The History of the SharePoint Community is explored by Joel Oleson in the Keynote of the Australia SharePoint Conference in Sydney and New Zealand Conference in Wellington.

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3. Joel Oleson SharePoint Technical Evangelist Quest Software @joeloleson Evolution of SharePoint and the Community

4. Visits: Aug 2006 Sydney SPUG May 2007 Sydney APACSPC SPUG Mar 2008 OBS: Sydney Melbourne SharePint Sep 2008 TechEd AUS/NZ Sydney July 2009 Brisbane SPUG Sydney Melbourne Perth SPUG

5. SharePoint Team Services Team Sites Lists Templates Site Search

6. SharePoint Portal Server 2001 Workspaces Portal Web parts Search/Indexing Document Management

7. How do we get information? Remember the days of Newsgroups? Remember when the source for documentation was MSDN and TechNet? What would happen if you couldn’t use the Internet to support SharePoint?

8. What in the SharePoint Product Makes the Community so Different? blame angus

9. SharePoint Team blog BilSimser Sahil Malik Andrew Connell Mike Gannotti Spence Harbar Heather Solomon EndUserSharePoint Debbie Ireland Mark Orange Nick Hadlee SharePoint Magazine Paul Culmsee Chandima SharePoint Land William Cornwill Kathy Hughes John Ackery Adam Cogan Elaine van Bergen SharePoint Blogs or people?

10. Award Paintball MVP Summit Global Connections The Global MVP Program

11. SharePoint User Groups

13. Have a SharePint! “Wherever there is a gathering of SharePoint people you will likely find a SharePint. From foreign cities at global events, in bars around the world, people are getting together to SharePint’s– Andrew Woodward

14. What would sharepoint do without twitter? #AUSPC

16. Twitter Impact on SharePoint Twitter's popularity at SPC in 2009 resulted in over 20,000 tweets over 4 days. @EUSP people cleverly placed plasma screens in the conference, exclusively streaming Twitter. #AUSPC

17. SharePoint Conference TechEd SharePoint Track SharePoint Connections SharePoint Best Practices SharePoint Community Conference SPTechCon Share2010 TechFest TechReady Code Camp Dev Days PDC SharePoint Track The Experts Conference SharePoint Office Dev Con SharePoint Airlift SharePoint Forum SharePoint Roadshow SharePoint Conferences

18. In April 2008 – James Karl Buck, and his translator were detained covering anti-government protest in Egypt. Buck managed tweet simply “arrested.”— less than 24 hours later — he was able to tweet: “free.”

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