Rochester SharePoint User Group Meeting

Date
Thu, 8 Mar 2012, 22:00 (Add to calendar) GMT
Venue
20 Lomb Memorial Drive , Rochester, US
Cost
Free

Chris Bortlik, Drive Adoption and Get Users Excited About SharePoint

Session Abstract

You can lead a horse to water, but how are you going to make it thirsty? The key to most thriving SharePoint deployments is successful end user adoption. How will you excite your organization about SharePoint 2010? In this session, we’ll discuss real world best practices and lessons learned around rolling out SharePoint and continuing to iterate and add value to users. We will also help you avoid technical and organizational blockers to SharePoint adoption.

Biography

Chris Bortlik works at Microsoft as a SharePoint technology specialist. He works with Enterprise customers and partners in the Northeast in a pre-sales technical role.

Chris speaks frequently at Microsoft events (including the SharePoint Conference) and SharePoint Saturday and user group meetings. Chris is a contributing author of the "Essential SharePoint 2010" book. He also publishes a blog on TechNet.

Prior to joining Microsoft in 2008, Chris was a customer for 14 years working in technical IT architect, development and management roles – primarily leading .NET and SharePoint related projects.

Chris holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Wentworth Institute of Technology and an MBA with MIS concentration from the Bentley University McCallum Graduate School of Business.

Outside of blogging, Chris is also active on social networking sites including LinkedIn and Twitter.

Meeting Location

New Horizons Computer Learning Centers - Rochester

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