In the 3rd of 3 joint webinars with Beezy and CardioLog Analytics, we discussed the basics of gamification, and how you can develop a "motivation hacking" strategy within SharePoint or Office 365 to help shape user behavior and improve adoption and engagement.
Improving Productivity with SharePoint 2013 and GamificationChristian Buckley
An overview of some key productivity enhancements in SharePoint 2013, with guidance on how gamification improves productivity -- and how SharePoint might be used as a gamification platform. Presented with Jussi Mori, Sr. SharePoint Consultant at Peaches Industries.
A closer look at why social collaboration within the enterprise is more like eBay than Facebook, where its about purpose and function, not LOL Cats and pictures of what you ate for breakfast. This is a keynote presentation given at the 'SharePoint Success Stories' event in Cape Town SA in September 2013, followed by sessions at SPSCPT and SPSDBN.
A walkthrough of the business value of enterprise social collaboration, with specific focus on SharePoint, Office365, Yammer, and gamification tactics. Originally presented at Microsoft's NYC offices in May 2013.
What does it take to get people to be more engaged within SharePoint? That's the focus of this session from #SPTechCon, which walks through a design and planning perspective on making SharePoint more productivity-focused.
While Office365 continues to grow at a rapid rate, adoption beyond Exchange can be slow without a strategy in place. This presentation discusses: a "go to market" strategy for a successful Office 365 deployment; productivity features that will enhance adoption; strategies for keeping end users engaged; how to track usage and activity so you can measure your success; and touches on many of the productivity features (Groups, Delve, Yammer, co-editing, etc). The primary focus, however, is on the management/ongoing educational aspects of a successful deployment.
You can find a video recording of this session via #Collab365 at https://youtu.be/uYpPx5R3lPY
The Network Science Behind 'Working Like a Network'Christian Buckley
Slides from my February 10th, 2016 Unity Connect Online (#UCO16) session that looks at why 'working like a network' is not a marketing platitude, but accurately describes the evolution of the information worker and the importance of "information brokering" beyond our known personal and professional networks.
How to boost SharePoint users adoption?
- Use Marketing for innovation and Fun instead of traditionnal training and e-learning
- Simplify as much as possible your collaborative project
The Nuts and Bolts of Measuring SharePoint ActivityChristian Buckley
To determine whether something has been successful, organizations must create a baseline of activity, monitor and measure over time, and then compare the results to the baseline. One of the leading conflicts between business users and IT happens when there is not accurate data around what is actually happening within the system. Thus, measuring the success of SharePoint should begin with SMART goals: specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound.
Slides from a joint webinar with Christian Buckley, Microsoft MVP and CMO of Beezy, and Tal Ben-David from CardioLog Analytics. The intent of this session is to help organizations to learn more about what can be achieved out-of-the-box and through the partner ecosystem to get SharePoint measurements back on track, with a comparison between out-of-the-box SharePoint analytics usage to help attendees understand the direction Microsoft is headed in, as well as an in-depth demonstration of advanced analytics that you can use today to achieve SMART goals.
Improving Productivity with SharePoint 2013 and GamificationChristian Buckley
An overview of some key productivity enhancements in SharePoint 2013, with guidance on how gamification improves productivity -- and how SharePoint might be used as a gamification platform. Presented with Jussi Mori, Sr. SharePoint Consultant at Peaches Industries.
A closer look at why social collaboration within the enterprise is more like eBay than Facebook, where its about purpose and function, not LOL Cats and pictures of what you ate for breakfast. This is a keynote presentation given at the 'SharePoint Success Stories' event in Cape Town SA in September 2013, followed by sessions at SPSCPT and SPSDBN.
A walkthrough of the business value of enterprise social collaboration, with specific focus on SharePoint, Office365, Yammer, and gamification tactics. Originally presented at Microsoft's NYC offices in May 2013.
What does it take to get people to be more engaged within SharePoint? That's the focus of this session from #SPTechCon, which walks through a design and planning perspective on making SharePoint more productivity-focused.
While Office365 continues to grow at a rapid rate, adoption beyond Exchange can be slow without a strategy in place. This presentation discusses: a "go to market" strategy for a successful Office 365 deployment; productivity features that will enhance adoption; strategies for keeping end users engaged; how to track usage and activity so you can measure your success; and touches on many of the productivity features (Groups, Delve, Yammer, co-editing, etc). The primary focus, however, is on the management/ongoing educational aspects of a successful deployment.
You can find a video recording of this session via #Collab365 at https://youtu.be/uYpPx5R3lPY
The Network Science Behind 'Working Like a Network'Christian Buckley
Slides from my February 10th, 2016 Unity Connect Online (#UCO16) session that looks at why 'working like a network' is not a marketing platitude, but accurately describes the evolution of the information worker and the importance of "information brokering" beyond our known personal and professional networks.
How to boost SharePoint users adoption?
- Use Marketing for innovation and Fun instead of traditionnal training and e-learning
- Simplify as much as possible your collaborative project
The Nuts and Bolts of Measuring SharePoint ActivityChristian Buckley
To determine whether something has been successful, organizations must create a baseline of activity, monitor and measure over time, and then compare the results to the baseline. One of the leading conflicts between business users and IT happens when there is not accurate data around what is actually happening within the system. Thus, measuring the success of SharePoint should begin with SMART goals: specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound.
Slides from a joint webinar with Christian Buckley, Microsoft MVP and CMO of Beezy, and Tal Ben-David from CardioLog Analytics. The intent of this session is to help organizations to learn more about what can be achieved out-of-the-box and through the partner ecosystem to get SharePoint measurements back on track, with a comparison between out-of-the-box SharePoint analytics usage to help attendees understand the direction Microsoft is headed in, as well as an in-depth demonstration of advanced analytics that you can use today to achieve SMART goals.
Presentation with fellow MVP Jussi Mori (@jussimori) from Peaches Industries at the European SharePoint Conference (#ESPC16) in Vienna, Austria on the topic of gamification.
SharePoint Adoption Solutions with GamificationJoel Oleson
Adoption is one of the biggest challenge for an Intranet. In this session on the hurdles to success we dive into the challenges and some gamification ideas and solutions to adoption.
Most enterprises are trying to understand -- and roll out -- social capabilities across the enterprise, but many are concerned about the lack of governance controls for social activities in SharePoint and Yammer. This presentation helps set the stage for what is available out of the box, and what organizations should be thinking about to better govern their social deployments.
The Power of Enterprise Social and Gamification to Boost User AdoptionChristian Buckley
While enterprise social collaboration is something talked about and recognized within the industry, the idea of utilizing Gamification is still widely misunderstood. When you talk about Gamification, you might think about Points, Badges, and Leaderboards (PBL) within your application or intranet, with the goal of driving user engagement through the roof. This scenario is only partly true. The fact is, adding simple Gamification elements to your environment might have a positive short-term effect on user engagement metrics, but these tools may only appeal to a small sub-set of your users – and even then, will not likely provide lasting improvement.
In this presentation by Microsoft MVPs Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet) and Jussi Mori (@JussiMori), we look beyond PBLs and help you to envision how enterprise social and strategic use of Gamification can provide lasting value and increase end user engagement within your environment. We will examine the core drivers of successful enterprise collaboration, discuss the factors that motivate people, and share real-world scenarios of how you can apply these principles within your own organization to drive user engagement and adoption. Specifically, we will provide customer examples where Gamification was implemented successfully, and show you how this could be adapted to improve productivity and efficiency in SharePoint and Office 365.
Exploring the SharePoint 2013 Community Site TemplateSusan Hanley
Presentation that reviews tips and tricks for using the SharePoint 2013 Community Site template to support online communities of practice and moderated discussion forums.
Mobility solutions have become business-critical. In this presentation, Beezy CMO and Microsoft MVP Christian Buckley breaks down the key trends of the mobility movement, and discusses how enterprises need to stay one step ahead with their technology in order to keep employees engaged and motivated.
Presentation about whether Microsoft SharePoint is suitable for use as a CMS by Frank MacDonald from Heriot-Watt University at the April meeting of the Scottish Web Folk in Glasgow. (Uploaded with permission.)
The Nuts and Bolts of Teams, Groups and Conversation as-a-ServiceChristian Buckley
Within Office 365, we have multiple methods for social collaboration. Organizations around the world are struggling to understand which tool to use when -- but this is the wrong premise. In this session, we'll discuss the broader concept of 'conversation as a service' and how Microsoft Teams, Outlook Groups, Yammer, and SharePoint all fit together -- and show you how to get the most out of all of them.
Within the Office 365 ecosystem, what is the best method to have your message heard by the right audience? This presentation walks through the different options in the Microsoft arena, including SharePoint News and Communication Sites, Yammer, Teams, and more.
Measuring the Impact of SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint OnlineChristian Buckley
Webinar presented on June 16, 2016 by Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), CMO from Beezy and 5-time Microsoft MVP, and Mark Kashman (@mkashman), Senior Product Manager from Microsoft. This session discusses some of the results from the #MeasureCollabSuccess initiative looking at how organizations define and measure their collaboration efforts, and provides a view into how the recent "Future of SharePoint announcements from Microsoft (May 4, 2016) will impact those success efforts. Recording available at www.Beezy.net
A successful collaboration strategy includes technology, process alignment, and the user experiences. However, organizations tend to focus the most on technology, and the least on people -- when the opposite should be true. As this presentation explains, culture is the key to any successful collaboration strategy.
iConnect 2015 – the Coca Cola Enterprises intranetIntranätverk
Presented by Jonathan Phillips, Coca-Cola Enterprises at Intranätverk 2015: Gothenburg, 21 May.
The presentation will focus on the following topics:
- From research to delivery – a journey through the new Coca-Cola Enterprises’ intranet
- Designing for the mobile worker
- Cross-functional governance; cross-functional site
Driving Organizational Change with Yammer and SharePointharmon.ie
Smart businesses understand that successful organizational initiatives entail a lot more than just buying technology. They require crafting and executing a results-oriented business strategy, a people strategy, as well as a technology strategy.
In this webinar, Microsoft MVP Michael Greth and harmon.ie VP Product Strategy, David Lavenda, explore how providing workers with a unified Yammer/SharePoint experience can connect people and technology, thereby driving the organizational change needed to achieve strategic business goals.
Proven Strategies for increasing Adoption and EngagementChristian Buckley
While Office 365 continues to grow at a rapid rate, adoption can be slow and difficult without a strategy in place. This presentation covers a number of different topics that all have an impact on end user adoption and engagement. This presentation shares: a "go to market" strategy for a successful Office 365 deployment; productivity features that will enhance adoption; strategies for keeping end users engaged; how to track usage and activity so you can measure your success; and touches on many of the productivity features (Groups, Delve, Yammer, co-editing, etc). The primary focus, however, is on the management/ongoing educational aspects of a successful deployment.
GrowFL: Improve Employee and Customer Experience in a Hybrid Work EnvironmentAdam Levithan
It is a time for transition as organizations not only balance working remotely and in-office, but your clients will also want a combination of in-person and remote experiences. How does a growing organization manage productivity and collaboration, while providing continued customer service in this scenario? The answer is automation, allowing you to utilize your human capital to it's optimum. Join us as Adam Levithan, Principal of Product Management at Withum and a Microsoft MVP, walks through the process and options readily available to your business.
Presentation with fellow MVP Jussi Mori (@jussimori) from Peaches Industries at the European SharePoint Conference (#ESPC16) in Vienna, Austria on the topic of gamification.
SharePoint Adoption Solutions with GamificationJoel Oleson
Adoption is one of the biggest challenge for an Intranet. In this session on the hurdles to success we dive into the challenges and some gamification ideas and solutions to adoption.
Most enterprises are trying to understand -- and roll out -- social capabilities across the enterprise, but many are concerned about the lack of governance controls for social activities in SharePoint and Yammer. This presentation helps set the stage for what is available out of the box, and what organizations should be thinking about to better govern their social deployments.
The Power of Enterprise Social and Gamification to Boost User AdoptionChristian Buckley
While enterprise social collaboration is something talked about and recognized within the industry, the idea of utilizing Gamification is still widely misunderstood. When you talk about Gamification, you might think about Points, Badges, and Leaderboards (PBL) within your application or intranet, with the goal of driving user engagement through the roof. This scenario is only partly true. The fact is, adding simple Gamification elements to your environment might have a positive short-term effect on user engagement metrics, but these tools may only appeal to a small sub-set of your users – and even then, will not likely provide lasting improvement.
In this presentation by Microsoft MVPs Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet) and Jussi Mori (@JussiMori), we look beyond PBLs and help you to envision how enterprise social and strategic use of Gamification can provide lasting value and increase end user engagement within your environment. We will examine the core drivers of successful enterprise collaboration, discuss the factors that motivate people, and share real-world scenarios of how you can apply these principles within your own organization to drive user engagement and adoption. Specifically, we will provide customer examples where Gamification was implemented successfully, and show you how this could be adapted to improve productivity and efficiency in SharePoint and Office 365.
Exploring the SharePoint 2013 Community Site TemplateSusan Hanley
Presentation that reviews tips and tricks for using the SharePoint 2013 Community Site template to support online communities of practice and moderated discussion forums.
Mobility solutions have become business-critical. In this presentation, Beezy CMO and Microsoft MVP Christian Buckley breaks down the key trends of the mobility movement, and discusses how enterprises need to stay one step ahead with their technology in order to keep employees engaged and motivated.
Presentation about whether Microsoft SharePoint is suitable for use as a CMS by Frank MacDonald from Heriot-Watt University at the April meeting of the Scottish Web Folk in Glasgow. (Uploaded with permission.)
The Nuts and Bolts of Teams, Groups and Conversation as-a-ServiceChristian Buckley
Within Office 365, we have multiple methods for social collaboration. Organizations around the world are struggling to understand which tool to use when -- but this is the wrong premise. In this session, we'll discuss the broader concept of 'conversation as a service' and how Microsoft Teams, Outlook Groups, Yammer, and SharePoint all fit together -- and show you how to get the most out of all of them.
Within the Office 365 ecosystem, what is the best method to have your message heard by the right audience? This presentation walks through the different options in the Microsoft arena, including SharePoint News and Communication Sites, Yammer, Teams, and more.
Measuring the Impact of SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint OnlineChristian Buckley
Webinar presented on June 16, 2016 by Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), CMO from Beezy and 5-time Microsoft MVP, and Mark Kashman (@mkashman), Senior Product Manager from Microsoft. This session discusses some of the results from the #MeasureCollabSuccess initiative looking at how organizations define and measure their collaboration efforts, and provides a view into how the recent "Future of SharePoint announcements from Microsoft (May 4, 2016) will impact those success efforts. Recording available at www.Beezy.net
A successful collaboration strategy includes technology, process alignment, and the user experiences. However, organizations tend to focus the most on technology, and the least on people -- when the opposite should be true. As this presentation explains, culture is the key to any successful collaboration strategy.
iConnect 2015 – the Coca Cola Enterprises intranetIntranätverk
Presented by Jonathan Phillips, Coca-Cola Enterprises at Intranätverk 2015: Gothenburg, 21 May.
The presentation will focus on the following topics:
- From research to delivery – a journey through the new Coca-Cola Enterprises’ intranet
- Designing for the mobile worker
- Cross-functional governance; cross-functional site
Driving Organizational Change with Yammer and SharePointharmon.ie
Smart businesses understand that successful organizational initiatives entail a lot more than just buying technology. They require crafting and executing a results-oriented business strategy, a people strategy, as well as a technology strategy.
In this webinar, Microsoft MVP Michael Greth and harmon.ie VP Product Strategy, David Lavenda, explore how providing workers with a unified Yammer/SharePoint experience can connect people and technology, thereby driving the organizational change needed to achieve strategic business goals.
Proven Strategies for increasing Adoption and EngagementChristian Buckley
While Office 365 continues to grow at a rapid rate, adoption can be slow and difficult without a strategy in place. This presentation covers a number of different topics that all have an impact on end user adoption and engagement. This presentation shares: a "go to market" strategy for a successful Office 365 deployment; productivity features that will enhance adoption; strategies for keeping end users engaged; how to track usage and activity so you can measure your success; and touches on many of the productivity features (Groups, Delve, Yammer, co-editing, etc). The primary focus, however, is on the management/ongoing educational aspects of a successful deployment.
GrowFL: Improve Employee and Customer Experience in a Hybrid Work EnvironmentAdam Levithan
It is a time for transition as organizations not only balance working remotely and in-office, but your clients will also want a combination of in-person and remote experiences. How does a growing organization manage productivity and collaboration, while providing continued customer service in this scenario? The answer is automation, allowing you to utilize your human capital to it's optimum. Join us as Adam Levithan, Principal of Product Management at Withum and a Microsoft MVP, walks through the process and options readily available to your business.
Good, Better, Best Strategies for Social Adoption in SharePointChristian Buckley
The world is witnessing the dawn of the social organization, with rapidly evolving solutions that impact team dynamics, collaboration, and real-time communication. For many managers, it can difficult keeping up with all of the features and roadmaps. New options within SharePoint, Office365 and Yammer are exciting, but many teams struggle to develop a social strategy that aligns with their business needs.
This session will walk through the levels of SharePoint and Yammer integration available today as well as other features, such as Delve and Office Graph, providing some real-world examples and guidance to help attendees make more informed choices and develop the right social strategy for their organizations.
Now that SharePoint is Deployed, How do I Measure Success?Christian Buckley
Session from the June 20, 2016 Unity Connect Online conference. This session shares data from the #MeasureCollabSuccess initiative and discusses the planning issues surrounding the definition of collaboration success with SharePoint, and how to begin developing the right monitoring and measurement strategy.
Once available, you will find the session recording here: https://www.unityconnect.com/online/session/sessionid/463
Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce: What You Need To Know Before Choosing a Pl...Community IT Innovators
Making the move to a platform like Microsoft Dynamics or Salesforce can fuel your nonprofit’s digital transformation. These platforms allow you to manage and engage with constituents in new ways, create more unified experiences for them, and transform how your organization works.
But do you know where your organization should start when choosing a technology platform?
Kyle Haines, Partner at Build Consulting, shares some of the questions your organization should answer before making significant investments in a platform like Microsoft Dynamics or Salesforce.
In this webinar, he covers
What is Microsoft Dynamics? How does it compare to Salesforce?
How do you analyze your business needs and stakeholder needs when considering a new platform or upgrade that will have a broad impact on your entire organization?
How will a new platform change your organization? Are you ready to capitalize on the potential for change?
Additionally, he shares his experience on what makes platform selections and implementations successful, and how to position your organization to take advantage of the opportunities a new platform brings.
We know our nonprofits will be called on over the next few years to provide more support to our communities than ever before. Put your best foot forward now with tech projects that position your organization to deliver on your mission at this critical time.
Kyle spends over 15 minutes on Q&A after the webinar, discussing real-life questions from your nonprofit colleagues on the advantages to consider when moving forward with either the Microsoft Dynamics or Salesforce platforms.
As with all our webinars, this presentation is appropriate for an audience of varied IT experience.
What are top industry experts saying about privacy regulations, the future of digital analytics, and improving data quality?
What are other leading analytics teams doing to foster success?
What strategies can you implement to improve your analytics implementations?
Answers to these questions help analysts and organizations improve their data quality to create better user experiences, expand their brand influence, and increase revenue.
The best part, you can find answers in this ebook from leaders like James McCormick from Forrester, Adam Greco and Michele Kiss from Analytics Demystified, Krista Seiden from Quantcast, and many others. You will also gain insights from other analytics teams who have shared their personal tips and tricks to hack the analytics problems analysts face daily. You’ll discover how to:
Implement strategies to put the customer first to create better user experiences.
How to improve your data intelligence maturity to increase ROI.
Getting executive buy-in to increase the importance of data quality within your organization.
And so much more.
Collaboration Excellence: Strategies for Enabling a Social BusinessPerficient, Inc.
What goes in to creating exceptional work and web experiences in a social business?
It goes far beyond a simple “build it and they will come” mentality.
Through the use of collaboration tools, enterprises can engage workers, drive innovation, find efficiencies, mobilize workforces, empower leaders and much more.
Socially synergistic enterprises 10 june m. baronMarcel Baron
Presentation I used at the 5th Annual New Product Development Strategies Amsterdam.
The GTO charts are whitened intentionally you can download content from the IBM site use the link.
Infusionsoft Socially Enabled Internal Communication ProposalKimberle Morrison
We're growing and needed a more effective and scalable way to communicate internally. This presentation outlines our process and the rationale behind how and why we decided to go with a socially enabled system for communication and collaboration
Solving Today's HR, Communication & Leadership Challenges With Microsoft 365 ...Richard Harbridge
Microsoft 365 Intranets are capable of a lot more than just getting key corporate messaging out.
Internal Communications leaders have shifted from editors to enablers. With that shift comes a change from enforcing messaging to empowering and amplifying excellent communications and great ideas throughout the business. From preboarding to offboarding, HR's challenges are harder today than they have ever been before. Naturally, how these leaders leverage the digital workplace has changed as well, especially in how they leverage technology to achieve more with less.
Join our Product Offering Lead, Anders Fagerlund, and the CTO of 2toLead, Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP and internationally recognized expert on Microsoft 365 and the Digital Workplace. This webinar will explore ideas and solutions that HR and Corporate Communications have embraced to improve how, where, and when they engage with employees.
We will discuss:
How to best leverage SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and Yammer for modern communications.
How to take advantage of AI and Microsoft technology to accelerate and improve key communication and content.
Microsoft Intranet's best practices and approach that can make all the difference.
There will also be a short Q&A session at the end of the webinar.
Target audience
This event is primarily aimed at roles like CIO, CCO, CTO, Digital Workplace or Intranet Managers or similar roles within organizations planning to improve their digital workplace based on Microsoft technology.
We are social creatures and we crave social interaction. This presentation from SPSNYC is about how we build social solutions to our business problems...today.
How Social Adds Value to Talent Management- Q4 CIPDMark Osborn
Presented at the CIPD Conference with Pagit Miles. Today businesses understand that the effectiveness of their employees is a significant competitive driver. IBM believes that embedding Social ways of working into an organisation can add value at every stage of the employee life cycle. This session will demonstrate how and why social should be at the core of businesses' Talent initiatives and by aligning social to HR processes organisations can increase productivity, engagement, performance and retention.
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In this latest installment of the M365 Productivity Tips series from the January 21, 2023 M365 Twin Cities event (www.M365TC.com), Tom Duff (@duffbert) and Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet) return with another head-to-head battle of the Microsoft 365 productivity hints and tips.
Follow us on Twitter for future webinars and sessions where we'll share more great tips, and be sure to follow the CollabTalk YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/@buckleyplanet
Microsoft Teams is the fastest-growing product in Microsoft history, providing a powerful platform for collaboration and communication. However, because Teams was built on the backs of two leading workloads: SharePoint and Exchange, managing the security, compliance, and governance of Teams comes with some additional complexity. In this session, Christian walks through 10 essentials for effective Teams governance to help you 'know where to go' to meet your organizational requirements.
Understanding the Culture of Collaboration in your OrganizationChristian Buckley
Presented at Commsverse 2022
When looking at the collaboration culture within your organization, there are three areas where you can focus: people, process, and technology. The number one mistake that organizations make is that we typically focus most of our time and attention on technology...and the least on people. In this session, we'll tackle the various collaboration "profiles" in modern work, and how we can better leverage our technology to drive better people outcomes.
20 Microsoft Teams Productivity Tips that You've Probably Never Used (But Sho...Christian Buckley
Presented at Commsverse 2022
In this fun and informative session, Microsoft RD & MVP Christian Buckley will share 20 of his favorite Microsoft Teams productivity tips, with a focus on personal productivity. While there may be a few you're currently using, attendees should walk away with at least 4 or 5 gems that can have an immediate impact on their own (and their team’s) productivity.
Presentation shared with the Melbourne Australia-based #M365 Adoption User Group on January 31st, 2022.
Abstract: As organizations investigate the Microsoft Viva offerings and begin to develop their own Employee Experience strategies, one common question is: What can I do today to prepare for these new solutions? In this session, we'll cover the 4 business areas of Microsoft Viva (Culture & Communications, Productivity & Wellbeing, Knowledge & Expertise, Skilling & Growth) and their current (pre-Viva deployment) state, and what can/should be done to prepare for Viva. In addition, we'll walk through the customer and partner resources available to organizations to help you develop a comprehensive strategy.
Presented on October 15, 2021 at the aMS Southeast Asia event (online) by Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Microsoft MVP+RD and Microsoft GTM Director at AvePoint Inc.
Presented to the Minnesota Microsoft 365 User Group (https://mn365.org/) on June 14th, 2021 by Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet) and Tom Duff (@duffbert), covering 20 of our favorite hints and tips for the M365 platform, including SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, OneNote, PowerPoint, and more!
20 M365 Productivity Tips That You've Probably Never Used (But Should)Christian Buckley
Sometimes you attend sessions that cover deep and complex topics that require a lot of attention, thought, and work on the part of the attendee… and then there is this one. Presented April 28th, 2021 as part of the M365 Virtual Marathon event.
In this fun and informative session, Microsoft MVP+RD Christian Buckley will present some of his favorite Microsoft 365 Productivity tips. The tips shared will focus on personal productivity, spanning the entire M365 platform (Yammer, SharePoint Online, Office ProPlus, etc).
Attendees should walk away with two or three gems that could change the way they work on a daily basis.
In this latest installment of the M365 Productivity Tips series, Tom Duff (@duffbert) and Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet) return with another head-to-head battle of the Microsoft Office and Office 365 productivity hints and tips, recorded December 29th, 2020 with participants voting on each round.
Follow us on Twitter for future webinars and sessions where we'll share more great tips, and be sure to follow the CollabTalk YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/c/collabtalk
In this latest installment of the M365 Productivity Tips series, Tom Duff (@duffbert) and Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet) return with another head-to-head battle of the Microsoft Office and Office 365 productivity hints and tips, recorded November 24th, 2020 with participants voting on each round.
Follow us on Twitter for future webinars and sessions where we'll share more great tips, and be sure to follow the CollabTalk YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/c/collabtalk
Microsoft RD and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet) and Tom Duff (@duffbert) go head-to-head to share some of their favorite Microsoft Office and Office 365 productivity tips. Captured on October 27th, 2020 as a CollabTalk webinar, and part of our ongoing productivity series.
20 Microsoft 365 Productivity Tips That You've Probably Never Used (But Should)Christian Buckley
20 of my favorite Microsoft 365 productivity tips across multiple workloads, providing a variety of individual and team benefits. Presented at the North American Collab Summit (#collabsummit) in Branson, MO on September 29th, 2020. This is a collection of hints & tips presented by Microsoft RD+MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet) and Tom Duff (@duffbert) as a part of the M365 Productivity Tips webinar series, which you can find at https://youtube.com/c/collabtalk/
Ordering the Chaos: Combatting Teams and SharePoint Content SprawlChristian Buckley
Egnyte webinar on the problem of sprawl in Microsoft 365, specifically within SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and OneDrive workloads. Held August 6th, 2020 with Christian Buckley, Microsoft MVP+RD and Founder of CollabTalk LLC, Stephen Hand, Director of IT and Cybersecurity at Tilson, and Kyle Wallstedt, Sr. Solutions Architect with Egnyte. You can watch the entire presentation on-demand at https://pages.egnyte.com/ContentSprawlWebinar-Video.html
Building a More Diverse Workforce in the Partner ChannelChristian Buckley
A research-based practice development playbook and resource set to help Microsoft partners recruit and retain a more diverse workforce. Authored by Barb Levisay, with research conducted by CollabTalk LLC and the BYU Marriott School of Management and commissioned by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Tech Data, and Microsoft.
You can find additional CollabTalk research links and downloads at https://www.buckleyplanet.com/2019/12/collabtalk-research-link-list.html
In this latest installment of the M365 Productivity Tips series, Tom Duff (@duffbert) and Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet) return with another head-to-head battle of the Microsoft Office and Office 365 productivity hints and tips, recorded June 23rd, 2020 with viewers voting on each round.
Follow us on Twitter for future webinars and sessions where we'll share more great tips, and be sure to follow the CollabTalk YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/c/collabtalk
20 More Tips to Improve Productivity with Microsoft TeamsChristian Buckley
Presentation delivered via webinar on June 18th, 2020 by Russ Basiura (@russbasiura), a Microsoft Teams Evangelist at Accel365, and Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet) a Microsoft MVP and Regional Director and the Founder of CollabTalk LLC. In this session, we share another 20 of our favorite productivity tips to help you get more out of the #MicrosoftTeams platform, adding onto the 20 tips we provided in another session in May.
20 Microsoft 365 Tips You've Probably Never Used (But Should)Christian Buckley
Presentation from the Microsoft 365 Virtual Summit on May 28th, 2020. This was a collection of tips gathered through my ongoing webinar series with Tom Duff (@duffbert), which you can find out about at https://www.buckleyplanet.com/2019/03/o365-productivity-tips-links.html
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
From Daily Decisions to Bottom Line: Connecting Product Work to Revenue by VP...
Gamification: Motivational Hacking for SharePoint
1.
2. Christian Buckley
CMO at Beezy + Office Servers and Services MVP
www.beezy.net
@buckleyplanet
cbuck@beezy.net
www.buckleyplanet.com
3. Beezy is the premier enterprise collaboration solution for Microsoft
Office 365 and SharePoint, extending the feature set and improving the
user experience for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployments. We are
on a mission to transform the way people work, and to help employees
be more connected, innovative, and happy.
Learn more at www.beezy.net or @FollowBeezy on Twitter.
4. Jussi Mori
at Peaches Industries
www.peachesindustries.com
j.mori@peachesindustries.ch
@JussiMori
5. Peaches Industries is a highly specialized service and solution provider
working around the Microsoft Office Server and Office 365 stack. Our
main expertise is in solution design, information architecture, user
engagement and adoption as well as UI and UX design to make
Intranets and its users more effective
Learn more at www.peachesindustries.com or follow us on Twitter
@PeachesGmbH
Our lighthouse product:
Gravity – The user engagement Framework
• Simple and smooth user adoption
• User engagement and motivation engine
• Player based content
• Empowers “Wellbeing at work”
Read more at http://gravity.global
6. Tal Ben-David
Alliance and Partner Manager at CardioLog Analytics
www.intlock.com
Tal.ben-david@intlock.com
@cardiolog
Blog.intlock.com
7. CardioLog Analytics, developed by Intlock, is the only on-premises
analytics solution for SharePoint/Office 365 serving enterprises,
providing deep insight into the performance of web and portal
initiatives through testing, tracking and targeting, ultimately enabling
you to optimize your site's impact and maximize the return on your
investment.
9. When IT and business stakeholders join forces,
the possibilities for increased productivity and
connectedness grow exponentially.
10. The alliance of IT and Business will not only lead
to an enhanced user-centric experience, but also
ensures that bridges are built and roadmaps
aligned between business goals and IT objectives.
11. 1. The most common failure in
SharePoint implementation has
nothing to do with the technology
2. Few organizations have taken the time
to understand the measurable value
that SharePoint creates
3. You cannot claim success if
• You cannot monitor it
• You cannot measure it
• You do not have mechanisms in place
to manage change
12. Every SharePoint deployment begins as a business analyst activity
You need to begin with a clear picture of what you are trying to
achieve – before you attempt to achieve it
There are no bad ideas
Don’t jump to solutions until you can agree on what is to be solved
Prioritization can be hard
Leverage data from your system
How are people using the system today?
How are they leveraging alternate technologies and systems today?
What is the request backlog?
Develop a shared understanding
13. Need to establish core reporting, so you can monitor usage patterns
What the data shows you today will change your priorities for tomorrow
Develop dashboards for your leadership, but be prepared to change
based on what you see
As you iterate and refine based on what you learn, there will be less
change – and more innovation
Change = course correction, adaptation, refining what you know
Innovation = leveraging what you know to do something new that pushes the
business forward
Collaborate and Iterate
17. Training and learning environments are disconnected from
the ”real” work
Enterprise software is still percieved as very difficult to use
70% of the workforce is not engaged, or is actively
disengaged at work
There is a low return on investment (ROI) on current
training and change management spend
How can we fix this?
What’s the proplem?
18. Let’s look at a concept called
Motivational Hacking
... or also called Gamification
21. What is Motivational Hacking or Gamification?
Gamification is the utilization of Game-Like
motivational elements in a non-game context.
Gamifcation allows the paradigm shift from process or
function focused design towards human focused design.
22. What motivates us? The 8 core motivational drives
Whitehat CD
Blackhat CD
The Octalysis framework by @yukaichou
23. The four phases of user adoption
The Octalysis framework by @yukaichou
24. Extrinsic VS Intrinsic motivation
SAPS extrinsic
rewarding
• Status
• Access
• Power
• Stuff
RAMP intrinsic
rewarding
• Relatedness
• Autonomy
• Mastery
• Purpose
25. Why this actually works?
People have fundamental desires for:
• Status
• Reward
• Achievement
• Self-Expression
• Competition
• Altruism
These desires are universal accross
genders, cultures, generations and
demographics!
29. Reaching Productivity and Innovation
Collaboration Adoption
Productivity
Innovation
ShifttoSocial
Measurement
Gamification
Knowledge & Community
30. Tracking User Behavior that matters:
From IT & Business unity to Gamification
Specific
Meaningful
Action-Oriented
Realistic
Timely
S
M
A
R
T
e
r
Evaluated
Reviewed
Shift from basic metrics such as
page views to social metrics
Usage Engagement
Unique
Users
Influential
Users
35. Web Parts
Dashboards
Automatic Distribution Lists
Sharing the information - Gamification Report(S!)
36. • Try to avoid getting your users lost. They will not come back
once they feel ”stupid”. Even better, create a win-state!
• Feedback, feedback, feedback, feedback, feedback!
• Build products for humans and not to only serve a business
process or goal
• Content AND Context is King. Deliver the right stuff at the right
time and place to your end-users
• Try to reduce ”noise”. Keep stuff simple but not too simple
Conclusion
37. Begin by bringing everyone together to create a shared
understanding of what the system should look like
Always pilot first
Iterate as you learn
Review the data, expand the pilot, validate what you’ve learned
Throughout this process, watch usage patterns very closely, and
discuss what Business users and IT are experiencing, improving
upon what we’ve built
Conclusion
Foldit: Mason-Pfitzer Monkey Virus / Crystal Structure Proteine, Took players 10 days to crack the structure. Scientists could not do for 15 years.
Improving Collaboration & Adoption still the secret to a successful intranet, one that serves as a detailed knowledge hub but also leads to increased employee productivity and all the good stuff that comes with increased employee productivity.
In our previous webinars in this series we spent time drilling down into how you can only improve what you can measure and (2) while this still holds true there needs to be a shift to a more social mindset, be it in your analytics strategy or improving out of the box social capabilities.
We have now introduced the exciting gamification element that in a way can be seen as the secret fuel in the mechanism of driving increased productivity and individual employee innovation.
It is important to recap the measurement pillar, the fact that any analytics strategy needs to be underpinned by SMART goals. In our last webinar we spoke about how SMARTER goals (1) (2) is infact the more correct term for a working analytics strategy.
We focused on giving some examples of what is meant by the “shift to social” (3)….
And really whats important to stress here is that what has been focused on previous webinars is still a foundation for when we speak of Gamification and looking back to trying to improve IT and Business collaboration. So really no matter what topic we are speaking of increasing and tracking user behavior that matters is always going to be at the core.
Of course this is often easier said then done, because for every organization and every intranet, strategies and behavior differs…
So lets refine how we can focus some of our gamification initiatives when it comes to our Intranet using advanced analytics.
We really want to try ensure that we use metrics that fall into categories that can be linked to clear KPI’s (or SMARTER goals) and also ensure that Social is still at the heart of our metrics.
(1) This is why it is likely that the focus will be on more portal growth metrics, things like community activity and social metrics that can be clearly tied back to individual employee engagement and adoption.
If we drill down into what I will call “portal growth” metrics, we start to get an idea of community development. These metrics can be more targeted to team leaders, site owners or even company divisions.
Are people contributing and which ones are active and leading to discussion?
Once we know this we can drill down deeper into who these influential users, leverage them to help spread ideas. Also what is the influential content, can we pick out something innovative in the highly discussed topics, lets make more of this content available on portal etc.
Speaking of drilling down and Surfacing the content ….. We can see how easy it is to drill down to a content level and pick out something innovative in the highly discussed topics, lets make more of this content available on portal, lets publicly recognize communities and content that generated activity.
- What I did not show here is how easy it is to tie back this content to a specific contributor, and this is where the gamification (i.e. self fulfillment) becomes interesting. Perhaps adding a column of content contributor could make these winning metrics when thinking of motivational hacking.
If we now focus on the second box, of Social activity, we can directly focus on the user and his/her social activity.
Who are the interesting employees that others want to follow.
Who are the employees that spend time browsing content, learning, re using, contributing, improving and motivating other employees through all this activity.
Again lets recognize these employees.
I think those metrics give a clear idea of how we can easily use analytics within and intranet environment and give employees ‘stature’, ensure they see a link between collaboration and PERSONAL growth.
If we focus on distribution, once we have created reports in the context of gamification. How do we ensure the information is visible to whoever needs to see it…
Web parts
Distribution Lists
NB: Not every approach to gamification is going to work. Some employees may find certain ratings/tasks trivial while others may not. Often the trick is to follow a lean method, pilot reports and initiatives, often multiple pilots at the same time (reportS).
- Having a report centre to organize these reports is crucial.