About Enterprise Search User Group               The user group aims to provide valuable and timely information to its members so as to foster the Microsoft Enterprise Search community’s growth locally in New York and worldwide via live broadcast presentations and recorded sessions.  Its primary goal is to provide the opportunity and platform for otherwise disparate practices and business groups, to come together and share thoughts, ideas, successes and failures, in order to raise the bar - to increase quality across the board and grow a borderless body of knowledge.  We hope to help users, service and product providers, and business organizations broadly understand: ·        How can my company use Microsoft search solutions better? ·        How can I better recognize existing need for Microsoft search solutions within the organization? ·        How can I effectively position Microsoft search solutions within my company when I see a fit for it? ·        Where can I find help – online, in person, from Microsoft and vendors? ·        How can I successfuly build business case for Enterprise Search in my company and drive end-user adoption. Typical meeting agenda: ·       Meetings are being held on every second Wednesday of each month, begin @ 5:30 PM EDT ·        Networking from 5:30 to 6:00 PM ·        “News this week” from 6:00 to 6:10PM. o   Highlight key events that took place in the Microsoft search world since the last meeting. ·        Sponsor message: 6:10 to 6:30 o   Allow our primary sponsor to speak about his/her product to the user group for 20 minutes. ·        Speaker presentation: 6:30 to 7:25 ·        Raffle: 7:25 to 7:30 Address: 1290 Avenue of the Americas, Sixth Floor New York, NY 10104