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Zac Smith
SharePoint, WSS and MOSS development.

First ever SharePoint conference in New Zealand

by Zac Smith 31-Mar-09, 0 Comments

The details of the first ever NZ SharePoint conference have been finalised.

“This will be the New Zealand conference to learn about SharePoint 2007 with expert local and international speakers presenting on topics that will help you understand and succeed with your SharePoint implementations and add real value to your organization and businesses.”

I’m quite excited to be presenting a session on Web Standards and accessiblity. This is something I’m quite passionate about and have done a fair amount of research on over the last couple of years. I plan to focus on public websites and the basics of accessibility and W3C compliance.

I wrote a blog post on this almost exactly two years ago. Some of the techniques are a little outdated now but I’ll be addressing that in my session.

The actual session brief is something along the lines of .....

Title: Web Standards, SharePoint and Accessibility - Yes you can.
Description: Web Standards, Accessibility, SharePoint. Many people are under the impression that these words don’t go together. In this session Zac will demonstrate how a public web site in SharePoint can be both accessible and adhere to W3C recommendations. A number of available tools will be evaluated including AKS 2.0 and ARF. Zac will also provide many tips and techniques for anyone looking to build a web standard compliant site in SharePoint.

Attendees should have a basic understanding of SharePoint Publishing Features and NZ Web Standards.

Session Type: Technical
Session Level: 300
Time:  4:15 – 5.15
Location: Chamber Room 1

The conference is pretty exciting stuff for NZ’s SharePoint community  - so don’t miss it!

Categories: Community, SharePoint, WCM, Accessibility

Recession Blogging

by Zac Smith 23-Mar-09, 0 Comments

I haven’t written a blog post in a very long time, and there’s a good reason for that – I’ve been very, very busy. Today is the first time in a long while that I feel like I can take the time to write a blog post without a client potentially being annoyed that I’ve been doing something other than working on their project. Subsequently the list of things to blog about has grown really long so I have heaps to share over the next few months.

A few people have already been talking about SharePoint and the recession lately, and what to do in these uncertain times ...

I think a ‘recession’ in general is a good excuse for many things – laying off staff, salary freezes, going back to school or buying cheaper cookies for morning tea. But what does the recession mean for you and me?

Here at Trinkit/SharePoint Depot we have been coming up with a recession plan. The general thought is that we may have more time on our hands so we have brainstormed a bunch of things we can do....

  • Create products
  • Explore new technologies
  • Create internal applications
  • Enhance company profile and brand
  • Get more involved in the community (Blog more)
  • Spend more time mentoring junior staff

After coming up with all these great ideas, we found that we were actually looking forward to a ‘recessive’ quiet time. For me personally I look forward to getting more involved in the community and getting through some of those old TODO’s.

UPDATE: I wrote this post about 6 weeks ago and have only just now found the time to publish it.

Categories: MOSS, Community, SharePoint, WSS
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