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Send us Fan Mail 5 Ways You Can Use MS Stream in Your Business - This is what I'm talking about this episode. 1 - Recorded Meetings 2 - Tutorials/Trainings 3 - Daily CEO Address 4 - Product Branding 5 - Parties/Org Days Tune in for the details on each. New Segment - LinkedIn Love In this new segment, I shout out a person on LinkedIn that did something dope that I liked. In the very first Link...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I use the Number 1 songs of 2003 to help explain 7 things I love about SharePoint. I walk you through putting these songs in a SharePoint list. Then I break down how we would use the top 7 things to collect/interact/manage this data. Appreciate you tuning in! Here are the links I mentioned in the show: Automate Your Training Request with this 5 day email course ....

Send us Fan Mail I'm half ashamed that it's taken me this long to drop this episode. You need this in your life, I promise. Here are the steps: 1 - Brainstorm 2 - Start small 3 - Get your graphics folks involved 4 - Get Leadership buy in 5 -  Build the Buzz (don't let these bullet points be enough for you, tune in so you can get the details...trust me) If you're in the process...

Send us Fan Mail There are a ton of organizations that have NO idea how they can use SharePoint to do data collection. In this episode, I talk about why the current way your process sucks. Here's what I'm covering: Human interaction - this is probably the number one killer Time consuming - the other things on this list contribute to this on Data validation - not being able to do this is...

Send us Fan Mail My career pretty much fell into my lap. It happened to be one of the best things that's ever happened to me. What I mean is that I didn't aspire to be a SharePoint Developer someday. I didn't even know this path existed.  With that said, I've picked up some insights along the way and sharing a few in this episode. I speak about some pros and cons of being a Sha...

Send us Fan Mail At your organization, how do you send out a survey? What tool are you using? Is it something third party? Like PDFs? If you're already paying for the Microsoft 365 suite, you can just use MS Forms. I have a few reasons why I think MS Forms is a better bet than PDF forms. Tune in to find out. Don't forget to catch me on LinkedIn . I post useful stuff every day. 

Send us Fan Mail (This was a good episode...I think. I really want you to tune in) We go inside a process of a multimillion-dollar sneaker company. They're bringing a new product to market. They'll do it using the 365 suite. --- A lot of people buy expensive cell phones and only use it to call, chat, take pics and surf social media. Organizations do the same with the 365 suite. They pay...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I talk about how SharePoint has evolved from being a tool that needed an admin to update things, to instead a tool where you just need education.   (my dog interrupted me and I didn't edit it out😎) I quickly mention Podfest as well.   And lastly, I mentioned this new download for you: 10 Things SharePoint Does Better Than Excel and my new "linktree&quot...

Send us Fan Mail Are you an Executive Admin?  As in, do you administratively support a boss and/or a team of folks?  In that case, you should have a central location (aka website) where all members of the team (boss included) can access files and information.  Now of course, I personally recommend SharePoint to do this :-) You should create a SharePoint site to house any and all information that f...

Send us Fan Mail Weekly Activity Report Monthly Status Update Daily Activity Form Whatever you call them....You probably hate them.  You hate them if you're leadership...because you have to compile them. Workers hate them because they have better things to do. They don't want to interrupt their flow to enter information into an activity form.  In this episode, I help you conduct this pro...

Send us Fan Mail I was supposed to drop an episode today called "SharePoint is not the End All, Be All", but I listened to it and didn't think it was good enough.  So instead, I talked about how I can show up and help you. I just gave a quick overview about the part of my personality that allows me to be a public servant. I talked about how customer service is really the business I&...

Send us Fan Mail I created this episode to say thank you to everyone who is listening and to also give some behind the scenes about building my business. If you like it, let me know and I'll do more like these.  Thanks!

Send us Fan Mail When you hire and/or work with a SharePoint developer, it can be a great experience or a frustrating one.  In this episode, I offer three tips that can help you out. It has less to do with tech and more about procedure and mindset.  Here they are: 1 - Know ALMOST exactly what you want 2 - Understand the technology isn't the key 3 - Get a co-sign from leadership Tune in for th...

Send us Fan Mail Your organization likely throws a holiday party every year. Someone (or a committee) is in charge of handling the attendee list, potluck dishes, games, award presentations and more for the party. This can be a stressful process, especially since this falls under "additional duties" for the people managing the event. In this episode, I talk about how you can reduce the st...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I talk about a tool called Get and Transform. It's available in Excel.  It helps you manipulate your data without having to write formulas.  There are a ton of use cases for it, but in this episode, I cover what to do when you regularly receive data that isn't cleaned up.  So come learn about the built-in washing machine known as Get and Transform! 

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I talk about the number one thing that drives the way I do business today. I love technology, but I love people more. Tune in to hear why that is and how it can help your SharePoint strategy succeed. Links mentioned: Don't Make Me Think - I love this book. It's one of the first that taught me how to approach managing/building websites. Getting Naked - Pr...

Send us Fan Mail I noticed in daycare that there's a place for EVERYTHING. Tune in to find out how this compares to SharePoint and your SharePoint strategy. 

Send us Fan Mail This episode should change the way you view SharePoint. It's the ONE episode I recommend that you listen to above ALL others (I realize the first episode gets all the most listens regardless).  It will set you up to understand ALL other things I teach about SharePoint strategy. Trust me.