KMA Insights January 2010

What's New

Webinar Series

KMA launched our webinar series in July to bring current content to you. Tune in to a topic that excites you and learn more. If you have missed any of our webinars, we have archived these presentations to view at your convenience.

Our next webinar is "SharePoint: 'On Premise' or 'In the Cloud'?" As SharePoint Online matures, KMA is being asked more and more frequently how this Microsoft offering can help organizations use SharePoint Online to save money, scale quickly, maintain security and disaster recovery, and provide high service levels. In this webinar featuring speakers from KMA and Microsoft, we will analyze the relative benefits of SharePoint 'On-Premise' or 'In the Cloud.'

Click to register for upcoming 2010 Webinars!

Feb 24^th	SharePoint "On Premise or In the Cloud?"
Mar 24^th	SharePoint 2010 & Project Management: Special Guest Mark Hall, William George Associates

Click to see KMA's archived presentations:

Jan '10	SharePoint 2010 Preview – The Collaboration Deep Dive
Dec '09	The SharePoint 2010 Preview – Live Seminar
Nov '09	Free Competitive Intelligence Portal from KMA & Fuld
Sept '09	SharePoint the Sophomore Year
Aug '09	Enterprise Social Computing with SharePoint
July '09	MA Privacy Law 201 CMR 17

KMA Developers' Corner

Liz Hatch and Chris McNulty recently presented to the .NET User Group a session on Virtualization. Learn the best practices, as well as pros and cons, for using Virtualization in a Development Environment. Read more.

We've Been Asked

How can I preview SharePoint 2010? Find out...
How do I fix a broken query server in MOSS 2007? Find out...
What is the recommended infrastructure for SP 2010? Find out...
Office 2010 Upgrade readiness? Find out...

Worth Reading

In each newsletter, we provide links to books and articles we have written or read that we feel offer valuable and useful information.

Free: The Future of Radical Price by Chris Anderson
Microsoft Office Web Apps go to Testers: Ten Things to Know by Mary Jo Foley
Jacquard’s Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age by James Essinger.

KMA Announcements

KMA welcomes David Ferrante, our newest associate. David was an IT Project Manager for Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management where he led several successful rollouts of business intelligence and collaboration systems. He will be an integral part of the SharePoint team and KMA is excited to have him on board.

KMA has launched our new website! Check out our newly redesigned SharePoint-based site filled with new content and features. Click here to see www.kma-llc.net

KMA in the News

David Goldstein and Mike Gilronan are quoted in the Redmond Channel Partner Online article about Social Networking amongst Microsoft Partners. Read more here!

Adrian duCille manned the booth of our SharePoint ISV partner Bamboo at the SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas and was featured in "A Glimpse into the Goings on in the Bamboo Booth at the SPC 2009." Read the full article here.

Where We've Been:

Many of you have asked our Associates and Partners to share their experiences from the events they regularly participate in or attend. Read on to see what they have learned.

SharePoint Conference 2009
KMA sent team members to Las Vegas to attend Microsoft’s SharePoint Conference 2009. We learned a lot about SharePoint 2010 and presented the findings at a morning seminar.

Gilbane Boston Conference
KMA’s Mike Gilronan summarizes a panel discussion on the future of Enterprise Content Management.

Where We're Heading:

Microsoft SharePoint Conference
Feb 1: KMA is presenting on forms based process automation at this Microsoft New England recap of the best of the Las Vegas SharePoint conference. If you couldn’t make it to Vegas, contact us to attend this local Microsoft event.

KMA Webinar Series Feb 24:
SharePoint: On Premise or in the Cloud? As SharePoint Online matures, KMA is being asked more and more frequently how this Microsoft offering can help organizations use SharePoint Onlineto save money, scale quickly, maintain security and disaster recovery, and provide high service levels. In this webinar featuring speakers from KMA and Microsoft, we will analyze the relative benefit of SharePoint 'On-Premise' or 'In the Cloud'.

SharePoint Saturday Feb 27:
We are so excited to participate in SharePoint Saturday on so many levels. 1) KMA’s Chris McNulty will be presenting "Managed Metadata and Taxonomies in SharePoint 2010" 2) KMA will be attending SharePoint Saturday Boston to learn from our colleagues 3) KMA is sponsoring SharePoint Saturday Boston. If you would like to join us in attending this valuable program, please contact us!

What We're Saying:

The new KMA website provides one portal into what’s new with all of your favorite KMA bloggers as well as a new KMA Corporate Blog...all on one page. Stay informed about topics like business intelligence, knowledge management, business process automation and social computing to help you gain insight and ultimately become more productive.

David's Blog Insights from KMA's Managing Partner

Mike's Blog Food for the Knowledge Worker

Chris' Blog Technical and practical experience for the Microsoft Knowledge Worker

KMA Corporate Blog New! Insight from many different voices from KMA

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