SharePoint, Teams, & Viva for Internal Communications
SharePoint, Teams, & Viva for Internal Communications
How to Integrate & Use M365 Tools to Create a Modern Intranet & Employee Engagement Platform
June 21, 2022 - June 23, 2022 | Virtual
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Register with a team to save at least $100.
Government and Non-Profits save $150 each.
Dive deep into Viva, Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, & Yammer and more
See live examples, screenshots, and solutions from peers using Microsoft 365 products
Leave with a notebook full of new ideas and practical advice
Take Away Insights Into What You Need To Know About What’s Possible, What’s Coming, And How To Improve Communication & Engagement Outcomes With Microsoft 365.
Chris Harrer
Associate Vice President, Internal Communications – Digital Comcast
Dorinda Reyes
Senior SharePoint Developer & Lead Business Communications System Analyst Grant County Public Utility District
James Tyer
Yammer Customer Experience Microsoft
In this 3-Day Conference, you will have the opportunity to catch up with your peers, learn about the challenges they’re facing—and the tactics they’re using to overcome them.
Find Out Why ALI Workshops Are Consistently Rated As Valuable Time Spent!
Maximize your time by signing up for our Pre-Conference Workshops on Tuesday, June 21.
These consultant-led workshops will prepare you for the main event, provide you with practical answers to questions that keep you up at night, and inspire you to creatively tackle your most pressing internal communication challenges.This year’s workshop leaders include:
A Behavior Change Strategy To Nurture New Ways Of Working & Microsoft 365 Adoption
What’s New And Noteworthy For Communications Professionals In Microsoft 365
How To Create An Annual Plan, Or A New Roadmap, For Your Digital Workplace To Guide It To Long-Term Success
You’ll have the chance to see live session demos from:
Senior Digital Communications | Comcast
Director, Digital Communications | Cox Communications
Meet and network with like-minded peers in small group break outs
Access to a tactical presentation with real examples and proven strategies
Networking list for attendees to continue the conversation after the conference
Interactive, hands-on breakout sessions allowing you to work with your communication peers
Certificate of attendance for CEUs
Opportunity to meet your peers face-to-face while remaining safe
Guaranteed extensive, how-to instruction that you can use immediately
Opportunity to have your most pressing issues on the topic answered in real-time
This isn’t a passive experience! You will be encouraged to weigh in
Leave with a thorough understanding of the competencies covered and how they apply or can be applied in your work context.
What People are Saying
“I appreciate the overview of the different Microsoft applications.”
Conference Attendee
Internal Communications Strategies With Microsoft 365: How To Maximize SharePoint, Teams, Viva & Copilot - Feb 2024
“Well-ordered, logical, and easy to understand and retain.”
Conference Attendee
Internal Communications Strategies With Microsoft 365: How To Maximize SharePoint, Teams, Viva & Copilot - Feb 2024
“New features in Viva and Co-pilot are helpful. Thank you!”
Conference Attendee
Internal Communications Strategies With Microsoft 365: How To Maximize SharePoint, Teams, Viva & Copilot - Feb 2024
“Direct hit! This is the meat that I wanted from this conference – a detailed guide to what’s coming from Microsoft and how it will affect the work communicators do. Awesome! Susan is brilliant!”
Conference Attendee
Microsoft Teams For Strategic Internal Communications: Virtual Conference | October 2021
“So insightful!”
Conference Attendee
Microsoft Teams For Strategic Internal Communications: Virtual Conference | October 2021
“So insightful!”
Conference Attendee
Microsoft Teams For Strategic Internal Communications: Virtual Conference | October 2021
“I love the diversity of information and how many different areas of communication each speaker covered.”
Conference Attendee
Microsoft Teams For Strategic Internal Communications: Virtual Conference | October 2021
“This webinar was illuminating and gave me lots of great insight and ideas we can consider implementing in my org.”
Conference Attendee
Microsoft Teams For Strategic Internal Communications: Virtual Conference | October 2021
“Seeing visually how others are tackling the challenge of integrating new Microsoft capabilities and working around the challenge of competing cloud services.”
Conference Attendee
Microsoft Teams For Strategic Internal Communications: Virtual Conference | October 2021
“took something complex and overwhelming and succinctly boiled it down to what’s relevant for communicators. Awesome and hard to come by.”
Conference Attendee
Microsoft Teams For Strategic Internal Communications: Virtual Conference | October 2021
“Showing how all the O365 tools integrate AND how to optimize each one/when to use.”
Conference Attendee
Microsoft Teams For Strategic Internal Communications: Virtual Conference | October 2021
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Pre-Conference Workshops: Find Out Why ALI Workshops Are Consistently Rated As Valuable Time Spent! - 06/21/2022
11:00 am - 11:10 am
Chairperson's Welcome
Geoff Ables, Managing Partner | C5 Insight
11:10 am - 12:00 pm
Workshop A: How To Create An Annual Plan, Or A New Roadmap, For Your Digital Workplace To Guide It To Long-Term Success
Geoff Ables, Managing Partner | C5 Insight
Digital is transforming our workplaces at an ever-increasing pace. But many digital workplace projects are being left behind.
One of the most critical reasons: not understanding the unique planning process.
This session will dive into what should be included in your annual plan, how to build it, and what to consider leaving out.
You will leave equipped with the knowledge needed to build a roadmap that ensures long-term success, including how to:
Get your team engaged
Set priorities and understanding what realistically can and cannot be done
Build your business case
Measure the ROI
Benchmark user satisfaction
Analyze and constantly improve your digital workplace plan
You'll take away a workbook with how-to instructions for creating your plan, and a list of ideas for either a new project launch or an annual plan for moving an existing project forward.
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm
Refresh & Recharge
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
Workshop B: IC Digital Transformation: Tools, Tactics and Techniques for Leading and Launching (...or, Re-Launching) Digital Employee Communications Channels
Lindsay Williams, Strategic Consultant, Digital Employee Communication & Change Management | Audacity
Finally. It's approved!
After weeks, months, or possibly even years of working to get the buy-in and budget to launch a new digital channel for employee communications, it's time for the real work to begin.
In this session, you will learn the ins and outs of how to build your project lead and launch your new digital channel, and how to choose which channels to leave behind.
When you leave this session, you'll have the tools, tactics and techniques to plan, manage and overcome obstacles in your project.
1:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Refresh & Recharge
1:15 pm - 2:00 pm
Workshop C: What’s New And Noteworthy For Communications Professionals In Microsoft 365
Susan Hanley, President | Susan Hanley LLC
Communications professionals have always been focused on employee engagement.
In the past year, Microsoft has released enhancements to SharePoint and Yammer that have a direct and beneficial impact on enterprise communications and employee engagement.
In addition, we now have Microsoft Viva Connections, which provides a personalized gateway where employees can access internal communications and company resources from a single customizable app in Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Viva provides an important reminder about the importance of employee engagement and connection. New features and capabilities in Microsoft 365 provide new opportunities to ensure that your employees are both connected and engaged, no matter where they work. In this session, you will learn practical approaches to engage and communicate in Microsoft 365 – from SharePoint news to the personalized Viva Connections feed in Teams to Yammer. Take away insights into what you need to know about what’s possible, what’s coming, and how to improve communication and engagement outcomes with Microsoft 365.
2:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Close Of Workshops
Day 1: General Sessions - 06/22/2022
11:00 am - 11:15 am
Chairperson's Welcome & Speed Networking
Geoff Ables, Managing Partner | C5 Insight
Welcome to the Microsoft 365 Strategies For Internal Communications conference. In this fast-paced forum, you'll get to know your fellow peers, their biggest internal communications challenges, and a few fun facts.
11:15 am - 11:45 am
Bringing Change To Life: M365 & Company Culture
Naomi Rettke, Communications Principal | Prime Therapeutics
When it comes to new ways of working, Prime Therapeutics was on the leading edge. We rapidly transitioned to remote work at the start of the pandemic in 2020. When offices reopened, our hybrid approach met employees’ needs for flexibility and connection. In today’s complex health care system, helping people get the medicine they need demands a variety of digital tools . M365 was that driving transformation.
You’ll learn:
How we harnessed M365 tools to respond to world events
Change management principles that build employee awareness and motivation for M365
How to increase employee engagement by using the tools to tell the story
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Designing For People First: Our Digital Workplace Design Journey
Chris Harrer, Former Associate Vice President, Internal Communications - Digital | Comcast
Comcast's digital workplace is evolving into a very engaging platform on SharePoint and enables employees to be at the forefront of the experience.
In this presentation you will discover:
How to create design for modern SharePoint
What channels support employee engagement and company culture
How to give employees a space regardless of their location and how to make digital experience personal
12:15 pm - 12:35 pm
Refresh & Recharge
12:35 pm - 1:00 pm
Driving Employee Engagement with Yammer & Viva: How to Ensure you have a Connected Culture
James Tyer, Viva Engage + Answers in Viva Customer Experience | Microsoft
You can drive a fully-engaged employee experience with Yammer at the center. But as communicators, we’re often unsure which tool to use when across O365, or even how to best use Yammer. With the advent of Viva as well, you’ll learn how Yammer plays a key part in your integrated employee experience and ensures you have a connected work culture.
In this session you will learn:
Which tool to use when with Yammer and Teams
How a great Yammer network will set you up for a great Viva experience
What are the key requirements to drive a great Yammer network
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
How To Keep An Award-Winning Intranet Fresh Post-Launch
Jamie Stokes, Director, Digital Communications | Cox Communications
In this presentation, Jamie Stokes will share the unique features of Cox Communications’ intranet and share her innovative approaches for how to sustain a large enterprise intranet with employees spread across the country:
How do you use analytics to keep content engaging?
How do keep search clean and relevant?
How do you continue to building new engagement features?
Jamie manages all digital channels for internal communications across the company including the enterprise portal, video production and streaming and mass communications messaging. She helped spearhead the redesign of Cox Communications’ enterprise-wide social intranet including a fully integrated HR system tying together SharePoint Online, PeopleSoft and Oracle into one seamless user experience.
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Using Teams, SharePoint, And Microsoft 365 To Communicate, Collaborate, And Encourage Employees
You will learn how CBN uses Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Microsoft 365 to:
Communicate important information across the organization
Collaborate across departments to break down silos and improve productivity
Improve morale through Teams by spotlighting excellence
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
A Migration Story, From On Premise to O365 Using The Power Platform: aka Changing The District One PowerApps At A Time!
Dorinda Reyes, Senior SharePoint Developer & Lead Business Communications System Analyst | Grant County Public Utility District
Grant County Public Utility District transitioned from an onsite environment to O365 by using all of the tools in the Microsoft Tool Box—plus Sharegate to help move to the cloud. Their biggest challenges were moving 4500 InfoPath forms and workflows to the Power Platform and migrating 500+ sites into SharePoint Online—all the while ensuring the tightest security around their CIP data.
Hear how they accomplished this and how they are changing the PUD one app at a time.
Topics covered:
Engaging Stakeholder in project involvement and adoption
Early adoption from Excel Spreadsheets into O365 and Power Apps and Power Automate
Migration tips and tricks
Continued engagement with departments to simplify process improvement using Power Automate
2:30 pm - 2:55 pm
🔥 Fire Side Chat: Building a Digital Communications Dream Team
Jamie Stokes, Director, Digital Communications | Cox Communications
Chris Harrer, Former Associate Vice President, Internal Communications - Digital | Comcast
Geoff Ables, Managing Partner | C5 Insight
In this "no-pressure" setting, you'll be able to ask your most pressing questions and receive honest feedback from your peers.
2:55 pm - 3:00 pm
Close Of Day 1
Day 2: General Sessions - 06/23/2022
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Day 2 Kick Off & Chairperson Address: Interactive Live Tour Of Microsoft Viva For Communications!
Geoff Ables, Managing Partner | C5 Insight
In this session you’ll get a tour of some of the recently introduced employee engagement offerings from Microsoft including:
Viva Connections: For integrating Teams and SharePoint
Viva Insights: For real-time feedback on productivity, well being, management and leadership
Viva Learning: A simple and free learning solution built into Teams
Viva Topics: Making knowledge and communication more findable across the organization
You’ll learn what each of these solutions are, see brief demonstrations of each, learn about the free versus premium features, and how to interact with your SharePoint Administrator or Partner to get these deployed within your organization.
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Creating A Behavior Change Strategy To Nurture New Ways Of Working & Microsoft 365 Adoption
Scott Yokiel, Digital Workplace Services | Kyndryl
Users are given new tools and ways to work at an alarming rate. We need to understand what aspects of these tool are best suited for the work at hand.
More importantly, we need to ensure the customer experience is the main measurable in these efforts, including how to:
Understand the Personas in your organization
Forget how we used to do things
Lead with problems & solutions not technology
Measure the customer experience and pivot quickly
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Enabling Our People, Our Priorities and Our Culture: A Modern Approach to Employee Engagement, Communications and Productivity
Kirsten Culbertson, Executive Director, Digital Technology Strategy, Internal | Comcast
During this bonus session Comcast will cover diverse angles of aligning the people-first approach by identifying the needs of your target group with M365 tools.
Topics Covered:
What are the challenges of understanding the needs of the employees in a large company?
How to create an engaging communication strategy on digital platforms?
How to embrace a people-first approach in the digital workplace?
What are the channels to create a successful information flow?
How to get the feedback from the employees and reflect it to the digital workplace?
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Refresh & Recharge
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Shifting Mindsets Of Communicators: How To Evolve From A 'PUSH' Mindset To Connector & Amplifier Using M365 Tools
Laurel Dzneladze, Employee Communications Digital Platforms Leader | LinkedIn
The evolving workplace means organizations need to focus on people more than ever.
Technology is guiding this change by offering content and communication opportunities, as these new capabilities arise communicators need to evolve with them.
This session is designed to help you understand why the shift is happening and how you can evolve your communication practices.
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Interactive Group Breakout Session: Creating Successful Communities in Yammer
Ksenia Luu, Behavioral Data Scientist | Microsoft
James Tyer, Viva Engage + Answers in Viva Customer Experience | Microsoft
In a world of hybrid and remote work, great communities in Yammer can form the basis of strong connection and engagement.
But it can take time to really get communities to take off.
In this breakout you’ll learn how to purposely design your communities to drive the success of your Yammer network.
In this session you will learn:
How to plan great communities for Yammer
What Yammer capabilities can align with your community goals
How you can align with company goals and measure community success
Building off the group discussions from Day 1, you’ll have a chance to talk to your peers about what digital workplace success looks like and share the biggest take-aways so far.
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Prepare For The Next Decade With Microsoft 365 Hybrid Work
Dipti Chhatrapati, Modern Workplace Architect | Applied Information Science
Work patterns we've relied on for decades are undergoing a dramatic change.
Human ingenuity is being amplified by artificial intelligence in a manner that feels like magic.
Every organization needs a digital fabric that binds the organization together with secure communication, collaboration, and design. Join this session to learn how Microsoft 365 is empowering us with powerful new hybrid features.
Takeaways:
Know what's new in Microsoft 365 Hybrid work
Improve hybrid meeting experiences through a new way of collaboration
Learn about increasing employee experiences through Microsoft Loop and Viva
2:30 pm - 2:55 pm
Rapid-Fire Panel: Get Your Biggest SharePoint, Teams, Yammer, & Viva Questions Answered
Dipti Chhatrapati Modern Workplace Architect | Applied Information Science
Dorinda Reyes Senior SharePoint Developer & Lead Business Communications System Analyst | Grant County Public Utility District
Dayna Lovelady Employee Engagement Manager | The Christian Broadcasting Network
Jamie Stokes Director, Digital Communications | Cox Communications
Chris Harrer Former Associate Vice President, Internal Communications - Digital | Comcast
Laurel Dzneladze Employee Communications Digital Platforms Leader | LinkedIn
Geoff Ables Managing Partner | C5 Insight
What People are Saying
“I appreciate the overview of the different Microsoft applications.”
Conference Attendee
Internal Communications Strategies With Microsoft 365: How To Maximize SharePoint, Teams, Viva & Copilot - Feb 2024
“Well-ordered, logical, and easy to understand and retain.”
Conference Attendee
Internal Communications Strategies With Microsoft 365: How To Maximize SharePoint, Teams, Viva & Copilot - Feb 2024
“New features in Viva and Co-pilot are helpful. Thank you!”
Conference Attendee
Internal Communications Strategies With Microsoft 365: How To Maximize SharePoint, Teams, Viva & Copilot - Feb 2024
“Direct hit! This is the meat that I wanted from this conference – a detailed guide to what’s coming from Microsoft and how it will affect the work communicators do. Awesome! Susan is brilliant!”
Conference Attendee
Microsoft Teams For Strategic Internal Communications: Virtual Conference | October 2021
“So insightful!”
Conference Attendee
Microsoft Teams For Strategic Internal Communications: Virtual Conference | October 2021
“So insightful!”
Conference Attendee
Microsoft Teams For Strategic Internal Communications: Virtual Conference | October 2021
“I love the diversity of information and how many different areas of communication each speaker covered.”
Conference Attendee
Microsoft Teams For Strategic Internal Communications: Virtual Conference | October 2021
“This webinar was illuminating and gave me lots of great insight and ideas we can consider implementing in my org.”
Conference Attendee
Microsoft Teams For Strategic Internal Communications: Virtual Conference | October 2021
“Seeing visually how others are tackling the challenge of integrating new Microsoft capabilities and working around the challenge of competing cloud services.”
Conference Attendee
Microsoft Teams For Strategic Internal Communications: Virtual Conference | October 2021
“took something complex and overwhelming and succinctly boiled it down to what’s relevant for communicators. Awesome and hard to come by.”
Conference Attendee
Microsoft Teams For Strategic Internal Communications: Virtual Conference | October 2021
“Showing how all the O365 tools integrate AND how to optimize each one/when to use.”
Conference Attendee
Microsoft Teams For Strategic Internal Communications: Virtual Conference | October 2021
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