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AI / AI Agents / Community / Power Platform

July 24, 2026

 by Christian Buckley · Published July 24, 2026

Community Doesn’t Just Happen — It Gets Organized

I’ve always believed that one of the best investments you can make in your career is showing up. Not just showing up to attend...

Let Your Audience Write Your Editorial Calendar

Content Strategy / Marketing

July 21, 2026

 by Christian Buckley · Published July 21, 2026

Content Strategy: Let Your Audience Write Your Editorial Calendar

Most content calendars are built on assumptions. Someone in a planning meeting decides what the audience probably cares about, based on gut instinct, last...

With Copilot Cowork Generally Available, How Costs Change

AI / Copilot / Microsoft Copilot

July 20, 2026

 by Christian Buckley · Published July 20, 2026 · Last modified July 23, 2026

With Copilot Cowork Generally Available, How Costs Change

Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork is now generally available, and with it comes a pricing model unlike anything else in the Copilot lineup. If you’ve...

Modern editorial technology illustration in a monochromatic blue palette. A glowing workflow diagram floats perfectly balanced above a reflective glass floor. Underneath the glass, an intricate mass of tangled workflow paths, connectors, gears, branching logic, warning indicators, and circuit lines forms a chaotic underground network several times larger than the clean diagram above. A single professional stands at the edge of the glass looking downward, holding a tablet that displays a simple green status indicator while the hidden complexity glows beneath their feet. Visual style is sleek, futuristic, enterprise-focused, with holographic UI elements, glowing cyan highlights, deep navy shadows, and subtle volumetric lighting. The contrast between the clean visible layer and the overwhelming hidden layer should immediately communicate "hidden technical debt." No text. No logos. No product branding.

Automation / Power Platform

July 19, 2026

 by Christian Buckley · Published July 19, 2026 · Last modified July 8, 2026

Five Warning Signs Your Workflow Automation Has Outgrown Its Platform

Workflow automation rarely fails all at once. More often, it degrades gradually. The workflows continue to run, notifications still arrive, and approvals keep moving....

Music / Musical Sampler

July 18, 2026

 by Christian Buckley · Published July 18, 2026 · Last modified July 23, 2026

Musical Sampler, Volume 1

I’ve been sharing my favorite music on the Blue Plate Special series for just over 5 years, with new posts every Saturday. But there...

The Costs of Automation That Never Make It Into the Budget

Automation / Power Platform

July 14, 2026

 by Christian Buckley · Published July 14, 2026 · Last modified July 8, 2026

The Costs of Automation That Never Make It Into the Budget

I have a theory about why so many automation projects run into trouble 12 to 18 months after launch. It is not that the...

Why Your Best Defense Is Content Nobody Else Can Make

AI / Content Strategy / Marketing

July 12, 2026

 by Christian Buckley · Published July 12, 2026 · Last modified July 22, 2026

Content Strategy: Why Your Best Defense Is Content Nobody Else Can Make

For most of content marketing’s history, the primary competitive advantage was volume and consistency. Showing up regularly with useful, well-structured information was enough to...

Blue Plate Special - The Lightning Seeds

Blue Plate Special / Music / Personal

July 11, 2026

 by Christian Buckley · Published July 11, 2026 · Last modified July 23, 2026

Blue Plate Special: The Lightning Seeds

The Lightning Seeds emerged from Liverpool at the dawn of the 1990s as the creative vision of songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Ian Broudie, whose...

Agentic AI Is An Organizational Virus

AI / AI Agents / Governance

July 10, 2026

 by Christian Buckley · Published July 10, 2026 · Last modified July 9, 2026

Agentic AI Is An Organizational Virus

I’ll admit up front — this comparison isn’t fully baked. But I think it’s worth sharing anyway, half-formed, because the shape of it keeps...

How Great Brands Scale Beyond the Operator (#CollabTalk Podcast Ep.192)

Leadership / Podcast

July 9, 2026

 by Christian Buckley · Published July 9, 2026

CollabTalk Podcast | Episode 192 with Edwin Choi

  In Episode 192 of the CollabTalk Podcast, we explore one of the defining challenges of growth: how leaders can transform the intuition, judgment,...

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