The CollabTalk Podcast

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

Episode 28 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Timothy Warner (@TechTrainerTim), an Author Evangelist for Pluralsight, independent consultant, and Cloud & Datacenter Management MVP. Recorded in August 2018. In this interview, Tim and I discuss the rapid pace of innovation around Azure, and the increasing need for operational guidance and knowledge transfer for customers to help them better optimize their Azure services. You can watch the entire interview on the CollabTalk YouTube page athttps://youtu.be/Mb-bgOnU4vA To find out more about Tim, check out the blog post at https://www.buckleyplanet.com/2018/08/mvpbuzzchat-with-timothy-warner.html

Episode 27 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and David Pine (@davidpine7), a Technical Evangelist at Centare, and a Visual Studio and Development Technologies MVP. Recorded in June 2018. In this interview, David and I discuss some of the latest developer news out of Microsoft (and the 2018 Build conference) including updates on .Net, the language progression of C#, and the Web Assembly project called Blazor. You can watch this entire interview on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/UEajhQHBa3Y Or you can find out more about David on the blog at https://www.buckleyplanet.com/2018/06/mvpbuzzchat-david-pine.html

Episode 26 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Eric Riz (@RIZinsights), Founder of EmptyCubicle.com, and a fellow Office Apps & Services MVP. Recorded in May 2018. In this interview, Eric and I waste a lot of valuable time on inside jokes, but then settle down into a discussion on his company, the advances being made around AI and machine-learning, and how his company is leveraging these new capabilities to improve how organizations find and hire people. You can watch the entire interview on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/pGGA2Inqkto Additionally, you can find out more about Eric on the blog at https://www.buckleyplanet.com/2018/06/mvpbuzzchat-eric-riz.html

Episode 25 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Thomas Stensitzki (@stensitzki), Owner of Granikos in Hückelhoven, Germany, and an Office Apps & Services MVP. Recorded in May 2018. In this interview, Thomas and I discuss adjusting to the rapid pace of innovation in the cloud, and the continued evolution of the IT Pro role, especially within the Microsoft ecosystem. You can watch the entire interview on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/qvuk5QnBz7M Additionally, you can find out more about Thomas on the blog at https://www.buckleyplanet.com/2018/06/mvpbuzzchat-thomas-stensitzki.html

Episode 24 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Kevin Crossman (@kevincrossman), Manager of IT Collaboration at Juniper Networks in Sunnyvale, California, and an Office Apps & Services MVP. Recorded in May 2018. In this interview, we discuss coexistence between SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and Yammer, and some of the (continuing) community discourse on the topic. You can watch the entire interview on the CollabTalk YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/U4gjtUEgWUA Find out more about Kevin on the blog at https://www.buckleyplanet.com/2018/05/mvpbuzzchat-kevin-crossman.html

Episode 23 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and David E. Patrick (@davidepatrick), a Subject-Matter Expert with DSA, Inc. in Baltimore, MD, and an Office Apps & Services MVP. Recorded in May 2018. In this interview, we discuss thesome of the ways that SharePoint continues to help organizations and end users to be more productive, as well as some DevOps topics of extending SharePoint with Azure, Teams, and more. You can watch the entire interview on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/SNlTINc84qE And you can find out more about David on the blog at https://www.buckleyplanet.com/2018/05/mvpbuzzchat-david-patrick.html

Episode 22 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Haniel Croitoru (@HCroitoru), an Office Servers and Services MVP who is working a lot in the Business Solutions focus area, as well, and who is a Lead Consultant with 2toLead in Toronto, Canada. Recorded in April 2018. In this interview, Haniel and I dig into workplace automation using Teams, Flow, PowerApps, Forms, SharePoint, and PowerBI. You can watch this interview on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/TS2uip0uspY And if you'd like to learn more about Haniel, check out the blog post at https://www.buckleyplanet.com/2018/05/mvpbuzzchat-haniel-croitoru.html