On the Road in April

I thought I’d do a quick post to let people know my travel plans for the month of April. I am currently on the road in Southern California, co-hosting this weekend’s (4/2) SharePoint Saturday Los Angeles event (#SPSLA) with SharePoint compatriot Nedra Allmond, and a great team of experts, including Axceler administration expert Jamie Aliperti, who will also be presenting tomorrow.

My session at SPSLA will be Looking Under the Hood: How Your Metadata Strategy Impacts Everything You Do, which is a 100-level overview of metadata and taxonomy for those new to SharePoint. I will also be leading a panel with Wahid Saleemi on How to Build a SharePoint Community with a few of the other speakers. Jamie is making his debut SPS appearance, presenting on Reporting for SharePoint Administrators. Should be a great event, and we’ll be kicking things off tonight with the speaker dinner.

DevConnections 026Next up on the tour this month is a trip out to Axceler headquarters (and a brand new, expanded office on the top floor) where I will spend a couple days with the Woburn, MA team, trying to repair the emotional damage from a big April Fool’s joke I just did. At the end of the week, I’ll participate in SharePoint Saturday Boston (4/9), once again presenting How Your Metadata Strategy Impacts Everything You Do, and then (unfortunately) skipping the post-event SharePint to catch a flight to London.

I’ll arrive in the UK early on the 10th, participating in the European Best Practices Conference as an exhibitor, doing a lot of networking, and meeting with partners and customers. I also plan to spend a full day in the Axceler London office before heading back to the colonies.

After a brief day and half home in Seattle, I am on the DevConnections 036road again, heading south to Las Vegas for The Experts Conference, where I’ll be presenting (once again) How Your Metadata Strategy Impacts Everything You Do (are you seeing a theme here?) and SharePoint’s Social Media Scorecard. Looking forward to working with Joel Oleson on his last event before leaving Quest Software, heading over to run a SharePoint solution architecture team for the LDS Church in Salt Lake City.

x2_540a8f2After Las Vegas, I am home for a couple days before heading back east again to Boston, this time for the DevConnections Coast-to-Coast event (4/25-27), where I’ll be presenting SharePoint’s Social Computing Scorecard, Enabling Social Media through Metadata, and a new presentation entitled SharePoint Migration: A Phased, Iterative, and Error-Prone Process. From Boston, I make my way to St. Louis (my first time there) for yet another SPS event, SharePoint Saturday St. Louis on 4/30. Not sure yet what I might be speaking on, but I’ll be there nonetheless.

May is not as hectic, with only 2 trips away from home planned (to date), and some much-needed quality (and quantity) time with the family. Looking forward to that.

Christian Buckley

Christian is a Microsoft Regional Director and M365 Apps & Services MVP, and an award-winning product marketer and technology evangelist, based in Silicon Slopes (Lehi), Utah. He sits on the board of TekkiGurus, is an advisor for both revealit.TV and WellnessWits, and provides channel and marketing services for Microsoft partners. He hosts the quarterly #CollabTalk TweetJam, the weekly #CollabTalk Podcast, and the Microsoft 365 Ask-Me-Anything (#M365AMA) series.