The definition of “community” in its most basic form is “a group of people with shared interests.” Community-building may take many different forms, and organizers may prescribe to different approaches and philosophies — but it always comes back to that simple, core definition. Without shared interests (i.e. shared purpose) there...
One of the fastest growing areas within Microsoft’s many different productivity solutions has been PowerApps and Flow, helping to expand the concept of the “citizen developer” within the enterprise through the creation of Business Apps. By providing templates that end users can leverage to build custom software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, and the...
The SharePoint Conference North America (www.SharePointNA.com) is rapidly approaching, and things are heating up! Microsoft is partnering with an external event team, and has put together an advisory board of MVPs and Regional Directors to make the much-loved SharePoint Conference a reality once again, which will take place at the...
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 Collaboration Service Owner) at Juniper Networks, based in Sunnyvale, California (near where I grew up, btw). Kevin has had his MVP for...
In Episode 23 of the #MVPbuzzChat series, I connected with fellow Office Servers & Services MVP David Patrick (@davidepatrick), a Subject-Matter Expert with DSA, Inc. in Baltimore, MD. David is very active in the SharePoint, SQL, and Azure communities, and helps run several user groups, including www.madsharepoint.com, www.meetup.com/MACEME, and www.meetup.com/Baltimore-Cloud. I always appreciate...
For Episode 22 of the #MVPbuzzChat series, I chatted with Haniel Croitoru (@HCroitoru), an Office Servers and Services MVP who cut his teeth on SharePoint and the rest of the Office 365 suite, but has more recently expanded his focus to include the Business Solutions space. Haniel is a Lead...
In Episode 21 of the #MVPbuzzChat interview series, I spoke with fellow Office Servers and Services MVP Becky Benishek (@beckybenishek), a Yammer experts and Online Communities Manager at Crisis Prevention Institute in Milwaukee, MI. She is also a children’s author, having published “What’s At the End of Your Nose?” and “Dr....
For Episode 20 of the #MVPbuzzChat interview series, I was able to connect with Windows and Devices for IT MVP B. Onur Okutucu (@bakionur), a DevOps engineer and consultant based out of London, UK. You can find Onur writing in a number of places on Azure, Powershell, and other DevOps...
For Episode 19 of the #MVPbuzzChat interview series, I was able to catch up with another fellow Office Servers & Services MVP, Paul Keijzers (@KbWorks), an Office 365 Specialist with Wortell who is based out of the greater Amsterdam area, The Netherlands (a very beautiful part of the world, btw). As I share in...
In Episode 18 of the #MVPbuzzChat interview series, I caught up with fellow Office Servers & Services MVP Erwin van Hunen (@erwinvanhunen), based out of Stockholm, Sweden, while we were both attending the Microsoft MVP Summit in early March of this year. In addition to being an MVP, Erwin is...
The definition of “community” in its most basic form is “a group of people with shared interests.” Community-building may take many different forms, and organizers may prescribe to different approaches and philosophies — but it always comes back to that simple, core definition. Without shared interests (i.e. shared purpose) there...
In Episode 17 of the #MVPbuzzChat interview series, I sat down with long-time community friend and Data Platform MVP Tobiasz Koprowski (@KoprowskiT), an independent consultant and trainer, and the founder of Shadowland Consulting in Nottingham, UK. The video below was captured while we were both attending the Microsoft MVP Summit...
For Episode 16 of the #MVPbuzzChat interview series, I tracked down fellow Office Servers & Services MVP Liam Cleary (@helloitsliam), an Associate Director with Protiviti, while the two of us were presenting at SharePointFest DC a couple weeks back. For those of you who have not met Liam, he largely...
