Microsoft Innovation Podcast Lindsay Shelton on The MVP Show
FULL SHOW NOTES
https://podcast.nz365guy.com/463
- Lindsay Shelton talks about her love for taking care of her cat and how she spends her time with family and friends.
- Transitioning from Teaching to Tech - Lindsay shares her journey from being a middle school English teacher to transitioning into the tech industry.
- Being Open to Opportunity – Lindsay emphasizes the importance of being open to opportunities, even if they are unexpected or not necessarily in your field.
- Learning from Experience – Lindsay shares how teaching and using Google Apps for Education led to her interest in technology and eventually pursuing a career in the industry.
- Non-traditional Backgrounds – Lindsay's story highlights how having a non-traditional background can be an asset in the tech industry, and how companies can benefit from taking chances on people with different experiences.
- Lindsay shares how a chance encounter at a party led to meeting someone who helped her transition into the tech industry, highlighting the role of networking and being open to new connections.
- Lindsay talks about governance in Power Automate. She discusses the considerations that are similar to governance around Power Apps and other Power tools.
- Lindsay talks about connectors and shares her experience of going through Microsoft's recommended list of connectors and separating out the business connectors for their personal productivity environment.
- Talks about implementing governance in Power Automate and how Lindsay set up a system where users can get access to connectors and how she turned on connectors in the makerspace specifically if they were blocked by DLP policies.
- Discussions about personal productivity environment in Power Automate. Lindsay shares her experience of changing the default environment into a personal productivity environment and the challenges she faced in keeping everything in that environment.
- Talks about the importance of understanding the different types of Power Automate flows.
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