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October 18 SharePoint Conference 2010 Las VegasHi everybody,
The SharePoint Conference 2010 starts shortly !
If you are there, you have a significant chance to find me Booth 1003
Regarding NDA related information it is black out until tomorrow October 19 2009 around 9 AM.
In the meanwhile, you can have a look at the First Page of the Conference Guide :-)
Otherwise, if you are still not convinced that global warming is accelerating have a look here at the Hoover Dam water level and that in less than 15 to 20 years you won't even have some few remaining green on what you can still can find around !
Regards,
Jean-Michel Davault
September 27 Singapore SharePoint Pro and SharePoint Conference in Las VegasDear Reader,
Before moving shortly to the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas (October 19-23, 2009), I spent a week in Singapore with prospects and customers where I also spoke, together with Joel Oleson, at the SharePoint Pro.SG.
Here are some picture already Singapore Septembre 16, 2009
Two videos are planned to be posted which deal about :
See you soon at the SharePoint Conference either at OpenPortal booth or during keynotes and sessions !
Jean-Michel Davault
Groove and SharePoint Workspace MVP
July 26 SharePoint Workspace 2010 and Office Groove 2007 futures (updated)Hello dear reader,
A short post to tell you that I won't comment yet about SharePoint Workspace 2010 publicly (TechPreview either 14.0 or 14.1).
I will just say that SharePoint Workspace 2010 contains three key directions :
- the first one, the Hero Story, is a to take off-line a selected set of a SharePoint site, easy and simple end user approach,
- the second one, is about SharePoint Workspace 2010 collaborative spaces : a new format of Office Groove spaces to allow new scenarii of Office Groove 2007 spaces,
- the last one, is about Office Groove 2007 traditional spaces in order to ensure to existing long term customers their investments : this is particularly important for those who use Groove collaborative methods and tools for Emergency situations, Merge and Acquisitions scenarii, International Cross-Company Project Management, Continuity of Operations processes, Exceptions Handling in industrial project management and a set of other high added value circumstances...
A fourth way to share "workspaces" still exist : the traditional "folder" share which is normally NOT-activated within corporations but can be used within small organisations or during a limited period of time.
My key objective is currently to focus on what counts in these areas to the 500+ recurrent customers, who have been working with me and intend to continue to do so.
Don't hesitate to drop me some lines,
Best Regards,
Jean-Michel Davault
Groove/SharePoint Workspace MVP
June 25 SharePoint and Office Groove : A new step forward !Hi dear reader,
As a long term supported of the innovate technologies of Ray Ozzie, you will be delighed to watch this video :
and also to be ensured that you can take your SharePoint Documents along with you in a secure way !
With a few clicks, GrooveIT! pour Microsoft Office SharePoint retrieves documents from SharePoint document libraries and stores them in Groove workspaces allowing working offline in a secure way. Read More about SharePoint and Office Groove integration. Pleased to hear more of you at WPC New Orleans ! Best Jean-Michel Davault
May 25 Groove becomes SharePoint Workspace 2010Dear Reader,
Whereas the current release of Groove already offers integration possibilities with SharePoint, in its official announcement of May 13th, Microsoft clearly positions the future release as their preferred offline client for SharePoint.
You know that it was time to take some decisions. As you could already read in my book, co-implementation of Groove and SharePoint is something that was achieved in the enterprise for a long time in order to bridge decentralized and centralized worlds and get the best out of it. A white paper had also been written(download at the bottom of this page).
As SharePoint Workspace 2010 will be available in Office Professional Plus 2010, you may be willing to dive in a Groove – SharePoint experience, in preparation of a future implementation of release 2010. I am proud to share with you that the recognized expert (since 2001) of Groove and SharePoint Integration HOMMES & PROCESS presented today May 25, 2009 in Paris , GrooveIT! for SharePoint which allow to bridge a SharePoint site directly to an Office Groove 2007 space via your favorite Internet Explorer 7 or 8 browser !
Make your life easy already today ! Furthermore, you will have the choice to choose either to remain "alone" (pure off-line function) or "share" to be with other authorized persons !
With Groove Spaces, with SharePoint Workspace 2010, you will continue to be the king : structure securely your unstructured data ! Does it sound familiar to you?
Jean-Michel Davault
Groove/SharePoint Workspace 2010 MVP
March 10 Groove book dedication to Joe LevineHello all,
It was a great pleasure to meet Joe Levine in Paris and take some nice pictures together with Martha Bednarz.
Have a look at these nice pictures taken in Paris at La Grande Arche de la Défense.
Joe is indeed alongside me for years working on Groove's fundamental concepts. He wrote Groove 2.0 at the time of the first concepts of the Web 2.0 were emerging.
When you read this article about Google Docs security glitches you measure the added value of Microsoft Office Groove 2007 extended concepts where data is closely controlled by the data owners and never centralized... You also value solutions like GrooveIT! solutions ...
It was hence a great moment when I wrote him a dedication of "Microsoft Office Groove 2007 : La confiance collaborative en réseaux". It is during these moments that you note that being French and writing in France a book in French is not necerally a handicap !
Regards,
Jean-Michel Davault
March 07 How was Microsoft Techdays 2009 event in Paris prepared?Hello, You will surely appreciate to learn how the Microsoft event in Paris was organized by Hommes & Process and its staff. This can provide you a set of ideas to get significant value with Microsoft Office Groove 2007 and solutions developped around.
Enjoy Jean-Michel You need solutions for secured collaborations helping your business gain competitiveness?You need solutions for secured collaborations helping your business gain competitiveness? Customer's testimonials Solutions that optimize teamwork leading to growth Time reporting solution for a consultant team Improve coordination between senior consultants Improving processes leads to higher productivity Health services management: decentralized collaboration solution makes projects flow Energy leading company manages decentralized collaboration in a secured way January 11 Groove case study - Business School Enhances Student Learning with Collaboration SoftwareHello dear reader,
A new year started some days ago. Let me wish you a competitive and efficient year.
2009 will be a great year for Groove collaboration technologies. Be sure of that !
This period of quick changes implies that collaboration must be efficient, reliable, adaptable, based on people's expertise, with "always on" strong security ...
Of course, the strengh of Groove is being able to use efficiently other technologies like Silverlight (look at NabazGame as a sample), SharePoint Services, MOSS, Active Directory, other Office products, .NET framework abilities, Mesh, Azur, Seven, new Cloud Computing possibilites, Hyper-V ...
New case studies will be posted here ; an updated version of the "Groove Book" will be released in 2009.
To start 2009 have a look here to a new case study
Regards,
Jean-Michel Davault
November 27 Microsoft Office Groove or Trusted Business Networked Collaboration
Hello everybody, I could understand that some of you were reading French and impatient to read the French version of "Microsoft Office Groove or Trusted Business Networked Collaboration". For those wondering how to get it, please go here Microsoft Office Groove - Confiance Collaborative en Réseaux
Enjoy and don't hesitate to share your thoughts back to me in the way it suits you,
Jean-Michel Davault
PS : The American version is planned with Wiley and the UK one with Iste (www.wiley.com , www.iste.co.uk)
November 14 Do you use SharePoint and work with Groove? Tell us about it and get free software!
Do you use SharePoint and work with Groove? Tell us about it and get free software!
Microsoft's User Research Group is conducting series of studies for SharePoint products and technologies at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA, and is looking for participants in the Puget Sound area
The research team is looking for individuals who use SharePoint at least twice a week and have experience working with Groove.
Each participant will receive a gift item they select from a list of some of Microsoft's most popular hardware and software titles.
If you are interested please email itusable@microsoft.com with your name phone number and insert Groove into the subject line.
You can put me in copy if you find it suitable. November 01 TechEd EMEA Barcelona - Singapore - Kuala LumpurHello,
I will be present at TechEd EMEA Barcelona next week (November 3 to 7) on the Office Enteprise Booth (the big number 1 booth ;-) )
As promised, you will find enclosed the invitations for the two events I was refering to :
If can't attend to these days and you are a customer highly committed to Groove related technologies some meeting slots remains for these days : November 13 & 14 in Kuala Lumpur and November 17 in Singapore.
Best Regards,
Jean-Michel Davault September 02 Groove Book is now completed
Hello everybody,
A bit more than 3 months since my last post...
I had to make some choices and significantly reduce my web publications in order to finalize my book and, at the same time, continue to meet you around the globe, like WPC in Houston last July with more than 200 of you ! It was a great moment ;-).
What I promised to provide to you is now finalized : a book about how to use Groove efficiently in business. The French title is "Microsoft Office Groove : Comment travailler en équipe autrement". The English title is not yet firmly decided but it might be something like "Microsoft Office Groove : How to Secure Social Computing for Business".
Once available I will publish on this blog some other web links. You can already contact me or Frédéric Sitbon who worked very closely with me and co-authored. Frédéric is also the author of this French project management publication http://www.hermes-science.com/fr/cdrom2007/pages/notices/2746209510.html
For those working in Asia, I will handle a set of sessions in Singapore (Tuesday November 11) and Kualu Lumpur (Saturday November 15). The English version of the book is expected to be delivered by then.
Best Regards,
Jean-Michel Davault
May 04 Technology and Usages : Groove and MESHHello,
The book I am writing is around Groove and its business usages.
Many people are technology driven but everybody needs a vision that is not necessarily technical ...
I recommend you to read my comments on Sean Bryson Blog 's article around Groove and MESH.
Jean-Michel
Groove MVP April 23 The Groove MVP Fans Club
In July 2007, I started at WPC 2008 to bring people together and create the "Groove Fans Club". In order to prepare the MVP Summit 2008, I created the "MVP Groove Fans Club" in a Groove dedicated space. We still need a Tee-Shirt but Elisabeth promised us one ! Otherwise, we will make a copy of Ashok's ;-) The idea behind is to bring various skills together, express positively differences of cultures and ways of building together strong influence in order to provide customer consolidated feedback to Microsoft senior management and accelerate business. We are those to believe that Groove is a faboulous secure social infrastructure and development platform complementary to SharePoint. SharePoint is indeed extremely strong in a long term centralized world whereas Groove is extremely agile into a distributed cross-firewall environnement allowing new races of relationships and applications. As the Groove Networks Inc acquisition was among Microsoft's top 5 biggest [Steve Balmer at the MVP Summit 2008], it is time to let know to the world the high added value of Groove in a SharePoint world ! Bringing together people also allows me to bring together my book around "Groove" with a wide angle !
April 09 MVP Summit in SeattleHi Folks,
I will in Seattle from April 12 to April 18, 2008 at the MVP Summit.
A great opportunity to meet a lot of interesting persons.
A great opportunity to influence the evolution of Groove ;-)
Don't hesitate to contact me if you are around.
Regards,
Jean-Michel April 02 Groove MVPYesterday, I was informed being nominated as Groove MVP. You can find my official profile here
This is a undoubtfully non only a significant personnal recognition sign, but also an important market signal that Groove makes a business sense, like this type of article on Info World points to.
I started in 2001 with the technical aspect of the Groove infrastructure and now I am concentrated on the business pains that a Groove based infrastructure can solve (Always On Security, Distributed Security, Usages, New ways of working, New business models...).
Of course, Groove changed technically somehow, Groove will continue to evolve and become better integrated as a new type of Glue into Office Applications, SharePoint/MOSS ... but it long term strenghts won't change in the coming years.
Groove is web services, XML, Digital Indendities, cross-company and always on security driven !
Groove allows to move from personal to team collaboration easily and securely.
Groove also allows continuing to work despite internet connectivity is down.
Groove allows a new race of applications to be promoted like those of InfoPattern or GrooveIT!
Based on your feedbacks, based on the increasing customer list that I am allowed to mention, my Groove Book project continues.
As Groove MVP, I intend to publish some more on this specialized blog.
Sincerely Yours
Jean-Michel Davault February 25 Seattle - March 1 to March 8, 2008This short message to let you know that I will be in Seattle from March 1 to March 7, 2008.
If you would like to take contact with me let me know.
Groove book continues ...
Regards,
Jean-Michel January 14 Andreas Strothmann and his book about Microsoft Office Groove 2007On January 4, 2008, the Groove Book project on paper started officially.
It will have a total different approach than the one of Andreas Strothmann, who, as you could notice in his book and his blog exchanged with me...
This confirms again that good people meet whatever the distances when they have to ...
If you are German, sprechen Sie Deuthch, I recommend you to have a look here Microsoft Office Groove 2007 - Das Handbuch
Like many, I expect the English version ;-)
Bye for know
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