Bamboo Nation has your backstage pass for exclusive interviews with the rock stars of the SharePoint community!
As the SharePoint community continues to grow, we at Bamboo Nation felt that a spotlight should be shined on the talented folks who work tirelessly to improve SharePoint every day, for all users. With this in mind, we decided to dedicate our newest feature area to what we were originally thinking of as a "who's who" with profiles of notable individuals in the SharePoint community. The more we thought about it, however, the more we felt that rather than authoring profiles with a few pull quotes, it would be far more compelling to present these rock stars of SharePoint in conversation and in their own words.
We'll be bringing you a series of regular interviews with the luminaries of the SharePoint field, ranging from MVPs, to authors of SharePoint books, to SharePoint trainers, to consultants, and beyond. The SharePoint community is filled with dedicated professionals who are passionate about SharePoint as it exists today, and even more passionate about the promise SharePoint holds for the future of IT professionals.
We've presented a couple of interviews within Bamboo Nation in the past, and since a) those interview subjects are rock stars in their own right, and b) those experiences led to the decision to present this new area in a Q&A format, we're going to collect them in this area as well.
Kicking off our original interviews for this series, we needed look no further than our own Technical Advisory Board to have our pick of bona fide SharePoint rock stars. We sat down with Bob Mixon for our first interview, then we closed out the "Bobs" category of our Advisory Board members with, no, not Dylan, but with SharePoint rock star, Bob Fox. Continuing to spotlight the members of our august Advisory Board, we next presented the SharePoint Rock Stars interview with Jeff Webb. Next up, we talked to the man whose very name is synonymous with SharePoint, former Bamboo Advisory Board member SharePoint Joel himself, Joel Oleson.
After spotlighting the members (and former members) of our Technical Advisory Board, SharePoint Rock Stars went global by featuring the Spanish-born (and Netherlands-based) author of two SharePoint books, MOSS MVP Gustavo Velez.
Repackaging an interview which was originally serialized in our SharePoint Blank blog into a feature-length interview, we next presented the author of The SharePoint Shepherd's Guide to End Users, six-time Microsoft MVP Robert Bogue.
Once it was pointed out that all of the SharePoint Rock Stars we'd featured thus far happened to be men, we realized with some embarrassment that it was (past) time for this unintended boys club to go co-ed, and we couldn't be more thrilled to present four-time SharePoint MVP Heather Solomon as our next Rock Star.
Currently in the spotlight is a man whose name should certainly be familiar to Bamboo Nation, as both Robert Bogue and our own John Anderson have repeatedly sung the praises of EndUserSharePoint.com's founder and editor, Mark Miller, our latest SharePoint rock star.