The CollabTalk Podcast

Discussion with Ruven Gotz (@ruveng), Director and Workplace eXperience Lead - US West for Avanade, hosted by CollabTalk Founder & CEO Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), on the topic of the evolution of how organizations are approaching adoption and engagement of technology, and specifically collaboration technology (Office 365, SharePoint, etc).

Episode 64 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Treb Gatte (@tgatte), CEO of Marquee Insights and a Data Platform MVP based in Seattle, Washington. In this episode, Treb and I discuss our similar pathways from project and program management platforms (he used to be a Project MVP...

Episode 63 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and John White (@diverdown1964), CTO of tyGraph and UnlimitedViz based in Canada, and dual MVP in both Office Apps & Services and Data Platform. Recorded in August 2019. In this episode, John and I discuss the democratization of data a...

Episode 4 of this Microsoft employee-focused interview series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Mark Kashman (@mkashman), a Senior Product Manager on the Microsoft 365 team focused on SharePoint and OneDrive. Recorded in August 2019. In this episode, Mark and I discuss his career pathway onto the Share...

Episode 62 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Jeff Willinger (@jwillie), Global Evangelist for Kaltura in Los Angeles, CA and an Office Apps & Services MVP. Recorded in August 2019. In this interview, Jeff and I talk about the rapidly growing importance of video as a communica...

Episode 61 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Matt Wade (@thatmattwade), co-founder of Jumpto365, Vice President of Client Engagement at H3 Solutions, and an Office Apps & Services MVP based in Albany, NY. Recorded in August 2019. In this interview, Matt and I talk about his c...

Episode 60 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Ragnar Heil (@ragnarh), Partner Sales for Quest, and an Office Apps & Services MVP based in Germany. Recorded in August 2019. In this interview, Ragnar and I discuss his transition from Microsoft to the partner ecosystem, becoming...

Episode 59 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Melissa Hubbard, dual MVP in Office Apps & Services and Business Appplications, and a consultant with Withum Digital in the Washington DC area. Recorded in August 2019. In this interview, Melissa and I discuss Microsoft Teams and t...

Episode 58 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Christina Wheeler, Office Apps & Services MVP, independent consultant, and part-time trainer for Critical Path Training, Combined Knowledge, and Mindsharp. Recorded in July 2019. In this interview, we discuss Christina's extensive...

Episode 57 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Lisbon, Portual-based Office Apps & Services MVP, Nuno Arias Silva (@nunoariassilva). Nuno is an Architect Manager and Modern Workplace Lead at GFI Portugal, and a frequent presenter at community events. Recorded in July 2019. In t...

Episode 56 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Sean McDonough (@spmcdonough), a SharePoint consultant and Chief Technology Officer for Bitstream Foundry LLC, and an Office Apps & Services MVP based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Recorded in July 2019. In this interview, Sean and I discus...

Episode 55 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Adis Jugo (@adisjugo), also a Microsoft RD, as well as a dual-MVP in both Office Apps & Services and Azure, and Chief Strategy Officer at SysKit. Based in Germany, Adis is also the founder of the largest community-run SharePoint ev...

Episode 54 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft RD and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Sarah Haase (@sarahhaase), a corporate collaboration evangelist, one of the principal organizers of SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities (largest in the US), and an Office Apps & Services MVP. Recorded in July 2019. In this interview, Sarah and I disc...

Episode 53 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft RD and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Robert Bogue (@robbogue), author, consultant (Thor Projects LLC), President of intellectual property solution provider AvailTek LLC, and Office Apps & Services MVP. In this interview, Rob and I discuss his extensive work and books around informat...

Episode 52 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft RD and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Agnes Molnar (@molnaragnes), CEO and Managing Consultant at Search Explained, and a fellow Office Apps & Services MVP. Recorded in June 2019. In this interview, Agnes and I discuss the seeming "reemergence" of search as an important topic for inf...

Episode 51 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft RD and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Stefano Tempesta (@stefanotempesta), Senior Architect and Digital Advisor at Salesforce, Microsoft RD, and dual MVP in both AI and Business Applications. Recorded in June 2019. In this interview, Stefano and I discuss the changing narrative aroun...

Episode 50 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft RD and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and MVP Dean Swann (@sdeanswann), Director of Product at tyGraph. Recorded in May 2019. In this interview, Dean and I cover several topics within the Office Apps & Services area, including search, AI, and analytics across TOYS (Teams, Outlook, Yammer...

Episode 49 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft RD and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and dual-MVP Catalin Gheorghiu (@MrSmersh), with MVPs in Microsoft Azure and Windows Development. Recorded in April 2019. In this interview, Catalin and I discuss his work in the IoT (Internet of Things) space, and we share stories of working in the...

Episode 48 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft RD and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Excel MVP Oz du Soleil (@OzExcel), a trainer, author, and advocate for clean data based in Portland, Oregon. Recorded in April 2019. In this interview, Oz and I discuss his beginnings in the MVP community and what it has meant to his career, as w...

Episode 3 of this Microsoft employee-focused interview series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Jon Maunder (@Jon_Maunder), a Senior Product Marketing Manager on the Microsoft 365 team. Recorded in August 2019. In this episode, Jon and I discuss the https://transform.microsoft.com website, tools, and c...

Episode 47 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft RD and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Mick Pletcher (@mick_pletcher), Sr. Systems Admin with Waller Lansden Dortch and Davis LLP in Nashville, TN, and a Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP. Recorded in March 2019. In this interview, Mick and I discuss his passion for PowerShell and W...

Episode 46 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft RD and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Asif Rehmani (@asifrehmani), Founder & CEO of VisualSP, and an Office Apps & Services MVP. Recorded in March 2019. In this interview, Asif and I talk about the evolution of support/learning content in the SharePoint community, and the positive im...

Episode 45 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft RD and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Tom Morgan (@tomorgan), a product innovation architect with Modality Systems in the UK, and an Office Apps & Services MVP. Recorded in March 2019. In this interview, Tom and I talk about the state of development on the Microsoft Teams platform, a...

Episode 44 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft RD and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Wictor Wilén (@wictor), a SharePoint MCA, MCSM, MCM and MVP, as well as the Global Innovation Lead-Modern Workplace at Avanade. Recorded in February 2019. In this interview, Wictor and I talk about some of the growth pains of Microsoft Teams, inc...

Episode 43 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft RD and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Adam Levithan (@CollabAdam), a fellow Office Apps & Services MVP and product manager at Withum. Recorded in February 2019. In this interview, Adam and I discuss the core strength of Microsoft SharePoint: intranets, and how the various new technol...