Go Social or Go Home! 3 Things You Should Know About How Yammer + SharePoint Can Kickstart Employee Productivity

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Gina Montgomery is the Vice President of Business Development for North America at Acuvate. She has expertise in architecting SharePoint solutions and helping organizations maximize their IT investments through strategy, project planning, and best practices. Gina is responsible for new business development and partner alliances in North America. She presented at the SharePoint Saturday event on topics including social collaboration using Yammer, gamification, defining a social vision, governance, and adoption strategies.

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Gina Montgomery, MCTS, vTSP, VP,
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Gina Montgomery is the Vice President of Business
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Gamification
Gamification is the use of game thinking and game mechanics in a nongame context to engage users and solve problems
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Why do SharePoint intranets fail? What is all the buzz about SharePoint 2013? Can I get better governance with SharePoint 2013? Come spend an hour with us while we discuss the three P's of SharePoint 2013. This session describes the importance of information architecture planning; demonstrates SharePoint 2013's new productivity enhancements including social collaboration and task aggregation and project management; presents how to push SharePoint OOTB to create even more productivity within your organization; and finally shows the new governance features using site policies.

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Today's workplace has evolved. Employees are working on more teams than ever. Teams are comprised of internal and external users, spread across different geographies and now have an ever wider multigenerational composition than before. These teams all still have to find a way to collaborate, have different needs and are facing a common set of challenges. In this session we will cover Office 365 Collaboration Use Case guidance across Teams, Skype, Office, SharePoint and Yammer, as well as, the intelligent fabric that ties them all together. You'll learn how to create a productive, digital workspace for your all of your end users that will inspire the team collaboration that is needed while eliminating the confusion on what to use for what.

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