Jump-start your conference experience by attending these interactive and practical workshops. These information-packed sessions are a great opportunity to network with fellow attendees while taking a hands-on, common-sense approach to better understanding how social media and new technologies can fit into your organization’s SharePoint Intranet.  These workshops are designed to enhance your understanding of the informative, case study presentations throughout the entire conference.

*** Choose A or B or BOTH for Maximum Value and Learning!

How To Achieve A Successful SharePoint Intranet:
3 Key Must-Have Principles

*** SCREEN SHOTS/LIVE DEMO! ***

Do you find yourself managing a cluttered, transactional intranet that has grown ad-hoc over time and without a clear strategy?

Many companies struggle with this challenge, as often they invest in the latest trendy intranet tools but struggle to gain the desired adoption with employees.

In this hands-on session you will jump-start your conference training by learning the three must-have’s in order to achieve a successful SharePoint Intranet, including how to:

• Align your intranet strategy to business objectives
• Create a user-centric intranet
• Selectively invest in internal social media tools that support employees' work needs

WORKSHOP LEADER: Jeff Willinger is the Director of Social Computing, Collaboration & Intranets at Rightpoint and was recently named the top SharePoint person to watch in 2012 and one the most influential social media people in the city of Chicago. He specializes in advising clients on social computing strategies, social intranets and portals, mobile reach vs. reach and increasing employee engagement.  

Rave Reviews From Past RIGHTPOINT WORKSHOPS:

“Jeff is a very innovative speaker filled with good information; love him!”

“Jeff has fantastic personal skills, and connects well with people.
I wish he had more time”

11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Afternoon break/lunch on your own

How To Develop A Video Content Strategy For Your Intranet To Drive User Adoption

*** SCREEN SHOTS PROVIDED! ***

You have access to a great internal distribution tool: your Intranet and SharePoint.  How do you go about creating compelling content that engages employees while dealing with the issues inherent in an internally controlled distribution channel?

In this workshop, you will be guided through critical concepts that serve as the foundation for developing a content strategy. You’ll learn practical approaches and tips to creating content that engages with your audiences, allowing you to not only share your message, but more importantly, to create a personal connection that opens the door to ongoing interaction.

Through case study examples, you’ll experience common obstacles faced when utilizing an intranet for video content distribution and learn first-hand how these obstacles not only can be overcome, but in some cases, recast as opportunities.

In this compelling, hands-on workshop, you will be shown how to:

• Understand key items and utilize best practices when creating a content strategy
• Develop compelling content that will engage your audience
• Deal with the challenges and benefits presented by inward vs. outward facing distribution
• Address expectations regarding engaging with and sharing video content and “viral views”
• Develop cost effective video content for multiple distribution channels
• Create a phased strategy for developing content, measuring success and achieving acceptance
• How to apply these approaches to your specific content needs

WORKSHOP LEADER:  Denise McKee is COO at AboutFace Media.  AboutFace creates short-form, story-driven documentaries for online and social media marketing projects.  Their directors are award-winning independent filmmakers whose work has been screened at Sundance, South by Southwest and the Tribeca Film Festival among others.  Clients include Sears, Kmart, Wilson, CNH, 3M, Trek, Staples, Florida Tourism, Quad Graphics and Can-Am.

Rave Reviews From Past AboutFace Media Workshops:

"I love the group interaction—it forces conversation that makes me think outside the box. I’m taking back some great commentary and “arguments” to our senior leaders."

"This was so good. Great information, great collaborating, and I have tools to take home."

"Denise was great!! :) Absolutely useful! I know what my homework is now. Thanks!"

2:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Afternoon Refreshment Break

2:45 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.
PRE-CONFERENCE AFTERNOON WORKSHOP C

How To Make The Most Of SharePoint Content Migration For Your Users & Your Business

Clean, usable content is a must for your shiny, new intranet. That means tackling bad content today. While you improve your content, why use your SharePoint investment to keep it great?

This workshop provides practical approaches for:

• Identifying what gets moved, what to do with it and how to prioritize
• Tips & tools for managing a large content transformation project
• Making content more readable online
• Using usability testing to organize content for users
• Preparing content to leverage SharePoint's term store for taxonomy
• Using SharePoint workflows to manage content evolution

WORKSHOP LEADER: Stacy L. Wilson, ABC is President and Senior Consultant of Eloquor Consulting, Inc. Stacy has more than 22 years of communication experience. In 2001 she launched Eloquor Consulting to help organizations communicate more effectively with employees to improve the bottom line. Some of her clients have including Ocean Spray Cranberries, Pitney Bowes, Xcel Energy, Denver Public Schools, AT&T Broadband, and more.

Rave Reviews From Past ELOQUOR CONSULTINGS, INC. Workshops:

“Best workshop of the conference!  Can be applied immediately.”

“Awesome!  If I had come here for just this alone I would be very
satisfied.Stacy is a rockstar!”

How To Use SharePoint In A Hybrid Scenario (A Mix Of On-Premise And In The Cloud)

During this workshop, you will see how a real-life organization used SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 to create a network across multiple locations. Through this example, you will learn how a hybrid between On-Premise and Online can help companies to provide services to all subsidiaries or establishments, and improving in the same time, employee adoption and engagement.

You will also learn some of the capabilities of SharePoint Online in Office 365 to organize and present communication internally and externally, to connect all employees groups to share knowledge and ideas using social network and communities.

In this interactive session, we'll also cover new functionality in O365 SharePoint 2013 Online that is specific to hybrid search deployments that integrate both On-Premise and Online SharePoint 2013 search environments. We will see how Project Server features delivered now in O365 can be very useful to easily manage your project tasks and keep a close eye on the activity level of projects in which you are involved in, even if these projects are small.

By the end of this workshop you will learn how to:         

• Implement Office 365 and On-Premise licensing model and opportunities
• Use Online and On-Premise social network to connect users
• Build Intra and Extra Network communities
• Propose and federate search in a global private “Google”
• Use Project Server on Office 365 for little projects

WORKSHOP LEADER: Nicolas Georgeault is the SharePoint Senior Architect-SharePoint MVP At PublicConsultingGroup.com. 

RAVE Reviews From 2013 Intranet Conference Attendees
 
“It was great to collaborate with other people in the same situation and overall great to see
how some overcame obstacles.”

“This Conference was Top Notch! I have a long list of innovative ideas that I plan on bringing back to my company to hopefully implement in the near future.”