Adoption Masterminds March Meetup!
Join me and the adoption masterminds on March 14th 11 AM EST for an open conversation about ROI of Adoption!!! I do not have all the answers, so if you have ideas, strategies, questions, we would love for you to come and share!!! This has been a topic that has come up in past meetings, so I thought we should take a hour and talk about it! You can register here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/9cd4b1b5-a264-442b-8d5b-f07a40b24852@8b3dd73e-4e72-4679-b191-56da1588712bTool for training needs analysis
I'm not sure if I'm in the right place to ask this... Part of my role is to drive adoption of O365 in our customer's organisations. I'm looking for a cloud-based tool to assess who needs training, which aspects of the suite they need training in and possibly even how best they like to learn (instructor-led, video, self-paced etc). Ideally the tool would give me a good idea of the digital literacy of each employee and where their strengths and weaknesses lie with each app (e.g Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint etc). Any help with this from the community would be greatly appreciated!
Adoption Learning/Sharing Group for MS Customers
Dear all! Are you busy fighting for adoption in your company? Do you have a lot of ideas on what you could do to foster/enhance adoption? Are you constantly thinking about what else you could do to bring users closer to a bit of your amazement for technology? Do you feel you should be doing more to help your colleagues understand and use all the awesome features and possibilities your licenses is already paying for? If you answered yes to any of my questions, then let us connect and talk. I am looking to create a group for Adoption specialists, Champions, TDIs, technology evangelist or how ever we are called working in medium-big organizations that would like to come together to learn from each other and recycle, improve and get new ideas from the sharing of experiences and mistakes. We all have done our mistakes and found our gold, let us share these! I am a Transformation Manager in an big international company. It is my job to find out how to create bridges between my colleagues(aka users) and the technology we are buying from MS... it sounds simple... Anyone?Launching a New Org Intranet Featuring Yammer/VE for Org News
Has anyone recently explored launching a SharePoint intranet using Yammer as core component for news and sharing resources? I'm working on a project where the client is starting with a single communication home site that will be managed by only a handful of staff for an organization of a few hundred. There are no plans to expand this into additional sites. We're still assessing the scope and scale of the site content, but if there is a need to publish a LOT of internal content, it may be too much for them to manage. That's why I'm considering Yammer to manage the majority of org news. Even a single community would allow multiple committees and departments to share their news and resources to a wide audience. All of which would be embedded into the home site. There are several other benefits, but I'm curious to know if anyone here as already walked this path. Happy to hear your experiences and your advice for a SharePoint/Yammer hybrid home site.Yammer Topics and SharePoint - A Sample Use-case
Recently, I've found Yammer and SharePoint to be a terrific mix for sharing information and small updates in my org. First, I started by storing organizational information in static SharePoint pages. Next, I use a public Yammer community to post about an updates to the content on the page. The Yammer posts are embedded to the page by topic. What's neat about this setup is that it can be completely opt-in. Staff that are interested in these updates can subscribe to the Yammer community or the individual topic if/when they choose. Of course, don't forget to mute your community to prevent "Discovery" emails from being sent to anyone that isn't subscribed. This is a simple use-case, but I hope you find it helpful!
Importing font awesome CSS into web component (FASTElement)
I am trying to include the Font Awesome CSS into a https://www.fast.design/docs/api/fast-elementindustrial furniture like this: import { css } from '@microsoft/fast-element'; import { Theme } from '../../theme'; import * as style from '../../assets/fontawesome/css/all.css'; export const styles = css` ${style} :host { contain: content; display: flex; flex-direction: row; border: 2px solid ${Theme.primaryColor}; width: 512px; height: 256px; } `; I think the CSS needs to be a string, so I tried to do this by updating my webpack.config.js, which looks like this: const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin'); const path = require('path'); module.exports = function (env, { mode }) { const production = mode === 'production'; return { mode: production ? 'production' : 'development', devtool: production ? 'source-map' : 'inline-source-map', entry: { app: './src/main.ts', fa: './src/assets/fontawesome/css/all.css' }, output: { filename: '[name].[contenthash].bundle.js', publicPath: '/', clean: true }, resolve: { extensions: ['.ts', '.js'], modules: ['src', 'node_modules'] }, devServer: { port: 9000, historyApiFallback: true, open: !process.env.CI, devMiddleware: { writeToDisk: true, }, static: { directory: path.join(__dirname, './') } }, plugins: [ new HtmlWebpackPlugin({ template: './index.html' }), ], module: { rules: [ { test: /\.ts$/i, use: [ { loader: 'ts-loader' } ], exclude: /node_modules/ }, { test: /\.css$/i, use: ['style-loader', 'css-loader'], }, ] } } } I modified my config following this stackoverflow post: { test: /\.css$/, use: [ 'to-string-loader', 'css-loader' ] } ...but that has the effect of causing the Font Awesome icons outside of my component to stop rendering altogether, and the icons inside the component render as square boxes, which might have something to do with fonts. Has anyone managed to import Font Awesome into web components in general and FASTElements in particular?
Using SharePoint to Crowdsource and Share Resources...Thoughts on This Approach
Hello Friends, My department asked me to create a SharePoint page where our folks can share and access resources for a department initiative. We are an academic department so "resources" means: links to webpages, links to books, links to videos, PDFs, docs, and files. My aim is to curate these resources by category as the list grows. Our requirements: 1. easy for the members of the department to submit resources. 2. easy for the members to access the resources once submitted. Our community's Microsoft adoption path Our department members have a wide range of 365 capabilities: They range from change-averse to novice to nerd. Thus, we may need to do some training to get people to provide resources. I was thinking of one of two routes to create a crowdsourced resource page (or a mix of the two): Create a SharePoint page with a Document Collection section. Members could drag and drop files or submit links into the collection. The collection displays on the Sharepoint page. A Microsoft Form for members to enter a resource. The form would populate a list which I would embed in the Sharepoint Page. Members access the resources off the list. Power Automate could alert the department members when new resources are added to the page. Does this seem reasonable? Is there more elegant way to crowdsource resources in a department and make them a pleasure to share and use?
