Training for SharePoint Beginners

If your organization is just now getting around to SharePoint, all this talk about new features and concepts introduced in SharePoint Server 2010 can make you feel as if the world has passed you by, and learning anything at all will be an uphill struggle.
Fear not.
At SPTechCon, we're running three concurrent sessions we're calling SharePoint 101 -- for developers, system administrators, and end (business) users. These full-day workshop-style sessions will introduce you to the basics of SharePoint, what it is, what it can do, and how you work with it.
On the developer side, expert Philip Wicklund will provide an introduction to SharePoint for experienced developers who are new to the software, but who have been charged with creating the custom components with which their end users will assemble line-of-business applications. Everything from forms, spreadsheet models, feature and site definitions, and Web parts will be examined, along with the object model and the business data catalog.
Mike Watson, who was part of the Microsoft team that created SharePoint, will give a deep dive into SharePoint administration. SharePoint is excellent software for collaboration and creating Web sites, among many other things. The administrator’s role is to hold it all together, through installation, creation of server farms, and architecting, configuration and management of the servers. This session will give experienced administrators new to SharePoint the knowledge they need to take on a SharePoint installation, and to get some rogue implementations under control.
Finally, project management expert Dux Raymond Sy will bring business users up to speed on information management, Navigation and lists, libraries, collaboration and document management. He also will discuss project management dashboards, site templates and Web parts for reporting -- all for technically savvy users whose organizations have mandated the adoption of SharePoint.
These full-day workshops are designed to smooth your path into the full, two-day technical conference that follows. Once the foundation of knowledge has been poured in the full-day workshops, you'll be ready to build upon that from the 70+ classes offered for developers, admins, business users, architects and project managers.
So join us in California, and catch the SharePoint wave!
-- David