I’m setting up monthly ‘Office Hours’ to provide marketing strategy advice to local tech companies here in Utah at two locations. If you’re local and would like to schedule some of that time to discuss your company or project marketing efforts, you can sign up at http://bit.ly/Kiln-Mktg Here’s some background on...
In my latest Digital Sack Lunch interview, I connected with Michael Hiles, CEO of 10XTS based in Cincinnati, Ohio (Twitter, LinkedIn) to share our thoughts on the future of blockchain within the enterprise. I’ve known Michael for several years through the SharePoint community — but after dropping off the radar...
In episode 9 of #MVPbuzzChat, I spoke with Montreal-based PowerPoint MVP Chantal Bossé (@CHABOS), President of CHABOS and, as her clients refer to her, a Lead Presentation Magician. This discussion with Chantal is a great example of the diversity of business and technical breadth and depth within the Microsoft MVP community...
For Episode 3 of the #MVPbuzzChat series, I interviewed my good friend and fellow SharePoint Saturday community organizer Eric Overfield (@ericoverfield), Founder & CEO of PixelMill in Davis, California (just west of Sacramento). Eric is an Officer Servers & Services MVP, as well as a Microsoft Regional Director (don’t know...
Introducing the #MVPbuzzChat video interview series, and supporting blog posts! As part of an effort to consolidate my video creation process into two primary outputs (and reduce the production time/effort to publish some of my video content), I’m officially launching this new series alongside a long-running series: #MVPbuzzChat is a...
What It Is: While attending Microsoft Inspire in Washington DC this past July, which is the re-branded Worldwide Partner Conference, one of the minor announcements that stood out to me was the preview of the new Microsoft Connections, a streamlined email marketing campaign tool for Office 365 business accounts that...
#Microsoft365Challenge – 365 Blogs in 365 Days about Microsoft 365. For those unfamiliar with the challenge, my good friend and fellow Microsoft MVP Tracy van der Schyff completed her self-imposed challenge of writing 365 blog posts on Office 365 in 365 days, and then apparently went into blogging withdrawals, and...
When I launched CollabTalk as an independent research and technical marketing services company on January 1st of this year – building on a 5-year-old brand that I had built around open, community-based conversations on all-things collaboration – I decided to leverage Microsoft Teams as my primary platform. As the CollabTalk...
I can't tell you how many times I've sung the praises of OneNote. Not that I am an expert in every nuance of the tool, but it has become my primary writing platform — and an excellent resource for information capture and discovery. I thought I'd share a few thoughts...
When I started blogging on a regular basis back in 1998, publishing content was a painful process. Back then, I used a free text editor and posted simple HTML to my startup’s website, uploading my images and content using a free FTP tool. In February 2004, I switched to Moveable...
