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Working out loud in Silence (inspired by the MVP Summit silent disco)
If you haven’t been to a silent disco before, let me explain. There’s a dance floor. There are DJs, there are dancers, and … there are headphones. Bluetooth, over-the-ear headphones, brightly lit with colors and all tuned to one of several channels. The music you will hear, depends on the color your headphones are set to. On one channel, let’s say blue, the DJ will be playing “We are Family” by Sister Sledge, and on the green channel, they’ll be playing “Team” by Lorde, on the red channel is silence. As the night progresses, throngs of headphone-clad dancers fill the dance floor, dance and sing along, baffling those in the room who cannot hear the music as everyone outside of the headphone-clad is left wondering what they’re missing. [Photo above: everyone dancing on the dance floor. Most on green, but a few on blue. Photo credit: Benjamin Elias] I didn’t join the silent disco right away. You see, I was on crutches for the MVP Summit. So, I didn’t think it would be safe. One of my friends, Melanie Hohertz came up and said, “Here, try my headphones. I’ll get some more.” So I sat, far away from the dance floor, listening to the music and wishing I could be out there. [Pictured above: Becky Benishek and Loni French - Photo credit - Ragnar Heil] Then someone came back and said, “That woman in the wheelchair was on fire!” And that did it. That meant that if someone like me could do it, so could I. I stuck nearby my friends, so that in the case of insane jumping, I’d be safe – and we danced. My friend Loni French showed me (more than one time, because I couldn’t quite figure it out) how to switch from blue to green to hear different music. We encouraged each other to switch from channel to channel depending on song so that we could all sing together, or laugh together, and definitely DANCE together. [Pictured above: Amy Dolzine on blue and Loni French on green] To me, participating in the silent disco at the Microsoft MVP summit last week was kind of a beautiful metaphor of what we as Microsoft MVPs do. It's definitely something community managers do in enterprise social networks. A silent disco, in a way, is EXACTLY like working out loud. When you make your work visible to others, so that they can benefit from it you are working out loud. When you see others, who are just like you, participating in working like a network, you may dip your toe in. You get a feel for how powerful that is to know you may not have all the dance moves, but you know the people who do. You can all dance together on one channel, or move between channels seamlessly. You’ve built strong relationships from sharing what you know to benefit others and bringing people along with you to the dance floor. You can even bring NEW technology with you to your network or that silent disco. I brought crutches, and SnapChat, and was able to have my Bitmoji out there with my friend Noah Sparks. And Loni French, Kevin Crossman and I “closed our rings” on our Apple watches. And you know what, if you as a dancer just want to stick to the red “silent” channel and lurk [lurkers are people too], you’re still participating. You’re still out there on the floor, enjoying the event and being a part of it in your own way. [Pictured above: Amy Dolzine, Kevin Crossman, Ragnar Heil and Loni French on SnapChat, Amy Dolzine's Bitmoji dancing with Noah Sparks, Amy and Loni on Snapchat and our Apple watches] When you work out loud or you're in a silent disco, ANYONE can be a leader. If you wanna break dance, go for it. If you want to start a line dance, go for it. If you want to be the only one who moves to the blue channel and see who follows, you can do that. You wanna conga? Go right on ahead and bring your friends. I am part of a group of people who care very much about helping people connect with one another in a digital world. Digital transformation happens on screens, shop floors, factory floors, and as it turns out, on dance floors. As an Office Servers and Services Microsoft MVP, I, along with my friends all around the world, care about getting people to participate, to answer each other’s questions, to, in a word, DANCE with each other in a network. We want people to be aware of the technology, and also to adopt it to help them solve business problems with it and make it part of a shared experience that will lead to a greater sense of purpose, a sense of community, and trust. And now, I’d like to ask all of my fellow MVPs to reflect on this and let’s start a conga line of responses. Go on, comment, link to your own blogs. After all, "WE are YAMILY!" Cross posted from LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/working-out-loud-silence-amy-dolzine/ Kevin Crossman Melanie Hohertz Lonya French Deleted Deleted Benjamin Elias Ragnar Heil noahsparksRe: How is Office Mix different from PowerPoint
Shafiq, do you have any connections with the dev team for Office Mix? The installer has expired certifications. I am unable to download it because I keep getting a "hash" error. Can you help? https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_powerpoint-mso_win10/office-mix-out-of-date-certificate-on-exe-combined/0abea868-07a3-4531-9ae9-79ecd83954efRe: Labels vs message tags
Thanks MichaelHolste so there is no way to get an RSS feed or email alert (if emails were working) on one label that crosses all the groups? There's no common hashtag idea like in Yammer or Twitter or Facebook? Each label within a group/board is its own URL? So Yammer/Bugs is one URL and Community/Bugs is another URL? There's no way to see where that label is used across boards?Labels vs message tags
Can someone help me. Am I doing this wrong or does it really "work" this way. OK, so I was testing something in this O365 forum. I created a message tag "YammerBugs" in the message tag area (because I cannot create an official "Label") and then thought maybe I could subscribe to that and follow it to stay up on what's happening. Does not appear to be working. 1) "Bugs" the label does not cross groups. It's it's own separate thing every time. 2) Bugs is something you can subscribe to (if email notifications were working, but they're not as of 3:36pm EST July 19, 2016). But you have to subscribe to that label it In EVERY GROUP. 3) "YammerBugs" the message tag (not the same thing as an officially sanctioned LABEL) also does not cross groups. 4) "YammerBugs" because it is not an official label - cannot be subscribed to. URLs YammerBugs <message tag> in the "Yammer General" Box https://network.office.com/t5/tag/YammerBugs/tg-p/board-id/YammerGeneral YammerBugs <message tag> in the "Community Management" Box https://network.office.com/t5/tag/YammerBugs/tg-p/board-id/CommunityManagement Bugs - official Microsoft sanctioned [Label] in the "Yammer General" box https://network.office.com/t5/forums/filteredbylabelpage/board-id/YammerGeneral/label-name/bugs Bugs - official Microsoft sanctioned [Label] in the "community management" box https://network.office.com/t5/forums/filteredbylabelpage/board-id/CommunityManagement/label-name/bugs And one more O365 forum bug I found: if you click on the message tag YammerBugs and you haven't first clicked view full conversation - you get an error. Is this the way it's supposed to work? Can't we have a common set of Labels and Message tags across the "Network"?Re: Would like to "Like" an idea (the Yammer Bugs Group idea) - Is that possible?
AH HA! I just clicked the arrow next to the number and it increased! That must be how. Does it record WHO likes an idea? How do you see that? AnnaChu AnnaChu MichaelHolste MichaelHolste (Mike and Anna, which IDs should we use to contact you?Would like to "Like" an idea (the Yammer Bugs Group idea) - Is that possible?
I'd like to "up vote" or like this idea. But that is not an option. I can comment, but not vote. Am I missing something? Create a Yammer Bugs group https://network.office.com/t5/Ideas/Create-a-quot-Yammer-Bugs-quot-group/idi-p/1349Why can't I like a post outside of "view full conversation"
When someone starts a conversation in Lithium, and a thread grows below it - and someone posts something quick (that you can read in the preview) there is a little thumbs up showing how many like it. Why can't I click that to indicate I like it? I have to "View full conversation" and open it, scroll to that post and then click like. Can this be fixed?
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