Jay Smith

SharePoint Saturday Ozark is a one day educational, informative, and lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint Professionals and MVP’s. The event was held on July 18^th at the South Campus of the North Arkansas College in Harrison, AR, a beautiful vibrant city located in the heart of the Ozark Mountains. The event was organized by Mark Rackley, The SharePoint Hillbilly and member of the Ozark .Net User Group. Over 75 attendees turned out for over 25 sessions covering all aspects of SharePoint from custom development, administration, and branding. There were even a few sessions for .NET Developers.

The event was fantastic, not only where the sessions awesome in every track, it was a great to see how the SharePoint community is coming together and growing. There were lots of great conversations regarding SharePoint and community going on outside the sessions and continued at the SharePint. A SharePint is an after party event where attendees and let their hair down and relax. The SharePint for this event was held at Hotel Seville which was built in 1929.

To find out more about SharePoint Saturday or to get started organizing one in your area be sure to check out the SharePoint Saturday website at http://sharepointsaturday.org. The SharePoint website also list dates and locations for other SharePoint Saturday events. Mark has also posted a great article titled Organizing a SharePoint Event: What you need to Know to help get you started, it is a great overview of the process of putting on a regional event.

I would like to thank Mark Rackley and the SharePoint Saturday event staff for putting on an awesome event and I look forward to SharePoint Saturday Ozarks 2010. I hope to see you there.

This write up also appears on the INETA August Newsletter: here

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Steve Andrews, the INETA Director of Technology, has just announced the INETA Live Webcast Series.  He has teamed up with Rachel Appel to host several webcast this month.

Here is the schedule so far:

This is an awesome opportunity to have direct contact with these speakers so please mark your schedule for these events.  Remember all times are Eastern US/Canada.

Keep a watch on Steve’s blog at http://www.platinumbay.com/blogs for more announcements and details on the TDB sessions and of course I will tweet or blog about anything new I hear about.

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Rob Zelt and several user group leaders, including myself (check out page 53) are quoted in some articles in the new issue of MyDevConnections magazine.

Plus, many INETA Speakers have technical articles in the magazine.

Check out the issue and videos online at http://MyDevConnections.com.

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David Walker, INETA VP of Speakers and the Speakers Bureau Committee have announced the newest members of the INETA NorAm Speakers Bureau. 

I have been a volunteer on the Speakers Bureau Committee since TechEd 2008 and it has been great experience seeing the awesome level of speakers that are available from INETA. 

If you are a member of a User Group that is not an INETA User Group I highly recommend that you register you group so that you can begin to enjoy the benefits of enjoying these awesome speakers.

Please join me in welcome the everyone and prepare to get ready to request them for this years meetings.

• Chris Williams
• Keith Elder
• Jason Bock
• Claudio Lassala
• Rachel Appel
• Andrew Dunn
• Chris Love
• Cory Smith
• Tim Rayburn
• Jim Wooley
• Rob Windsor
• Amanda Laucher
• Adam Machanic
• Stuart Celarier
• Pete Brown
• Steve Andrews

Congratulations to all the new speakers!

Check out the full post at on David’s blog at http://www.davidlwalker.com/.

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David Walker, the VP of Speakers Bureau, INETA NorAm, announced the following information regarding nominations to the North American INETA Speakers bureau,  and INETA’s new Regional Speakers Bureau.

Nominations for the NorAm (North American) Speakers Bureau will be accepted until midnight CST on December 28th, 2008.  To nominate someone fill out the document here and email it to noram.speakers@ineta.org.

Since only a select amount of new speakers can be added, don't get discouraged. You will also be considered for the new INETA NORAM Regional Speakers Bureau - see details below.

On December 31st, 2008, the new speakers to join the elite ranks of the INETA NORAM Speakers Bureau will be announced.

Not ready for the big time NORAM INETA Speakers Bureau?

Don’t fret, applications are now being accepted for the new INETA NORAM Regional Speakers Bureau. Simply fill out the form located here:  http://www.ineta.org/newsletters/INETA%20Speaker%20Candidate%20Form%202007.doc

Email your application and any questions to:  noram.speakers@ineta.org

You will be informed as the selection process progresses.

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