{"id":586,"date":"2008-07-16T20:22:50","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T01:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/?p=586"},"modified":"2008-07-19T18:21:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T23:21:02","slug":"international-sharepoint-professionals-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/2008\/07\/16\/international-sharepoint-professionals-association\/","title":{"rendered":"International SharePoint Professionals Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/bobfox.securespsite.com\/FoxBlog\/Lists\/Posts\/Post.aspx?ID=98\">Bob Fox<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/?attachment_id=587\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-587\" title=\"ISPA\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharepointpros.org\/Pages\/Default.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/ispa-medium_live.jpg\" alt=\"ISPA\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharepointpros.org\/Pages\/Default.aspx\">International SharePoint Professionals Association<\/a>, also known as \u2018ISPA\u2019, is an independent, not-for-profit, community-driven organization dedicated to support SharePoint professionals and groups all around the world. The primary mission of ISPA is to promote the global adoption of SharePoint Technologies by providing support and guidance to the SharePoint community as a whole \u2013 by establishing connections between SharePoint professionals, groups, resources, education and information. ISPA is led and supported by volunteers across the world, and will focus on bringing the entire SharePoint community closer together.<\/p>\n<p>ISPA\u2019s first offering to the community is support to user groups around the world through free WSS v3 web sites for any group that becomes ISPA-affiliated. In addition, one of the goals of ISPA is to facilitate an exchange of ideas between user group leaders that helps increase the likelihood of their group\u2019s success. Therefore, ISPA is providing leaders of user groups with access to collaborative spaces where they can interact with other user group leaders, sharing ideas, resources, best practices, guidance, and most importantly \u2013 support for one another.<\/p>\n<p>ISPA has also established Regional Evangelists \u2013 existing community leaders who have previously exhibited a strong commitment to the promotion of the SharePoint community, and who have pledged to carry the ISPA message throughout their particular region. These evangelists are key local contacts who are available to work with local SharePoint professionals and user groups throughout their region to help promote the community and SharePoint. If you are interested in starting a user group, have an existing one, or need guidance \u2013 the ISPA Regional Evangelists are great resources who are available immediately to assist you.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, as everyone knows, no community is complete without a web site, and ISPA is proud to announce the launch of its official site, http:\/\/www.sharepointpros.org. While the web site is still in the early stages of development, plans for multilingual support and exciting functionality that will assist anyone involved with SharePoint are on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharepointpros.org\/Pages\/ISPARegionalEvangelists.aspx\">list <\/a>of Regional Evangelists. I and <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/erobillard\">Eli Robillard<\/a>\u00a0 are covering Canada. The site is in work-in-progress mode and I&#8217;ve promised Bob Fox to give him a hand on improving it (so far I have done nothing on the site;)). If you have any questions , please feel free to <a href=\"http:\/\/devhorizon.com\/contactus.aspx?l=1&amp;p=80\">contact<\/a> me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Bob Fox The International SharePoint Professionals Association, also known as \u2018ISPA\u2019, is an independent, not-for-profit, community-driven organization dedicated to support SharePoint professionals and groups all around the world. 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