Michael Greth lives in Berlin, Germany, and is a well-known speaker, author, consultant and trainer for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies since 2001. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for 17 years and leader of the German SharePointCommunity.de and on the Top 25 European SharePoint Influencers for 2014 list. He was part of the Programme Team of the European SharePoint Conferences 2011, 2013, and 2014.

Michael Greth

He specialises in SharePoint as a Social Business platform and helping customers to get more value out of their SharePoint implementation. Michael hosts SharePointPodcast.de, the biweekly audio update for SharePoint users. This podcast runs for almost 10 years and is one of the oldest podcasts in Germany.  Other activities are the video magazine SharePointSendung.de and the German-Swiss-podcast SharepoCalypse.de with Chris Müller. He is also blogging since 2003 about SharePoint and stuff.

Top 5 Twitter Accounts to follow

Mike Gannotti @gannotti – for years he has created unique videos on productivity with SharePoint and is currently broadcasting the Mid Day Café from the Philadelphia MTC whic you can catch here: http://phillymtc.com/

Stefan Pfeiffer @digitalnaiv – Marketing Lead Social Business for IBM in Europe great to follow him to keep up what’s IBM doing with connections and the socicl business

Jeff Willinger @jwillie – lots of interesting thoughts, news and ideas from a renown social business expert

Pawel Bojkowski @giciorek – SharePoint and Office 365 nerd with a focus on Delve, Office Graph, Azure and Yammer

An eBook you would recommend

Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel

Robert and Shel take us on an exciting journey through what they call the contextual world, which is defines by the five forces in the contextual age: mobile, social media, data, sensors and location. You will learn lots about contextual technology and how it will change our lives in many ways.

A Featured Video you believe would be of interest to the European SharePoint Community

If you like tips for being more productive or about using latest technologies you should definitely follow Mike Gannotti on his Youtube channel. With his series “Michael on the Go” Mike has created several hundred of videos recorded in his car when he was on his way to or from a customer talking about his real life experiences. Entertaining and useful.

Highlight a cool SharePoint tool

I don’t want to highlight a single tool but I would like to recommend our community based site SharePointToolBox.de, where we listed lots of interesting and useful add-ons for SharePoint and we have created several 5-10 minutes video reviews about tools that are worth to highlight