Greetings, all! I am writing this column from 35,000 feet, on a plane to Patagonia, Chile. I am looking down at a ridiculously beautiful and dramatic landscape of mountains, glaciers, sharp valleys, turquoise glacial lakes, and cone shaped volcanoes... So excuse me for any typos I make while typing and looking out of the window at the same time!
We're on our way to Punta Arenas, Chile, which is our jumping off point for the final stop on the Sharing The Point South America tour: Antarctica. Tomorrow, I am privileged and lucky enough to head to this remote end of the planet, bringing along the SharePoint message to the researchers, information workers, and penguins of the white continent.
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Posted
Jan 27 2012, 06:30 PM
by
Dan Holme
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About Dan Holme
A graduate of Yale University and Thunderbird School of Global Management, Dan Holme's 18 years of experience have earned him a reputation as one of the world's most respected consultants, authors, and experts on Microsoft technologies. As Chief SharePoint Evangelist for AvePoint, Dan works tirelessly to solve customers' IT and business challenges, to educate the global SharePoint community, and to develop solutions that set the standard for the next generation of collaboration platforms.
Each year, Dan reaches hundreds of thousands of IT professionals and business decision makers. His efforts have earned him the prestigious title of Microsoft MVP for five years running (Windows Server Directory Services, 2007, and SharePoint Server, 2008-2011). He has also been recognized as one of the top 50 SharePoint influencers and as one of the top ten partner MVPs in the world.
Dan is a contributing editor for SharePoint Pro and Windows IT Pro magazines and for SharePointProMag.com. Dan was the lead author of the Microsoft Official Curriculum course for administering SharePoint 2010, and penned the SharePoint 2010 Training Kit for Microsoft Press. His other books for Microsoft, including the Windows Administration Resource Kit and the training kit for the 70-640 MCTS exam-are regular bestsellers in their category.
In 2012, Dan will serve as the Microsoft Technologies Consultant for NBC Olympics during the broadcast of the 212 Summer Olympics from London, a role he also played in Vancouver (2010), Beijing (2008), and Torino (2006). When Dan is not on the road, he can be found free diving with the turtles and rays in the waters off his home in Maui, Hawaii.
You can read Dan's articles and columns at http://bit.ly/danholmearticles and you can follow Dan on twitter, @danholme.
His books can be found at http://amzn.to/danholmebooks.