The past couple of years forced people to work from home and collaborate online. During this period, Microsoft productivity experts observed two things in their workforce; remote employees work more efficiently, and most miss each other. That small coffee talk, fun banters, and hallway moments – all were replaced with a digital screen. Simply, they […]
Is the Microsoft Tool You’re Using Appropriate for the Job? The introduction of Microsoft Lists — is basically a major update to the SharePoint lists experience presented as a separate app. There have been various upgrades to the two major task apps, Microsoft Planner and Microsoft To-Do. This raises several considerations about which tool to […]
Major Updates US and EU Yammer External Collaboration Yammer will now fully allow external collaboration of members who are both in the US and EU. Previously, EU and US external collaborators we siloed. This change will allow for greater collaboration of users across the two continents. We aren’t fans of Yammer, relative to Teams, but […]
Major Updates Microsoft Teams Music Detection Microsoft Teams will now detect background music and give the user the option to suppress background music. If you are purposely playing background music, you can enable high fidelity music mode. To learn how to enable high fidelity music mode, click here. Related Content is No Longer Visible in […]
As of April 2021, 145 million people use Microsoft Teams every day. That’s almost double the number of users within one year! The shift from in-office to work-from-home models promoted thousands of companies across various industries to adopt video conferencing platforms like Microsoft Teams to stay connected while working remotely. Now, it’s the norm. With […]
Employee skill search remains top requirement of intranets and digital workplaces for organizations both large and small. This is backed up by the comprehensive Nielsen Norman Group’s Intranet Design Annual report – where the top goal of unifying the organization is driven by “rich employee-profiles” and “the ability to search for and find colleagues with expertise in different areas”. Furthermore, the significant […]
2020 has been quite the year for both Microsoft Teams and Zoom. Both have seen skyrocketing usage. There are plenty of other video teleconferencing apps out there too; Webex, GoTo Meeting and BlueJeans to name a few. So why have Microsoft Teams and Zoom been in the news so much as the video conferencing apps? […]
Microsoft Teams is one of the hottest Teams collaboration platforms in the world. It is great for hosting meetings and allows file collaboration, conversations, and deep integrations with your existing Microsoft products. No other platform integrates with Microsoft apps better than Microsoft Teams. One of the biggest benefits, and biggest downfalls, is how easy it […]
The holidays are upon us and it has been quite the year for most of us. Fortunately, you can now add Starbucks to Microsoft Teams! What better way to put some smiles on peoples face than gifting them an electronic Starbucks gift card? How to Add Starbucks to Microsoft Teams Adding the Starbucks app to […]
