COISUG Meeting – Planning your Social SharePoint 2010 Deployment – March 30
Mar 15th
All,
We are very excited about our next COISUG meeting on March 30th, 12:30PM – 2:30/3:30 – McMenamins Rambler Room. Once a year, we pickup a SharePoint related meeting and this year we have the worldwide experts on the subject: Joel Olson and Christian Buckley. Come get a glimpse into SharePoint 2010 and how SharePoint is changing the corporate landscape.
“Planning your Social SharePoint 2010 Deployment”
One of the most compelling reasons to move to SharePoint 2010 is the native support for social media – but what does this really mean for your company? How will this upgrade impact current deployments and custom integrations? How do the social media features that user’s are asking for map to the features available in 2010? In this session, Joel and Christian will discuss what is coming in SharePoint 2010, outline the benefits and implications of these social media features, and provide a strategy for how you can meet-or-beat user expectations.
Bios
Joel Oleson
Joel is a senior product manager and SharePoint evangelist at Quest, where he is responsible for product direction and strategy. He is well known in the SharePoint community as an enthusiastic trainer, evangelist and architect, and he maintains a popular blog. Joel is a frequent speaker at popular technical conferences, such as Microsoft TechEd, and often presents to local SharePoint user groups.
Christian Buckley
Christian is a senior product manager at echoTechnology, where he responsible for content, strategy, and evangelism. Prior to echo, Christian worked with Joel at Microsoft in BPOS-D (Business Productivity Online Services-Dedicated). He also led product management and deployment teams in the creation of product lifecycle management and supply chain-integration solutions for some of the world’s largest manufacturing and telecommunications companies, and co-authored 3 books on software configuration management and defect tracking.
TechSpace Launches in Bend – Tech Alliance
Mar 11th
PRESS RELEASE
Media Contacts:
Lewis Howell, lewisbhowell@gmail.com, 541-480-7267
Robert Kieffer, Robert@broofa.com, 541-728-3274
Ruth Lindley, ruth@edcoinfo.com, 541-388-3236
Central Oregon’s Tech Alliance brokers community office space for tech sector
Dedicated space offers a collaborative environment for tech professionals and startups
BEND, Oregon, March 11, 2010 – Central Oregon’s Tech Alliance announced today the launch of TechSpaceBend (www.techspacebend.com), Central Oregon’s first coworking environment for tech professionals and startup organizations. The project is in partnership with The Old Cigar Building, Economic Development for Central Oregon (EDCO), the Bend Venture Conference (BVC), and BendTech, a local MeetUp group.
TechSpace is available now at the Old Cigar Building, just off Greenwood on Harriman Avenue, in the heart of downtown Bend. The building became available when G5 Search Marketing relocated their expanding operation to Franklin Crossing in February.
“With easy access to and from Highway 97,” said Roger Lee, Executive Director of EDCO, “TechSpace’s ideal location is easy walking distance to Bend’s many restaurants and businesses, Drake Park, the Public Library, and just one block from EDCO’s offices.”
With a hip, industrial feeling, the Old Cigar Building offers an open lounge, private offices, low-walled desk areas, bar stool and café seating, and a conference room (created from the original occupant’s cigar humidor). Local art, revolving every few months, will lend a creative feeling to the office’s atmosphere. The Old Cigar Building will participate in the First Friday Art Walk, on April 2nd.
TechSpaceBend combines low cost office spaces with high value services in an informal and collaborative environment. Space commitments are available on a flexible basis by month, multi-month, or annually and include the services mentioned below:
§ Dedicated space
o two dedicated office spaces ($400 per month) and
o six workdesks ($150 per month)
§ Drop-in space
o four workdesks, three bar seats, and two lounge seats ($75 per month)
Services include fast Internet service sponsored by Bend Broadband, conference room privileges, 24×7 secure building access, an onsite printer/copier, and sponsored events.
“For some time, there’s been a need for communal tech space that’s affordable,” said Dan Hobin, CEO of G5 Search Marketing and co-owner of the Old Cigar Building. “There’s enormous value in having a nexus – an activity hub – that draws the tech community together for ad hoc collaboration.”
TechSpace is considered a “coworking” environment - meaning that it offers virtual workers, telecommuters, and entrepreneurs an alternative to traditional office space or a home office. By design, the structure of the building promotes collaboration, networking and sharing of resources.
“By combining seasoned entrepreneurs with early stage companies, organic growth can occur,” said Lewis Howell, Practice Director for Cinetix Solutions, Tech Alliance board member, and organizer for Central Oregon Information Systems User Group (COISUG). “We can actively promote the cross pollination of people and ideas, which will result in innovation for the continued growth of Bend’s tech community.”
“TechSpace was created by the tech community for the community,” said Robert Kieffer, organizer of BendTech, a telecommuter with a Bay Area technology company, and co-lead with Lewis Howell to broker TechSpaceBend. “We’ll work with all the local tech organizations to sponsor events, provide meeting areas, and to give back financially when possible. The Old Cigar Building will help make it easier for everyone to get together and network.”
Any technology companies or professionals interested in becoming a TechSpace sponsor/partner should visit www.techspacebend.com to learn more.
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About Central Oregon’s Tech Alliance
The Tech Alliance represents the interests of member businesses and user groups in promoting and providing support to the growing Central Oregon technology community. For more information on the Tech Alliance, please visit www.techallianceco.org or contact Ric Newberry.
About EDCO
Economic Development for Central Oregon (EDCO) is a private non-profit corporation founded 29 years ago and dedicated to building a thriving regional economy by attracting new investment and traded-sector jobs (manufacturing, professional, headquarters and high technology businesses) through marketing, recruitment and substantive assistance to existing companies. Learn more about EDCO at www.edcoinfo.com.
About BendTech
BendTech is a user group for Central Oregon technology professionals founded 3 years ago with the goal of creating a stronger, more coherent, tech community by providing networking and educational opportunities both online and offline. Learn more at http://www.meetup.com/bendtech/
About Old Cigar Building
The Old Cigar Building LLC is owned by Dan Hobin and Greg Meier, co-founders of G5 Search Marketing. The Old Cigar Building is a separate enterprise; see photos at http://www.facebook.com/OldCigar?v=wall
Bend SharePoint User Group Meeting – March 2010
Mar 3rd
User group: Bend SharePoint User Group
Event name: Bend SharePoint User Group Meeting – March 2010
Time period: This Friday, 05 March 2010 11:30 till 05 March 2010 13:00 (GMT -8)
Location: 1125 NW Bond – BOTC Training Room – Entrance is on Greenwood *Please use City/Street Parking*. Bend. United States.
Description: BOTC will be presenting their cool, exclusively SharePoint Intranet, Active Directory org chart functionality and how they replaced their Excel Phone Directory! Prizes and lunch will be provided. BOTC has also offered to host the next meeting since they will be demonstrating off their corporate network and showing corporate data. 1125 NW Bond – BOTC Training Room – Entrance is on Greenwood, Across the street from Decoy Bar & Grill. *Please Do Not Use BOTC Parking Lot(s), use City/Street Parking* You can see the entrance doors here: http://goo.gl/3fFV
COISUG Meeting Today – Network Summit 1:30 McMenamins
Feb 18th
COISUG meeting today at McMenamins Rambler room – 1:30pm – lunch, giveaways etc. Spread the word and come on out – good times for all.
COISUG Meeting this Thursday 2/18 Enterasys 1:30 @ McMenamins
Feb 16th
Enterasys Networks, a leading provider of network hardware and software, from the core out to the edge, will be out next week to give us a Network Infrastructure state of the union. This is a great opportunity to get insight into new trends and the future of network hardware and software.
The event will take place at McMenamins, Rambler room this Thursday February 18th @ 1:30pm. As always, a late lunch will be provided and there will be giveaways.
Enterasys Agenda:
- State of the Industry – trends and innovation
- Network/Wireless/Security Architecture Strategies – best practices
- How to improve visibility and control
- Strategies for reducing Operational Expenses – doing more for less
Lunch and giveaways – spread the word, and thank you for your support!
COISUG Meeting Today 11am – Free Lunch
Feb 11th
- Time: 11am
- Where: McMenamins, Old St. Francais School – Rambler Room
- http://www.coisug.info/coisug-security-seminar-by-redhawk-february-11th-11am-rambler-room/
COISUG Meeting – Network Infrastructure State of the Union – Enterasys – 2/18/10 1:30pm
Feb 10th
Back to back meetings coming up, first – Redhawk/Sonicwall this Thursday (2/11) and Enterasys next Thursday (2/18). Read on to learn more.
Enterasys Networks, a leading provider of network hardware and software, from the core out to the edge, will be out next week to give us a Network Infrastructure state of the union. This is a great opportunity to get insight into new trends and the future of network hardware and software. The event will take place at McMenamins, Rambler room on Thursday February 18th @ 1:30pm. As always, a late lunch will be provided and there will be giveaways.
Enterasys Agenda:
- State of the Industry – trends and innovation
- Network/Wireless/Security Architecture Strategies – best practices
- How to improve visibility and control
- Strategies for reducing Operational Expenses – doing more for less
Lunch and giveaways – spread the word, and thank you for your support!
HTML5 – This Ain’t Yo Momma’s HTML Tuesday Feb 9th 5:30
Feb 5th
BendTech will be hosting a great event on HTML5 next week, Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 5:30 PM. HTML5 – This Ain’t Yo Momma’s HTML!
Where:
G5 Offices
550 NW Franklin St. Suite 200 (Franklin Crossing Building – corner of Bond & Franklin)
Bend, OR 97701
Contrary to what you may think, HTML5 is not simply a new and improved version of HTML. Rather, it refers to an amalgamation of powerful, new, technologies making their way into web browsers, offering services like persistent storage, SQL database access, resource caching, streaming video, and vector graphics. As websites begin to take advantage of this cool new tech, there will be a fundamental shift in the way web applications are developed, how they behave, and the functionality they’re capable of.
Robert Kieffer will lead this talk, which will provide a semi-technical overview of the various components of HTML5 (including brief, forays into code-level examples and demos), and will lead a discussion on how this will affect product development and business opportunities.
[Please note that we're trying out a new venue for these meetings this time around. G5 has graciously allowed us to use their new conference room space which, I'm told, is bigger and roomier than their old one was. More importantly, it comes with the FREE BEER we've all come to know and love!]
Learn more here:
http://www.meetup.com/bendtech/calendar/12514454/
COISUG Security Seminar by Redhawk February 11th – 11am Rambler Room
Jan 29th
Redhawk Network Engineering Security Seminar
Few people realize how much money is tied up in their network. Not just in the hardware and software, but the information. Even fewer people know all the information can be compromised…or lost altogether.
Complimentary Seminar
To find out the most effective ways to protect your information, you are invited to attend our complimentary seminar: “RISK: Raising Your Information Security Knowledge.” Register now.
http://guest.cvent.com/i.aspx?5S%2cM3%2c6dd6984c-287c-4687-a7fb-164eb796964c
What You Will Learn
This event will show you:
– The greatest threats to your information—they may not be what you think!
– Why social networking sites like Facebook have so many hidden dangers
– How your organization can defend against data loss
– How government data privacy laws can impact your business
– …and much more
You will hear some amazing stories about true network adventures. And learn about real data security
threats and real solutions for network, email, Web, and remote access security.
Time, Date, Location: McMenamins Old St. Francis School, 700 NW Bond Street, Bend, OR 97701
Date: February 11, 2010
Program Agenda:
10:30am – 11:00am Set Up
11:00am – 11:30am Registration
11:30am – 1:00pm Program and Lunch
This is a free event but space is limited. Reserve your spot now.
P.S. One lucky participant will win our raffle prize: aniPod Touch 8GB ($199 value).
COISUG Meeting Today Jan 14th 1:30pm McMenamins
Jan 14th
INX will be hosting a discussion surrounding Desktop Virtualization and VDI. COISUG meeting will take place today, January 14th @ 1:30pm at McMenamins Old St. Francais Rambler Room, drinks and lunch provided. As always, it will be a good time –spread the word.