Tonight I had the chance to finally meet up with fellow-Xboxer, Steven Vore. At first, I thought we'd end up talking about Xbox and maybe blogging, and was pleased when we had a great conversation about kids (his two boys are about 5 years older than my two boys), business culture (working for a big ole company like Microsoft or HP has its advantages and disadvantages), communicating with team members and building trust, and working with corporate IT to build LOB apps. But probably the most fun for me (believe it or not), was some a bit of SharePoint.
One of the reasons I've been slow blogging for the past six weeks is that I've been immersed completely in trying to figure out the intricacies of SharePoint. Steven explained that he's trying to do some of the same things I'm trying to do (set up better employee communications, collaboration, "KM"). It's amazing to find people out there who I meet because of one thing (in this case Xbox), and get to know really well because of another (similar jobs, same struggles, same passions).
I think people are more similar than they are different. And whether CMC (computer mediated communications--online) helps expose more about a person than they would face-to-face, or just allow people to more easily find others like them I don't know.
Anyway, after a day of prepping the room for hosting 200 Xbox and PC Retail sales folks in our two day session later in the week, we're ready for the fun to begin...
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