Colligo presented a session on email management.  Much of the content was drawn from the webinar we did with Kathy Hughes (Microsoft MOSS MVP).  The webinar is recorded here: http://www.colligo.com/articles/ResourceCenter.asp.   

In surveying the room, I would say that 25% of people were actively either had or were in the process of moving email into SharePoint.  Around two-thirds (including the aforementioned 25%) viewed email management as a topic on their radar to address in the months ahead. 

Special thanks to Fiazan Hassan and Zee Subzwari from Xelleration (a Colligo partner in SoCal), as well as David Constantine from QuickStart for hosting me in LA for the day.

The three day event was well run and more importantly well attended. For a conference of this type, 600+ attendees is a solid turn out. Contrary to the news headlines these days, there are still plenty of organizations with IT budgets to spend on SharePoint implementations, upgrades and third party products. Randy Halischuk, who runs our marketing department and I manned the booth for Colligo and we were very busy between sessions answering questions and introducing people to our technology.

In terms of the conference portion of the event, there was a fully docket of interesting topics. I wanted to highlight two speakers who have been strong Colligo advocates for some time now.

Bob Mixon, a Microsoft MVP, (http://mixonconsulting.com/) spoke numerous times at the event on “Share and Ye Shall Find: Delivering Content that Users Need”, “How to Balance Web Apps, Application Pools and Site Collections for Optimal Use”, “SharePoint Content Types: Keys to Managing Information Taxonomy”. He also provided sage advice at the “Microsoft Answer Session” and put in a plug for Colligo too which was appreciated.

Also, another Colligo partner, Errin O’Connor, the founder of EPC Group and author of “Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Inside Out” spoke on “Calculating SharePoint’s ROI” in the closing key note.

There will be a SPTechCon in Boston on June 22-24 at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge. Hope to see you there.