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Two New HowTo Videos for better Navigation in SharePoint with Masthead

A picture is worth a 1000 words. A video is worth more, right? Explaining the value our product Masthead (Beautiful Navigation for SharePoint, Teams and really … Office 365) is easy but folks are busy. If you have worked with SharePoint in the past, you know that Microsoft’s navigation story to date has been poor …

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Adding an item to Masthead – Walkthrough

I was working on some materials for my next user group presentation (which I’ll share here soon enough). It occurred to me that not many people have seen our new (in preview) Progressive Web App for Masthead – we call it “Beautiful Navigation for Office 365” – SharePoint, Teams and beyond. So I figured I’d …

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Inbox Zero in the Office 365 Ecosystem

I took part in a neat event the other day at a local Meetup called “Lighten the Load: Tech Tools for Not for Profits“, run by the local NetSquared NonProfit group. It was a fun evening with great food (and Bourbon!) and a bunch of folks each took turns sharing their favourite technology tip, in …

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Casual Introduction to Working out Loud in a Teams Channel

I made the following brief video for our team internally to help illustrate the difference between following a channel, @mentioning a person vs the whole team and the overall concept of “working out loud”. It’s a little casual … but hey, so am I. 🙂 And if it helps someone, somewhere. Bonus. 🙂

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Getting caught up – Here’s Some Office 365 What’s New(s)

Well, I’ve been away a little while. Life has been busy but I’m starting to get back on track. Let’s start today by simply sharing the last 3 Office 365 What’s New Presentations I have presented since November 2018 at the Victoria Office 365 User Group. Sharing is Caring as they say. November 2018 – …

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Surface Laptop elegance when connected with two screens

I had experimented with this in the past and it wasn’t awesome at the time.  However, it’s working a lot better now, in case anyone is interested. WHAT When I’m using my laptop with two connected screens, I’d rather not use the laptop screen. Why? Three screens isn’t 3x better, I just don’t need it …

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Porting Canadian Phone Numbers in Office 365 requires paperwork … for now

Well, that’s embarrassing. I haven’t posted a blog post since May? Whoa. Sorry, eh? Speaking of being Canadian (and no better time to be proud we aren’t … well, down below… eh?). Office 365 Dial/Phones and Microsoft Teams are now a reality and AWESOME.  Finally. Here.  After years of doing a “hybrid” thang, we’ve gone …

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