Paul J. Swider is a freelance consultant and the Enterprise SharePoint Strategist for OnClick Solutions. In addition he is president of the Charleston SharePoint Users Group and an accomplished entrepreneur.
Straight from a barrier Island near Charleston, SC Paul chases the tides and winds as an avid boater and sailor. In the winter months you might also find him snowboarding down the slopes of Vermont.
Paul is grateful he is able escape the summer heat in Charleston and consults with some of the most successful companies in the country. 17 years of software consulting experience combined with many Microsoft certifications and speaking credentials has made Paul an authority in the SharePoint Community.
Paul has trained and consulted thousands of SharePoint administrators, developers and architects. His vast knowledge is not overshadowed by his witty entertainment when he speaks at numerous conferences and seminars nationwide.
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Paul implements enterprise SharePoint Solutions for clients around the country. In addition, he writes and teaches about enterprise collaboration concepts with demonstrated knowledge you can only get in "the trenches". His specialties include enterprise SharePoint deployment, information architecture, SharePoint development best practices and social media integration.
This has been an exciting week! NETCOM in Manhattan has integrated beta SharePoint 2010 courseware from ACS into their public enrollment SharePoint development class. The content and labs are based on the publicly available beta software. Students have been impressed with the new features we have reviewed and we have many more to cover throughout the week!
Interested in SharePoint 2010 classes? I will be teaching additional classes scheduled for exciting NYC and sunny Miami in January as well as throughout 2010. The dates should be posted soon!
Microsoft Certified Learning Partners wishing to host a SharePoint 2010 Developer, IT Pro/Admin or End User beta class please contact me
Today, Microsoft published two new courses for developers who are working with SharePoint and Office 2010.
The Office 2010 course is designed to help developers learn how to build business applications. The SharePoint 2010 outline offers a roadmap and includes slide decks covering the newest features and services for developers. There is also some great content on the new tools in Visual Studio 2010.
Are you anxiously awaiting the public beta of SharePoint 2010? The official word is the SharePoint 2010 beta will be available in November. If you're interested in getting a copy of the beta you should pre-register here. In addition you may want to review the preliminary system requirementsto prepare for the beta release. Developers can get started early by previewing the SharePoint 2010 SDK and downloading Visual Studio 2010.
RIGHT NOW is an electrifying time to be a SharePoint professional. With the SharePoint 2010 beta so close to being released and the 2009 SharePoint conference nearing you can almost feel the energy as many professionals are positioning themselves and their companies for this significant release.
SharePoint has become the fastest selling Microsoft server product in the history of the company, Microsoft has sold over a million licenses to date. The software can be described as a contemporary computing platform which introduces new entities. Unlike the traditional ERP solution entities can include content, people, communities, wiki, blogs and business data.
The state of our global economy and the powerful software being deployed worldwide by SharePoint professionals make this an amazing time to be in the technology industry. Each day there are professionals, business owners and politicians working together on a global scale to turn around the decline in economies and business. I submit it is our responsibility as SharePoint professionals to seize this moment and work diligently with these organizations to streamline process and facilitate innovation.
One could propose that every SharePoint deployment, workflow, webpart and document library could be considered a small step in helping organizations worldwide meet their potential. Often times this effort might go unnoticed but the sum of all the hard work from the SharePoint community combined with the powerful software provided by the product teams at Microsoft will be immeasurable.
Over the next months it will take a massive effort to understand the new capabilities of SharePoint 2010 and how those capabilities can be mapped to organizational processes. A few consultants and bloggers have suggested that in 2010, 65% of existing SharePoint clients may migrate to the new version of SharePoint. While I consider this number is exaggerated I do believe there is a momentous task in front of us. To put this migration in prospective if 35% of users migrate in 2010 it could mean a massive worldwide migration of over 35 million users.
I am committed to eliminating my own mediocrity and striving to work relentlessly for clients while assisting the SharePoint community to be its best. I do believe this could be an exciting time filled with many opportunities for information technology consultants to help organizations around the world prosper in this historic time in which we live in.
The "Humanizing" of SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2010 provides a great infrastructure for building an application directory and profile store using SharePoint Services. In addition the profile database is the information store for people, community and data used for social application. In this advanced session for developers and architects we cover the concepts of working with profiles, importing from Active directory and supplementing the data via a custom service or third party import. The entire session will be demo based usage scenarios of the profile database, audiences, My Sites and storing data for communities.
10 Rules for a ‘Social’ revolution using SharePoint 2010 How companies are going to make the shift from 1-to-1 relationships with their partners and clients to a one-to-many relationship can be a daunting challenge. Microsoft's social computing tools are delivered as part of the collaboration infrastructure and integrated by design with Microsoft SharePoint 2010. In this session we will focus on understanding the widely accepted 10 rules for adopting Social technologies inside the corporate firewall using SharePoint 2010.
SharePoint 2010 Has New Pillars Many of the terms formerly describing SharePoint have been changed. In this session get an overview of the new pillars and how they can be positioned while discussing the platform with your peers, employer or clients. We will explore the new six pillars - site, communities, content, search, insights and composites
15 Things Developers Must Know When Migrating to SharePoint 2010 Note Date Added
15 Things Developers Must Know When Migrating to SharePoint 2010 In this half day session we will review the top 15 things every developer should know when migrating to SharePoint 2010. Take a deep dive into the changes made to the object model, SharePoint Services, Business Connectivity Services and user interface enhancements.
