MidDay Cafe
By Tyrelle Barnes and Mike Gannotti
MidDay CafeApr 04, 2022
MidDay Café Episode 47 – Discussing Executive Event and 12 Days of Copilot
In this week’s MidDay Café hosts Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti are talking AI in Modern Work. The context around this discussion is an executive event that took place this week in New York City as well as the new web series The 12 Days of Copilot.
To see the entire post, including resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Cafe Episode 46 - Ignite Recap for M365, Viva, and Copilot!
It has been an incredible week of innovation coming out of the Microsoft Ignite conference and MidDay Café is coming in hot! In this week’s session we cover the great announcements coming out around Microsoft 365 services, Microsoft Viva announcements, as well as Microsoft 365 Copilot. After the video be sure to check out the resource links provided.
Covered in this episode:
Microsoft 365
o Introducing Microsoft SharePoint Premium
o Introducing Copilot in Microsoft Stream
o Microsoft Clipchamp and app integrations for Microsoft Designer now available
o Microsoft Loop now generally available with updated features
o New Updates to Microsoft 365 for frontline workers
o The new Microsoft Planner brings together to-do’s, tasks, plans, and projects
· Microsoft Viva
o Updates to Microsoft Viva and Amplify
o Microsoft 365 Chat integration and Copilot in Viva updates
· Microsoft Copilot
o Bringing Copilot to everyone
o New capabilities in Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365
o Extend and enrich Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 with plugins and Connectors
To see the entire episode, including resources,visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Café Episode 45 – Skills in Viva Edition!
Microsoft Skills in Viva is a newly announced feature of Microsoft Viva, a platform that integrates employee experience across four areas: engagement, well-being, learning, and knowledge. Skills in Viva allows employees to discover and develop new skills through personalized recommendations, learning paths, and micro-learning content. Skills in Viva also helps managers and leaders track the skill development and learning progress of their teams and organizations.
In this week’s MidDay Café Microsoft’s Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti discuss Skills in Viva and the how and why it is being recognized as a true disruptor in the Employee Experience domain.
To see the entire post, including resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Café Episode 44 – What’s New In Viva… A LOT!
In this MidDay Café hosts Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti walk through, and discuss, all that’s new in Microsoft Viva.
Covered in this session:
- What’s New In Viva Connections?
- Viva Engage Updates
- What’s New in Viva Goals?
- Viva Amplify is here
- The New Viva Home
- Viva on the Web
- Skills in Viva
Plus, along the way we talk about how I leveraged Microsoft 365 Copilot to save me from over 82K unread emails.
To see the entire podcast, and resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Café Episode 43 – Microsoft Graph and Copilot Edition
The Microsoft Graph is foundational to the new Microsoft 365 Copilot. As the world’s largest dataset, it is the source of all information that feeds Microsoft 365 Copilot. With the addition of the Semantic Fabric and Graph Connectors it provides Microsoft 365 customers with an unbeatable wealth of information and usefulness right within the applications that users are already using today.
In this MidDay Café Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti sit down with Microsoft’s Chantrelle Nielsen, Principal PM Manager, Microsoft Graph. They discuss the Graph and it’s significance, whether customers should build their own Copilots or leverage Microsoft’s out of the box Copilots, the Semantic Fabric, and Microsoft Graph Connectors.
As always if you have questions or suggestions, please drop us a line on the blog posting of this show at https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
To see the entire podcast, including resources, visit https://aka.ma/HLSBlog
MidDay Cafe Episode 42 - Microsoft Viva Glint Edition
The data is in and in a do more with less reality today organizations that foster an engaged workforce are delivering better metrics than their counterparts, including in revenue generation. (see Work Trend Index 2023) Microsoft Viva Glint helps organizations create a culture of feedback and action. With Viva Glint organizations can see and analyze strengths and opportunities, compare benchmarks, and use suggested actions to drive business outcomes.
In this MidDay Café hosts Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti host Principal People Science Manager, Justin Bethke, Microsoft Viva Glint. During the session Justin covers topics such as:
• What is Glint and how does it fit into Microsoft Viva?: Justin explained that Glint is a tool to measure and improve employee experience and happiness, and that it was acquired by LinkedIn and then moved to Microsoft as part of Viva, the employee experience platform.
• What are the trends and best practices in employee listening and surveying?: Justin shared that the frequency and cadence of surveys should depend on the business outcomes and problems that the organization is trying to solve, and that combining active and passive data (such as from Viva Insights) can provide more insights and actionability.
• How to transition and transform to a newer approach of employee listening?: Justin suggested that organizations can start with smaller or more targeted surveys that match their talent or business rhythms, and that they should push the ownership and accountability of the results and actions to the lowest level possible, such as frontline managers.
• How to leverage AI to assist in employee listening and action taking?: Justin mentioned that Microsoft Copilot, the AI engine, can help leaders and managers to analyze and interpret the survey data and comments, and to suggest next steps and actions based on the insights.
• *(topics pulled from video using Copilot in Teams Meetings asking Copilot to recap the meeting)
Microsoft Viva Glint has the potential to help transform an organization and it comes with the Microsoft Viva Suite.
To see the entire post, including resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Café Episode 41 – Special Guest Chris Bortlik, Principal Architect, Microsoft Technology Center
In this week’s episode of MidDay Café hosts Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti welcome special guest Chris Bortlik. Chris is a Principal Architect at the Boston MTC (Microsoft Technology Center) and he discusses the various offerings and methodology of the MTC designed to help organizations digitally transform their businesses in order to deliver an improved employee experience while increasing productivity as well as revenue.
In this episode:
• Happy Friday and welcome
• What we’ve been up to
• Special guest Chris Bortlik, Principal Architect, Boston MTC
• Final thoughts
• Wrap Up
As always if you have questions or suggestions, please drop us a line on the blog posting of this show at https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
To see the entire post, including video, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Café Episode 40 – Microsoft 365 Copilot Readiness, Security, and Compliance
In this week’s episode of MidDay Café hosts Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti cover several topics that are top of mind with many. Namely they dive into Microsoft 365 Copilot readiness, security, compliance, as well as a dash of licensing costs and resources.
In this episode:
· Happy Friday and welcome
· What we’ve been up to
· How many Copilots?
· Microsoft 365 Copilot readiness
· Microsoft 365 Copilot security and compliance
· Microsoft 365 Copilot resources and costs
· Final thoughts
· Wrap Up
To see the entire post, including all the resources cited, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Cafe Episode 39 - Growth Mindset, High Perf Orgs, Viva, and more!
For this week’s MidDay Café hosts Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti were both remote and connected via Microsoft Teams. In this episode the two discussed the importance of a growth mindset for individuals and organizations. They then discussed the importance of a growth mindset in creating High Performance Organizations. Then they brought it home to discuss how the growing Microsoft Viva Suite maps to the elements of a High Performance Organization and how orgs can take advantage of the capabilities it provides for immediate gains. Finally, along the way updates to Copilot and Viva are discussed as well as a new addition to the Microsoft 365 family.
Agenda:
· Intros/Kickoff
· We will also discuss a podcast Tyrelle recently listened to on Growth Mindset.
· Microsoft Viva and High Performance Organizations.
· Learn about the newly GA’d (General Availability) Viva Pulse as well the new Viva Insights Impact dashboard.
· All that plus latest updates on Microsoft Viva and Microsoft 365 Copilot plus … a dash of the newly released Clipchamp for Microsoft 365!
· Wrap Up
As always if you have questions or suggestions, please drop us a line on the blog posting of this show at https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Cafe Episode 38 - Employee Listening and People Analytics
In this MidDay Café hosts Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti discuss the importance of gaining actionable insight into employee well-being and sentiment. Key in these type of organization efforts are Viva Insights, Glint, and Pulse. Take a listen and see how taking action can benefit your organization.
In this episode:
- Podcast kickoff
- Viva Insights and Glint
- Employee Pulse Survey – Actionable Insight
- Employee Listening Strategy
- People Analytics
- Accessibility
- Measure > Communicate > Act
- More…
As always if you have questions or suggestions, please drop us a line on the blog posting of this show at https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Cafe Episode 37 - Data Privacy and Unlocking Corporate Knowledge with Microsoft Copilot
In this episode of MidDay Café Microsoft’s Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti discuss how the Semantic Index helps unlock corporate knowledge, whether structured or not, while helping to ensure data privacy and compliance are maintained when implementing Copilot for Microsoft 365.
Additionally, Tyrelle and Michael discuss the analogy of the Tour de France Peloton to companies and their embracing of new technology like AI, and much more.
In this episode:
- Podcast kickoff
- Tour de France and Peloton as analogy to corporate embrace of AI or not
- Digital HR Podcast with David Green
- Rethinking Leadership for the Future of Work by Heather McGown
- Data Privacy and Unlocking Corporate Knowledge with Microsoft Copilot
- Wrap Up
As always if you have questions or suggestions please drop us a line on the blog posting of this show at https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
To see the entire episode, including resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Cafe Episode 36 - Human AI Partnership
In this episode of MidDay Café hosts Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti discuss Human/AI partnership. Many organizations are trying to figure out AI strategy but seem to be taking a tech/product first approach. What Tyrelle and Michael discuss is how to anchor on people/employees first with AI/Tech in support.
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MidDay Café Episode 35 – Focus on the Microsoft Graph
MidDay Café gets rebooted in a new weekly format in Episode 35 with hosts Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti. For this kickoff/reboot episode they cover:
- Welcome and introductions.
- Discussion of some real-world examples of real-world highlights around Microsoft Viva and Copilot – Success Measurement with Learning and Copilot demand.
- Discussion of the Microsoft Graph… What is it? How it works, ways in which leveraged? Also discussed the Trends Analysis Report, discussion around the various Viva modules and Copilot for Microsoft 365 (with a bit of Bing generative AI thrown in.
- Org Explorer in Outlook and also…..
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Microsoft Viva Connections Home - The Entry Point for the Employee Experience Episode 35
As organizations seek to simplify, and improve, the employee experience in a do more with less reality providing an intuitive, unified experience becomes paramount. Providing a number of disjointed employee experiences across various pillars like Learning, Organizational Health/Sentiment Analysis, Communications/Employee Engagement, doesn’t improve the overall employee experience but rather adds to additional employee dissatisfaction. Thankfully, the Microsoft Viva suite and Viva Connections Home is here to help.
Microsoft Viva suite provides the most comprehensive set of employee experiences all from a single point within the single pane of glass to get work done, Microsoft Teams. The best of breed modules covering Employee Connections, Insight, Purpose, and Growth, come to life for employees within the Viva Connections Home. Whether mobile or desktop, Viva Connections Home provides tailored experiences to specific employee groups, roles, or geos with targeted news, conversations, applications, and content powered by AI and Microsoft Graph.
In this MidDay Café Viva edition podcast, we take a look at Microsoft Viva Connections Home, what’s locked, what’s customizable, and how it can benefit your organization. Finally, we also look at some tips/tricks in use of the Dashboard to deliver immediate impact.
After watching the podcast be sure to check out the resources at https://aka.ms/HLSBlog to get started.
Microsoft Viva Suite - The Employee Experience that delivers more... for less Episode 34
“We are living through a period of historic economic, societal, and technological change, but for all the uncertainty we continue to see in the world one thing is clear: Organizations in every industry are turning to you and your digital capability to help them do more with less, so they can navigate this change and emerge much stronger…
…Employees must be empowered and energized to do meaningful work so that they can thrive. To do so, organizations require a new system to build human, social, and knowledge capital across the entire organization. You need to help people feel aligned to the company’s mission, purpose, and business priorities. You need to help them connect with each other, wherever they are and whenever they’re working. You need to help them continuously build new skills in the flow of work, and you need to have all these things working in harmony to have a workforce that thrives.” – Satya Nadella (99+) Doing more with less with the Microsoft Cloud | LinkedIn
In this kickoff to the new MidDay Café Viva series, we walk through:
• Challenges In Todays Workplace
• The Microsoft Employee Experience Platform
• Connection
• Insight
• Purpose
• Growth
• Business Impact
• Call To Action
To see the entire post, including resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
Enhance Your Teams Video with Overlays Transitions and More for Webinars and Meetings Episode 33
In this episode host Michael Gannotti is joined by special guest Denzil Fernandes as they show how you can add professional overlays with titles, location and more to add a more polished delivery of your Microsoft Teams Webinars/Live Events, as well as meetings.
To see the podcast, and resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
Cross Channel Publishing with Microsoft Viva Connections Episode 32
In this podcast host Michael Gannotti walks through the out of the box capability for cross channel posting of news in Viva Connections via the underlying SharePoint Online capability. Additionally, he walks through opportunities to extend even further using custom workflow created in Microsoft Power Automate.
To view the post, along with resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
Addressing Kari's Law and Ray Baum's Act with Microsoft Teams phone system - Episode 29
Monday, 2/7/2022, MidDay Café LIVE! Featured Microsoft’s Helen Guan, Chad Stout, and Jason Warkentine as they covered “Addressing Kari's Law and Ray Baum's Act with Microsoft Teams phone system.” As the popularity of Microsoft Teams continues to gain momentum helping healthcare organizations chat, collaborate, meet, and communicate so does my list of customer inquiries about how Microsoft Teams phone system address Kari's Law and RAY BAUM'S Act for multi-line telephone systems.
To see the entire podcast, including resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Café LIVE! Episode 28
Microsoft’s Scott Moore (Senior Technical Specialist) and Filipp Seljanko (Principal Program Manager) joined MidDay Café LIVE! to discuss how customers can achieve improved survivability and resiliency in Microsoft Teams. Additionally, they answered posted questions around this important topic.
Agenda Covered:
- Discuss how the Teams SBA enhances voice survivability
- Overview of SBA architecture
- Considerations and best practices for survivability
To see the full podcast, including resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Café Episode 27 – Power BI, Hybrid Work Devices, and PowerPoint Recording Studio
This week on MidDay Café I am joined by Microsoft’s Kendra Burgess, as well as Stephanie Hotchkin from Microsoft Partner iLink Systems. During this week’s session we reviewed an upcoming webinar around Power BI. Next up I discussed and showed the actual devices I am using as I work remotely from Florida for a few weeks. Finally, I show the new PowerPoint Recording Studios and discuss how they might be used.
To see the entire episode, including resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Café Episode 26 – Ignite, Ignite, Ignite!
In this edition of MidDay Café Microsoft’s Scott Moore and Michael Gannotti cover all things Modern Work for this weeks Microsoft Ignite Conference.
To see the entire post, including resource links, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Café Episode 25 – Teams Encryption Microsoft Viva and More
This Monday on MidDay Café Microsoft’s Scott Moore and Michael Gannotti covered:
- End to End Encryption for One-to-One Microsoft Teams Calls
- Microsoft Ignite Conference
- Microsoft HLS Webinar Mini-Series on Microsoft Viva
- Personalization in Microsoft SharePoint Online/Viva Connections
- …and more.
To see the entire post, including resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Café Episode 24 – Teams Voice Updates and Employee Experience News
In this MidDay Café Microsoft’s Scott Moore and Michael Gannotti tackle a host of updates and news around Microsoft Teams Voice, Employee Experience, and more.
To see the entire session, including resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Café Episode 23 – Latest Teams Updates and Intro/Demo for Microsoft Clipchamp
In this episode of MidDay Café Microsoft’s Scott Moore joins Michael Gannotti covering the latest in Microsoft Teams voice. Additionally, the latest acquisition for the Microsoft 365 portfolio, Clipchamp is covered in an overview as well as a walkthrough of this exciting tool for Enterprise, as well as personal, storytelling.
To see the entire episode, including resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Cafe Episode 22 - The Latest in SharePoint Online
In this episode of MidDay Café, Microsoft’s Jim Warner joins Michael Gannotti and covers the latest exciting capabilities of SharePoint Online!
To see the entire episode, including resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Cafe Episode 21 - New Teams Features as Well as Power Platform Governance and Security
In this episode of MidDay Café, we cover the Microsoft Webinar around Microsoft Viva, new features in Microsoft Teams, and also Power Platform Governance and Security. In this episode are Microsoft’s Sue Vencill, Eden Porsangi, and Michael Gannotti.
To see the entire episode, including resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Cafe Episode 20 - Viva Connections and Power BI Training
In this episode of MidDay Café, we have a few announcements including one around Microsoft Viva Connections as well as resources for Power BI training. For this episode the crew included Microsoft’s Kendra Burgess, Scott Moore, and Michael Gannotti.
To see the entire episode, including resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Café Episode 19 – Teams Breakout Rooms, Word Clouds and More!
In this episode of MidDay Café, we had a great series of topics we discussed and demonstrated including: Teams Breakout Rooms V2, Word Clouds for Forms, Audio Podcasting with Viva Connections, Power BI Roadmap, and Surface Hub and Collaboration Rooms.
This week’s panel included Sue Vencill, Jim Warner, Alfred Ojukwu, Kendra Burgess, and Michael Gannotti.
To see the entire post, including video and resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Café Episode 18 – Microsoft Teams Contact Center
In this episode of MidDay Café Microsoft’s Scott Moore discusses Microsoft Teams Contact Center.
To see the entire post including video and resources visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Café Episode 17 – Teams Recordings, Call Center, SharePoint Spaces, PowerBI, Teams Safe Links
For this week’s MidDay Café we were joined by Microsoft’s Scott Moore, Tracy DeWald, Kendra Burgess, Jim Warner, and myself (Michael Gannotti). Topic presenters for this episode:
· Jim Warner - The cutover of Microsoft Teams recordings from Microsoft Stream Classic to OneDrive and SharePoint Online.
· Tracy DeWald – Microsoft Teams Call Center.
· Michael Gannotti - The general availability of Safe Links for Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Online Spaces.
· Kendra Burgess – What’s new with Microsoft Power BI.
To see the full post, including video and resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Café Episode 16 – Teams Broadcast Development Kit and Multi Geo Teams
Kicking off the new fiscal year here at Microsoft we were joined by some new faces who sat in to get a feel for participating in a MidDay Café podcast recording. We also kicked of the FY22 with coverage of two exciting topics, the Microsoft Teams Broadcast Development Kit and Microsoft Teams Multi-Geo capabilities. Looking forward to the new year with new folks jumping on board to participate. In this episode the podcast features Microsoft’s Sue Vencill, Samir Thapa, Jim Warner, Tracy DeWald, Scott Moore, and myself.
In this episode of MidDay Café Microsoft’s Scott Moore and myself cover Microsoft Team Multi-Geo as well as the new Microsoft Teams Broadcast Development Kit.
To see the entire post, including all visuals and resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Café Episode 15 – Microsoft Lists and Whiteboard
Capturing data and collaborating with others are daily occurrences across all workstreams withing Healthcare and Life Sciences, as well as other industries. To assist users in these activities Microsoft 365 provides for rich data capture and reporting within Microsoft Lists and uber rich collaboration across all devices with Whiteboard.
In this MidDay Café Microsoft’s Sue Vencill and Michael Gannotti, discuss and demonstrate how Microsoft Lists and Microsoft Whiteboard can facilitate rich data capture and collaboration.
To see the entire post, including demonstrations and resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Cafe Episode 14 - Operator Connect for Microsoft Teams
As customers look to standardize on Microsoft Teams the move to voice and calling often is high priority.
In this MidDay Café we cover connecting to existing phone carriers with Microsoft Operator Connect.
Covered in this session:
- Show Operator Connect in my Lab Tenant
- Show Operators and Provisioning process with Operators
- Show Numbers After they are provisioned by Operators
- Show Assignment process
- Show comparison slide of Operator Connect compared to Direct Routing for Pitch Deck (public approved)
- Panel Discussion
To see the video of the podcast, as well as the resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Cafe Episode 13 - Accessibility
As organizations look to increase their inclusiveness accessibility becomes a key pillar to be addressed. Ensuring that content and systems are accessible by all employees is not only a matter of compliance but also the right thing to do.
In this episode of MidDay Cafe, the MidDay crew addresses the topic of accessibility in this demonstration rich coverage of Microsoft Immersive Reader (within OneNote, Word, Edge, and Microsoft Teams), Dictation in Microsoft Outlook/Word in iOS, Accessibility settings and capability within Microsoft Windows, as well as Accessibility in Power BI.
To see the original post, including resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Café Episode 12 – PowerPoint Live in Teams, PowerPoint Recording, and More
In episode 12 of MidDay Café the MidDay Café crew breaks down some of the very cool things you can do with Microsoft PowerPoint in Teams presentations, for video “show me how” production, translation/closed captions, and more. This week’s MidDay Café crew included Microsoft’s: Sue Vencil, Scott Moore, Phil Urban, and Michael Gannotti.
Next week for episode 13 the MidDay Café crew will be tackling accessibility with Microsoft 365. In particular we will be diving into accessibility in general, Immersive Reader, Access Center settings and more.
To view the post and access resources visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Café Episode 11 – Microsoft Teams Webinars Deep Dive
In episode 11 of MidDay Café the MidDay crew is joined by Microsoft’s Johnathan Wynn. In this episode MidDay takes an in-depth look at the newly rolled out Teams Webinar capabilities with a special emphasis on the setup, and customization, of the Webinar Registration Page. The crew also touches on setup requirements and other features like the View Only Meeting Experience.
Tune in and see how organizations can leverage the power of Microsoft Teams Webinars and grab the resource links below as well.
Next week the crew will be taking a deep dive into some of PowerPoints least known, but most powerful features including: PowerPoint Present in Teams, Present Online, Closed Captions, Translation, Record, and more.
To see the entire episode, including video of the demonstrations and resource downloads, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Café Episode 10 – Microsoft Teams Large Events and Microsoft Teams for Home
Microsoft Teams steals the spotlight in this week’s MidDay Café podcast. First up the panel discusses the release of Microsoft Teams Large Events (Webinars) and what it brings to large organizations. The panel closes out with a discussion of the newly announced Microsoft Teams for Home and its features for bring together friends and family.
To see the entire post including video, transcript, and resources visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Cafe Episode 9 - MBAS, Single Platform, VIVA Connections
In this episode of MidDay Cafe host Michael Gannotti is joined by Microsoft's Kendra Burgess and Sue Vencill as they discuss the Microsoft Business Application Summit (MBAS)), Why I Came to Microsoft/Single Platform, and Next Generation Intranets with Microsoft VIVA Connections.
To see the entire post including video, transcript, and resources visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Café Episode 8 - Microsoft Teams Shared Channels with Pouneh Kaufman and Eileen Zhou
Microsoft Teams Shared Channels have been a top request by customers as it facilitates secured, focused collaboration and sharing with external individuals and entities at the more granular channel level vs Team level.
On Monday 3/22, MidDay Café was joined by Microsoft’s Pouneh Kaufman and Eileen Zhou. Pouneh and Eileen presented all the latest around Microsoft Teams Shared Channels. It was a lively, informative, session with lots of questions from attendees.
To watch the webcast video recording and see the resources go to https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Cafe Episode 7 - Microsoft Teams Adoption and Governance with Microsoft’s Karuana Gatimu
Microsoft Teams is increasingly becoming THE place where employees get their work done. Whether it be through integrated applications, communications, or collaboration, the importance of Teams in this hybrid world of work continues to grow. This Monday, 3/15, we hosted Principal Manager, Customer Advocacy, Teams Engineering, Karuana Gatimu who covered adoption, and governance, for Microsoft Teams. Karuana also covered resources to assist, and best practices for organizations to get the most out of their Teams investment.
To watch the webcast as well as grab the resources visit the blog post located here.
MidDay Café Episode 6 - Microsoft Lists with Microsoft’s Mark Kashman
On Monday, 3/8, the MidDay Café Crew was joined by Microsoft’s Mark Kashman. Mark presented on the power of Microsoft Lists as well as in their versatility for use within Microsoft Teams as well as SharePoint Online. Attendees were treated to some powerful demonstrations showing the ease of setup, even directly within teams, as well as real world use cases such as the Patients List Template available from within Microsoft Teams.
To see the recorded webcast and grab the resources visit https://aka.ma/HLSBlog
MidDay Café Episode 5 - Engaging Employees Using Communities and Microsoft Yammer
On Monday, 03-01-2021, the MidDay Café crew was joined by special guest Microsoft’s Dan Holme, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft. Dan talked all things communities and Yammer and showed how organizations could digitally transform and create a more employee centric, engaging environment, that foster increased company loyalty while increasing productivity and job satisfaction.
To watch the webcast video recording and see the resources go to https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Café Episode 4 - Microsoft Search and More
On 02/22, at 12 noon eastern, we hosted Microsoft’s Bill Baer, Senior Technical Product Manager for Microsoft Search. Search at Microsoft has been a rapidly evolving service building upon the power of the Microsoft Graph. Properly leveraged within an organization the power of search, search driven, applications can be transformational. As Senior Technical Product Manager for Microsoft Search, Bill Baer brought us the latest in Microsoft search to help organizations unlock the potential in their Microsoft 365 data and more.
To view the recorded video webcast and access the resources visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
Upcoming On MidDay Café 10-22 at 12 Noon EST - Microsoft Search and More with Bill Baer
oin us for MidDay Café this upcoming 02/22, at 12 noon eastern, as we host Microsoft’s Bill Baer, Senior Technical Product Manager for Microsoft Search.
Search at Microsoft has been a rapidly evolving service building upon the power of the Microsoft Graph. Properly leveraged within an organization the power of search, search driven, applications can be transformational. As Senior Technical Product Manager for Microsoft Search, Bill Baer will be bringing us the latest in Microsoft search to help organizations unlock the potential in their Microsoft 365 data and more.
In addition to our guest segment on search MidDay Café will also feature our hosts Patrick Miller, Mark Litwin, Peter Anello, Samantha Brown, and myself, Michael Gannotti, covering the latest in Microsoft news and events, as well as taking open QA around your questions.
MidDay Cafe Episode 3 - Epic FHIR API Integration
Epic integration with the Microsoft 365 stack, including Microsoft Teams, is a hot topic these days with healthcare/life sciences organizations looking to deliver increasingly integrated experiences for their clinicians. On February 8th at 12 noon eastern we were joined by Microsoft’s Andres Santamaria , Senior Program Manager, Microsoft, who covered the Epic FHIR API Integration.
To see the entire post including resources visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Cafe Episode 2 - COVID Vaccine Health Bot
On Monday, February 1st at 12 noon EST, Microsoft’s Gregory Lisiak and Nikita Pitliya covered the Microsoft COVID Vaccine Health Bot to assist organizations in implementing, and leveraging, the bot. Additionally, Microsoft’s Samantha Brown, Mark Litwin, Pete Anello, and Patrick Miller, joined to bring you the latest in Microsoft News, Events, and more. Mid-Day Café is a new, weekly, fast paced, live web series by the HLS Group. Join us each Monday at 12 noon eastern.
To view the entire post including resources visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog
MidDay Cafe Episode 1 - Microsoft Teams Voice
On January 11th at 12 noon eastern we kicked of the first HLS Mid-Day Café and featured Microsoft’s Raj Gopalakrishnan, Sr. Director and Principal Program Manager, Enterprise Engineering, Microsoft Teams. Raj presented on Microsoft Teams Voice and took attendees questions. Additionally, Microsoft’s Samantha Brown, Mark Litwin, Pete Anello, and myself joined to bring the latest in Microsoft News, Events, and more. Mid-Day Café is a new, weekly, fast paced, live web series by the HLS Group. Join us each Monday at 12 noon eastern. To see the entire broadcast and resources visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog