Category: Blog
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Company Communicator on Teams
Research tells us there has been no major improvements in direct internal communication with audience push and pull capabilities “en masse”. This has left Communicators with a niggling conundrum of how to reach all staff from Knowledge/Information office workers to Frontline Workers; and avoiding the challenges and frustrations using Outlook, SharePoint commenting, Yammer, Teams, WhatsApp…
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Envisioning better ways of working
Towards the end of last year, myself and a bunch of MVPs were invited to put our Thinking Caps on and envision Microsoft new features across not one, not two but three MVP blog/podcasts. On a personal note I am genuinely humbled to stand on the shoulders of giants and share my thoughts in this…
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Onboard Frontline Workers to Teams & Viva Connections with secure SMS authentication
Frontline Workers (FLW) make up a massive part of our global industries spanning everything from food, beverage and entertainment sectors to public safety, national security, transport, gas and oil, information technology, financial services to health, social care, charities, education and childcare. And running the benefits and justice systems, religious staff, funeral services, journalists, broadcasters and…
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Viva vision #12 It’s a wrap!
The “Employee Experience” starts from the moment a new hire is on-boarded into a company to the day they leave and that can be an emotional rollercoaster. We can now make that a much improved experience as … Viva in Spanish and French roughly means to enjoy a long life! Microsoft Viva, a reimagining of…
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Viva vision #11 Why Viva adoption is like pet adoption
Microsoft Viva adoption is like pet adoption because both have a mission to turn frowns upside down Lesley & Izzy (woof), Pets As Therapy volunteers Me and my husband adopted two beautiful dogs from Ireland 5 years ago. Both surpassed their mission and gone on to be Pets As Therapy approved volunteers. Over the past…
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Viva vision #10 Digital Wellbeing nurtured by Personal Insights
Here’s some nice easy ways I am using Personal Insights on Viva Insights in the flow of my work to protect my digital wellbeing: Send Praise to a colleague for being so helpful as the giving is as nice as the receiving. Mark my calendar as Focus Time and work for 2 hours free of…
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Viva vision #9 Front Line Workers have better Connections on a BYOD
Viva Connections, is a personalised desktop, and mobile app on the left rail of Teams. This is how Leaders and Comms Teams can now easily reach the shop floor, a space that has frustratingly eluded them until now! They now have at their fingertips so many ways to engage ALL staff fast with: Corporate News…
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Viva vision #8 Capturing priceless tacit knowledge & making it discoverable in Viva Topics
I love the “knowledge iceberg” metaphor. I blogged about this a few years ago in relation to Yammer; how the product helps differentiate and cut through “explicit” and “tacit” knowledge sparking serendipitous conversations! “You what?” Here’s an update taking in the Viva suite; enables curating priceless tacit knowledge that we all have, that can become…
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Viva vision #6 Praise be in personal Insights
There are soooo many fantastic features at your finger tips in personal Viva Insights to support digital wellbeing. I start with the Praise feature, a simple messaging extension of Teams with the option to send an array of recognition badges to colleagues in both Chat and Channels. You can also Praise in Yammer. I shared…
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Viva vision #7 A Viva Visionary chats with a Viva Realist
Two MVPs co-presented at M365 UK User Group on 8 December. They shared their pragmatic Microsoft Viva views alongside predictions for next year, through the lens of Teams. Catch the recorded chat here . Realists are practical, logical, and judge an event as it occurs. They accept a situation as it is and prepared to…
MVP, Lesley Crook is a Viva Visionary 