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    Thank you SharePoint authors and publishers!

     

    While I was attending SharePoint Connections Chicago, I sent out a few requests for more books in order to restock the Chicago SharePoint User Group’s virtual treasure chest of give away items for the raffle at the end of each meeting.  While at the conference, I also picked up a box of 2010 SharePoint Shepherd books from the always generous MVP Rob Bogue. 

    Over the last few days, I’ve been delighted to receive three boxes of books.

    My restocked treasure chest now contains over a foot and a half of SharePoint books!

    1. MS Press
      1. Managing and Implementing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Projects by Geoff Evelyn – Safari Books Online Link
      2. Developing Microsoft SharePoint Applications Using Windows Azure – Special Excerpt – Not For Resale by Steve Fox
      3. MOS 2010 Study Guide by John Pierce and Geoff Evelyn
        1. That’s Microsoft Office Specialist MOS not Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MOSS
      4. Business Intelligence in SharePoint 2010 by Norm Warren, Mariano Teixeira Neto, John Campbell, and Stacia Misner
      5. SharePoint 2010 Plain and Simple by Johnathan Lightfoot and Chris Beckett
      6. SharePoint Designer 2010 Step by Step by Penelope Coventry
      7. SharePoint Foundation 2010 Step by Step by Olga Londer and Penelope Coventry
      8. SharePoint 2010 Administrator’s Companion by Bill English, Brian Alderman, and Mark Ferraz
      9. SharePoint 2010 Administrator’s Pocket Reference by Ben Curry
      10. Designing Solutions for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 by Jason Lee, Chris Keyser, Rob Bogue, and Todd Baginski
      11. Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2010 by Ted Pattison, Andrew Connell, Scot Hillier, and David Mann
      12. SharePoint 2010 Developers Reference by Paolo Pialorsi
    2. Wrox (more books are on the way)
      1. Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development by Steve Fox
    3. Manning:
      1. SharePoint 2010 Workflows In Action by Phil Wicklund
      2. SharePoint 2010 Web Parts in Action by Wictor Wilén
      3. Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches by Don Jones
    4. IHF Publishing: Enterprise Application Development in SharePoint 2010 by Ira Fuchs. If you want to buy this book, come to one of our meetings to get a discount code.
    5. SharePoint 2010 Branding in Practice by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy
      1. Yaroslav also wrote Top 60 custom solutions built on SharePoint 2010, of which he gave us several copies that I have given away at previous CSPUG meetings. He also is involved with VanSPUG ( the Vancouver SPUG), blogs at ShareMuch.com, and has a SharePoint branding webinar at http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/sharepoint-2010-branding-dvd/ – yes, Asif’s site.  Asif is one of my fellow co-leaders of CSPUG and its resident MVP .
    6. The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users, 2010 edition by MVP Rob Bogue at Thor Projects
    7. Several sets of Quick Reference Cards (not technically a book) for MOSS, SP2010, and Office 365, from Brain Storm Inc.

     

    We will be giving away all of the above books over the course of our next several CSPUG meetings. 


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    Resources for supporting a SharePoint User Group

     

    If you run a SharePoint User Group, you should know about these:

    · Dave Bost (dbost AT microsoft DOT com) and Clark Sell (csell AT microsoft DOT com ) run a monthly phone call for midwest User Group leaders.  You can ask them if there is an equivalent call for other geographies.

    · You can affiliate with INETA (http://ineta.org/ ) and/or GITCA (http://www.gitca.org/Pages/default.aspx).   

    · http://inetachamps.com/ - keep a log of your efforts to run the group and get recognized for it.

    · Get Books:

    · User Group Support Services (UGSS)

    o They send kits quarterly

    o https://www.technicalcommunity.com/Pages/default.aspx

    Also, make sure your group is listed at http://www.sharepointpros.org/Pages/SharePointUserGroups.aspx

     

    And if you video your meetings, you could put them here: http://usergroup.tv/

     

    --Michael


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    Slides from Rockford.NET User Group Meeting

     
    On July 26, 2011 I spoke at the Rockford .NET User Group meeting. I planned to speak about SharePoint and PowerShell, but ended up speaking mostly on PowerShell. I covered the first half of my slide deck, which is at http://blumenthalit.net/Files/RockfordNUG/PowerShell%20for%20SharePoint%20Developers%20and%20Administrators.pptx.
     
     

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