| Christchurch SharePoint User Group - Ask the Panel | An interactive session in which we invite anyone with an interest in SharePoint to raise questions for the panel of experienced users and consultants – and we encourage plenty of discussion amongst the audience. We have no preset subjects – please bring us your questions about the platform!
| Robin Wilde - Production Supervisor, Canterbury Educational Printing Services
Sarah Heal - Co-founder and Director, Information Leadership
Tony Sinclair - Practice Lead for Portals, Content and Collaboration (Southern Region), Intergen
Gary Payne - Consultant, Small Steps Computing | 24/02/2010 |
| Using InfoPath and SharePoint Designer to Solve Real Business Problems | Alex will demonstrate the great potential available to you in combining InfoPath and SharePoint Designer. If you have not yet experimented with InfoPath plus SharePoint, or would like to further your knowledge of this field, come along to our meeting on 26th January | Alex Dean, Knowledge Cue Limited | 26/01/2010 |
| SharePoint 2010: A ‘Brief’ Introduction and Overview | SharePoint 2010 was publicly unveiled at last month’s SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. This will be a whistle-stop tour of some of the new features and improvements that make up SharePoint 2010.
| Nicholas Hadlee, Datasouth | 24/11/2009 |
| Back to SharePoint Basics – Lists, Libraries and Columns | A back-to-basics session covering core SharePoint aspects such as site columns, content types and lists. If you have been using SharePoint, but are still a little hazy on some of these ideas, or you have not touched SharePoint and want to understand some of its features, this session will help. | Gary Payne, Small Steps Computing Ltd
Gary is a consultant and developer focussing exclusively in the creation, provisioning and support of SharePoint solutions. He has over ten years of experience in commercial software architecture design and development and is the co-organiser of the Christchurch SharePoint User Group.
| 27/10/2009 |
| SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration, with Michael Sampson | We are pleased to welcome back Michael Sampson to present on his latest book “SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration” for this months user group session. Michael has previously addressed the C-SPUG on the topic of collaboration and SharePoint while discussing his previous book “Seamless Teamwork”, and this month’s session will be an exciting follow up that is not to be missed.
This will be a business focused session that look at the business and people aspects of SharePoint as opposed to the technology and will be essential listening for anyone who is using or intending to use SharePoint to facilitate collaboration in their organisation.
| Michael Sampson,
The Michael Sampson Company | 29/09/2009 |
| Using Enterprise Search for Productivity and Competitive Advantage | This month’s presentation explores the subject of seeking and finding information – come along to the meeting to learn about the power of the search system that is built into MOSS, or that is available as a free add-on to WSS (Microsoft Search Server Express). | Tony Sinclair, Southern Practice Lead for Portals, Content and Collaboration, Intergen Ltd | 25/08/2009 |
| Presenting Information in SharePoint: Aggregation using DataViews and other ‘Codeless’ Techniques | This month’s presentation is a two part session. First we will do a quick recap on the New Zealand SharePoint Conference. Then we will focus on “information reuse” also known as “aggregation” in SharePoint. This part of the session aims to give you an overview of the tools and techniques available for easily reusing information in SharePoint which can be used to create things like dashboards and richer homepages. | Nick Hadlee,
Technical Consultant,
Datasouth Business Solutions | 28/07/2009 |
| SharePoint Branding - What? Why? How? | What exactly is "branding" when applied to SharePoint? Why should this be of value to your organisation?
This presentation will outline the basics of why you would want to brand your SharePoint site, and demonstrates some tools and techniques for achieving that outcome. | Gary Payne, Small Steps Computing Ltd | 23/06/2009 |
| MOSS for Business Intelligence | In this session we will show how MOSS can provide reporting and KPIs in its own right but also be the presentation layer for other sources of information from the enterprise.
| Mark Ginnever and Bryce Newman of Intergen
| 19/05/2009 |
| SharePoint Planning and Governance | In this session Chandima will share with you essential Governance planning steps for SharePoint deployments of any size. You will learn how to avoid some of the most common mistakes of SharePoint and how to approach your overall solution architecture and deployment in a modular framework that can scale from small to enterprise. | Chandima Kulathilake, Knowledge Cue | 25/11/2008 |
| August Christchustch SPUG, Business Process Automation for Everyone | As part of this session Eben will demonstrate how workflow processes can be created quickly and easily via a browser interface with Nintex Workflow 2007, plus how this product enables collaboration and workflow process automation within high performance workplaces. | Eben Illingworth - Technology Evangelist, Nintex | 26/08/2008 |