Erica Toelle has been working with SharePoint since 2004, creating business solutions around Enterprise Content Management, Collaboration, and Communities. She has written several Enterprise Content Management whitepapers for Microsoft explaining SharePoint’s features and how to leverage them in a business context, and provided input into the 2010 Content features. Erica understands how to communicate about SharePoint to both a business and technical audience to foster shared understanding among everyone involved with a project.

Upcoming Speaking Events:

• SharePoint Saturday Boston – February 27, 2010

Past Speaking Events:

• SharePoint Connections Amsterdam – January 18, 2010
• SharePoint Saturday Washington DC – December 5th, 2009
• New Zealand SharePoint Conference – July 2nd & 3rd 2009

Speaking Topics:

Enterprise Content Management for the Masses: How Microsoft Delivers on the Promise (SharePoint Connections Amsterdam + SharePoint Saturday Boston)

In this session you will get an overview of the new Enterprise Content Management features introduced in SharePoint 2010.  You will walk away with an understanding of how SharePoint 2010 delivers on the “ECM for the Masses” promise and see some of these features in a demo. 

Content Management in SharePoint 2010: Planning Information Architecture (SharePoint Saturday Washington DC)

SharePoint 2010 introduces new tools that allow an organization to manage content through the complete lifecycle, from ad-hoc or structured creation to retention and disposition. These tools include term sets, enterprise content types, document centers, information management policies, and document sets.  In this session we will discuss when to use each tool and how they work together to bring control and compliance to your organization’s information.

SharePoint User Adoption: Fostering Shared Understanding throughout your Company (New Zealand SharePoint Conference)

SharePoint projects usually involve some kind of organizational change related to culture, process, or structure.  The change process is something that must be carefully managed, approached methodically and tailored to your organization’s culture.

In this session you will learn how to ensure your SharePoint project’s success by using frameworks to manage the change process, resulting in higher user adoption of the end solution.  This is done by gaining leadership and stakeholder commitment, creating a strategic communication plan and planning a learning strategy.  You will walk away with templates and checklists to help you with your SharePoint project.

Using the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint to Enhance Training and Communication (New Zealand SharePoint Conference)

The Podcasting Kit for SharePoint (PKS) is a free add-on for MOSS available from http://codeplex.com/pks.  In this session you will learn how you can leverage PKS to enhance organizational learning and communication.  The session will include a demo, examples of how other companies have used PKS, and tips on how to make your PKS deployment successful.