{"id":2082,"date":"2017-01-31T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itgroove.net\/oh365eh\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2023-02-24T20:34:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T20:34:35","slug":"year-review-goodbye-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/oh365eh\/2017\/01\/31\/year-review-goodbye-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year in Review &#8211; Goodbye 2016!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Goodbye 2016.\u00a0Hello 2017!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new year means its time to come up with a new set of goals. But first, a moment to reflect back on some big moments for me &#8211; both personal and professional &#8211; in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><b>Personal Accomplishments:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>August 2016 &#8211; Got engaged!<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My boyfriend of five years, Rick LaForest, popped the question, and I said yes.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ll spend 2017 enjoying engagement<i> (and trying to remember to call each other &#8220;fianc\u00e9e&#8221;).<\/i><\/li>\n<li>The exact date for the wedding bells is in the works for Summer 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>October 2016 &#8211; Renewed as Microsoft OneNote MVP for a third time.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My <a href=\"https:\/\/mvp.microsoft.com\/en-us\/PublicProfile\/5001025?fullName=Kelly%20Christina%20Marshall\">third consecutive award designation<\/a> was a surprise. I had the same number of presentations and blog posts as last year, but 90% of them were on Office 365 or SharePoint topics\u2026<\/li>\n<li>\u2026fortunately my MVP Lead, Sim, gave me an heads up with enough notice to pump out a stack of OneNote-specific content and book some speaking events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>October 2016 &#8211; Delivered a free public &#8220;OneNote Demo Workshop&#8221;.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Delivered my first free, one-hour &#8220;OneNote Demo Workshop&#8221; to an audience of 25 OneNote fans.<\/li>\n<li><i>Fun Fact: I have a deep-rooted fear of public speaking. I don&#8217;t stammer or black out any more, but speaking in public in front of more than 10 people still makes my heart race.<\/i><\/li>\n<li>I learned A LOT and plan to do another OneNote event in 2017. Shoot me an email to be added to the waitlist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>November 2016 &#8211; Presented at the &#8220;Learn OneNote Online Conference&#8221;.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Delivered a 45-minute presentation on &#8220;Getting Started with OneNote &#8211; an introduction to OneNote, including an overview of the different version&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Discovered last-minute that my presentation was opening the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learnonconference.com\/\">five-day conference<\/a> that had 4,300 registered learners. No pressure!<\/li>\n<li>It turns out that my presentation received 4,261 views from highly engaged OneNote fans, and it tied for first place as attendee&#8217;s favorite out of 21 different presentations in the post-event survey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><b>Professional Accomplishments:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watching the <a href=\"https:\/\/itgroove.net\/whats-new-itgroove-december-2016\/\">itgroove 2016 year-in-review video<\/a> is like time-traveling back over our team&#8217;s accomplishments for the year. It&#8217;s particularly fascinating how many changes took place in the last 12 months. Honestly, some of these events seem like they&#8217;ve been a part of the itgroove culture for years.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Team Grows!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Of particular note is the addition of my colleagues <a href=\"https:\/\/itgroove.net\/meet-the-team\/karin-skapski\/\">Karin Skapski<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/itgroove.net\/meet-the-team\/noel-feliciano\/\">Noel Feliciano<\/a> to the team. I love the team dynamic<\/p>\n<p><b>New Systems.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s shocking to think how many of the tools and systems that I use every single day were not here last year. Of note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>January 2016 &#8211; The itgroove Portal\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s built on SharePoint Online in the Microsoft Cloud &#8211; that means sexy, modern lists and libraries &#8211; woot!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>May 2016 &#8211; The itgroove Gallery\n<ul>\n<li>When people ask what sort of solutions we build, I can now send them a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/itgroove.net\/gallery\/item\/\">browse the gallery<\/a> &#8211; where they can see screenshots and watch videos of how we can get their business and workplace technology working.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>November 2016 &#8211; The itgroove Time System\n<ul>\n<li>I can now enter my time from my mobile phone on a fast, easy-to-use form &#8211; booyah!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>New Tools and Processes.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe how many processes we use to streamline our day-to-day communications didn&#8217;t exist 12 months ago. Here&#8217;s a few of my favourites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our daily online SCRUM meeting in Yammer to share what we&#8217;re working on for the day.<\/li>\n<li>Our new Business Intelligence Dashboards to see what&#8217;s going on with our clients at a glance.<\/li>\n<li>Our Planner board to get a big picture view during team meetings of what we&#8217;re all working on.<\/li>\n<li>Our Wunderlist task lists to stay on top of personal, internal tasks and client project work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To see what I&#8217;m talking about, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/itgroove.net\/whats-new-itgroove-december-2016\/\">itgroove 2016 year-in-review video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And check back for another &#8220;About Me&#8221; post where I propose my goals for 2017 &#8211; that will definitely include some OneNote-related activities.<\/p>\n<p>-Kelly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodbye 2016.\u00a0Hello 2017! A new year means its time to come up with a new set of goals. But first, a moment to reflect back on some big moments for me &#8211; both personal and professional &#8211; in 2016. Personal Accomplishments: August 2016 &#8211; Got engaged! My boyfriend of five years, Rick LaForest, popped the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/oh365eh\/2017\/01\/31\/year-review-goodbye-2016\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Year in Review - Goodbye 2016! - Kelly LaForest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/oh365eh\/2017\/01\/31\/year-review-goodbye-2016\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Year in Review - Goodbye 2016! - Kelly LaForest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Goodbye 2016.\u00a0Hello 2017! 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