The CollabTalk Podcast

Episode 21 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Becky Benishek (@beckybenishek), an Office Apps & Services MVP, Yammer expert, and Online Communities Manager at Crisis Prevention Institute in Milwaukee, MI. Recorded in April 2018. In this interview, Becky and I discuss Yammer an...

Episode 20 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Onur Okutucu (@bakionurs), a Windows and Devices for IT MVP, and DevOps engineer and consultant based out of London, UK. Recorded April 2018. In this interview, Onur and I talk about changes within the DevOps space, and then we dig...

Episode 19 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Paul Keijzers (@KbWorks), an Office Servers & Services MVP and Office 365 Specialist with Wortell, based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Recorded April 2018. In this interview, we discuss customer and community feedback, and its importa...

Episode 18 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Erwin van Hunen (@erwinvanhunen), a Microsoft MVP and MCM, active participant in the PnP community, and product owner of SPTransformator at Renore. He's based out of Stockholm, Sweden. In this interview, we talk about community as...

Episode 17 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Tobiasz Koprowski (@KoprowskiT), a Data Platform MVP, and the founder of Shadowloand Consulting in the UK. In this interview, we chat about the Microsoft Community, and how our interactions with Microsoft have evolved over the year...

Episode 16 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft MVP's Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Liam Cleary (@helloitsliam), a fellow Office Servers & Services MVP, security expert, consultant, and principal at Shareplicity, as well as a product owner at Rencore. Recorded March 2018. In this interview, we discuss the topic of cyber-security with...

Episode 15 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft MVP's Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Magnus Mårtensson (@noopman), a Microsoft Regional Director, Azure MVP, and CEO of the consulting company Loftysoft based in Malmo, Sweden. In this interview, we discuss his effort's to help companies move to Azure, and how the expansion of Microsoft...

Episode 13 (lucky 13!) of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft MVP's Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Mikael Svenson (@mikaelsvenson), Chief Technology Officer for Puzzlepart, and a fellow Office Servers & Services MVP. In this interview, we discuss some of the evolving role of the IT Pro, his background in SharePoint search, and his focus...

Episode 14 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft MVP's Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Sonia Cuff (@Cuff_S), a virtual-CIO and fellow Office Servers & Services MVP. Recorded March 2018. In this interview, we discuss an important end user adoption issue -- not taking advantage of the latest features, but focusing on what you know / techn...

Episode 12 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft MVP's Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Gareth Gudger (@SuperTekBoy), a Solution Architect at Blue Chip Consulting Group in Cleveland, Ohio and a fellow Office Apps & Services MVP. In this interview, we discuss the upcoming Microsoft release cycle with Exchange 2019 and constant updates to...

Episode 11 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft MVP's Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Dileepa Kariyawasam (@dileepstweets), a Senior Consultant with Empire Ltd. Australia, one of the region's largest consulting firms. Dileepa is based out of Sydney, and is a fellow Office Apps & Services MVP. In this interview, we discuss the issues th...

Episode 10 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft MVP's Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Hal Hostetler (@TVWizard), a Senior Field Engineer with Roland Schorr, & Tower and MVP for 22 years. In this interview, we discuss some of our backgrounds in technology and how our areas of focus have changed in the MVP program since winning the award...

Episode 9 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft MVP's Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Chantal Bossé (@CHABOS), a PowerPoint MVP and President of CHABOS, and also referred to as the Lead Presentation Magician by her clients. In this interview, we share some takeaways on the Microsoft MVP Program, but then dive into the areas where people...

The inaugural episode of #WasatchAmplified on the CollabTalk Podcast focusing on people and companies along Utah's Wasatch Front and the Silicon Slopes. In this episode, CollabTalk founder and CEO Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet) interviews serial entrepreneur, investor, advisor, and the CEO and founder of Startup Ignition, John Richards (@johnrichards_ut). In this interview, Christian and John...

Episode 8 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft MVP's Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Jared Matfess (@JaredMatfess), a Practice Area Lead in Technology Enablement at Slalom Consulting, and Office Apps & Services MVP. In this interview, Jared shares his interest in building out chatbots, and trying to better leverage the data being captu...

Episode 7 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft MVP's Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Noah Sparks (@NoahSparks), a self-proclaimed community igniter and well-known Yammer supporter who works for Brainstorm Inc., and who was formerly a Community Success Manager at Microsoft. In this interview, we talk about Yammer for a couple minutes, b...

Episode 6 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft MVP's Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Ellen Finkelstein (@EFinkelstein), an author, trainer, frequent speaker, and one of only 14 PowerPoint MVPs in the US, which falls under the category Office Apps & Services. In this interview, we talk about storytelling and using visualizations to impr...

Episode 5 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft MVP's Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Nick Brattoli (@Byrdttoli), Founder and Lead Consultant at Byrdttoli Enterprise Consulting, LLC, and an Office Apps & Services MVP. In this video, we discuss the upcoming release of SharePoint Server 2019, the evolution of migrations, and the increase...

Episode 4 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft MVP's Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Tom Arbuthnot (@tomarbuthnot), Principal Solutions Architect at Modality Systems, and a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) as well as an Office Apps & Services MVP. In this interview, we discuss Microsoft evolving messaging around 'Intelligent Communicat...

Episode 3 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft MVP's Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Eric Overfield (@ericoverfield), Founder & CEO of PixelMill, and a Microsoft Regional Director and Office Apps & Services MVP. In this interview, we discuss our shared interest in blockchain, and how we see the technology impacting many different indus...

Episode 2 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft MVP's Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Michael Blumenthal (@michaelbl), a Principal Office 365 Engineer in broadcast media and fellow Office Apps & Services MVP. Recorded February 2018.

Episode 1 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Windows and Devices for IT MVP Harjit Dhaliwal (@hoorge), a Senior Systems Admin at the University of Vermont. March 2018

Discussion with John Mancini (@jmancini77), President at Content Results, LLC and former President and Chief Evangelist for AIIM.org, hosted by CollabTalk Founder & CEO Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), on the topic of modern knowledge management (KM) within the enterprise, and how technology advances (AI, VR/AR, automation) are changing the information management landscape.

Discussion with Charlie Hull (@FlaxSearch), Managing Consultant with OpenSource Connections, and Martin White (@IntranetFocus), Data Scientist with Intranet Focus Ltd., hosted by CollabTalk Founder & CEO Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), on the topic of enterprise search and the impact of AI, cognitive search, and other newer technologies on the quality of modern search. Video available at https...

Virtual keynote presented in January 2019 for SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach (#SPSVB) on the topic 'How Personality and Culture Determine Collaboration Success' by Collabtalk Founder & CEO Christian Buckley. The presentation is also available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/8vZ0tC5U0mc