I’ve always prided myself on being a ‘maker’, whether that’s in my IT world or my Woodturning hobbyists world. And being a maker can mean a number of things. In woodturning, it generally means slapping a piece of wood on the lathe and turning a rough piece of wood into something beautiful. I’ve recently been …
Category: Speaking
Sep 15
SPS Cambridge, big changes at work and the months to come
SPS Cambridge Saturday 9th September 2017 saw what I think was the fourth combined SharePoint and SQL Saturday run by Mark Broadbent (@retracement) with myself initially filling the position of Track Chair for SharePoint. In the end, due to drop outs, Mark asked me to take a bigger part of the organisation and I ended …
Jun 02
European Collaboration Summit 2017 – Zagreb
European Collaboration Summit – Zagreb – May 29th- 31st 2017. I’ve just returned home from what is possibly one of the greatest community conferences in the world in the wonderful city of Zagreb. Previously known as SPC Adriatics, the European Collaboration Summit brought together some of the best speakers from all over Europe and the …
Jul 12
SharePoint Saturday London – Imperial College
I had the distinct pleasure of speaking at a much closer SharePoint Saturday to home than all of the others I’ve attended in the past. This was the turn of SharePoint Saturday London at the Imperial College in Kensington and although I’m good friends with both Seb and Peter who ran the event, that doesn’t …
Apr 24
SharePoint Evolution Conference 2015 round up
This post comes at the end of a very busy week! Starting with SharePoint Saturday Belgium last weekend (read more about that here) and continuing with the SharePoint Evolutions Conference in London from Monday. For those who don’t know what the SharePoint Evolution Conference is, it was the largest SharePoint conference in the world this …
Apr 19
SharePoint Saturday Belgium wrap-up
I’ve just woken up at home after another excellent SharePoint Saturday Belgium! The BIWUG guys always organise a great event and this one was no exception so thank you very much to them and good luck to the new Board members stepping up this year. Running a user group is hard work, but very rewarding …
Mar 13
All change when creating an Office 365 Subscription
It’s been a while since I set-up an Office 365 subscription, well in actual fact it hasn’t been that long, but the boys and girls in the O365 product team have been busy for sure. I’m in the process of prepping my sessions to deliver at the 2015 SharePoint Evolutions conference in April. (Wait, what …
Jan 18
A slow blogging end/start to the year
In this post: And ending and a beginning A new workshop! Speaking at Evolutions 2015 and all that entails And ending and a beginning Well I didn’t finish 2014 and start 2015 quite as I intended with regards to my blog as the posts all dried up. Not due to lacking content by any means …
Nov 23
I’m speaking at SharePoint Saturday UK 2014
Due to being rather busy recently, I’ve been remiss in posting about SharePoint Saturday UK 2014, and the fact that I’ll be there presenting an End User session on building an FAQ in Office 365/SharePoint 2013. If you’re in SharePoint in the UK (and if you’re reading this blog, I can only assume that you …
Oct 29
A Tribute to Dave Coleman
This post is a tribute to Dave Coleman who sadly passed away this morning after a short battle with prostate cancer. My thoughts go out to Sue and his family. I had known of Dave Coleman for some time having conversed over Twitter a few times and bumped into each other at the odd SharePoint …