User Groups and Professional Associations

Do any of you attend user groups or other professional associations?

I have been to a few of the local SharePoint groups meetings here and found them to be little more than marketing for this or that consultency company. But I have decided I am going to start attending the local SQL Server group and give the SharePoint group a second chance. If you have attended any of the meetings in your area, how have they helped you?

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veritas_libertas

ISSA: Information Systems Security Association

I try to be as active as I can within my local chapter.

RobertKaucher

veritas_libertas wrote: »

ISSA: Information Systems Security Association

I try to be as active as I can within my local chapter.

What do you get out of it? How has it helped you?

veritas_libertas

Well, there have been quite a few good speakers for our meetings. They also have training on different security issues. I don't know if this is common for all local groups or not. I made a thread about some of these events:

http://www.techexams.net/forums/security-certifications/50216-cool-issa-opportunities-coming-up-greenville-sc.html

RobertKaucher

I only went to two SharePoint meetings because they were both this consulting firm coming in and explaining what they did to multi-national company's externally facing portal to ake it pretty.

That's not the kind of stuff I would find useful. I want to have speakers who use this stuff daily at a high level and who are willing to detail how they got it done.