The CollabTalk Podcast

Episode 38 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Jussi Mori (@JussiMori), a partner and principal consultant at Experts Inside in Zurich, Switzerland and a 4-time Microsoft MVP (Office Apps and Services). Recorded in December 2018. In this interview, Jussi and I talk about the ongoing difficulties surrounding end user adoption, and his work at Happit.com in this area -- and how they won a major award at the most recent European SharePoint, Office 365, and Azure Conference in Copenhagen (Nov 2018). You can watch the entire interview on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/sE1SfoqdhkY

Episode 37 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and April Dunnam (@April Dunnam), a newly-minted Business Applications MVP and a lead developer at ThriveFast in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Recorded in December 2018. In this interview, April and I talk about the innovation happening within the Microsoft ecosystem around the various business applications tools and capabilities, and specifically the rapid growth of PowerApps and Flow. You can watch this entire interview on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/ReDayMOE9Vo

Episode 36 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Alistair Pugin (@AlistairPugin), a dual MVP in Microsoft Azure and Office Apps & Services, and Head of Cloud Services at Tangent Solutions in Johannesburg, South Africa. Recorded in November 2018. In this interview, Alistair and I discuss the evolution of many administrative and information architecture aspects of SharePoint, and how the world has changed with the introduction of Teams and the growth of Azure. You can see the entire interview on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/_PIWhpOrRJY

Episode 35 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Laura Rogers (@wonderlaura), a dual MVP in Business Applications and Office Apps & Services, and founder of IWMentor (www.IWMentor.com), a SharePoint and PowerApps training company in Birmingham, Alabama. Recorded in September 2018. In this interview, Laura and I discuss the rapid rise of PowerApps as *the* InfoPath replacement, the rapid rate of change within the Office 365 ecosystem, and how that has increased the need for organizations to become really good at change management. You can watch the entire interview on the CollabTalk YouTube page athttps://youtu.be/I6kkLLdpgnQ

Episode 34 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Cameron Dwyer (@camerondwyer), CTO for OnePlace Solutions (www.oneplacesolutions.com) in Sydney, Australia, and an Office Development MVP. Recorded in August 2018. In this interview, Cameron and I discuss how he got started in Office and SharePoint development by building integrations and add-ins to connect Microsoft solutions with legacy platforms and systems. Cameron also shares his philosophy on user-focused development, and ways in which he can make the end user's life easier. You can watch the entire episode on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/SJvD-WFtj3Q

Episode 33 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Bruno Capuano (@elbruno), Regional Innovation Lead for Avanade Canada, based in Toronto, and an AI and Windows Development MVP. Recorded in August 2018. In this interview, Bruno and I discuss the practical application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine-learning within the enterprise, and how AI will accelerate movement to the cloud. You can watch the entire interview on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/YQS5Wq_rj5k And you can find out more about Bruno on the blog at https://www.buckleyplanet.com/2018/08/mvpbuzzchat-with-bruno-capuano.html

Episode 32 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Benjamin Weissman (@bweissman), owner of Solisyon (www.solisyon.de) in Nuernberg, Germany, and a new Data Platform MVP. Recorded in August 2018. In this interview, Ben and I discuss what it means to be a Data Platform MVP, his passion for Biml and related technologies, and how he enjoys helping organizations better leverage their business data. You can watch the entire episode on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/U0ysF4XR78w And you can find out more about Ben on the blog at https://www.buckleyplanet.com/2018/08/mvpbuzzchat-ben-weissman.html

Episode 31 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Nicki Borell (@nickiborell), a principal of Xperts At Work in Germany, and a fellow Microsoft RD and Office Apps & Services MVP. Recorded in August 2018. In this interview, Nicki and I briefly talk about changes to the MVP program, but then focus most of our discussion on the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) in the EU, and its impacts on Office 365 and Azure. Specifically, we discuss the differences between Microsoft being GDPR compliant -- and what customers need to consider to be GDPR compliant in using Office 365 and Azure. You can watch the entire interview on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/O42T5B25NKY And you can find out more about Nicki on the blog at https://www.buckleyplanet.com/2018/08/mvpbuzzchat-nicki-borell.html

Episode 30 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Chris Miller (@anotherlab), an R&D Architect with Tyler Technologies in Albany, NY, and a Visual Studio and Development Technologies MVP. Recorded in August 2018. In this interview, Chris and I discuss his many years of running his local .Net User Groups, and our similar experiences from the behind-the-scenes operations of these community events. We share our thoughts on running a UG in a small community, and of the evolving UG or meetup model, and what it takes to keep up with changing member interests so that the group continues to provide value to its members. You can watch this entire interview on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/6v8Fsu8caeU To learn more about Chris, check out the blog at https://www.buckleyplanet.com/2018/08/mvpbuzzchat-chris-miller.html

Episode 29 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Hans Brender (@HansBrender), a Cloud Productivity Evangelist with Bright Skies GmbH based out of Aalen Germany, and an Office Apps & Services MVP. Recorded in August 2018. In this interview, Hans and I discuss the status of the OneDrive workload, and its evolution within the Office 365 ecosystem, as well as the shift in the community discussion from deeply technical topics to very end user and business value-centric topics. You can watch this entire interview on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/rWpLe7V1PAI To learn more about Hans, check out the blog at https://www.buckleyplanet.com/2018/08/mvpbuzzchat-hans-brender.html