MidDay Cafe

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

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   Intr...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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 p...

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 r...

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 Sui...

  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 I...

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...

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. To see the entire posts, including resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog

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, way...

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 t...

“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...

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  

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 

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 ph...

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...

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 mig...

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 

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  

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  

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/HLS...

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