Kelly LaForest

Have you read Blogger James Pinkstone’s post “Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously“? You should. Especially if you are a musician that is recording or producing your own music. (There’s a reason the computer tower used in our household for creating music is not connected to the internet .) Here’s the statement from James’ blog post that resonated with …

Yep, I haven’t posted in a loooong while. I also haven’t been *this* excited about a Microsoft announcement until now. We attended the webcast of Microsoft’s “The Future of SharePoint” live event. I’ll save a summary of my first impressions and *gasp* worthy moments for later day, but for now I want to share two useful …

If you need to reschedule or cancel a meeting, the best approach IMHO is to respond via the Outlook Calendar meeting (versus a separate email, Yammer message, smoke signals, no show, etc.) Why? Emails related to Calendar invites stand out when one is quickly scanning an inbox, and demand attention/action. You’re saving time for the organizer as they …

Email, Yammer, and Instant Messages, Oh My! So many choices. When it comes to communication, everyone’s got their preference. But I seriously believe there should be some hard, fast ground rules when it comes to inter-office communications. I work with a team that has successfully adopted Yammer for the majority of our communications. Email is …

While searching for a definite answer about if a Desktop Notifier App for Macs exists for a client, I came across some folks discussing two neat Yammer apps for displaying Yammer content as a streaming feed. (By the way – if the link above doesn’t work for you, then you’re not a member of the Office …

In the past, my blog posts have tended to be very detailed instructional how to posts, stuffed with step-by-step screenshots. It’s a labour of love, but one that takes a lot of time. Already a month into 2016, I’m finding that I am struggling to make time to write posts of that caliber due to …

In a past blog post (“Where Did the Publisher Settings Checkbox go in Yammer?“) I pondered the fate of the Publisher Settings Feature. It had recently disappeared from the Yammer Interface  and I wondered if it had been moved to another location or if it had become a setting that only Network Admins could configure. On October 7th, Microsoft made …