The CollabTalk Podcast

Episode 56 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Sean McDonough (@spmcdonough), a SharePoint consultant and Chief Technology Officer for Bitstream Foundry LLC, and an Office Apps & Services MVP based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Recorded in July 2019. In this interview, Sean and I discuss the evolution of the SharePoint community, our shared ISV backgrounds, and the opportunities for partners within the Office 365 ecosystem. You can watch the entire episode on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/ChO9_58dDwU

Episode 55 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Adis Jugo (@adisjugo), also a Microsoft RD, as well as a dual-MVP in both Office Apps & Services and Azure, and Chief Strategy Officer at SysKit. Based in Germany, Adis is also the founder of the largest community-run SharePoint event in the world, the European Collaboration Summit. Recorded in July 2019. In this interview, Adis and I discuss the continued growth of the SharePoint, Office 365, and Azure communities worldwide, and some of the developer topics that drive him personally. You can watch this entire interview on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/HAgMg0o-5Mk

Episode 54 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft RD and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Sarah Haase (@sarahhaase), a corporate collaboration evangelist, one of the principal organizers of SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities (largest in the US), and an Office Apps & Services MVP. Recorded in July 2019. In this interview, Sarah and I discuss her extensive background designing, implementing, governing, and supporting enterprise collaboration and content management systems. You can watch the entire episode on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/WvuSRcCecTc

Episode 53 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft RD and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Robert Bogue (@robbogue), author, consultant (Thor Projects LLC), President of intellectual property solution provider AvailTek LLC, and Office Apps & Services MVP. In this interview, Rob and I discuss his extensive work and books around information architecture, metadata, and end user adoption -- and how these issues have continued to be relevant within information management. Recorded July 2019. You can watch the entire video of this interview at https://youtu.be/G_ru5c3TqME

Episode 52 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft RD and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Agnes Molnar (@molnaragnes), CEO and Managing Consultant at Search Explained, and a fellow Office Apps & Services MVP. Recorded in June 2019. In this interview, Agnes and I discuss the seeming "reemergence" of search as an important topic for information management within the Microsoft ecosystem, driven by new innovations in AI, machine-learning, and related workloads within the Microsoft ecosystem. You can watch this entire interview on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/7p_CX8DffH0

Episode 51 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft RD and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Stefano Tempesta (@stefanotempesta), Senior Architect and Digital Advisor at Salesforce, Microsoft RD, and dual MVP in both AI and Business Applications. Recorded in June 2019. In this interview, Stefano and I discuss the changing narrative around blockchain due to the "ICO winter" that some believe we are climbing back out of, and the need for organizations to focus more on change management to better adopt & adapt to the speed of innovation happening around us. You can watch the entire episode on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/H64eVRGpEEI

Episode 50 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft RD and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and MVP Dean Swann (@sdeanswann), Director of Product at tyGraph. Recorded in May 2019. In this interview, Dean and I cover several topics within the Office Apps & Services area, including search, AI, and analytics across TOYS (Teams, Outlook, Yammer, and SharePoint). You can watch this interview on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/ELZQqyrvAs0

Episode 49 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft RD and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and dual-MVP Catalin Gheorghiu (@MrSmersh), with MVPs in Microsoft Azure and Windows Development. Recorded in April 2019. In this interview, Catalin and I discuss his work in the IoT (Internet of Things) space, and we share stories of working in the manufacturing sector, and how many of the IoT and AI innovations are a continuation of earlier supply chain technologies we worked on in the past. You can watch the entire interview on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/lCEIQYwtFRE

Episode 48 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft RD and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Excel MVP Oz du Soleil (@OzExcel), a trainer, author, and advocate for clean data based in Portland, Oregon. Recorded in April 2019. In this interview, Oz and I discuss his beginnings in the MVP community and what it has meant to his career, as well as some of the important topics within the Excel world -- as well as the broader data analysis and analytics world. You can watch this entire interview on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/oJbQuEpI7Ow

Episode 3 of this Microsoft employee-focused interview series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Jon Maunder (@Jon_Maunder), a Senior Product Marketing Manager on the Microsoft 365 team. Recorded in August 2019. In this episode, Jon and I discuss the https://transform.microsoft.com website, tools, and content available for partners and customers, including Return on Investment (ROI) calculators and always-up-to-date product information. You can watch this entire episode on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/__4scO4YGPc