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Day 1 of the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 is underway. The beta of SharePoint Server 2010 will be available in November, along with the beta of Office 2010. SharePoint Server 2010 will be available in "first half of 2010", so think June 2010. - Key themes for SharePoint 2010 are: (1) better developer story, (2) better Here's what I've seen announced or discussed during the day. And no, I'm not in attendance.

My flight was cancelled from Christchurch, so I was late getting into Wellington for the inaugural SharePoint Conference in New Zealand. When I arrived, Joel was talking about governance in SharePoint. Joel says that the SharePoint implementation needs an executive sponsor with vision and budget. "SharePoint The conference is being held at The Duxton Hotel, and there's 200-300 people here. There's about 30 people standing up at the back of the room.

"By itself, SharePoint can neither create nor destroy organizational chaos, but does an excellent job of reflecting the chaos in the organization at the time of deployment." An early client of Paul's asked "What's the difference between SharePoint and Skype?" The SharePoint Paradox The Paul is from Seven Sigma Business Solutions in Perth, Australia. Answering this question has framed Paul's approach since then.

Debbie Ireland (from EnvisionIT ) and Cameron Dwyer (from Scinaptic ) talked about using SharePoint for document management, along with two third-party products. Signs of maturity with SharePoint: - bit of dabbling, corporate documents; some metadata, few or no content types, published content - minimal structure ... a

The Microsoft SharePoint team have made some changes in the way people work with lists of documents, tasks, announcements, etc. (called called "List Views") in SharePoint 2010. There are two parts of a blog series about the changes at the SharePoint team blog: - Part 1, Introduction to the new List View - Part 2, Using the New SharePoint Lists - (there

With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Interesting - but I remain quite skeptical - especially regarding "MOSS 2007 as your default option for enabling and managing social networks for business use". But this document is the best effort Ive seen to-date to represent the capabilities that do exist into a social networking storyline. Collaborative Thinking Perceptions on collaboration and social software by Mike Gotta See how were connected

SharePoint is at the center of intranet, Internet, etc Synergies with SharePoint Workspace (Groove recast for SharePoint with improved offline support) What is SharePoint? Want to someday bring SharePoint to consumer market Notes from Steve Ballmer keynote... Vision: seamless experiences across your life

After they moved more broadly into the enterprise social networking space, Microsoft asked them to focus their application suite on making SharePoint a better social computing platform. They continue to closely work with Microsoft and have already enhanced Social Sites to work well with SharePoint 2010. They maintain their RSS capabilities for non-SharePoint users [apr1]but Social Sites is I have been a fan of NewsGator for some time as they were my first RSS reader in early 2004 (see Finally, I’m Scanning the Web through NewsGator) so I want to share my interview from the AppGap.

Océ is a leading international provider of digital document management technology and services. For this post I spoke about their SharePoint efforts with Jan van Veen, Manager Internal Communications, in Corporate Communications and Tom Dombret, the technical team lead on the SharePoint effort. The effort began as an IT initiative when the new CIO determined that SharePoint should be the enterprise standard for collaboration in order to provide a common and more robust This is the fourth in a series of interviews with Océ, about their Enterprise 2.0 implementation