Michael Gannotti on SharePoint +

As many of you have already heard based on the flood of Facebook messages and email I have received I will be moving to new blog digs shortly. I am looking to expand the format of my blog coverage to all things social computing wise. With so many tools, services, evolving practices, gadgets, and more I wanted to be able to really start delivering on the full smorgasbord of all things social. With that in mind I figured the best thing would be to start fresh with a site that runs on my dime on my time. I will have the new URL  posted here and with more of my readers connecting with me via Twitter as well as to a lesser extent, Facebook, i will be sure to post the new site there as well. I will be finishing out the existing video series on Increasing Your Personal Impact While Maximizing Employability here and I will be leaving the site intact for as long as Microsoft sees fit to leave the site up and contents available. I am going to miss blogging with SharePoint as it really has been a joy being able to leverage all of flexibility and power in so many ways. The new site will be hosted by Wordpress and while it is a fine platform is, as I expected, much less flexible in what I can do and deliver. The move though I think will be for the best in the long term and I will still be able to deliver popular features I have had here such as Michael on the Go and BackSeat Driving with Michael. They will just be done 100% on my own time as they will know longer be solely focused on SharePoint or Microsoft products and services for that matter. So with that these are the changes and continuity you can expect to see:

• SharePoint – Let me be perfectly clear. I love SharePoint! I will continue to deliver messaging and information around it. It is the most pervasive Enterprise social computing product out there and my clients will expect that I continue to deliver information around it, and I will. It will just no longer be my sole focus on blogging and since this will be a sight completely separated from my day job you can expect to see a much wider range of coverage to include all sort of technology. Heck I live here in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina home to IBM Research, Cisco, Red Hat, a huge Google center, just to name a few. It’s a big world out there and aim to bring more if it to you.
• SharePoint Weekly Webcast – I will be finishing out this series over the next few weeks and probably wrap it up for good around June. IN the meantime there are some great upcoming sessions like today’s session on Performance Management with PerformancePoint. I am going to look in to a replacement webcast series as well as a new delivery method. I love using LiveMeeting but since this will be done on my own need to find a no cost method of doing a similar format. Ideas are welcome here.
• Michael on the Go – This series will absolutely continue. The only difference will be I will no longer be recording these sessions during work travel time. They will be done off hours and now you may here me talking about a much wider range of social computing topics and technologies.
• BackSeat Driving with Michael – These videos have gotten a great response from viewers and will absolutely continue them. Hopefully I will continue to get good episodes from the SharePoint community but with me expanding to many other areas I anticipate being able to deliver more of these as I will have a larger well to draw from.
• Mikeys Tech Talk – I just started this new audio series but I haven't been able to find suitable free Internet audio hosting so I am afraid that this will have to go by the wayside. If at some point I do find a way around the hosting issue then I will revisit it.
• Daily Reads – I do these before work, up at 5am every day anyway so I will continue. Again though, they will be expanded in coverage beyond just SharePoint, Microsoft Office, and some additional Microsoft products.

In short you can continue to expect much of the same just via a new permanent URL and with a much broader focus. I hope those of you who have been steady readers here will follow me over on my new online journey. I can promise you this with it…. it is only going to get better. :-)

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