[ cross-posted from Kevin's Blog, The Kick Board ]   Earlier this morning I presented a revised version of my Social Computing with SharePoint 2010 presentation at the local Microsoft office as part of their "Morning Perk" series which highlights new technology paired with customer case studies.  I had the honor of once again sharing the stage with long-time customer and friend Dr. ...

Cross posted from The Kickboard (Kevin's Blog).   Wow, what a great day we had on Saturday at the first ever SharePoint Saturday Indianapolis event.  I was fortunate to be on the organizing committee for this event along with Rob Bogue, John Ferringer, Kory Geyer, David Reed, Krista Sellery, and Mike Mitchell.   We also had a great group of volunteers that really helped with all the logisti...

It’s been about a year since I first wrote about micro-blogging within the context of Web 2.0 technologies that could provide value on the corporate intranet portal.  Since that time, the explosion of platforms such as Twitter have highlighted the value of this type of communication in an open public context.  Other major platforms such as Facebook have revamped their primary information aggreg...

[cross posted from Kevin's Blog - The Kick Board]   Well I attended DevLink down in Nashville, TN last week.  It was my first time, but certainly won't be my last.  John Kellar and all the volunteers did a great job pulling off a super conference that felt more like a huge extended community code camp than what I traditional think of as an "industry conference" (e.g. TechEd, SxSW, P...

[cross posted from Kevin's Blog - The Kick Board]   I just recently had a bout with my MOSS search service.  After a couple faithful years of service our SSP got a tick and so we decided the best thing to do was rebuild it (pretty easy really, only a few BDC apps to port, etc...)  Unfortunately once everything was done we could not get the search service to crawl the "All Local Sites&q...

[cross posted from Kevin's Blog - The Kick Board]   Well as some of you may notice, I've replaced the blog comment system here on The Kick Board as well as the Technology Blog on the Ambassador Corporate website  (which had both been using a standard SP-Based List previously) with JS-Kit Echo (the free version at present). So far it seems to be working pretty well although I did have to play ar...

Hello everyone.  We're been working on new ways to actively engaged our website visitors with current technical posts.  While we do have some new projects along these lines in the works, we did want to make sure you are aware that one of our Vice Presidents, Kevin Dostalek (yes that would be me), has a recently taken his internal corporate blog and made it publically available.  You can get to ...

If you haven't yet started using PowerShell with SharePoint to manipulate administrative and developer tasks (especially when trying to debug things) you really should.  It's a nice replacement for all of those things that in the past you might write a ton of little command line apps for.  Additionally, if there are repetative tasks (such as with administration) that you do repeatedly, you can ...

Having returned from TechEd last week (and recovered this week) I wanted to share with everyone some general themes from the conference.   A big theme of the conference was on "Agility".  Many of us groaned at the use of this buzzword because it just confuses the definition even more, but it certainly made many appearances throughout, including the Keynote.  The context this was put...