Jay

s notes on the March 10 session80 peopleconversation7 minute presentationsThis is a team effort: volunteers are running Eluminate, getting speakers together,recording, etc.Awesome experience present in today

s conference. Tony is convener, but defers toknowledge of the group.

Conference practices: Walk-through features at the beginning. Timer used to limitparticipants to 7 minutes.

Michael Palko

, Solution Education Manager, Healthcare at Thomson Reuters.SharePoint supports Training Space.

Training Space

a place for collaboration andlearning. Started to house podcasts; caught on. Michael sees his role as trafﬁc cop.Uses Sharepoint for collaboration among sales force. Class on wins and losses.Candid, lively sessions. Sharepoint used to continue the discussions.70 members. 50% visited at least once last month. RSS, IM chats, rotating videos,screenshot library. All searchable. Parking lot for internal and external training sessions.Pod center: product releases for download or on-demand learning.

Allison Andersen

, Intel. Using SharePoint for Instructor Support. Was used forrepositories.Intel runs on volunteer instructors, virtually and in classroom. Didn

t have a place forinstructors to connect with one another.Survey found career development was a big desire among employees across the globe.Wanted to pair up instructors.Blogging used for dialog, SharePoint mainly a repository.

Tom Smith

, Abu Dhabi Women

s College. 2300 students. Late 2006, SharePointarrived on his desk. Tom is administrator and trainer of teachers. 250 staff. 500SharePoint sites. Huge range of experience and talent.Digital natives take to SharePoint like ducks to water. (“Oh, it

s just like Facebook.”)Digital immigrants face a steep climb. Lack of comfort sharing things with others.

Bottom-up approach works better than top-down for implementation. Discussingwhether SharePoint training should be mandatory.

Michael Glazer

, Burson Marsteller. Global PR company. Visionary Client Leadership, acompetency model as well as a training program.People asks to share their learning experiences on the virtual campus. Also, trainingdirectory (on a wiki).Beautiful pages, as one would from a PR ﬁrm.

Anne Adrian

, Auburn Extension. County ofﬁces, wide geographic spread. Scantresources. Wanted educators to help one another. Many >45 years old. Didn

t see roleas engagement on the web.https://sites.aces.edu/Pages/Default.aspxDive right in. Public-facing site.Wanted people to blog. Each of 14 teams blogs.A recurring theme: things taking off on their own. Beginnings of a pattern language forSharePoint usage: