April 2009 K2 User Group

Update 4/16/2009 - here is the recorded presentation.

All,

I will be making a presentation to the K2 User Group on Tuesday April 14^th from 11am to 1pm central US time. Below is information for attending via LiveMeeting.

I will be making a presentation on how to do document management with SharePoint and K2 with no code. This is a demo that I have given a few times and really demonstrates the power of the wizards within K2 to some really effective business processing. The information below says that the demo is on blackpoint, however it is all built on blackpearl. However since it is a no code implementation, it can be done completely on blackpoint…

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Phillip Knight from Merit Energy will be hosting the K2 user group meetings at Merit Energy, located at 13727 Noel Road, 2nd Floor Conference room, Tower 2, Dallas, Texas 75240. Parking information is included in the linked map below. Remote attendance information is included at the bottom of this message.

Link to map: http://www.meritenergy.com/content/MeritMap.pdf. Reminder: Merit Energy is on the 5^th floor, but the meeting will be held in a 2^nd floor conference room. Once off the elevator, go to the reception area and we will bring you back to the conference room.

Please RSVP to me via email
whether you are attending via live meeting or if you will be attending in person (so that we can plan for the number of people to order food for).

Check out the K2 Underground site and our user group at http://k2underground.com/k2/InterestGroupHome.aspx?IntGroupID=11. We are posting webexes/live meetings from our meetings at this site.

5/12/2009 11am – 1pm
06/9/2009 11am – 1pm
07/14/2009 11am – 1pm
08/11/2009 11am – 1pm
09/8/2009 11am – 1pm

Meeting Agenda:
11-11:15 Networking/Refreshments
11:15-11:30 Announcements/Intros of New people
11:30-11:45 Tips & Tricks
11:45-12:45 Technical Presentation
12:45-1:00 Meeting Wrap up

The Announcements section of the meeting will include any information regarding K2 upcoming events and user group events as well as brief introductions of our presenter and refreshment provider.

The Tips & Tricks Presentation is when we as members can pose questions to each other on projects that we are working on and having difficulty with. It is also a time when if we have learned something that we feel will be helpful to others, we can share it with the group. Bring yours to share/ask.

Meeting Presentation & Company:

We thank Jason Apergis from MicroLink for
presenting at our April K2 user group meeting. Jason will be demonstrating a K2 BlackPoint document management workflow with no code that contains InfoPath, site creation, permission management, topology management, site templates, content types, sharepoint integrated workflow for word documents, document metadata updating, emails, etc.

Founded in 1998, MicroLink provides Business Intelligence, Information Discovery, Portals, and Collaboration solutions. MicroLink has a history of providing reliable, high quality, customer-driven solutions that focus on improving productivity, collaboration, and teamwork throughout our customers' enterprise. With a reputation for consistent, superior performance, and outstanding work in the public sector and commercial organizations MicroLink has earned the respect of its clients, partners, and employees. In recognition of this dedication, MicroLink has received the following awards; 2007 Autonomy Global Partner of the Year, 2008 Microsoft Federal Repeatable Solutions Award, 2007 Microsoft Federal Partner of the Year, and the 2007 and 2006 Microsoft DoD Partner of the Year, IBM Cognos client award for Excellence in the Public Sector 2008.

Meeting Presenters:

Jason Apergis is a coauthor on the recent WROX Professional K2 BlackPearl book that was released. He authored the chapter on InfoPath, SmartObjects and Deployments. Jason is also a K2 Insider. He currently works for MicroLink LLC as a Solution Architect focusing on MOSS and Business Process Automation solutions. Over the past four years Jason has done a lot of work with K2.net integrating it with BizTalk, SharePoint 2003/2007, InfoPath, ASP.net, SSIS, mainframes and other non-MS technologies. One of the solutions was nominated for a Microsoft Partner of the Year solution in 2006. Jason is a Virginia Tech alumni completing both his undergrad and masters in Information Technology. He plays ice hockey on a regular basis and is a huge Washington Capitals fan.

Meeting Sponsor:

We thank Jason Moseley from Hitachi Consulting for sponsoring our refreshments at our April meeting. Hitachi is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with a full range of business solutions and services for strategy and organization effectiveness, business intelligence and performance management, customer and channel (including CRM) and strategic technologies (including IT architecture and SOA).

Hitachi Consulting is widely recognized leader in delivering practical, value-based business strategies and technology solutions. From business strategy development through application deployment, we are committed to helping clients quickly realize measurable business value and achieve sustainable ROI.

For more information please contact Jason Moseley, Senior Manager Hitachi Consulting (amoseley@hitachiconsulting.com, 972-768-2789)

For Virtual Attendees:

Note: please keep your phone on mute until you are ready to speak.

Audio Information

Telephone conferencing
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Toll-free: +1 (877) 860-3058

Participant code: 914421

First Time Users:

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Troubleshooting
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2. Copy and paste the required information:

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If you would like to provide refreshments at an upcoming meeting or present at an upcoming meeting, please contact me.

Our next meeting announcement will be sent out next Tuesday.

Let me know if you have any questions prior to the meeting.