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If you didn't notice, LinkedIn quietly added an in-person event feature to their core application last year. LinkedIn already provides an online community platform through their "Groups" and with this feature they now have support of in-person communities.

At it's most basic level, this new feature allows for Time/Date/Location, attendance tracking, and sending invites through LinkedIn.

How can community leaders and community managers leverage this tool to expand our online and in-person community presence? What are the pitfalls and missing features? Can we integrate or complement local community solutions like Calagator or other tools like Meetup, Facebook, Reddit, and online forums?

Joe Dunn has been evaluating LinkedIn events for several weeks and will be sharing his insights with a brief presentation. Bring your notes and observations on using LinkedIn for community building.

Agenda: 5:00pm - Welcome time 5:45pm - Presentation beings 6:15pm - Group discussion

This location is ADA accessible and located near the Max station on 2nd and Yamhill. Street parking is generally available in the evenings.

Please RSVP on the meetup.com page.

There are a lot of fund raising strategies for your community group. As your community grows you may need to raise funds and you might look at utilizing the vendors in your community as funding sources.

In this presentation and discussion, Joe will provide:

• The breadth of fundraising strategies by communities, and typical revenue models
• Considerations of legally incorporating as a 501c3 vs other options
• Identifying vendors in your community and evaluating their financial potential
• Tips doing outreach to vendors when asking for money
• Understanding what vendors want in exchange for money, and possible ways to balance the interests of everyone
• Objections your vendors might have and ways to negotiate

Bring your experience working with vendors and sponsors. Where have you found success, what horror stories do you have, and think about how we can help other communities do this better.

The presentation should be relevant to online and in-person community groups.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER - WE ARE DISCUSSING A RESCHEDULE.

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Are you interested in running a community group? Do you currently run a community group? Check out the Community Manager Meetup - we bring together all types of community people to share ideas. This includes for-profit & non-profit, online and in person, tech and non-tech.

This presentation:

There are a lot of fund raising strategies for your community group. As your community grows you may need to raise funds and you might look at utilizing the vendors in your community as funding sources.

In this presentation and discussion, Joe will provide:

• The breadth of fundraising strategies by communities, and typical revenue models
• Considerations of legally incorporating as a 501c3 vs other options
• Identifying vendors in your community and evaluating their financial potential
• Tips doing outreach to vendors when asking for money
• Understanding what vendors want in exchange for money, and possible ways to balance the interests of everyone
• Objections your vendors might have and ways to negotiate

Bring your experience working with vendors and sponsors. Where have you found success, what horror stories do you have, and think about how we can help other communities do this better.

The presentation should be relevant to online and in-person community groups.

We're going Meta for this kick off meeting. Join us for a discussion about starting a meetup.com page. To kick off this meeting, Joe Dunn will guide you through the configuration of this meetup page, he will share the secret tips he uses to tap into the broadest community possible, and how to administer, configure, and govern a page once you have it up.

Joe will also compare Meetup.com to other community platforms and event management websites.

Bring your ideas and questions.

Agenda: - Welcome time of 5pm - Presentation starts at 5:45pm - Presentation should end at 6:30pm.

Tungsten Fabric (http://www.tungsten.io; formerly OpenContrail) is an open source, scalable and multi-cloud networking platform. Large enterprises and service providers are using it at massive production scale, and this meetup offers some tips, insights, and "don't go theres" from users with success stories (and some battle scars).

Come to this meetup to learn how users are deploying Tungsten Fabric for load balancing, HA, service chaining, analytics/orchestration and extending network to multi private / public clouds viz., AWS, Azure and Google.

Sanju Abraham will be our speaker. Sanju Abraham will deliver a project overview, showcase users and use cases. Then, we’ll dive into a demo of Kubernetes with Tungsten Fabric across onprem and AWS. We’ll demonstrate the ability to access Kubernetes and launch new containers, access the Tungsten Fabric UI, and observe the network state.

Tungsten Fabric is integrated with Kubernetes, VMware and OpenStack. It also supports public cloud deployments including AWS, Google and Azure. As both Enterprise and Telco IT architectures evolve, supporting multi-cloud environments is table stakes. This meetup will lay out how users can quickly get going with Tungsten Fabric, using software-driven networking and policy management to operate in a multi-cloud environment.

If you’re interested in networking for private clouds running OpenStack, Kubernetes, and VMware that also rely on services from AWS, Google and Azure, this meetup is for you!

Agenda:

5:00pm – Welcome time 5:30pm – Catering served 5:45pm – Group announcements and presentation 7:30pm – Wrap up.

PLEASE RSVP ON THE MEETUP PAGE

Curious how to manage Power BI as an Office 365 administrator? Do you need to understand how User Governance and Permissions interact? Want to know the various features in your Office 365 tenant and in the Power BI application that you need to be aware of? At this meeting Trey Udy address these questions and talk about the Power BI road map.

Agenda:

11:30am - Lunch served and general Q&A

12:00pm - Main presentation.

Looking to get started with Power BI?

Bring your laptop to this hands-on tutorial on Microsoft Power BI. At this meeting of Office 365 PDX we’ll be talking about how end-users can get to work with Power BI. We're thinking of this class as a "Power BI Flight School", where we are teaching the basics of how end-users will navigate and use Power BI, not how to build or maintain complex reports.

We will dive into viewing dashboards, reports, understanding natural language query, Excel, and the other tools a user needs. No prior experience with Power BI is necessary, this session is not very technical, and we’ll be handing out log-in information to get you hands-on in a pre-built environment. Just bring a modern laptop with wifi and an up-to-date web browser.

Do you love a good spreadsheet? We do. Join us.

Please RSVP on the meetup page.

Want to sharpen your Microsoft Excel skills? Talk with other Excel lovers? Join us for another meeting with Oz du Soleil, Microsoft Excel MVP.

At this meeting Oz will provide another deep dive into Power Query and the ways Excel and Power Query work together. There's a lot that Power Query simplifies. It's eliminated the need for some things that were only possible with VBA coding BUT some things remain easier to do in native Excel and damned hard in Power Query. At this meeting, we'll dig into this.

Please RSVP for this event on the Meetup.com page.

Want to improve your Microsoft Excel skills? Check out this new meetup!

Power Query is the best addition to Excel since Office 2010 but it remains largely unknown. Please, come and see a demo of Power Query if you need to do any kind of data-cleansing or data-preparation, like:

• Peel the domains out of email addresses • Convert reports into sortable tables • Compare lists • Stack the data from multiple tabs

These common tasks can be done with built-in Power Query features, whereas, in the olden days some of these tasks required VBA coding or hours of manual effort.

Gaining some Power Query skill is one of the simplest ways to get more from your data. You'll see!

Oz du Soleil is a Microsoft Excel MVP, author of Guerrilla Data Analysis, 2nd Ed., and runs the YouTube channel Excel on Fire. Website: http://ozdusoleil.com/

https://www.meetup.com/Office365PDX/events/249004323/

This is a group for military veterans who work in technology. Details about our April event are here:

https://www.meetup.com/Veterans-in-Technology/events/237767921/

Please register on the Portland SPUG's meetup page for this event, as we will be sending out announcements leading up to the training.

This is an end-user training designed around how to use the basic tools of SharePoint. We will be using a Office 365 SharePoint Online environment (in "classic" mode), so the content covered in this session is applicable to SharePoint 2013.

This three-hour training includes:

• Intro to the SharePoint User Interface • Using SharePoint Lists • Fundamentals of Document Libraries • How to use SharePoint Search

You will need to bring a modern laptop with WiFi.

Are you interested in learning the fundamentals of SharePoint? Join the SharePoint User Group in this free end-user training. This three-hour training includes:

• Intro to the SharePoint User Interface • Using SharePoint Lists • Fundamentals of Document Libraries • How to use SharePoint Search

You will need to bring a modern laptop with WiFi.

Please register on the Meetup.com page.