I have updated the jokes for Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2014!
Consultants, coders, administrators and enthusiasts work long hours trying to help clients and friends succeed with SharePoint. It is this global community that I dedicate this list of SharePoint jokes! Have fun with the list, pass it along and “take it for what it is.”
From one SharePoint consultant to many others. Enjoy!
(This is SharePoint!)
Bill and Melinda Gates share their 2016 Annual Letter.
Source: Two Superpowers We Wish We Had | Bill Gates
Join us for a packed three hours of content specifically geared toward better understanding today’s Enterprise Security industry.
At this event, you’ll learn about modern cybercriminals and their evolving tactics, the tools you can use to keep your people, platforms, and devices safe, and much more.
Source: Virtual Security Summit
The tech company said a fix for its iMessage flaw will be available on Monday.
Apple should be open regarding ALL the potential security flaws in the OS. There is a common misconception that our personal data on our cell phone is private. This simply is not true, privacy requires vigilance.
I am excited about the recent refocus on the complex computer science behind security. Today there is a global matrix of digital information extended to all of us who own Smartphones and we need to be sure we take the additional steps required to encrypt and secure our data wherever it resides.
On a separate note my Nokia 950 Windows 10 Phone started randomly rebooting and in some cases simply not booting and in others flashing odd pixilated colors on the screen. After research I learned there are serious issues which require both a firmware and an OS update to repair.
Source: Johns Hopkins researchers poke a hole in Apple’s encryption – The Washington Post
From the book “Professional SharePoint 2013 Development” by Reza Alirezaei, Brendon Schwartz, Matt Ranlett,Scot Hillier, Brian Wilson, Jeff Fried and Paul Swider.
This eBook is chapter fifteen, titled ‘Workflow Development in SharePoint 2013’.
Topics in this chapter include;
Full book details available here.
Kindly reproduced with permission by Wrox, a Wiley company.
Source: Workflow Development in SharePoint 2013 eBook download
I am proud to announce today my good friend and Office 365 MVP and IT Unity co-founder Dan Holme will be joining Microsoft as the Director of Product Marketing for SharePoint starting April 4th.
Source: The Future of SharePoint and Dan Holme | IT Unity
More than 16 million children in the United States – 22% of all children – live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level – $23,550 a year for a family of four.
“The aim of Red Nose Day is to bring about real and lasting change by tackling the root causes of poverty and social injustice. To drive this change, the Red Nose Day Fund awards grants to projects on the ground that work to give people a leg up, not a hand out.”
You can buy red noses at Walgreens this year. I purchased a bunch to give away as well as wear on the 26th.
(InfoGraph: How the money helped in 2015)
It is an honor to have Philip Castle, Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health; Founder, Chairman of the Board for GC3 visiting Puerto Rico this week. I’m looking forward to hearing his thoughts on global health in economic challenged regions tomorrow in Rio Mar.
Source: Philip Castle | LinkedIn
I am excited to announce that RealActivity, LLC will sponsor and administer the Puerto Rico Science and Sunshine team for the international Imagine Cup technology competition!
We are currently accepting applications for next years competition. If you know students between ages 8-23 who have an interest in computers, gaming or software development and might want to be part of the competition team please contact me at pswider@onclicksolutions.com for instructions on the team member submission process.
Anyone who knows me understands this is a program I am passionate about and it is intentional that we are aligning our team announcement with the developers build conference going on this week in San Francisco.
***Puerto Rico has a team registered for the Global Community competition and will also compete in several online competitions as the assemble the team. We are looking for students to complete the “Hello Cloud” competition right away!
Go Puerto Rico!
Source: Microsoft Imagine Cup | Microsoft Imagine Cup
