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The Email Resurgence
Ok, that title is not exactly honest — because email never went anywhere. It certainly didn’t die, as was predicted by every social technology vendor ever. Funny enough, one of the biggest perpetrators...
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The Power of Employee Engagement
The most misunderstood metric in collaboration today is engagement. What engagement means within your organization, and how you measure it, depends on a number of factors: technologies in place,...
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Conversation Portability in the Age of the Digital Workplace
Back in early 2014, I wrote a piece for Wired.com called ‘The Future Requires Social Portability’ where I reminisced on a time from my telecommunications career when we built out a number of key...
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What is the Future of Email?
All of this this talk about Teams, Groups, SharePoint, and Yammer – and yet not much talk about the leading collaboration tool in use today: email. Yes, that’s right – email. Having a discussion on...
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Measuring Sentiment and Engagement
Since last fall, I’ve been partnering with the team over at tyGraph (www.tyGraph.com) around the metrics for my monthly CollabTalk tweetjams, helping them tweak their analytics to improve upon some of...
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Five Issues Businesses Are Still Facing with Collaboration
Collaboration has changed pretty dramatically since I entered the space (officially) back in 1997, when my little startup built our own proprietary instant messaging app, and then developed an early...
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Jump-Starting Team Collaboration
There is no shortage in options for collaboration these days. There are so many competing and overlapping tools and services on the market these days, it truly is a buyer’s market. Of course, the hard...
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Upgrading My Kanban Experience in Microsoft Teams
When I launched CollabTalk as an independent research and technical marketing services company on January 1st of this year – building on a 5-year-old brand that I had built around open,...
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The Forthcoming Microsoft Teams Revolution
With the arrival of Microsoft Teams in mid-2016, there has been both excitement and some confusion within the ecosystem as to how this new tool fits into the broader collaboration story. Microsoft...
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The Ongoing Cloud Transition
Over the past couple months, as I traveled between events in DC and Minnesota in the US, presented to audiences at 10 different events in South Africa, and most recently spoke at SharePoint Saturday...
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Getting to Know Microsoft StaffHub
12/365 What It Is: Having worked in the project and portfolio management space for the first decade of my career, I sometimes coordinated with field personnel on different projects. For example, back...
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The Line Between Project Management and Collaboration Technology
Is there a line between Project Management tools and systems and your collaboration platforms? When I worked as a technical project manager in the 1990’s and grew into roles where I built out and...
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Finally, Text-to-Speech with Read Aloud
13/365 What It Is: When I think of Word or any other application or website being able to read back me what is on the screen, my mind goes to one place: back to the days of Atari game consoles and...
View ArticleThe Role of Email in Knowledge and Records Management
Since the early 1990’s, email has been a core part of enterprise collaboration and communication. As I outlined in a webinar yesterday, hosted by Colligo and in support of their Email Manager for...
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#MVPbuzzChat with Tom Arbuthnot
In Episode 4 of the #MVPbuzzChat video series, I’m joined in the Microsoft Studios in Redmond, Washington by fellow Office Servers & Services MVP Tom Arbuthnot (@tomarbuthnot), who is a Principal...
View ArticleOffice 365 Productivity Tips – The Wasatch Wrangle
Finally, after almost 2 months of scheduling conflicts, Tom Duff (@duffbert) and I were finally able to capture our end user productivity session from SharePoint Saturday Utah (#SPSUtah) from back on...
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#MVPbuzzChat with Hal Hostetler
In episode 10 of #MVPbuzzChat, I connected with Outlook MVP Hal Hostetler (@TVWizard), a Senior Field Engineer with Roland Schorr, & Tower, based out of Tuscon, Arizona. Hal has been a Microsoft...
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#MVPbuzzChat with Dileepa Kariyawasam
In episode 11 of #MVPbuzzChat, I connected with Sydney, Australia-based Office Servers & Services MVP Dileepa Kariyawasam (@dileepstweets), a Senior Consultant at Empired Ltd. Australia focused on...
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#MVPbuzzChat with Gareth Gudger
In episode 12 of #MVPbuzzChat, I sat down with fellow Office Servers & Services MVP Gareth Gudger (@SuperTekBoy), a Solution Architect with Blue Chip Consulting Group...
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#MVPbuzzChat with Kevin Crossman
For Episode 24 of the #MVPbuzzChat interview series, I sat down to talk with fellow Office Servers & Services MVP Kevin Crossman (@kevincrossman), Manager of IT Collaboration (Office 365 Content...
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