The recently formed International SharePoint Professionals Association (ISPA) is an independent, not-for-profit, community-driven organization dedicated to support SharePoint professionals and groups all around the world. The primary mission is to promote the global adoption of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies by providing support and guidance to the community as a whole - by establishing connections between SharePoint professionals and groups, resources, education and information. For more information about the ISPA, check out their website at http://www.sharepointpros.org/ and for some more insight, read Bob Fox's blog who is a SharePoint MVP and founding board member of the ISPA.

I am excited that the Toronto SharePoint Users Group (TSPUG) is on the map! I’ve been an active member of TSPUG for a few years now. If you work with SharePoint in any capacity and reside in the Greater Toronto Area, I encourage you to keep an eye on the activities of TSPUG. Although the users group is currently on summer break and will reconvene in September, we have monthly meetings (September - June) that include a meet and greet, Q&A Roundtable and a presentation based on a topic requested by the user group. We also host the Toronto SharePoint Camp which is a free annual one day conference put on by the SharePoint community, for the SharePoint community. The next Toronto SharePoint Camp will be held in the Fall, and I will post details as soon as they are made available.

It is great to see the formation of the ISPA as I know many n the community who have been working hard for quite a while to get this off the ground. Thanks to everyone who was involved in getting the ISPA going, and special thanks to Eli Robillard and Reza Alirezaei for being the ISPA Evangelists for Canada. The Canadian SharePoint community has great leaders, and I look forward to what the future will bring.

Cheers.