Thanks to every who attended the SharePoint User Group in Nottingham on Thursday. It was the first time I had done this talk so I hope you found it useful. Here are few of the points that I talked about Branding Building a custom CSS or master page is a key part of your portal. … Continue reading My Top 5 User Adoption Tips, SUGUK, 10th September
Thanks for all those who attended my session on SharePoint Governance for Education. Remember there is no right and wrong – it all depends on your school. SharePoint Governance for Education View more presentations from pearce.alex. Here are of the links I used throughout the day Learning Gateway User Group http://www.learninggateway.net SharePoint User Group UK … Continue reading My Slides from Learning Gateway Conference
Thanks to everyone who attended the EduGeek Conference last week. Edugeek Conference 28th May 2009 View more presentations from pearce.alex. I had a great time standing up and presenting to you and hope to do it again soon. I’ve uploaded my slides here on SlideShare and feel free to email me with any questions. The … Continue reading Slides from Edugeek Conference 2009
Tomorrow I'm speaking at the Edugeek Conference in the UK. I've put together a new presentation called `SharePoint Governance for Education' and hope this can be a great start to anyone who is looking at implementing SharePoint at their school. Maybe by listening to my presentation you will find that you have missed something in … Continue reading EduGeek Conference – 28th May
Thanks to everyone who attended last night. It was my first involvement standing at the front of a SUGUK event and I really enjoyed it. Thanks to Steve for inviting me to join him at the front. Thanks also to Andrew Woodward for jumping in at the end to help answer some of the question. … Continue reading SharePoint User Group UK: B'ham – Future Topics
I don’t normally talk about my own school in my blog posts but there are a few things I do want to bring up. Thursday last week was a very big day for me as I had 5 visitors from Microsoft visiting the school. To me, having any Microsoft employee visiting the school is really … Continue reading Microsoft Execs Visit Great Barr School
So I’m here at BETT (British Education Teachers and Technology Show – Largest Education Technology show in the World) at Olympia, London and it’s another great event. This year its a lot busier than last year with lots being shown around the event and on the Microsoft Stand. This year I’m in a blue Microsoft … Continue reading BETT09 – Loads of SharePoint and Windows 7 demos
I’m off to Barcelona for this years TechEd IT Pro in Barcelona starting on the 3rd November. I’m not getting there until the Tuesday due to another trip but more details on that later. I’m really excited as this will be my first proper Microsoft conference that I have been to, my first conference aboard … Continue reading I'm attending TechEd – IT Pro EMEA
Well BETT 2008 has closed. Day 4 was very good but also very quiet. We still filled the stand when we were presenting the Learning Gateway which I am very happy about. This was my first experience working with Microsoft and I have to say I have had a great time. The people with in … Continue reading BETT 2008: Closing Thoughts + SharePoint Video
Well its coming to the end of day 3 of BETT and I've spent the whole day giving demonstrations not just on SharePoint but also the other elements of the Microsoft Learning Gateway. There are some people who want to know how exchange and office communications server 2007 can be intregrated and delieved throught sharepoint. … Continue reading BETT 2008: Day 3