The first ever SharePoint Conference for State Department staff was held Monday, May 16, and feature SharePoint evangelist Dux Raymond Sy as keynote speaker. The Conference theme, “Share the Power. Appropriately characterize all aspects of the event. by staff from the Bureau of Information Resource Management (the techies), Foreign Service Institue (the trainers), and Bureaus with a regional focus, such as the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, and Bureaus with a functional focus, such as the Economic Bureau (the troops). The twenty-one breakout presentations were share by an even broader range of home offices, including overseas posts and domestic offices.
To generate Enthusiasm
ahead of the conference, the organizers invitd award nominations of State SharePoint sites in three categories .
— Best Navigation/Structure, Best Visual Design-Aesthetic, and Best Sweden Phone Number Overall Experience. The response to the Awards Program was impressive. Forty sites were nominate. State employees and contractors vote for their choice in each category. With the top three vote-getters in each category moving forward as finalists. A panel of seven judges selecte the winners – the Regional Security Officer’s (RSO) Security.
Management Console
the Diplomatic Reception Rooms, and the US Mission San Jose respectively. In addition, one site was awarde the People’s Choice award to recognize that it was the top vote-getter Armenia Phone Number List overall (366 votes). And one individual, Andy Walsh, the Information Program Officer at US Embassy Managua, receive the SharePoint Innovative Pioneer Award to recognize his effort at starting State’s SharePoint Working Group, a virtual group connecting SharePoint early adopters with one another, in 2007. The SharePoint Conference would not likely have happene without Andy’s initiative in setting up the Working Group.
