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Being in tune with the latest technology and being hands-on with everything I can be only benefits our small, start-up environment group that I work in. I am constantly looking for ways to enhance our knowsge by listening and learning to others. TEC2011 will open up a brand-new segment of knowledge for us that I think could really complement what we are up to now.

Thanks Dux for the valuable offer and great to have met you in Singapore during the last South East Asia Sharepoint Conference 2010. Currently we are writing the business case for the upgrade and migration to Sharepoint 2010 and so far we have received 70% of good feedbacks to support our drive to the new platform. If my management supports it, I will have to be equipped with the knowledge of migration and architecting Sharepoint 2010. It will be good if I can have the opportunity to travel to attend this seminar so as to learn from the experts like you Dux. This will be my very first oversea conference on Sharepoint away from Singapore. Looking forward to this learning opportunity. Cheers.

What an awesome opportunity this would be. I'm a PM and have just begun the process of setting up our PMIS system using SharePoint technology and would absolutely love the chance to attend a conference of this magnitude. I have just hit the tip of the iceberg with the SharePoint features in my own investigation. I'm just now realizing what they can do throughout my company starting with our PM team. The chance to grow and network with experts would be a great experience and building block to take my knowledge of this awesome tool to the next level. (& much appreciated!) If all else fails Dux, I bought your book! Got to be worth a little extra! Either way, Thanks for the opportunity & the knowledge you provide in this field.

Because I work for a non-profit! And we plan to migrate from MOSS to SP2010 later this year. Thank you, Dux!

As an Application Development manager, I have been asked to do more with fewer resources. I am looking to utilize SharePoint as a resource to reduce our development time while continuing to deliver value to our end-users. The value of the conference comes in learning how to better manage our SharePoint environment - and where it best fits as a solution. Like many companies, we don't have a dedicated SharePoint expert, so we have to take advantage of any educational opportunities that come up. This will also give me a chance to win back all the money my wife lost at Red Rock last year.

As a newly graduated programer I am very new to learning SharePoint. Unfortunately, it wasn't taught in our CIS courses but as I read through the many different blogs, books, listen to the many various audios and watch videos I am intrigued at the many things SharePoint can be used for and what it has to offer. Granted I am new to SharePoint and sometimes get a little frustrated because I know what I am trying to accomplish could be done quicker if I knew SharePoint better than I currently know it. I believe that attending a conference/seminar would help me better understand how to use SharePoint to my advantage to become a better developer and well rounded with the product. Also, I am being trained to be SharePoint Administrator, so attending the seminar would be very beneficial. Besides I finally get to meet Dux and Joel, I am RSS subscribed to the blogs in my outlook to keep current. :)

We've deployed MOSS 2007 for over a year now. During the install and delployement phases, our School System Supt. changed, along with our IT Leadership. All of the major points you mentioned, Governance, User Adoption, Executive buy-in, Change Control and Project Management are now being started. My group of 4, including myself were assigned these SharePoint duties Admins, Designers and Developers for the entire department. I'm dealing with ALL of the pain points anyone can imagine. School budgets are very, very tight, so I could realy use your FREE offer.

I have been thrown off the deep-end and forced to swim my way back when it comes to SharePoint. Over the course of the swim it became a pleasure to learn about this tool as an PM end-user/power-user. Learning from SharePoint evangelist such as yourself has been the real key to the success within the local initiatives. To further refined my knowledge (extend the swim) attending a seminar such as TEC will definitely expand my skills with our upcoming major milestones for SharePoint as a national knowledge management tool.

I attended a SPDesigner training session with you about two years ago and since then, I have applied my knowledge to single-handedly deploy both WSS and MOSS to our 500 person engineering organization with amazing success. I have done custom development and implemented several of your project management practices to improve the acceptance and utility of our SP installation. Our company is growing dramatically, and we are struggling with the challenges associated with dynamics growth, as well as finding a way to upgrade to 2010 without a training budget. This opportunity would be amazing for me. You da best Dux!

I work for Northrop Grumman. I am self taught in SharePoint 2003,MOSS 2007 and part of MOSS 2010 on my own time, with company budget cuts in my department year after year I must stay on top of my game and show IT that this is how it is done and why. I attend conferences and user group meetings as often as possible. SP conferences are more of a dream then a requirement, at least in management eyes. Either way I will see in your Vegas (I hope) or online in your videos, blogs, forums and various articles you write as well as your FB and tweets. A fan.

I would be honored to be selected for the opportunity to attend this conference! I have been the SharePoint cheerleader at our company and after working with it for 2 years, and I am getting some encouraging signs from our Government customer that they might be actually coming onto the SharePoint team as well. Getting the opportunity to attend this conference and bring back new ideas and different things to consider would be great for where we are with the opportunities that lay ahead of us. Most of the time, the possibilities and innovations as well as the process improvement ideas that could be done in SharePoint are so huge it can be overwhelming (and often is). So please select me for the free tickets! so that I can expound the greatness of SharePoint to our local community, thank you Dux, for this opportunity.

Thank you for the opportunity. I would like to explore using SharePoint 2010 for project management. I also find your book very useful on that subject. Thanks again.

1) Discuss migration strategies from 2007 to 2010 with special considerations around multi-farm convergence (especially as it relates to mysites). The farms include nearly 8000 webs spanning 4500 site collections and occupy nearly 800GB of SQL storage. 2) Emphasis on governance strategies - How to achieve a true balance that delivers empowerment and business value without "over governing" SharePoint. Ex: Govern where there is a true need and how to best identify that need. 3) How to guide users toward meta data, tag clouds and "virtual folders"... Enabling the search experience through user education and driving "cultural change" while moving away from this idea of re-creating file shares in SharePoint. (users still seem love nested folders, especially the "more experienced" demographic) 4) So many strategies and vendors around externalizing the BLOB... I believe for large implementations, it's when and not if you consider BLOB externalization. Strategies around the approach, maintaining supportability and protecting your data! 5) "Hidden/Rogue" business processes... I've noticed some creative uses for lists (multiple lists) in the wild in some environments. It seems that savvy business users might be using lists in a similar fashion as we have seen MS Access used in the past. "Business Processes" get implemented without IT awareness and supportability. How to detect, govern, educate, etc...? And of course, the best reason to pick me.... I've seen Joel speak a number of times and would love to see his last scheduled major conference presentation. Also, I am looking forward to a free lunch on Dux if selected. I would welcome the opportunity to personally thank you for presenting at WMSPUG recently. Jeremy

Congrats Mike, and enjoy the event!