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You may have heard, some folks are wondering why they haven't received a stimulus check like everyone else. You may have even heard ME bitching about it, or maybe you're one of the ones affected. Here's what I got in my inbox today:


Dear Valued Customer,

We want to provide you with the most up–to–date information about the tax rebate to which you may be entitled.

Recently, you may have received a letter from the IRS advising you when to expect your Economic Stimulus Payment (rebate). That IRS letter may have inadvertently left off some important information. Taxpayers who chose to have their tax preparation fees deducted from their federal tax refund will receive their tax rebate in the mail, not via direct deposit.
Our records show that you chose this payment option in TurboTax. As a result, the IRS has determined that you will receive your tax rebate in the mail. This may result in you receiving your rebate on a date later than expected.

This situation, while not unique to TurboTax, is understandably causing some concern and confusion. To help further clarify the situation, below is the most current IRS rebate payment processing schedule, as well as additional resources about the tax rebates.

I hope you find this information helpful. If you still have questions, the best source for the most up-to-date information is www.irs.gov (see the "Rebate Payment Questions" link).
Sincerely,

Bob Meighan

Vice President, TurboTax Customer Advocacy

 

If the last two digits of your Social Security number are:	Payments will be mailed no later than:
00 – 09	May 16
10 – 18	May 23
19 – 25	May 30
26 – 38	June 6
39 – 51	June 13
52 – 63	June 20
64 – 75	June 27
76 – 87	July 4
88 – 99	July 11

Other sources for current information on the rebate program are.

  •  http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=182734,00.html

  •  http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=182735,00.html

For more information on TurboTax and rebates, please visit http://turbotax.intuit.com/support/kb/tax-content/tax-tips/6255.html

Not too long after the INETA Board elections (mentioned here) I was approached and offered a different role within INETA. Specifically, the role of Director of User Group Recruitment. 

The mission of this role is to identify and recruit non-traditional (i.e.  specific technology focus, such as: XNA, Silverlight, BI, Sharepoint, etc) and newly formed traditional (.NET) user groups into INETA.
After some discussion and consideration, I accepted the position and immediately began assembling a team to help me in achieving this mission. I know I've got my work cut out for me, but I'm really looking forward to it.

If you are the leader of a user group (whether it's a singular technology, such as those listed above, or a more generalized group) and would like to discuss what INETA has to offer you and your group, please contact me via this blog or at the address below.

Chris Williams
INETA Director of User Group Recruitment
chris.williams@ineta.org

In an effort to better support User Groups worldwide, Microsoft is rolling out UGSS User Group Support Services. We at INETA have been, and will continue to be, working closely with this team to better serve the user group community…

Consistency and scale in the services we provide to User Group Communities has been a challenge and a source of consternation for all of us over the past years.

Microsoft is pleased to announce that as of last month’s User Group Leadership Summit and based on global feedback, we have a model that delivers progress that can be universally appreciated and used by your local User Group Communities.  Our pilot, User Group Support Services, launches today May 8!

The pilot emerged from community feedback, efforts from UC and Windows and from work led over the past 2 years by the US Subsidiary with their rollout of Codezone in the US.  Thanks to their work and bolstered by the great feedback from the community, we have taken on the commit to build and sustain UGSS as a part of our global offering.  The pilot is available at this time for English speaking regions – but stay tuned as in early H1 FY09 we will have additional language offerings. If you wish to be among the first to pilot this program in your region, please contact mfleming.

WHAT IS USER GROUP SUPPORT SERVICES?

First of all, User Group Support Services (UGSS) does not replace local engagement and local investment. These tools enhance corp-to-user group engagement and have the capability to enhance your engagement with your local Microsoft field. UGGS is a  platform with an underlying framework which drives consistency in how we engage UGs across our Technical Audiences and enables the community to participate in a direct dialog with Microsoft.  The focus of this platform is on providing a process and a portal that helps improve the quality of content available to User Group Leaders for their events and tools that help them manage their groups.

 

This platform has two distinct offerings:

1. Access to content built specifically for User Group events by Microsoft Product teams
UGSS has partnered with Microsoft product teams to provide content built specifically for User Group events (demos, discussion presentations and other content). This content will be free to User Group Leaders and available through the UGSS Connect portal. In the future, User Group Leaders can access community led launch event content as well as explore other Beta Connect program opportunities.

 

· How do I know what’s available to me? A user group specific content editorial calendar is available through two interfaces:

· Public planning interface for Developer through Codezone

· Public planning interface for ITPRO Culminis – JUNE 2008

 

· Where can I go to download the content? UGSS Connect portal (user group content download center) is accessible from:

· MSDN

· TechNet

· Codezone

· Culminis (ITPRO) – planned release for JUNE 2008

 

· Online user group tools wrapped in a consistent UI
UGSS framework offers a free set of tools specific to user group management. In the pilot, these services continue to be surfaced through: Codezone (Developer & INETA supported), and for ITPRO will be released through Culminis – planned for JUNE 2008. These services include:

· Speaker's repository

· Sponsorship Repository

· Event management & attendance tracking

· Member management and communication

· Consolidated User Group Management Interface

· User Group Kits: Available in supported regions

· Study Groups

ADDITIONAL USER GROUP BENEFIT

v Free Live Meeting Accounts for User Group Leaders (contact Culminis, INETA or your local Microsoft evangelist for more details)

Some asks of you..

Because this is a new program from a global perspective, we are looking for your help.

v Evangelize these services in your region.  This includes: Event content, Speaker's Bureau, Sponsorship Repository, and UG Leaders resources

v Help to localize User Group Event Content for your region and offer this for download through the UGSS Connect portal.

v Help to localize the regional feedback into English for Corp to consume and act on

We will…

v Advance the tools/framework based on your feedback

v Provide new content from Product Groups based/impacted by your feedback

v Aggregate your feedback from the interface to participating subsidiaries and product groups

v Maintain UGSS as the one place from which to access all Microsoft content for Community Led Launch Events

FY09 Corporate Deliverables (planning)

v Community Led Launch event kits/cycles:

o Virtualization Deep Technical / H1/H2

o SQL Deep Technical- H1/H2

v Days to produce localized versions based on field commitments (plan in place July 15, 2008)

v Editorial calendar detailing content to be delivered (see above)

v New features, to include reporting functionality for User Group leaders, among others. The full set to be communicated in JUNE 2008.

THANK YOU!

We’d like to say a huge “THANK YOU” to you all for moving this effort forward, especially the following User Group Leaders:

v Graham Jones

v Lee Benjamin

v Kaliyan selvaraj

v Bill Wolff

v Brendon Schwartz

v James Johnson

v Eric Selje

v Matt Rigling

v Michael Steinberg

v Robin Edwards

v Shawn Weisfeld

v Stephen Swienton

v Tim Rayburn

v Mike Wells

v Christopher Reed

Blog post:   http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2008/05/07/announcing-xna-game-studio-3-0-community-technical-preview-ctp.aspx

Download:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DF4AF56A-58A7-474C-BFD0-7CF8ED3036A3&displaylang=en

Why are you still here reading this??  Go. Download. Now.

As I've previously mentioned, domain squatters are a bunch of "thievin' bastards" and I refuse to pay 10 times the original price to get BlogusMaximus.com back.  So I decided to register BlogusMaximus.NET (which really makes more sense anyway, with me being a .NET kinda guy and all...)

So, as of now, thanks to Jeff's addition of domain hosting/rerouting/configuring thingy to GeeksWithBlogs, BlogusMaximus.NET integrates nicely.  (As opposed to just a redirect which is what I had before...)

So thanks Jeff, you rock.

So far, the overwhelming majority of Zuners I heard from have NOT experienced any brickage when applying the update, so it looks like the folks I did hear about were the exception, not the rule.  I haven't done mine yet, but lots of folks have with good results.   Carry on.

As many of you probably already know, the new Zune software (and firmware) update is now available.  I'm not posting a link at this time because over the last few hours I have seen several twitters indicating that the update is bricking Zune80s.

I do not know if it is having a similar effect on Zune30s but I am currently advising folks to NOT perform the update for a few days, just to be on the safe side.

I realize this is not happening to everyone, but it's better to be safe than sorry.  (Honestly, running a firmware update the day it comes out is probably never a good idea, regardless of who it comes from.  Be safe, wait.)

Did anyone NOT see this coming?

http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/02/popfly-game-creator.aspx

Noteworthy quotes:

 

You can start with a known collection of game templates that are already built in and customize and share them, or start with a fresh idea and a clean canvas and build your own game. 

Casual games created using the Game Creator will have all the same attributes that Mashups and webpages built with Popfly have – they can be rated, shared and embedded as Windows Vista sidebar gadgets and on Facebook.

 

Very cool!!

As a followup to my prior post about my lucky score at Borders, I figured I would share the results. (Not the money, just the results, thank you.)

Two of the boxes went a little higher, one box went a little lower, but the average sale price was around 1000% of what I paid.  Not too shabby. The S&H cost will make up for the Ebay fees, so I'd say it's pretty accurate to call this a success.

(Yes, I've been back several times since, but no luck... I'll just have to keep an eye out for the next thing they screw up.)

Iowa Code Camp was a lot of fun.  Looking forward to the next one.

Iowa Code Camp was pretty terrific. Everything went without a hitch, all the sessions went well and a lot of folks went away with some good stuff.

My XNA session went well and got some really good questions. The room was mostly full and there were even a few Magenic folks in there.
After the Code Camp, we walked over to the dinner, which was nice. Excellent turnout for dinner and many MANY drinks were purchased and consumed. Played some pool and socialized for a few hours before the crowd starting thinning out.

After dinner, a few of us walked around the "bar district," drank more and hit a few tattoo places (all 3 were closed), drank more, got some pizza slices, drank more, shot some pool, drank more, etc...

Eventually I'd had enough and headed back to the hotel. Never did get to see Iron Man, but I'll probably catch that Sunday afternoon/evening.  Heading out in the morning back to the Twin Cities.

Looking forward to the next event.

While at the Iowa Code Camp, a few of us were talking over lunch about the cost of living in various parts of the country. Greenville, SC was really cheap, Charleston, SC wasn't (at all.)  Minneapolis has some areas that are more than others, and where we are is a little pricey (although not the priciest.)

This got me thinking about how much houses cost, etc... and it occurred to me that my parents bought 13 acres of land AND built their house (back in the day, when I was a kid) for less than what I pay in a year and a half in rent.  We had a nice house, and a great view.  Now I live in a subdivision, on maybe a 1/4, in a house that a like, but that needs a fair amount of work.

Of course, times have changed. I make a little more at 38 than my parents did combined, at the same age. So with housing costs, food, gas, children, etc... am I really any better off? 

Overall, yeah... I think I am. I'm certainly not starving. I'm not having to make hard choices like I did early in my career. (You know, like choosing between paying the power bill or eating.)  I have a little bit of savings, but I'm probably going to have to work until I'm 80... if I live that long.  I don't see myself retiring and moving to the Carolinas any time soon.

Jason and I got here fairly early. Checked in, got speaker badges. Snagged some breakfast... and hung out for the opening comments.  This is the first Iowa Code Camp and everyone seems really excited.

A few logistical difficulties involving wireless access, but otherwise everything is running smooth.

I haven't seen a Sonic in nearly 8 months. So, imagine my delight upon pulling into Iowa City and seeing a Sonic near my hotel.  I'm sitting here now, enjoying a Cherry-Grape Slush and Tater Tots... oh and basking in the glow of my 1000th post on GeeksWithBlogs.net.

Sorry D'Arcy... you never had a prayer.  ;)

It took about 5 hours to get here (Iowa City) from Minneapolis, not counting a Pizza Hut stop around the halfway mark. 

I didn't see much corn (wrong time of year) but I did see plenty of corn fields and windmills... lots and lots of windmills.

The weather sucked for a bit... really heavy rain and almost no visibility for part of it, but we eventually punched through it and got here.

Checked into the hotel... hmm, not so great. It's kind of a dive and the security lock is busted off my door. That's not all that encouraging.

The good news?  There's a Sonic right down the street, and a Hardees next to us. All I need is a Chick Fil A and I'm all set.

Looking forward to the Iowa Code Camp tomorrow... but first, a trip to Sonic tonight.

Today, in a few hours, a bunch of Magenic folks are piling into a couple of cars and driving down to Iowa City for the first Iowa Code Camp. Jason Bock is speaking on "Writing Better Code" and I am covering "What's this XNA Thing I Keep Hearing About?"

Tonight is also the opening night for Iron Man, which I hope to catch after the Code Camp tomorrow, with a bunch of my fellow geeks.

Coming Friday, June 20th in Downers Grove, IL

The Magenic Technology Summit is a full day of Magenic-provided training. We have lined up an impressive array of speakers and topics in two tracks, .NET development and Microsoft servers. And we have lined up two keynotes.

Our first keynote speaker is Jay Schmelzer, who is the Group Program Manager for RAD tools. This basically means he runs the teams for all the Visual Studio designers and related RAD tools. He’s an excellent speaker and should provide some great insight into the present and future of RAD development tools from Microsoft.

Our second keynote speaker is Rockford Lhotka, Magenic’s Technology Evangelist and the creator of the very popular CSLA .NET development framework.

But more importantly, we have two tracks of in-depth technical content straight from the experts at Magenic. Topics covering the present and future of .NET development and key Microsoft server products.

 

Development Track Sessions

Writing Better Code
It’s one thing to write code that will do the job in the short-term; it’s another challenge to write code that can stand the test of time. In this session, Jason Bock will show you how you can use tools and features in VS 2008 (e.g. unit testing, CodeAnalysis, Code Coverage, etc.) to assist you in making your code maintainable over time, easy to understand, and resilient to defects.

Test Driven Development with ASP.NET MVC Framework
Building better AJAX web sites! In this session, Nermin Dibek will disprove two myths: 1) It is nearly impossible to build a Test Driven Web in ASP.NET, and 2) Building custom Ajax implementations is too hard in ASP.NET.

Super-Optimized Microsoft LINQ: Indexed Objects
In this session, Aaron Erickson will go into how developers can use indexing techniques to allow for “constant-time” queries using LINQ to Objects. The session will cover both case studies of where this technique is used in technologies such as the i4o open source project and CSLA, as well as examples of how developers can implement the technique in their own custom collections.

User Experience and Better Designer Developer Collaboration
Anthony Handley will discuss the importance of good user experience design and how tool and technologies like WPF, Silverlight and Expression Blend are helping designers collaborate better with developers.

 

Server Track Sessions

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Branding
The first thing everyone wants to do to their SharePoint installation is make it not look like SharePoint. There are many levels to SharePoint branding and the deeper you go, the more work it is. In this session Michael Cummings will cover the various ways of branding SharePoint from the “I don’t know HTML” level to the “I eat C# code for breakfast” level and also show you some areas to avoid when branding and better methods of accomplishing your goal.

Dynamic Management Views Will Save Your Life
Do you ever wish you could get an X-Ray view of your sluggish SQL Server? Take the guesswork out of troubleshooting database issues by utilizing the data collected in Dynamic Management Views. In this session, Whitney Weaver will show you the tools implemented in SQL Server 2005 that give you extraordinary view into the health and well being of your database instance. Code samples will be presented around query performance, I/O utilization, index usage, and more.

Really…what is Team Foundation Server?
Team Foundation Server (TFS) has been out on the market for a couple years and there is still more confusion about it, what it does and who can benefit from it. In this session Scott Wylie will show how each member of your team, project and company can use and benefit from TFS and how it can make life much simpler when it comes to all application lifecycle tasks.

RFID: The future is now
In the movie Minority Report, we were shown a glimpse of what the future might bring. Well that future is now. With the release of BizTalk 2006 R2, we were given a powerful new tool and technology. In this session, Shawn Doty will give an overview of what RFID is, how to implement it, and how it is used.

 

An event like this doesn’t come along every day, and shouldn’t be missed!

 

 

Check out this video on Channel 9 that talks about the soon-to-be-released CTP for XNA games on the Zune.

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=400948

I remember, when I was a child, my mom got an invitation to her 20 Year High School Reunion. I also remember thinking, "wow she must be really old if it's been 20 years since she graduated high school."

Funny thing, I don't remember if she actually went or not. We were living in Buchanan, VA, and her reunion was in Pineville, LA. She went to visit her family nearly every summer though, so she probably did go. I don't remember her talking about it all that much after the invitation, so who knows. (I guess I could ask her.)

Fast-Forward 31 years later and now I'm the one feeling old. I got an email from Classmates, informing me about my upcoming 20 year reunion. I'm in a similar situation as my mom... my reunion is in Buchanan, VA and I'm living in Minneapolis, MN.

I honestly don't know if I want to go or not.  I couldn't wait to get out of that town as a kid, and while I've visited Buchanan over the years (it's been a WHILE) it's mostly been a fairly depressing experience. I can count on one hand the number of people I care about that still live there.  On the other hand, I don't have enough fingers to count all the people I hope I never see again.

(To quote Marilyn Manson, "I wasn't born with enough middle fingers" and when I think of my high school years, it's true.)

High school really, really sucked. Some folks will tell you it did for everyone, but I honestly don't think so. I think there were a few folks who genuinely enjoyed it, mostly because they were making other's lives a living hell.

I'm pretty much at the top of my game right now, things are going well, and life is good. In high school, not so much. I was in trouble a lot. I skipped school constantly, was failing most* of my classes and didn't have very many friends. Had the concept of "Columbine" existed back then, I would have been a prime suspect.

(*by most, I mean all but 1. I had A's in my computer class, thank you.)

I didn't have a girlfriend for most of high school (unlike the redneck jock assholes who picked their future wives from the rising 8th graders), I wasn't a pothead, or a redneck, or a jock. I was smart, but a classic underachiever, so I didn't really fit in with the brainy kids either. I kind of floated from group to group to group... typically on the fringe, but with 1-2 friends in each social circle.  I had my own little band of misfits. A skater punk, an artist/filmmaker, a brainiac, a musician, a pothead, a cheerleader and me. I have no idea where any of those folks are now, except one.

I quit school in 1988. The same year I should have graduated. That sounds dumb, but I was in no danger of graduating after a couple years of nearly straight Fs. Hell, I wasn't even a senior.

After leaving High School, I went to Community College for a bit. I spent most of my time working my job in the Computer Lab at school, and very rarely attending classes. I hadn't really changed much at that point, just gotten a little older.

Eventually, I gave up on that and joined the Navy. (There were a couple years of narrowly avoiding getting into a lot of trouble, prior to that point, but once I was in... I straightened up pretty quick.)

The rest is all on my resume.

I'm not the same guy I was back then. I have a lot of friends (some local, some remote), I've served my country, captured pirates (in the Carribbean, no less), almost killed Eric Clapton, seen the world outside of Buttcrack, VA (that's what we always called it) and I've realized by now that most of the people I hated in High School probably didn't hate me back. (I'm sure there were a few though...)

So why is it that I'm having such a hard time making up my mind about going back? The people who cared about me will be happy I've done well, and the people who thought I was a goner don't really matter (but they'll obviously be proven wrong.) 

I may be a bit heavier, and the hair is certainly a bit thinner, and my arms are a lot more colorful, but it's a safe bet that nobody else looks quite the same either. So I don't think it's that.

Let's take a poll... who thinks I should go? who thinks I should pass? (and tell me why, in either case.)

Well, I managed to survive the winter with all my fingers and toes* intact.  As I look back over the last 9 months I've been in Minnesota, I realize there are a few things I miss:

• Chick-Fil-A
• Sonic
• Hardees
• Reality Check Games (sigh, due to gross mismanagement by the new owner, this one no longers exists)
• Dragon*Con (although we have a fair number of Cons up here.)
• My two teenage daughters (they'll be here for the summer... Yay!)
• 4 Seasons (not the hotel, or the restaurant, but 4 ACTUAL seasons.)
• mountains (up close and personal)
• my friends (Yes, I've made friends here, but some of my very best friends are elsewhere.) 
• my family (My Dad refuses to come here... too damn cold, he says. That really sucks.)
• small town feel (It's nice up here, but it feels like one giant city... that never ends.)

Now that Spring is (supposedly) here, and things start warming up... maybe I'll get a different perspective. Damn that was one long rough winter.  I got sick A LOT and it snowed A LOT.

They say it gets "hot" here, but I don't think they have the same opinion of "hot" that I do. We'll see.

*Believe it or not, this was the first winter in 5 years I didn't break a toe... they get brittle in the cold, and they snap easy.

 

Today Microsoft unveils RoboChamps (www.robochamps.com), a simulated robotics league that is open to academics, hobbyists and developers from around the world, that demonstrates the power of the Microsoft platform to enable a broad range of developers to explore new ways to use .NET for robotics programming.

RoboChamps is built on top of the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio(MSRDS) 2008 CTP, and uses that product’s robust, physics enabled simulation environment to remove the barriers of entry that exist for many today. This simulated league provides individuals with immersive 3-d environments, simulated versions of robots, and compelling scenario-specific challenges where they can win real robots.  The audience for this is breadth, including professional, hobbyist, and academic developers.

The focus of the contest is robotics and Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 (and its underlying technologies of CCR/DSS), but I also want to point out that the infrastructure uses a fair amount of Microsoft technologies – Silverlight 2.0, ASP.NET 3.5, WCF (REST and MTOM services), Linq, LiveID, Silverlight Streaming, .NET Framework 3.5, VS 2008, Expression Blend, IIS and Expression Encoder. The site also generates its own API keys so developers can compete and have their code tie into the site’s services, provides community with ‘robocards- rich SL cards that are exposed to be readily consumable on blogs, websites or third-party networks like Facebook. Advertising also plays a big role with sponsorship, ‘in world’ ads with Massive, and I’m targeting Silverlight Streaming for the video podcast.

This is all Microsoft’s own IP. Also, the robotics and simulation code are all on .NET, and are all about services and orchestration under the covers.

More information:

Website – www.RoboChamps.com

Channel 9 video – http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=399952

.NET Rocks Podcast – http://perseus.franklins.net/dotnetrocks_0336_marc_mercuri.wma

On10.net video – http://www.on10.net/blogs/tina/Robo-Champs-My-robot-is-bigger-then-your-robot/

ARC325 - A data-driven (REST) approach to distributed, concurrent software in the enterprise

Abstract:

The talk will provide an introduction to Microsoft Robotics Studio and how customers are using it in non-robotics applications ranging from business processes, major web sites, retail automation, command and control systems, scientific computing, sensor-nets and much more.  Of course you can use Microsoft Robotics Studio for cool stuff like driving autonomous cars, flying unmanned vehicles, and sailing autonomous underwater vehicles. But at the core of Microsoft Robotics Studio lies a powerful concurrent and distributed engine consisting of the two components CCR and DSS that enable users to write generic applications that coordinate messages between loosely coupled components within and across nodes. For online information about Microsoft Robotics Studio, please see the Microsoft Robotics Studio Developer Center.

 

It's all about equal time, right? In my last post, I asked about technical books.

So on the other side of the coin, what non-technical book(s) are you reading?

For example, I'm reading:

1. Storm of the Dead (Book II of The Lady Penitent) by Lisa Smedman  (btw, D'Arcy... has book 3 come out yet?)
2. The Skinsaw Murders (Pathfinder: Rise of the Runelords, Book 2) by Richard Pett


How about you?

What tech books are you currently reading?

The rules:
1) Don't count books you're being compensated to read. (paid reviews)
2) Don't count books that haven't come out yet (i.e. tech editing, or writing yourself)
3) List the author (optional) so others can find it.

For example, I'm reading:

1. Doing Objects in VB2005 by Deborah Kurata
2. Exploiting Online Games by Greg Hoglund & Gary McGraw
3. Programming SuDoKu by Wei-Meng Lee

Magenic and New Horizons of Minnesota is proud to present the first Twin Cities SharePoint Camp, a one day FREE event for both SharePoint Administrators and Developers.  The event is scheduled for Saturday, June 14 from 8:30 – 5:00 at New Horizons of Minnesota in Edina.  We see this being a bi-annual event, falling in May and November each year.

We need your help to make this event a success.  We are currently looking for speakers… topics ideas include:

· A success story presentation on the business challenge an organization was facing and the process they went through to make the implementation successful, including other tools they looked at before deciding on SharePoint

· Admins showing off a new plug-in, tool or enhancement they have used, demos of the tool and their success story using it

· Developers showing off a new feature in SharePoint that they customized, why they customized it and demos
· Admins or developers demoing a new feature in SharePoint
· SharePoint Plug-ins
· SharePoint new features
· SharePoint add-ons

Additional topics are encouraged!

Please submit session ideas to me.   All session submissions will be accepted on a first come first served basis.  We anticipate being able to fill 16 speaking slots.  We can open more slots if needed as well.

OMG D'Arcy...  Meatloaf's your dad?  That's awesome!

How's that Go-Phone working out for you?