I’d like to wish each and every SharePointeer around the world a Happy and Successful New Year!! Why shouldn’t you believe so since you are working with such a great tool (ok, not tool… a great platform )!!
I have lots of plans for the year to come and I know the first 6 months will become extremely busy so I have already booked the necessary vacations . The most thrilling part will be starting up in my new job from March at Skill ( www.skill.no ). This is a small but highly dynamic consulting house that are filled with great people that are highly skilled in most of Microsoft’s server technologies and I expect to both boost my own competence to a new level + I also intend to give a lot back. 60 days left and counting…
But there is more, because I don’t intend to sit back and rest much during in my spare time, especially not before summer. I have always dreamt about becoming an author, so why don’t mix that wish with SharePoint? If everything goes well, my first book “Pro SharePoint 2013 Workflows” (title might be changed) will be available from Amazon and other online stores by the end of August, and I have already had a couple of late nights working with the first draft to be delivered to my publisher in a couple of weeks time. Tough work, but a great experience and the learning curve is steeper than you can ever imagine!
I’m also pushing forward to organize and arrange the first ever SharePoint Saturday event in Norway, hopefully before the summer vacation takes over. I love the SPS concept and I think it’s a great way to increase the interest for SharePoint in our local area, but also to increase the overall activity among the local user groups members. We have gathered a small group of motivated organizers, so I’m quite sure this will be a success. When things hopefully start to materialize, we will make sure the necessary information will be spread out through the usual channels.
I have also been pretty outspoken in my ambitions to work towards getting the SharePoint 2013 MCSM certification, so I’m planning to take quite a number of exams this year. You’ll never learn about all bits and pieces of SharePoint but the Master cert. is probably the closest you can get.
Last but not least, I’m hoping too meet and socialize with as many fellow SharePointers as possible. I tweeted, chatted and mailed with hundreds of them last year, but sadly, I have only had the opportunity to meet only a few of you in person so far. My plane is to do something with that , so expect to see me at a lot more SharePoint events this year. Until then, keep up the great work that you all do for the Wordwide SharePoint Community (from now on WSC)
Kind Regards
Bjoern H Rapp – The SharePoint Viking
