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4/2/2009Hi everyone!
I want to thank you all for your following/reading of this blog over the past several years. In order to serve you better and provide a greater range of coverage I have moved to a new blogging home. I will still be providing the SharePoint coverage you have come to expect and will still be continuing all the video coverage I have been doing. Please follow me on this new adventure and I look forward to your comments and suggestions. My new blog site is also a SharePoint based one and will shortly have the same general look and feel as this site has had. I will be leaving this sites posts up as an archive for as long as Microsoft wishes to continue hosting it. This is my last post here so please look to my new site for all content moving forward. You can reach it here at: http://socialmedia.mikegannotti.com See ya there!! 3/31/2009
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Share this Post:    Okay earlier I quick pointed everyone to the Ferrari posting that shows my favorite cars in the world being powered by SharePoint (see site and video Check Out The New Ferrari.com Site! – Powered By SharePoint ). Joel Oleson though has kicked it up a notch with a listing of 10 gorgeous SharePoint driven public Internet sites in his new post Ten Cool Branded SharePoint Global Internet Sites You Can RAVE About!
If you have any doubts about SharePoint’s ability to deliver compelling Internet sites then after checking out Joel's post head on over to to WSSdemo.com run by Ian Morrish. There he has a section of Public facing SharePoint Internet sites that you can peruse and then visit. They are broken down by industry.
SharePoint kicks some serious booty in the web content management world! If you have SharePoint then are you lowering operational/development costs by consolidating on SharePoint across the board? You should be!
Update!: Jeremy Thake has a couple of very good videos posted showing the creation of a custom SharePoint site, Western Australia Tourism, that you should also check out. See:
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Share this Post: In case you missed it yesterday buried in one of my must read links a site near and dear to my heart is now running on MOSS 2007. Ferrari is a double shot winner for me personally. Beautiful muscle cars and Italy! 
The closest I may ever get to driving one of their beautiful machines is in my dreams but now I have a gorgeous website to go to where I can pick up more cars for my dreams. SharePoint guru and all around great guy Muhanad Omar has a post on his site that contains a link to a video that highlights this new SharePoint under the hood site.
For those who have been pinging me about when I am going to move my blog…. it’s soon. I had hoped to be running Monday but am still back and forth about where to host. I prefer to have it stay SharePoint based but my personal budget seems to be limiting me more to WordPress based solutions which will in turn really limit what I can do with the site. If anyone has any suggestions I am wide open. I did get one about going in with others but I want this new one to be a top level www.mikegannotti.com site.
Gotta run. Have work due this morning then on the road this afternoon to a clients. Have a great day!
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Share this Post: This is the fourth content video in my series Maximizing Personal Impact While Increasing Employability. In this Michael on the Go video I discuss how a blog presence provides your base for information dissemination as well as personal/subject branding. I also talk about tips to make your blog a more effective one. While I personally at this time have a SharePoint based blog, the information in today's video is technology agnostic and equally valid for all blogging platforms.
Maximum Blogging Video
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Share this Post: 3/30/2009In this, the 3rd content portion of the Increasing Personal Impact While Maximizing Employability, I discuss the reasons why you should be getting online as well as where you might want to focus your efforts and why. In upcoming videos that round out this series I will then be discussing how to leverage each of these areas.
Get Online Video
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Share this Post: Good morning all,
In the process of uploading a new video in the Increasing Personal Impact While Maximizing Employability series. This one focuses on getting online. I am also still researching new blog options. After looking at the various platforms, level of work, etc. to put put out the kind of blog I want to do I am back to square one. While WordPress and others have fine platforms and ultimately may be where I end up I would really prefer to move to another SharePoint instance as I want to readily wrap in dashboarding, InfoPath forms, wikis, and more. Given my tight budget I may still end up on Wordpress but I am going to take a few more days this week to see if I can find SharePoint hosting that I can afford.
In the meantime the IT world and personal world goes on. This weekend marked a momentous occasion in the Gannotti household. My son Sam turned 18! I can still remember the cute baby boy I held in my arms for the first time and now wonder where all those years have gone. Next year he heads off to college, and does so truly as a much finer young man than I ever was at his age. I was really excited to be able to give him a present I had been holding on to for the past 18 years and gratified that he got such a rush out of it. His first year on this planet I went around buying news/sports magazines, comic books, baseball trading cards, and many more items and put them in a large plastic sealable Rubbermaid box. The box was then sealed and re-opened for the first time Saturday. The look on his face ad excitement was priceless. Highly encourage anyone with youngsters/newborns to think of creating a mini time capsule for your own children that you can give them when they become an adult.
Well on the IT front there have been quite a few happenings to pass along so here are some Monday morning must reads for you.
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3/27/2009We had a great turnout for what may be the last of my SharePoint Weekly Webcasts as a part of this blog. In case you missed it or want to share what was presented the recordings of the session are now online and can be accessed via the information below. I do want to thank all of you who have been regularly attending these sessions and I hope that you found them beneficial. While I will no longer be doing a regular LiveMeeting series like this as a part of my new blog (it is not going to be MSFT hosted or affiliated so I cannot use my LiveMeeting account to facilitate ongoing sessions) I am open to doing additional webcasts around SharePoint as well as other SocialMedia content if partners, vendors, etc. have their own LiveMeeting, WebEx, etc accounts and want to guest appear. Also, if anyone has any ideas around a similar solution that will not cost anything I am wide open to any ideas you may have. I would love to continue to bring content and coverage that provides and opportunity for Q&A in my new setting but will have to be a whole new platform/approach.
Yesterdays Webcast presentation was by Analytic Vision www.analyticvision.com
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Share this Post: This is the third video in the Increasing Personal Impact While Maximizing Employability series, the last video series I will be running here on my blog before I switch to my new format, focus, and location. In this video I discuss some steps that people can take to ensure that their skills are current. I use SharePoint skills as a focus but the principles apply to all.
Skillsets Video
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Share this Post: 3/26/2009Just a final reminder. Today at 12 noon eastern time will be a must attend SharePoint Weekly Webcast series focusing on Performance Management with PerformancePoint. Recent licensing changes have given Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise customers the rights to PerformancePoint Server. This powerful tool can bring high end business intelligence and performance management now to an entire organization and is a real game changer. Be sure to join me for today's session!
You can download the meeting iCal or grab the LiveMeeting log-in information here:
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Share this Post: 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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Share this Post: 3/25/2009In today’s audio podcast postings I have one new piece. It can be found at Mikeys Tech Talk.
- Audio Podcasting Why and Tips and Tricks – In this episode I discuss why audio podcasting is an effective way of broadening your impact and provide some tips on starting.
Any short topics focusing on Microsoft gadgets, SharePoint, Office, or other topics you would like to have me address? If so be sure to let me know via my Facebook Blog Network.
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Share this Post: Getting ready for a meeting but just had to pass this quickly along. If you are looking to use SharePoint as the front end for your public Internet presence but have rich commerce/catalog needs then you should take a look at this article. If helps to lay out the integration between Commerce Server 2009 and SharePoint.
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Share this Post: There are a number of good SharePoint posts that I heartily recommend taking a look at including one warning about a potential STSADM issue. Additionally, I wanted to remind everyone that this Thursday we are confirmed for our SharePoint Weekly Webcast on Performance Management with SharePoint PerformancePoint Services. It will be at 12 noon eastern and you can get all the LiveMeeting information as well as iCal download by clicking here.
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Share this Post: Part II of the Increasing Personal Impact While Maximizing Employability video series. In this video I discuss leveraging social media tools to increase your personal impact both within your organization as well as outside of it. Social Media tools if utilized properly have the potential to help you and your ideas scale well beyond the traditional reach/boundaries of a set organizational role. They can help us cut across organizational hierarchies and and in doing so, when used wisely, improve not only our organization but our own professional standing as well.
Personal Impact 1 Video
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