MidDay Cafe

In this episode of MidDay Café Microsoft’s Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti discuss how the Semantic Index helps unlock corporate knowledge, whether structured or not, while helping to ensure data privacy and compliance are maintained when implementing Copilot for Microsoft 365.

Additionally, Tyrelle and Michael discuss the analogy of the Tour de France Peloton to companies and their embracing of new technology like AI, and much more.

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In this episode of MidDay Café hosts Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti discuss Human/AI partnership. Many organizations are trying to figure out AI strategy but seem to be taking a tech/product first approach. What Tyrelle and Michael discuss is how to anchor on people/employees first with AI/Tech in support.

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As organizations seek to simplify, and improve, the employee experience in a do more with less reality providing an intuitive, unified experience becomes paramount. Providing a number of disjointed employee experiences across various pillars like Learning, Organizational Health/Sentiment Analysis, Communications/Employee Engagement, doesn’t improve the overall employee experience but rather adds to additional employee dissatisfaction. Thankfully, the Microsoft Viva suite and Viva Connections Home is here to help.

Microsoft Viva suite provides the most comprehensive set of employee experiences all from a single point within the single pane of glass to get work done, Microsoft Teams. The best of breed modules covering Employee Connections, Insight, Purpose, and Growth, come to life for employees within the Viva Connections Home. Whether mobile or desktop, Viva Connections Home provides tailored experiences to specific employee groups, roles, or geos with targeted news, conversations, applications, and content powered by AI and Microsoft Graph.

In this MidDay Café Viva edition podcast, we take a look at Microsoft Viva Connections Home, what’s locked, what’s customizable, and how it can benefit your organization. Finally, we also look at some tips/tricks in use of the Dashboard to deliver immediate impact.

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“We are living through a period of historic economic, societal, and technological change, but for all the uncertainty we continue to see in the world one thing is clear: Organizations in every industry are turning to you and your digital capability to help them do more with less, so they can navigate this change and emerge much stronger…

In this kickoff to the new MidDay Café Viva series, we walk through:

• Challenges In Todays Workplace

• The Microsoft Employee Experience Platform

• Connection

• Insight

• Purpose

• Growth

• Business Impact

• Call To Action

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In this episode host Michael Gannotti is joined by special guest Denzil Fernandes as they show how you can add professional overlays with titles, location and more to add a more polished delivery of your Microsoft Teams Webinars/Live Events, as well as meetings.

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In this podcast host Michael Gannotti walks through the out of the box capability for cross channel posting of news in Viva Connections via the underlying SharePoint Online capability. Additionally, he walks through opportunities to extend even further using custom workflow created in Microsoft Power Automate.

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Monday, 2/7/2022, MidDay Café LIVE! Featured Microsoft’s Helen Guan, Chad Stout, and Jason Warkentine as they covered “Addressing Kari's Law and Ray Baum's Act with Microsoft Teams phone system.” As the popularity of Microsoft Teams continues to gain momentum helping healthcare organizations chat, collaborate, meet, and communicate so does my list of customer inquiries about how Microsoft Teams phone system address Kari's Law and RAY BAUM'S Act for multi-line telephone systems.

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Microsoft’s Scott Moore (Senior Technical Specialist) and Filipp Seljanko (Principal Program Manager) joined MidDay Café LIVE! to discuss how customers can achieve improved survivability and resiliency in Microsoft Teams. Additionally, they answered posted questions around this important topic.

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This week on MidDay Café I am joined by Microsoft’s Kendra Burgess, as well as Stephanie Hotchkin from Microsoft Partner iLink Systems. During this week’s session we reviewed an upcoming webinar around Power BI. Next up I discussed and showed the actual devices I am using as I work remotely from Florida for a few weeks. Finally, I show the new PowerPoint Recording Studios and discuss how they might be used.

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