Community
#CommunityRocks
Sharing knowledge and opinions to help others with blogs, links to sessions and other community activities
Throughout my career, I have learnt from people like Marc Anderson, Jeremy Thake and Andrew Connell - they all shared what they were doing and learning. This inspired me to try and share more and help others understand the technology, how it could be used, why it should be used and what can be done to extend it even further. My aims have been to share through blogs, videos and conference presentations, supporting events and other communities where I can.
This page highlights some of those things that I have done, am doing and plan to do.
Recent sessions
European SharePoint, Azure and Office 365 Conference 2023
Viva Workshop and Viva Explorers panel session
Over in Copenhagen, I joined Zoe Wilson and Chirag Patel in delivering a full day workshop around Microsoft Viva with hands-on experience for the attendees. This was followed up with a panel session with Zoe and Chirag as well as Leslie Crook and beautifully helmed by Sara Fennah.
Teams Community Day Germany
Using Viva Goals in Teams to build purpose and focus throughout your organisation
Remotely sharing how Viva Goals to share purpose and focus across an organisation with the OKR Framework.
South Coast Summit
Track lead, volunteer and speaker
The South Coast Summit is a great event that brings the community together to share knowledge for free, backed by sponsors and with experts giving their time for free. I helped the organisers by arranging the productivity and collaboration track, running the Viva workshop with Zoe Wilson and Chirag Patel and speaking at three different sessions during the main day.
Community activities
Areas where I give back on a regular basis
GreyHatBeardPrincess Podcast
The modern workplace podcast about all things Microsoft
Every couple of weeks we talk about all things modern workplace, often with a special guest. Al Eardley, Garry Trinder and Luise Freese chat as if it was in the pub after a user group, digesting what has been happening in the news and sharing opinions with our guests on their favourite topics.
Viva Explorers
A community of employee experience focused MVPs looking to share the why, the what and the how of Microsoft Viva through conference sessions, dedicated community events and sharing online.
