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Sharing the Point: China!
Follow us at http://shareingthepoint.org First stop Beijing China!
First off we were taking quite the risk in flying from Sydney the evening following the last day of the Australia SharePoint Conference to fly 9 hours to Guangzhou. As soon as we hit the ground we had a 3 hour layover. I’m the adventuresome type, so I was like hey we’ve already got our tickets. Let’s go kill an hour at some market or something. I negotiated with the taxi desk and got them down as cheap as they’d go and we jumped in a couple of cars. Mark Miller, John Anderson, Paul Swider, and Rob LaMeure and I jumped in two cabs and headed toward the town. First stop the taxi’s think, hey these guys are looking for food, let’s stop at Mc Donalds, that didn’t make us happy so it was then KFC. Ok, that was enough. I had to do some serious negotiation to get the drivers to take us further. "It’s just fields" he would say. I was like… take us to a market, and he would say, the super market is closed. Some times it’s hard to get the message across, and we had one of the better English speakers.
The community itself was very accepting. As you might expect Japanese tourists to want to take photos with gaijin. We immediately became rockstars and celebrities like never before. The Chinese SharePoint community was super excited about seeing Paul Swider and was asking him for his autograph.
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After that we continued on, but lost track of the other car. I saw a gate that looked like a china town looking gate and asked the driver to turn around, and figured we needed to get off the highway and try some side roads. We found a little tent with a couple frying up little buns
Sharing the Point Crew… Enjoying the Great Wall of China
There’s a lot more to say, but want to get this posted!
Sharing the Point Asia Tour Begins Next Week!
What do China, Vietnam and the Philippines’ have in common?
They are all getting a visit from top SharePoint speakers and experts in a community tour sponsored by fpweb.net STP speakers include renowned SharePoint professionals Joel Oleson, Dux Raymond Sy, Michael Noel, Paul Swider, Mark Miller, and Rob LaMear and our trusty reporter John Anderson.
The first stop on this inaugural STP tour takes place exactly two weeks from today on Thursday, March 10 in Beijing. From China, the STP tour moves on to the Philippines where the STP event will take place in Manila on March 12. We head from Manila to the final stop of the tour in Ho Chi Minh also known as Saigon in Vietnam on Mar 14.
Get all the details including reporting blog that will include the agenda, more on the speakers and all the details on the SharingThePoint.org site
Register Now to attend the free half-day Sharing the Point events!
Looking forward to peaceful resolution and democratic Egypt!
It was such a relief to hear from my friends in Egypt the last couple of days.
Ohhhh. We are back online 🙂
We are safe, all Egyptians were one hand last 4 days defending their homes, All public and private properties
To people in Tahrir Square: Please please be grateful and not stubborn!! In any negotiation, you should never expect a 100% agreement on what you want… We can have faith in Mubarak who gave his word in front of the world. In case he didn’t DO what he said, we NOW know our way to Tahrir Square.. Please spread… Please save the country..
Proud to be Egyptian. Proud to see how youth spears their words to everyone in peaceful civilized manner all one hand for more freedom all one hand to protect their homes and families
Looking forward to seeing the smiling faces of the people of Egypt again soon, in April hopefully!
People of Egypt We Hear You
I spent a few days last year in Egypt Cairo and Luxor. It quickly became very close to my heart. Egypt is not only the most populated country in the middle east but is in many ways the key to our past and our future.
The pyramids the icon of the ancient world, the only surviving of the seven ancient wonders of the world, attract tourists from all over the world and likely the most recognized object on the earth.
My visit with the Egypt SharePoint User Group continues to be one of my all time favorite.
In the SharePoint Community we have very strong leadership. Both Marwan and Ayman not only run the user group, but are very involved in the community outside of Egypt including speaking and running SharePoint4Arabs.com and speaking at #SPSEMEA.
Marwan Tarek, SharePoint Technology Specialist and former SharePoint MVP @marwantarek blog: http://www.sharepoint4arabs.com/marwantarek/default.aspx
Ayman El-Hattab, SharePoint MVP @aymanelhattab http://www.sharepoint4arabs.com/AymanElHattab/default.aspx
Mai Omar Desouki (An Avid SharePointer)
Joel Oleson: I understand you live in Egypt. How is the protesting? I am just wondering if it’s real hype, something that might just happen one day? I hear they are blocking twitter.
- January 25 at 5:09pm ·
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Mai Omar Desouki yes .. we all pray something would really happen like action and not just words but from pic as we see on fb, soon there will be action, but as we all know, people are tired and trying to express in one way or another, and we all feel sad we reached this. also in Egypt news NOTHING is showing what is happening in the streets… which we know they will cover it.. but mobile uploads on fb made the whole know everything.. that was huge indeed yesterday.
January 26 at 1:36am
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just back from downtown , el2s3af feha geeeesh amn markazy motamrkez feha, ma7atet metro elsadat blocked #egypt #jan25
Egypt Speakers at Office and SharePoint 2010 Launch
My visit to Egypt was one of the most incredible of my life. It’s for this reason that I’ve been planning on bringing my family… even bought the tickets.
The people of Egypt have come together through the amazing use of social media through Facebook and Twitter #JAN25 the people of Egypt have come together peacefully and asked for…
- An end to Mubarak’s 30 year regime
- Reform in Police Brutality and Corruption #KhaledSaid
- People’s choice in a democratically elected President
- End to poverty
I know the world is watching with interest. I encourage you to not look at what’s happening in horror, but to look at it as an amazing and incredible demonstration of the people demanding change. It takes a lot to stand up and say enough!
P.S. Please pray for Tareq Ali’s brother, he was injured in the protests in Egypt (Shared from Ayman SharePoint MVP in Egypt)
Consider making the Egypt flag or favorite Egypt image as your profile pic on twitter and/or facebook to show solidarity.
Old Technology Finds role in Egyptian protests
Women of Egypt – Why do I like this facebook album? Because to me this really shows it’s about all the people.
7 Things You Need to Know to Drive User Adoption of SharePoint
Thursday, February 17, 2011
8:00 AM Pacific / 11:00 AM Eastern
4:00 PM London / 5:00 PM Paris
Join leading SharePoint MVP and top 50 SharePoint Influencer Dan Holme for an inside look at the most powerful ways to drive user adoption of SharePoint—by integrating it into your users’ experience and the tools they use every day. You’ll get all the information you need to seamlessly access SharePoint sites, lists and libraries from Office applications including Outlook and Word as well as from Windows Explorer.
In this webinar, you’ll learn the key steps to increasing user adoption of SharePoint including how to:
- deploy Network Locations and Favorites using Group Policy
- use Default Site Groups and User Profile Application in Microsoft Office clients
- work effectively with metadata in Microsoft Office documents
- push shared calendar, tasks, and contact lists to Outlook
- integrate Outlook and SharePoint for a seamless user experience
Together with Trevor Dyck, Colligo’s Director of Product Management, Dan will provide detailed, step -by-step instructions that will enable you to significantly increase user adoption of SharePoint. You’ll learn how to simplify the integration of SharePoint with the various Office applications that your users “live in” everyday. To learn the tips and tricks for driving user adoption of SharePoint, register for this webinar today!
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