7 ways to Leverage SharePoint for Project Management Success

by Dux Raymond Sy
Recorded on February 27, 2009
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/e/1251

Email (1) and Excel(3) are in the top 5 tools managers use to track projects. Microsoft's project manager didn't even make the top 5!

Similar to Sharepoint,

• Project Server (requires a mature project management process in institution)
• Clarity
• Primavera
• Google Team Site
• Basecamp
• Zoho

These are all separate silos though, SharePoint works completely with MS Office and Outlook. 

SharePoint owners can update their own content, control their own security to their site (account privileges) and maintain their own document repositories and lists.

Only 3rd party add-ons can combine multiple individual calendars into one master calendar.   Many make one master and then push out only pieces to somewhere.

The Effective teacher by Harry K Wong

An effective teacher:

1. is a good classroom manager. 
   
2. designs lessons to reach mastery.
3. has positive expectations that students will be successful

Confessions of a Public Speaker

Webinar:  Confessions of a Public Speaker    Book ISBN:
Date: This event took place live on December 02 2009
Presented by: Scott Berkun  His blog: www.scottberkun.com/blog

Feels he is not a natural born speaker, it is just he does it a lot because of his books.
Practice.

• Afraid of the crowd - valium is a bad idea.....  Amygdala in the brain controls the reactions of fear.    
• Eliminate issues under your control by showing up early and checking things
• Arrive early and sit in back, and see how the audience will see you
• Don't arrive 10 minutes before the presentation and then start working on your slides.
• Exercise and get all the energy out so the adrenaline is released
• Know your subject
• Practice with your remote
• Don't talk to your slides, it shows you aren't sure of yourself
• Practice slides and material until it's good
• People generally can only pay attention for approximately 5-10 minutes on any one subject.
• People are likely to pay longer attention to something they are interested in.
• Chunk it.   It isn't by the number of slides, it is about the time needed to talk about the item
• Can make anything boring by:
• Long-winded
• too much detail
• not realizing the important part of the story
• assuming the part the speaker finds interesting is the part the audience finds interesting.
• finding the subject you are talking about boring
• not make sure your angle is interesting to your audience 
• Smart people disease
• using words that others don't understand, hoping to end the argument that way (TKO)
• complex language - defensive way to teach/lead
• takes effort to make points clear and concise
• afraid to allow questions in case they don't know the answer
• Pushes people away and
• Find a rhythm so people can follow
• and my favorite "the slides serve what you are saying

Web Collaboration Best Practice at the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

Host: Kelly Walker Presenter: Karen Bergmeier
Archive available through

Promotes faculty/student collaboration. Lets the faculty leave campus during office hours and instead conduct them from home.
Getting the ball rolling:

• "Allow adequate time before you expect results." ( Definitely agree with that!)
• Start using the solution yourself.
• Search out innovators in a variety of target groups:
• Help Desk
• Nursing/Math
• Customized Training Coordinators
• Project Managers
• Create tip sheets specific to the audience-don't forget students

Sanity check: The four stages of a typical Twitter user

A techrepublic article that can be found at http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=1567%20&%20tag=n1.e101
May 11, 2009
Author: Jason Hiner

Written to help new users to avoid discouragement and maximize their use of Twitter:

Step 1 - Confusion and indignation

•    Who should I follow?  
• He recommends the Suggested Users feature.  He also put together a list of tech personalities he recommends.
• Why do I care that they are walking their dog or what they are having for lunch?
• This kind of post is why new users to Twitter find it hard to understand if Twitter has any value for them. 
• It often causes people to shake their heads and not come back
• At this stage, they rarely post.
• They use twitter.com to access it

Step 2 - the first Aha! moment

• Eventually, if they occasionally check, they will find something they wouldn't have known about any other way and they realize it might be useful.
• They still are rarely posting (if at all).  
• They use twitter.com to access it.

Step 3 - Remembering to tweet

• After an Aha! moment, they typically start checking it more often.
• They start thinking "I should post this on Twitter" if they find something useful (but may or may not)
• They are still using twitter.com to access it.
• They are following a good mix of friends, news feeds, industry celebrities and thought leaders.

Step 4 - Thinking in 140 characters.

• Once a person becomes a daily Twitter user, it's over.  They are now hooked and on their way to becoming a power user.
• Twitter.com is no longer suitable, they switch to Tweetdeck or Seesmic and often a mobile client on their phone such as UberTwitter for Blackberry or Tweetie for iPhone.   Those without smartphone use Twitter via SMS text messages.
• They will regularly unfollow people who post inance messages or doesn't post useful stuff.
• They tend to regularly think about and look for things to post on Twitter throughtout the day
• They self-edit their thoughts into 140 characters.

Mindomo

Mindomo workshop for Spring 2010 Faculty Development

http://www.mindomo.com/maps/a2b9daf75d374199b1104b91f3ed18ca

Useful maps:

1. http://www.mindomo.com/maps/0106313554d84c289186942aae69527e - Top 20 Geometry Web Sites by Brad Jolly
2. http://www.mindomo.com/maps/21fac18141c74248866f3f2c0e47c974 -Speech 103 and ME by Lisa Brewster
3. http://www.mindomo.com/maps/268113f06e7b4ccba1b6b58c0b4779be -Using Mindomo for Problem Solving by Thomas Teepe
4. http://www.mindomo.com/maps/afed1836f6304a28b794f7f246131213 - Web 2.0 Users and Uses in Higher Education by Barry Dahl
5. http://www.mindomo.com/maps/f1da548ed3334a6db2a54eebf5c1b1c1 - Quality Online by Jim Schaeffer
6. http://www.mindomo.com/maps/a411e420a66f4d9a93a087b4e5931594 - Research using the Web by Shari Okland
7. http://www.mindomo.com/maps/6684dfee3d8f4780b9f0d2e85a9203b3 - History Chapter 7 by Elise Low
8. http://www.mindomo.com/maps/caa9464f8dd64d4ab751c372dbe77cc2 - Carmel Project by Lisa Rothstein

Others I liked:

1. http://mindomo.com/maps/080a2a033949479b97c8e353cfa3c1af - Technology Tools by Nari Kim
2. http://mindomo.com/maps/7a6e2fe72fb6406e83c41c2e35a2fda7 - Have, had, had by Ziemowit Kaczmarski
3. http://mindomo.com/maps/6db480c41836444f9eb4b5251fbf2163 - Web 2.0 Cool Tools by Shari Okland
4. http://mindomo.com/maps/3dddfb6e6ad54b34b4167c17f262e5aa - UJ Sciences Librarian Resources by Pavlinka Kovatcheva
5. http://mindomo.com/maps/48511abbfb7e4145a33dbe6453d0f8af -

NLA-Programs involving Seniors

Foster Grandparents  

• 8th floor-Civic Center Plaza   915.541.4372
• Seniors age 55 or older are matched with children under the age of 21.
• Foster Grandparents receive a small tax-freestipend; daily meal; reimbursement for transportation and an annual physical exam.
• Program is largest in nation for single county.
• Have a regular schedule-4 hours per day; five days per week.
• Background checks are required.
• Children are identified by the administration of the school or program.   Parents who want a foster grandparent assigned must contact principal.
• Corporation for National and Community Service funds this.   It is a federal agency. 

RSVP - Retired and Senior volunteer Program of El Paso

• age 55 and over
• 60 mile wide service area (Canutillo to Fabens)
• All sorts of areas
• Corporation of National Service and sponsored by City of El Paso.
• some types of activities
• museum docents,
• community outreach-medical education;
• build ramps for homes to facilitate access
• neighborhood clean-up committees
• homebound senior phone calls
• nursing home residents-reading, playing games, sharing a conversation
• friends of the libraries
• elderly & disabled under court guardianship
• zoo animals (docent or friends of)
• domestic animal education programs
• no pay, only volunteer
• currently over 689 volunteers, 112 of which are over 85
• Calling all Seniors is a friendly phone call from one senior to another providing a friendly visit by phone.    Contact is 541-4025