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Friday, October 02, 2009 7:47 PM

SharePoint Saturday - Cape Town 31 October 2009 #SPSCPT

Make sure you don't miss out on this one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Join SharePoint architects, administrators, developers, and other professionals who work with SharePoint for a special 'SharePoint 2010 Themed Saturday' on October 31st, 2009. The day will be filled with educational and informative SharePoint 2007 and 2010 sessions and provide you with an excellent opportunity to network with Microsoft MVPs and other SharePoint professionals in Cape Town area. SharePoint Saturday is FREE and is open...
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Sunday, September 06, 2009 12:42 PM

TechEd Online Africa 2009 #tea09 Videos are Out

You can see the link for them at http://www.teched.co.za/ Here's a direct link: http://www.microsoft.com/techedonline/default.aspx This year I did two interviews, so check them out: Taxonomy in SharePoint Enterprise Content Management and Enterprise Search http://www.msteched.com/online/view.aspx?tid=b00ff74c-cc6a-45b5-93b3-703b9963d479 (with Nicolas Blank - Exchange MVP http://blankmanblog.spaces.live.com/ ) Sharepoint Workflow and Human Workflow http://www.msteched.com/online/view.aspx?tid...
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Sunday, September 06, 2009 11:03 AM

Best Practices Conference 2009 #bpc09 Recap

What a great conference, what great memories.... I don't know where to begin. Once I arrived to Washington DC I got invited by Dux Sy of http://sp.meetdux.com/ (@meetdux) to a #ShareFood event where I got to meet some of the #bpc09 speakers and US SharePoint Community people that came to attend the conference. What a feast that was, once again Dux thank you for inviting me and big thanks go out to your family that helped prepare all the wonderful food. It's really great to see that SharePoint...
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009 1:28 AM

TechEd 2009 #tea2009 is finished and resources are out

Once again, what a great TechEd, and just to let you know that speaker presentations have been made available at http://www.teched.co.za/ . Thank you all for the great reviews and feedback that I got so far, some of you have blogged about it including our very own MVP lead Ruari Plint http://ruariplint.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!4DC22E349714F30F!869.entry who almsot got im in trouble with my better half with that post. Thanks Ruari, thank you to all the MVPs, rest of my friends, colleagues, organisers...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 4:15 PM

TechEd Africa 2009 sessions are coming up

Wow TechEd Africa is going to excellent, I look forward to seeing you all at my sessions and at the community lounge, here's the list of all the breakout and whiteboard sessions that I'll be presenting: SharePoint Social Networking and User Profiles for Business (Breakout Session level 300) SharePoint offers many features that facilitate social networking and personalization in the corporate environment. Organizations are often eager to adopt the features yet spend little time planning or...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 3:16 PM

PowerShell for Developers - Microsoft Cape Town 27-05-2009 - slide deck is up

Thank you all for making this event truly great, thank you for a great feedback and complements. I would like to thank my co-presenters Nicolas Blank and Daniel Van Wyk for a great presentation. Wow lots of thanks...... Many of you have requested that we post a slide after the event, and some have reminded me, well you can download it here: http://dotnet.org.za/blogs/zlatan/PowerShell%20For%20Developers.zip It seems that Nic and I will be taking this to TechEd ( http://www.teched.co.za/agenda.aspx...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009 3:35 PM

Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals in South Africa

On April the 1 st I was once again awarded Microsoft MVP Award for SharePoint. It is a privilege to remain among the ranks of SharePoint Most Valuable Professionals worldwide and I'm even more proud to be part of South African MVPs. Most of us will be at TechEd so catch us there, some of us as your regular speakers as well :) If you don't know who current South African MVPs are here's the list so far: MVP Name/Technical Expertise Ernst Hermann Kuschke/Visual C# Paul Somers/BizTalk Almero...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 4:45 PM

First Microsoft Certified SharePoint Masters

I've been meaning to post this for quite some time now: Congratulations to the first Microsoft Certified SharePoint Masters, this is an awesome achievement that required a lot of time, passion, dedication, hard work (and money). It is not a surprise at all that both Non-Microsoft achievers of this awesome certification come from the ranks of SharePoint MVPs. Check out their blogs: Maurice Prather ( http://www.bluedoglimited.com/SharePointThoughts/default.aspx ): Maurice is an enterprise architect...
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 1:34 PM

New Year for a new SharePoint and another step in Enterprise Content Management Evolution

First of all a very late Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to everyone who reads this blog!!! So the New Year ( two thousand and shine ) has arrived promising many new things, especially on the SharePoint field. Above all we can look forward to a first glimpse of the new version of SharePoint (still dubbed 14) and a new Development Platform (Visual Studio 2010) for it. PDC 2008 which happened in Los Angeles last year has made many announcements which have both thrilled and concerned us (mostly thrilled...
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008 3:11 PM

Top 100 SharePoint Blogs List Updated (well about a month ago)

SharePoint Blog URL Spring 08 Fall 08 +/- Spr Tech Rat Fall Tech Rat Tech Rat +/- http://dotnet.org.za/zlatan 100 59 41 927,370 336,230 591,140 It somehow escaped me that (famous SharePoint celebrity) Joel Oleson updated his famous top 100 SharePoint blogs list, and it appears that my blog jumped 41 places up in the mean time, from being on the 100 th place to 59 th place. Yay!!!!!! Quite a jump :) This is when the list first came about and when I rated on 100 th on the list ( http://dotnet.org.za...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 5:47 PM

ISPA Regional Evangelist and how can one help you, the community member

I recently became an ISPA Regional Evangelist for Southern Africa Region! What does that mean you might ask? Well to save me some typing, check out the insert from the email that I got when I became one: "As Regional Evangelist, you are the primary representatives of ISPA for your region, and as such, the first line of contact for individuals within your region. These individuals could be users looking to find a local group in their area, or user group leads looking for assistance finding meeting...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 5:12 PM

Information Worker Community and ISPA

Our own Information Worker Community is now an ISPA approved international community and you can see it listed on the ISPA website ( http://www.sharepointpros.org/Pages/SharePointUserGroups.aspx ) along with all the other SharePoint communities worldwide. Cool hey:) Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 5:05 PM

International SharePoint Professionals Association (ISPA)

For those of you that don't about this yet, here is a quote from their press release on July 16th 2008: " The International SharePoint Professionals Association (ISPA) is an independent, not-for-profit, community-driven organization dedicated to supporting SharePoint professionals and groups around the world. The primary mission of the ISPA is to promote the global adoption of SharePoint Technologies by providing support and guidance to the SharePoint community as a whole – by establishing...
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Monday, November 17, 2008 3:03 PM

Event in Cape Town on the 26th of Nov 2008 – Creating Solutions with the Business Data Catalog (BDC)

SADeveloper.NET and Information Worker (www.informationworker.co.za) are bringing you the following event on the 26 th of November 2008: Creating Solutions with the Business Data Catalog (BDC) I will be presenting on this event so please come and join us, say hello and catch up. Event will be held at Microsoft in Cape Town and yeah there will be pizzas and drinks as usual :) Please click on a banner above, or go to http://www.informatioworker.co.za/ and follow the link there to register (you will...
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Monday, November 17, 2008 1:25 PM

SharePoint Conference in Slovenia Afterthoughts..........................

Wow what a great time I had, with great people, great food in a great country that is Slovenia. Being one of the foreign speakers we were first welcomed with a dinner in one of the Slovenia's traditional restaurants and wine cellars for some wine tasting and later some deer, wild boar and pheasant specialities, what a feast that was. Then the conference came.... Preparing for the presentation The organisation of the conference was impeccable and the venue was great, presenters received a royal...
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