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Shawn Shell

Founder and Principal , Consejo

Biography

Shawn Shell

Shawn Shell is the founder and Principal consultant at Consejo, Inc., a firm specializing in the development of information worker solutions. Shawn has spent more than twenty years in the information technology field.  He has both a broad and deep range of expertise, from operational support to application development to information technology strategy.  For more than the last decade, Shawn has concentrated on the development of content management solutions using primarily Microsoft-based technologies, including SharePoint, Content Management Server, Office and EPiServer.

He is an internationally recognized expert in SharePoint-based solutions and a sought-after speaker at industry events.   In his role as Principal Consultant, Shawn is responsible for the overall management of Consejo, as well as strategic consulting work for a wide range of Consejo clients.

In addition to his work at Consejo, Shawn is a Contributing Analyst for the Real Story Group, where he writes about SharePoint and the SharePoint ecosystem. Shawn was also a co-author of “Microsoft Content Management Server 2002: A Complete Guide” published by Addison-Wesley. He actively blogs and you can follow him on Twitter (@shawnshell).

Prior to founding Consejo, Shawn held various management roles at Dell, Inc.  Before Dell, he was an adjust professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University and started his career at Warner-Lambert Company (now Pfizer).

Consejo

Consejo is a Chicago-based technology consulting firm for small & medium businesses and not-for-profit agencies. They work with the challenges of leveraging technology in organizations that don’t have large budgets or “infinite” staff resources and operate on the philosophy that the technology should supplement and enhance productivity, not create more work.

Tutorial

Creating a Compelling Intranet Solution using SharePoint 2010

Tutorial Day, Tuesday November 2nd, 9.00-12.00

Many organizations today use SharePoint as an intranet platform.  The benefit is being able to use all of the robust functionality SharePoint provides “out of the box.”  However, few organizations completely understand the nuances or full capabilities before they start implementing.  During this pre-conference seminar, Consejo’s Principal Consultant and internationally recognized SharePoint expert, Shawn Shell, will demonstrate how to create a compelling Intranet for organizations of all sizes.  He will specifically discuss the following:

  • Intranet basics on SharePoint
  • Creating dashboards and other “intelligence” features
  • Implementing social features
  • Effective taxonomy and metadata in a multi-lingual environment
  • Using SharePoint features to help enforce good governance

See slides online

Presentation

Connecting Diverse Customers or Citizens to your Organization in an Meaningful Way through the Web

Track: Collaboration
Conference Day #2, Thursday November 4th, 16.00-17.00

Organizations that sell to channel partners instead of direct to consumers are constantly challenged: how to best give the sales force visibility into account activity,  how to provide the right tools to trade accounts to improve customer service, creating opportunities to improve revenue for the producer and better service to the customer and how to make both experiences – sales and customer – compelling.  If you operate in multiple countries and in multiple languages, these challenges are multiplied.  The answer is that you can and Maui Jim has done it with a trade portal built on SharePoint 2010.

During this talk, Shawn Shell, Principal Consultant with Consejo, will discuss the basic business challenges Maui Jim was trying to overcome, background data from the sales force (and their accounts), what features of SharePoint helped create and show you the outcome.  Topics include:

  • Understanding the communities of users
  • Creating a compelling experience
  • Drawing on SharePoint as a platform and writing bespoke components where appropriate
  • Providing tools to help the sales force and their customers collaborate to improve both sales and customer service

See slides online

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