By Eric Harlan
Published: May 30, 2009
Updated: May 30, 2009
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Well I have some exciting news. I've been invited out to speak at TechEd South Africa August 2nd-5th. I can't say I'm not excited and a bit nervous.  Like to throw a quick shout to Joel (@JoelOleson) and Micheal O'Donovan from Microsoft South Africa, and Sogeti for giving me the time, and my lovely wife for being so cool with dipping into vacation funds to pay for this plane ticket haha and making this happen.  I struggled for a bit in writing this blog entry only because I didn't want it to come off like it was no big deal. It's a HUGE deal for me, but at the same time I didn't want it to come off as too much of a big deal. I like to think of myself as a pretty modest guy, hopefully thats well founded.  There's going to a be a bunch of SharePoint talks sessions in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town (Information Worker Users Group).

I'll be giving these sessions in TechEd South Africa (Durban):

InfoPath and InfoPath Forms Services tip and tricks

"InfoPath forms can automate your entire back office. The 80/20 rule certainly applies in the enterprise however.  With these tips and tricks for using and implementing InfoPath in your organization, you can help close that acceptance gap.  From injecting InfoPath forms into web parts on branded pages to compiling totals in repeating fields. These hints will will save you time and headaches!

SharePoint List Mashup's using SharePoint Designer

Mashups can cover just about any combination of data or design elements with in SharePoint specifically.  In this session we will go over how to mashup DHTML, XSLT and SharePoint lists into clean news rotation web parts.  This method will allow administrators to make simple changes in a list view that they are already comfortable with to make a news rotation change.  This session will also focus on the infamous DataView web part and some of the cool data presentation and integration tips used to show your users different editable views of list data.

SharePoint's Federated Search and Social Networking

With so much focus on SharePoint 2010 and some of the new search aspects related to the new release, its important to understand some of the features that got us to this point. This session will include a very quick overview on upgrading SharePoint to Server Pack 1 and upgrading with the infrastructure update. Then a main focus on incorporating the web parts and pulling structured data into SharePoint search results from various internal and external sources. Then taking it a step further, how to use those incoming data sources from social networking and Web 2.0 sites to  integrate data into SharePoint.

SharePoint Architecture Panel Discussion with Joel, Eric and Zlatan

Hilton Giesenow will facilitate the a panel based discussion with Joel Oleson, Eric Harlan and Zlatan Dzinic around SharePoint Architecture best practises and real world scenarios. Got questions or issues around governance, planning, physical architecture or information architecture? If so, bring them along with your open mind.

Twitter and the SharePoint Community-TechEd Online Video Joel Oleson & Eric Harlan

Twitter is changing our community SharePoint dynamics!  In this discussion we’ll talk about the path of social software and twitter’s influence on the SharePoint community.

 

Pretty cool screen shot. ;)

I'll post these recordings when the time comes around in the mean time, a few links.

 

Michael O'Donovan blog post

Joel Oleson's blog post

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