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So you want to be a technical writer. . .
Writing is a little like presenting in that many people with much to share are great at communicating informal conversations and e-mails, but have a basic fear with either presenting, or with the prospect of "technical writing." With presenting, the way forward is easy - start with a small audience like a user group or a local Toastmasters chapter and build from there. With technical writing the approach is more like learning to code - the best path forward is to get a good desk reference and start reading other people's code to see how concepts are pieced together.
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SharePoint Conference Keynote with Bill Clinton
Writing to you today from the mid-front of the room at Microsoft's SharePoint Conference 2014, where Bill Clinton is about to deliver the keynote. As the clock ticks the embargoes are over and reports are starting to come in on the next wave of SharePoint and Office 365. As I add to this post I'll put the interesting technical bits and links at the top and leave the inspirational parts as the closer.
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Review: Microsoft Office 365 Administration Inside and Out
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Recent SharePoint 2010 Books [CanCon]
Here in Canada, and particularly in south Ontario we're lucky to have an exceptionally strong SharePoint community. With the publication this month of Ruven Gotz's Practical SharePoint 2010 Information Architecture I count at least 6 books that were either written by, or contain contributions by our local SharePoint MVPs. Bookmark this post or watch my tweets for updates as I post reviews and add other local titles.
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SharePoint Summit 2012 - Thank you!
Thanks to Danny, Reza, all the speakers and the rest of the team for hosting another great SharePoint conference in Toronto. Also a shout-out to the SharePoint Blues Band for putting on a great show Tuesday night, and for the privilege of joining them on-stage to play one of my originals. It was a lot of fun, and I hope we can do it again next year or sooner!
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Search: are you willing to manage it as an application?
The question was asked, "how hard is it to configure FAST and what does that effort give you?" The none-too-helpful answer is that with every search product you get what you give. FAST happens to have more substance so logically there will be more to configure than some alternatives, and you can get more out of it in the long run and continuously grow its ROI as you learn its ropes.
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Revisiting an 8 year old post on cookies and opt-in
Common Sense and Opt-In: http://weblogs.asp.net/erobillard/archive/2003/05/08/6680.aspx
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Thoughts on SharePoint Application Pools, Recycling and "JIT Lag"
What are Application Pools?
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Toronto SharePoint Camp 2011 - Thank-you!
The 5th Annual Toronto SharePoint Camp was last Saturday and it was another terrific success. Thanks to the TSPUG executive committee and the small army of volunteers who made it happen, and to the smiling faces of this year's 200+ attendees for making it all worthwhile.
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Windows Phone 7 and Canada
I love my Samsung Focus and I don't know why it isn't the most popular phone in Canada.