Tag: msteams
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Happy International Women’s Day!

#IWD2022 #techknowday #womenintech #womeninteams Today is a celebration of what women can achieve individually, but also in the community together. Please meet some wonderful technology professionals I’ve had the pleasure to work alongside and co-present with at community events this past year and predicting an exciting future! Under our restricted circumstances I am pleased to…
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Viva Explorer’s reach Collabdays at TNMOC, Bletchley Park, England

CollabDays was created by a group of MVP’s and user groups passionate about bringing people together to learn about technology and network with their peers at events around the world for free; and made possible by generous sponsors. CollabDays, on 23 February will be held at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC), Bletchley Park, UK.…
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Onboard Frontline Workers to Teams & Viva Connections with SMS

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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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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Digital Wellbeing with Viva 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: I end my very productive day with the satisfaction I am working smarter not harder on Teams with Viva Insights; and my digital well-being is in great shape with my Personal…
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Front Line Workers on Viva Connections

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: You could…
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Harvest priceless tacit knowledge with 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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Praise in Personal Viva Insights

There are so 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 Visionary chats with 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…
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Make Learning part of personal development

Culture is something that needs to adapt and change, and you’ve got to be able to have a learning culture. The intuition I got was from observing what happens in schools. I read a book called Mindset. In there there’s this very simple concept that Carol Dweck talks about, which is if you take two people,…