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		<title>ShareFEST 2012 winds to a close</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, that’s all folks. Another ShareFEST has come and gone!
We had a blast, and we hope you did too. From our keynote sessions to figuring out what SharePoint means to you to our ASUS ultrabook giveaway, so much happened in just two days. We hope you had an aha! moment and are able to take home some new strategies that will help save your company time and money as you automate processes and build new collaborative environments.
In case you weren’t able to make it, or if you were just too ...]]></description>
		<link>http://sharefestconference.com/blog/sharefest-2012-winds-to-a-close</link>
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		<title>What does SharePoint mean to you? Part 4.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We promised more answers in our series, What does SharePoint mean to you? Here you go! Follow #ShareFEST2012 and @ShareFEST2012 for more SharePoint and life sciences action from the conference.

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Bryan Ennis, Enterprise Program Director at NextDocs
SharePoint is a fundamental shift in how we build applications, how we managing our content, and most importantly, how we work together. More than any system that has come before it, SharePoint is enhancing the user experience and bringing us closer together. This improves productivity and knowledge, and enables the growth of both organizations and ...]]></description>
		<link>http://sharefestconference.com/blog/what-does-sharepoint-mean-to-you-part-4</link>
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		<title>My ShareFEST aha! moment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a conference like ShareFEST, there are so many ideas being shared at such a high velocity that it’s easy to become overloaded. But sometimes a concept immediately comes into focus, and when a signal emerges from the background noise, I try to tune in.
A key insight occurred to me during the opening keynotes yesterday. The inevitable adoption and incorporation of consumer-style interfaces was a recurring theme in those sessions (best exemplified by demonstrations incorporating tablets and phones). This is hardly a surprise.
But in the face of so much talk ...]]></description>
		<link>http://sharefestconference.com/blog/my-sharefest-aha-moment</link>
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		<title>ShareFEST keynotes: Play-by-play</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning the first two of our four keynote sessions took the stage. Don’t worry if you didn’t take notes, you can use ours! Here’s what happened, play-by-play:
Microsoft’s Role in Today’s Life Sciences Ecosystem: SharePoint, Windows, and the Cloud
Steve Aylward, General Manager, US Commercial Health and Life Sciences, Microsoft Corporation
Michael Gannotti, Technical Solution Professional, Malvern Technology Center, Microsoft Corporation
The big theme in this session was collaboration. While collaboration has been a rallying cry for SharePoint in the past, Aylward pointed to recent changes that have made it more important than ...]]></description>
		<link>http://sharefestconference.com/blog/sharefest-keynotes-play-by-play</link>
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		<title>The ultimate guide to ShareFEST 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all know that SharePoint starts the fire, but ShareFEST provides the spark. ShareFEST 2012 is finally here! Welcome!
Our presentations are set, our prestigious list of speakers is ready to share their expertise, our vendors are lined up to show off new technologies, and we have plenty of tips, tricks, and best practices for you to take home.
It can be a little overwhelming, we know, so we took the time to gather a few pointers to help you get the most out of your time at ShareFEST. Here, without further ...]]></description>
		<link>http://sharefestconference.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-sharefest-2012</link>
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		<title>Microsoft SharePoint: The business value hiding in plain sight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The technical capabilities of SharePoint have been nothing short of transformative – consider how far the life sciences industry has come since ShareFEST 2010. But many executives who make decisions on moving forward with SharePoint projects can’t comprehend the technical capabilities that have made those changes possible. To them, SharePoint is just another line item on the IT budget.
But by framing the conversation in terms of business value, you can bring decision-makers on board to implement or enhance your company’s SharePoint platform. Here are three ways to persuade a manager ...]]></description>
		<link>http://sharefestconference.com/blog/microsoft-sharepoint-the-business-value-hiding-in-plain-sight</link>
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		<title>4 ways to handle custom branding and upgrades in SharePoint 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many companies are happy to use the out-of-the-box templates and master pages in SharePoint, opting for a more general look and feel of the software. But a number of my clients in the pharmaceutical space create custom branding for internal collaboration and portal sites, as well as for extranet sites. For extranet sites, they do this to maintain a brand and usually consistent with their overall web experience. On the internal side, they’re mostly trying to get away from the out of the box feel of SharePoint and provide a ...]]></description>
		<link>http://sharefestconference.com/blog/4-ways-to-handle-custom-branding-and-upgrades-in-sharepoint-2010</link>
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		<title>What does SharePoint mean to you? Part 3.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today’s SharePoint series answer comes from David Gwyn of HighPoint Solutions. We’ll be continuing the series tomorrow when ShareFEST 2012 finally kicks off!

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David Gwyn, Vice President of Research and Development, Collaboration Practices at HighPoint Solutions 
I’ve spent nearly 20 years focusing on the life sciences, especially content management solutions. What SharePoint means to me at this stage, given its maturity, is to be able to deliver the same if not better functionality to customers on a platform that’s faster, better, and cheaper. Now you can check in and out of ...]]></description>
		<link>http://sharefestconference.com/blog/what-does-sharepoint-mean-to-you-part-3</link>
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		<title>What does SharePoint mean to you? Part 2.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we kicked off a series dubbed What does SharePoint mean to you? We’ll be posting answers to this question throughout the week and asking some conference attendees the same question. Today’s insight comes from blogger Jeff Burk of NextDocs.

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Jeff Burk, Vice President, Product Management at NextDocs
SharePoint means a lot of different things to a lot of different people, but at a very high level, I love SharePoint. It’s a great tool.
But it’s a tool. We think it’s the right tool from our experience, the right platform to bank on ...]]></description>
		<link>http://sharefestconference.com/blog/what-does-sharepoint-mean-to-you-part-2</link>
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		<title>What does SharePoint mean to you? Part 1.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What does SharePoint mean to you?
How would you answer? It seems like a simple question at first, but it’s one that made our bloggers pause to think when we asked them.
Over the next few days leading up to ShareFEST 2012, we’ll be posting some responses to this question from our bloggers. Then we’ll continue the conversation at ShareFEST, which, as the only life sciences conference focused on SharePoint, is bound to provide some great answers! Check out the first few answers below.

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Dan Matlis, President of Axendia, Inc.
SharePoint is a platform ...]]></description>
		<link>http://sharefestconference.com/blog/what-does-sharepoint-mean-to-you-part-1</link>
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