SharePoint Saturday Richmond

Here comes another SharePoint Saturday!

SharePoint Saturday is one of the best community building and learning environments out there. I say this not only because I try to be a part of it, but because the presenters really want to help people understand and learn the technology. Of course, you could go out there and pay between $900 and $3000 for a 2 day - 5 day conference and training session, but those same speakers are very likely going to be giving their time and money to present at SharePoint Saturday as well.

For example, one of the best presenters out there is Dux Raymond Sy. He is a prolifent speaker and is often presenting at the other conferences such as SharePoint Symposium, Best Practices Conference and more. He will gladly hop on a plane and travel to San Ramon, California or Kansas City, Missouri to present for free at a SharePoint Saturday.

But who pays for the SharePoint Saturday to take place? The vendors...and they don't pay a whole lot since it is mostly the cost of the venue, swag, food, and door prizes. How popular is it? Extremely! Besides being a free conference, the attendees get lunch and swag. Add to that the networking opportunities and it is priceless. THIS is why we do it. Often there is a wait list for these events. The only one so far that I have seen that waded through the wait list was SharePoint Saturday DC which had 921 attendees and was held at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Virginia.

This is such as valuable group that we suggest it to our customers continuously. So, SharePoint Saturday Richmond, Virginia is December 4. If you are closer to South Florida though, I suggest SharePoint Saturday South Florida instead on December 4. More details about SharePoint Saturday are available at http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/


Last plug: I will be presenting on one of my favorites: Disaster Recovery and SharePoint 2010, Are You Ready? Come by and say Hi!

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