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Christopher's hobbies and personal interests are eclectic and he ranges from, ranges from hobbies from photography, to grief keeping, to reading, to cooking and music, art, philosophy and psychology and it's very passionate about people and that's one of the core reasons why we brought him here. He's very passionate about trying to help people. He's very passionate about using the knowledge he has in IT to help other people succeed and I think at this point I would stop sharing and give Christopher the opportunity to introduce himself and Christopher you can take it off from there. Thank you. Thank you Armstrong and I would like to thank you and TechSoup for giving me the opportunity to visit with your community and bring this Microsoft Tames awareness to the non-profits in your space. So Armstrong, thank you again very, very much. I want this to be an interactive session and there's a few of us here so it can get very, very close, very personal. And I am going to leave it to you to feel comfortable with or without your camera. But at any point as I'm talking, you wish to dig deeper into something you wish to go through a scenario that is of specific importance to you and your organization. Raise your hand, put it in the chat and I will be very happy to focus on that. I would like for each of us to walk away with something tangible, something useful that we can put into service in our organizations today. And the best way to do that is within the context of what you're going to be doing. As Armstrong mentioned, I am a business strategist. I have a lot of personal hobbies and interests that are almost all centered around people, philosophy, psychology, those two are very much focused on people. And these are things that really helped me connect with you. And you'll see in the background, I've actually got an image of people that are basically trying to build a bridge. And I'm sitting or sitting between them because each one of us are that conduit, each one of us are that bridge that allows others to connect to one another. And Microsoft Teams is a technology tool that can accomplish those goals, which we're talking into. And as part of this experience of technology, we also need to recognize this concept of modern workspace. And I'm going to dig into some of these topics, some of these ideas and combine those with an area called Future of Work. And you may have heard these terms, they may seem like buzzwords, they may seem like they are these crazy business concepts or philosophies for somebody other than yourself, but these things are all about meeting people where they're at. If you're a nonprofit organization, you probably have a very specific charter, very specific goal, whether you are servicing a series of churches or you're working for people that are coming out of the military service or veterans, perhaps you're working with people that are coming out of the criminal justice system after incarceration, or something personal to me, right? I'm a member of the LGBTQ community, perhaps you have a charity focused on helping LGBT youth. All of these things have different people with different needs. And technology is our tool today, certainly through this pandemic. Technology is the tool. And you know, you go to a lot of presentations and you're going to find you have a lot of PowerPoint going on. I don't use PowerPoint. I find that people get bored and very easily distracted on something else when there's just this slide after slide after slide monotony that you have to go through. So instead, today is going to be very interactive. So if at any point you feel like you would like to have something relevant to your business or relevant to your role, or something just, you know, in you personally that you would like to dig into. Come on camera, raise your hand, use the chat, share that with myself. I'll be monitoring for that Armstrong's going to help me monitor that as well, so that we can make sure that we call on you if we see that hand up. So, starting back with modern workspace, let's just get these buzzwords these glossaries out of the way. And that first modern workspace concept is what is it and the best way to look at that is, think about the pandemic. We were shoved out of our office spaces and into home. And when we did that we quickly had to figure out how do we connect back with every other person that we're working with. How do we share our data? How do we work with the information? How do we find the information to connect with our customers? How do we contact those customers when they're working from home? That's what the modern workspace really showed the value and the worth that it has when the pandemic hit. So those tools all come in a variety of forms. Today we're going to be focusing on Microsoft Teams specifically. And there are three areas that I'm going to cover. The first, Microsoft Teams as a centralized information and collaboration hub. The second is conducting team members securely and efficiently for productivity. And then the third area is creating inclusive spaces and events that enable more people to participate. So we will take each of these three one at a time. I'm going to start with centralized information and collaboration hub. Again, the important piece here is collaboration. That's the key to success through the pandemic, no matter what industry we've been in. And collaboration is something that most of us understand more of a subconscious or unconscious level. We just go through it. But when we start thinking consciously about what is collaboration, we start realizing there's more to it than just sitting across the table from another person and working out a solution. The bigger approach to collaboration is how do we bring each person's ideas together in a way that we can effectively bring new innovative solutions to board. So with the pandemic, we can focus on the vaccine as one of those areas for collaboration. We have scientists that are all in a lab because they have to be there. They're violating the social distancing best practices. In one regard by being in this one small area, but it's necessary for the effectiveness on the other hand, those people that are not in the lab are doing research and they were potentially sitting at home with kids in the background, possibly a spouse who's doing their job as well. And pets, maybe some elderly family members that they're having to take care of. Those people are having to interact with the people in the lab doing all the chemical work, all the actual practical, tangible touches. How do you collaborate when you've got such distance and such barriers preventing you from sitting across the table from one another. So tools like zoom, which we're using today for this for this meeting, or things like Microsoft teams are tools we can do that. And let's focus on zoom first. Zoom has been around for quite a while, people have become very comfortable with it, it has the ability to have a lot of people all at one time on a meeting, we could have up to 49 people on a call, when we started the pandemic. Microsoft teams fairly new technology, it evolved from several others, and they were able to have four people on the screen at one time that was one of the biggest criticisms like how can you consider yourselves a modern collaboration tool, if I can only see four people at a time. Microsoft heard the criticism Microsoft adapted to that and Microsoft has very quickly brought in a bunch of new features and capabilities to this for us and those are the. The expansion of up to 49 users in a meeting but also they took it a step further and they introduced a concept called together mode. One of the things that their research team discovered is when we're staring at a computer screen all day long with 49 little boxes, we get very fatigued very tired very exhausted. But when we feel like we're connected to people. When we can feel ourselves in the same space as another person that exhaustion level goes down, and if our exhaustion is down our alertness and effectiveness are up. So together mode uses artificial intelligence to cut you out of your background, and then place you in a shared communal environment, you may have seen commercials for this. The environments may be office spaces where it looks like you're at a conference table it could be an auditorium or a theater. They've even got some themes where you can be underwater in like a little mermaid style environment, trying to create a different perspective a different atmosphere for you to go in tools like that are talking about meeting people where they're at zoom is a great functional tool that does a job very well. And it to has expanded at a new security capabilities because you probably remember there was zoom bombing is a thing that came in during the pandemic and address those issues. But meeting people where they're at takes it a step further than just meeting basic pieces it's actually recognizing who we are what we need to adopting and addressing those things. I'd like to pause for just a moment and see if there's any questions that anybody has, and if there's not any questions that I do have a question for you, which is, how many of you have used Microsoft teams so far. Eli. Hi, Eli and Vancouver. I have used Microsoft teams a couple of time, although I do spend most of my life in the zoom land. Okay. So I use my I use Microsoft teams presently. I just I just started using it and I think I'll stop using it for about about one month now, since I started my new job. Yeah, so it's still a new environment for me but I'm beginning to learn how to navigate it. And I see Reggie in the chat is posted he uses teams all day long every day. And Eli thank you for posting the getting started links that will be fantastic thank you. So, you know, we each have tools that we're familiar with and those tools, oftentimes are environmental. Those tools are oftentimes where our employers provide to us. Sometimes it's just what shows up quickly off of the Google searches we do when we're trying to solve a problem. The, the Microsoft teams environment meets people where they're at like I said, but then you know once you've connected with those people. What do you do with them. Are you just going to have a conversation. Well, I actually host almost every Friday, a lounge, specifically for the purposes of business socialization. And it's kind of a mixer type environment we created custom backgrounds for everybody that will allow us to feel like we're all in the same lounge together like we're all in the same. After five on Friday, going home, trying to commiserate co celebrate is it's just a new atmosphere. So we use teams for that tool. We also use teams for the purposes of getting down to a contract negotiation. There have been million dollar negotiations on teams multi million dollar negotiations and teams between different organizations and different individuals people have bought houses using Microsoft teams or even zoom and other tools to take virtual tours of these lofts these apartments these houses, and you can share files back and forth you can have text based conversations so if you need to clarify these things, then we'll go through there, and be able to have what we would consider omni channel, and have all this be self contained and archive and one of the You're saying you're deeply jealous of teams permanent chat rooms and integration of folders, and you know that's right that's the collaborative component that teams brings into this beyond just video conferencing the ability to share a document in real time. Every person can bring it up on the screen so everybody sees it everybody else could actually have the same document also opened up on their computer, you'll be able to see an icon in there indicating where each person is out of the documents, and all those changes synchronize in virtual real That's the power of a team's collaboration, all of that work you're doing together in that meeting space, along with any recording. It's all self contained in a nice little package that when you need to, you just simply go and click. And this is one of those areas where we really want to recognize that's the difference between video conferencing and collaboration tools. So I have my teams cleaned up a little bit so I could share it more comfortably but this is basically what you would see as the primary chat window. And you know you're going to get some various messaging this particular message we're seeing right now is simply because this meeting is not in my particular tenant and we didn't actually have any chat conversations for there to be recorded. Another one. This one is in my tenant, but in linked with a separate tenant as well that we join in and had a little bit of chat conversation so there is some thread here and you'll actually be able to see where I've joined and left that chat conversation across this one hour and seven minute video meeting. And then I have employees that I work with and colleagues that I work with. And you can see where these people are at and do all these various things and teams. And if you're looking across all of this one of the things again Eli mentioned is files. If we were to share files, we've got this location right here that all of the files from this meeting are shared. So you're having a contract negotiation for providing hospital, hospital beds to local hospitals and you've got three different vendors on a phone with you agree on how many you can completely get along with the, the local area hospitals trying to determine needs. And the vendors are putting their commitments in here in the chat they're putting the hospitals are inventory what they've got age so we can determine the priorities. This is a self contained location, every member of the meeting can participate and every member of the meeting can have access to these things after the meeting is over. This is the power of collaboration. This is one of those areas that Microsoft teams makes available. So, again, I want to temporarily pause, because I don't want to go through too far and bring these things in the the opportunity to bring teams meetings into that collaborative space has been one of the biggest game changers for Microsoft on this particular technology. Is there anybody in the audience that could I mean, I know that Reggie you said that you use it into inside every day, or if there's anybody else that uses previously or another tool such as the slack or such as Google meet. If you got experiences there that are talking with us that you like to you know how does that compare. I'd be happy to have conversation with you all around those things. My company actually, oh hello everyone my name is Alexis, and I actually work for a signal insurance company. My company for a very long time we were using Skype for business, and then we recently migrated over to WebEx. But as you're talking about all of this I feel like we're so Asian and behind because team scenes where it's really at Microsoft teams has a lot of capabilities that WebEx has. WebEx has a few things that you know they can do very very well. This is the important thing Alexa I want to draw the distinction. Zoom does video conferencing very well that's where they started. That's where they continue to primarily focus is just doing that niche service incredibly well they've added a few extra things. WebEx is really very focused on. You know that same video conferencing component with a very specific business effect that is tied back into a lot of those Cisco things now that Cisco has purchased that the teams environment does a lot. It does everything that zoom does now it does everything that WebEx really does is a foundational level. It does everything that slack or Google meet can do on a foundational level. What teams does is it takes it and brings it all together for a single ubiquitous experience for a single cohesive experience. You don't need to jump through 15 or 20 different locations to get your materials it's all in a centralized location and we're going to dig into that a little bit more. So with your experience Alexis on WebEx. Have you found a particular area of collaboration that's really not there. Um, you know we just basically migrated over to WebEx I don't even think it's up to like a month. So for someone like me that just I will say I've been using Skype business for a long time. It's still very new to a lot of us. I even find myself trying to explain to some of my employees that hey this is what you need to do this is how you log in. So for me I don't think I've even fully grasped the whole concept of WebEx yet to even be able to describe but I still feel like I'm still living underneath the rock with like we're still kind of behind with this, you know the way you're talking about teams right now. What I'd like for you to do right is we get through more of the conversation today Alexis, look at those things that you're learning today and compare them. And then I'd be happy to, you know, continue to answer any questions you have afterwards just see hey where is that because WebEx is a good tool don't get me wrong, but teams can really bring it all together in a unique way and depending on how your organization came up with their projects WebEx may be the right thing. There's always the need for niche services and any organization, but that doesn't necessarily negate the need for another tool like teams and a lot of organizations don't know if they're already using Microsoft Office, they probably also have teams very easily available to them, either for free or the very small extra cost. Right. Thank you. You're welcome. So, anybody else have anything they wanted to ask or add on to this. I'm using regular Skype. Initially, and then after that, I switched to Skype for Business, and one of the things I hated about Skype for Business was that every conversation was a new conversation and there was no history there was no way to, to scroll back. And that's one of the things that that teams brought back into the picture. Since I switched to teams. I just love it. Every feature that I use to wish that they have they gradually brought it on. Some of them came first on the phone app and others came to the desktop that I that I love using. So, like Christopher says, as a collaborative tool, it is just amazing, you can, you can chat, you can schedule quick calls, you can schedule meetings, you can basically that's all I use now I've retired everything else that I that I was using in the past. Thank you, Reggie. My name is Joe. Yeah, go ahead. Everybody talking about different tools all the way. But with Accenture, we recently changed to team. Actually, we've been using Skype for Business and we all know that. But there's one powerful thing that I just want everybody to understand about team is also can serve as a share point. We will upload documents and put security around the document that whoever have access can review what what they are assigned to them. So, the power behind the team, I just want everybody to understand is more than what everybody expected when you see when you talk about zoom when you talk about WebEx. So, team is powerful and can also be used as a share point, whereby you can upload document and give access to those whoever can review this because I'm presently using it. And we last week we presently uploaded documents in there for company, I will put security behind it that whoever can access this can go. If anybody wants to know more about this I can give details to Mr. Essian, but I just want to say that team is a powerful tool that everybody should consider. Thank you. I appreciate that and that's actually a good segue for me to go ahead and jump into point to connecting team members securely and efficiently productivity. Just as we were describing just then the Microsoft SharePoint component of this so I'm going to share my screen again so you're able to see this with me. Microsoft Teams has the chat that which is where we're at a moment ago chat is incorporated of one on one conversations with a person, or meeting conversations or group conversations. But you also have this concept of teams themselves and teams are broken the channels everything you see here on my screen right now on this teams. This all sits inside a SharePoint Microsoft Teams is really just a facade that sits on top of SharePoint. The files, the chats, the conversation, all that stored behind the scenes in that Microsoft cloud. This is allowing you to say these are my functional workgroups, marketing. This is a department of my company, for example, or a functional aspect of my company and most companies will need to have a marketing type workgroup. And inside of here, general branding for page and a common advisory. These are the channels meaning the marketing team uses these to to focus their efforts, and I can use this to focus my content. And just as if you're in the old fashioned days of a file folder structure on your computer or central server file system. A team is really that big departmental file, people might have like a workgroups driver or public server, public drive on their server, you put master folders in there and you did put sub folders you sub folders. This is no different. It just as a new look and feel to it to be collaborative and to focus around the people doing the work. So, general, I've got some files in here that are security and my privacy policy website navigation structure. And one of the things that we can do is go to any one of these. And I can say, I want to open this in SharePoint and that's going to take me directly to the Microsoft SharePoint item. And this is where we were just hearing from our colleague at a center where there's, there's the SharePoint behind the scenes that I can put all the security and I can determine that thing to recognize is this is not only about people inside your organization, you can share this with people outside your organization as well. I'm now inside of that Carpazian.com advisory team that's a channel inside of team, and you'll see like I said, conversations are a part of this experience. So these things are all linked and sitting together, all right here and now you're seeing it's linking me back into another aspect of that Microsoft cloud, in this case, outlook. So, you're seeing all this prompting because of a thing called zero trust basically have to prove high every time I want to try to do something that prevents malicious actors from being able to get in here. So I'm going to go back to SharePoint and show you that again, we have those folders in here and those files in here. What I can do is view all the various things that are along with this file. Because this isn't SharePoint, any changes to this file has a version history, for example, if you have a change that you're like you know I really don't like that change. If you've got a multiple versions of this file, then you can go back and say I want to get the versions three changes ago. When you do that you can grab different files and put them in a different location you're going to store it over where it's at. You got a different number of options there. Let me see if one of these has any version that we can look at. Here we go. So this will show you that I got three versions that I updated on 88 and 84. So my most current versions of the top. And if I wanted to go back and look at the previous version, this is where I'm telling you I can view it, I can restore it, I can even say you know what I don't need that version anymore at all because I know that I never want to revert back to that. So but if I want to view this version, it's just going to pull it up and I can look at it without it actually having an impact on the current content I can determine what might be different what might be the change. So you've also got the security components that you can determine who has access to that that's easily done through the manage access right here. So you can determine see who has access to these things who has an access to the link and revoke those accesses if you wish. This is all going to again allow you to align to security and this is the beautiful thing. The company can put policies in place to prevent you from doing something they don't want. But for the most part, each user is empowered to be able to work with this content as well. So I'm going to pause and just ask me any questions. I'm going to go ahead and continue on right so again I mentioned that this is a space for us to do to cure efficient productivity. I mentioned one of the people that you can work with are external benefactors. You're a nonprofit organization, you've got a large donor coming in, there's a million dollar package, you want to make sure that you're giving them the really nice white glove experience you want to make sure that everything is kept private and that's really special. There's two people on your team that know about it right now, because you want to make sure that doesn't leak because they, they want to be able to make a special announcement about this happening. You can invite the appropriate team members from your donor into your organization, have that collaboration center where the files are being exchanged privately they don't go through the regular email they don't go through standard file shares that people might do with Dropbox because they have a self contained location with all of the corporate or organizational security intact and allows them to also in real time see in this. That is incredibly effective for being productive on these decisions and for maintaining those privacies and those securities. Same with when we're working from home. We need to have our employees work from home. We've got confidential information about cancer patients that this charity might be working with for children that are suffering from cancer or recovering from cancer. There's a lot of privacy information there you don't want to just have readily available you want to have control over that. You can store this information in Microsoft teams are you share point. And with all the security in place, you can manage an audit and track who's accessing it when they're accessing it and as I mentioned the moment ago the zero trust model. You can have every time they access these sites and these systems, confirm and verify their identity and that's important because you're working from home, there's eight people in the family at home, mom, dad, five kids, and a neighbor's kid that comes over from time to time to help kids share on their computer to do their homework. You don't want to run the risk that that shared computer at home is going to put your company and your customers and your beneficiaries at risk. So this solution really offers an opportunity for us to put those in place. Again, Microsoft zoom. It's great for being able to do this video conferencing. And there's a little bit of file transfer you can do, but there's no repository of the knowledge that's being put together of the collaboration. So you then result in Dropbox, or maybe you use your own one drive system for Microsoft personally because that's what you have or you're using your own file system and you email the files back and forth. Teams takes everything that you think of from each one of these systems separately and combines them together in one place so that you're able to effectively do that job in one place. And then because it's in SharePoint and because it's centralized data, you can syndicate that information more freely to other locations as well. So if I need to have the information from I'll share my screen again. I need to have the information from the marketing general, like a privacy policy that's something that we're going to take and we want to amend that over to a new website ever. And I'm going to have a specific marketing firm come in and do this work. The marketing general is something that you know it's easy for me to syndicate to all those various people, but I want to have a brand new environment, creating a new team is very simple. I'm going to have a real quick, every, every person in the company can do this based on company policies, or it can be locked down and then you have to work with a centralized team to make sure it's properly managed. But once you do this, then you can determine how are you going to do this. I'm going to create a private one. I'm going to call this marketing for diversity plans. You can provide a description. We have a third party partner helping with the diversity website. This is our shared cloud environment. If you're in this team, you need to add members. So let's say that I'm going to add in this person, because it's somebody that's going to help me with this. Then you can add them in, you can specify if they're a guest or a member based upon where they're at Sheila's external party. If I wanted to have an input an internal party. Then I could have an employee that I add into this, and then I can specify this one. The employee has left. But this again is something where you're going to be able to see you can or cannot do something quickly. If I want to try to add myself, I can't do that because I'm the one creating it so I don't need to add myself. You're going to be able to see all the various things that are in your company by simply typing in a and B if you don't know what something is you can go look for these things. The next is around helping you better understand and better use the information in your organization to collaborate with people inside and outside of your organization and everything that's available to you is going to show up. So once you decided who your members are, then you can move on to the next step, which is building this out. So again, I created a brand new team diversity plans. So here's going to be some files is still creating this so I got to give a few more minutes. So all it does that I can look and see okay, I'm going to need some information from my general marketing for the privacy policy to ensure that that's properly obliged. So I can copy this file. I mean, where do I want to put this. So I'm going to browse my teams and channels. I'm going to go back up general. I want to go into the top. I've got marketing for diversity plans general, and I want to add it right here. And it's going to allow me to just easily start with where I'm at and copy it to where I want I can also move a file if it's in the wrong place and it's need to move do the same thing I would choose move tell it where I'm going to go to. If I want to grab additional assets from the branding location, I can do the same thing from there, grab all the files that I need, make a special copy of them specifically for that external party. My original files are still intact safe and sound, but I was always able to go back and find them and then what I will find is I come over to general. I've got my files here. We can work with that team to organize these files and whatever way makes most sense for them to be able to do the jobs that I need. All of the work that I need to do with them can be discussed in this area where I have a private conversation with just those people. And as an external party, they're able to come in and see this, and it all happens in a pretty near real time you saw that I had to wait up to maybe three minutes for it to fully set up that team. I'm going to just file over to Microsoft has put a lot of thought and energy into how to handle these things. So again, I want to pause, because I'm going through a lot really fast, and we're getting close to ready to move to the next item. So there are any questions. Yeah, I'd like to ask a question. And thank you so much. All that you've explained has been very helpful and very insightful, but can it be can Microsoft teams be used for personal use. Really can go to Microsoft teams and get a free teams account for just everyday social use and Windows 11 has Microsoft teams built directly into the start menu. So when you get a brand new Windows 11 computer, Microsoft is actually going to help you get that set up so that you can have that one on one teams experience with family in front. Nice. Thank you. Welcome. Sorry, Christopher. Christopher, it's been it's really nice listening to you talk about the Microsoft team. Thank you. The fact that I work in a civil space and we do a lot of collaborative work. It's becoming very handy. We are used to the zoom and the webinar and all of that. And my worry is, how do we begin to get people to know this to know more about the Microsoft team. So we, people can begin to, you know, engage with it, especially I have been Africa, and we know a bit of Microsoft and we use a lot of the Microsoft products, but this one is something really new. And I'm hearing from you, it's, it has a lot to offer us. But the awareness, the awareness about about it will be very, very, very good for my people over here so that it will make our work very easy here in Utah. Well, you know, so I would be happy to, to have some conversation with you around where we can do that I have a membership to an organization called international, International Association Microsoft channel partners. And I have connections with partners in Africa that I could introduce you to that would be able to help you with Microsoft teams in your local community and your local government situations you might have to deal with as well. And I would also be very happy to have a conversation with you about anything that you'd like to personally know. I did post both my LinkedIn and my personal email in the chat for you to reach back out to me because I can make introductions to any of you to partners in your immediate areas your countries. And I can certainly continue the conversation with you one on one. If you'd like to have anything specific and I mean this is not a sales pitch just if you have some questions I'd be more than happy to schedule some time with you to discuss what you're looking for and give you some ideas on the path to go. Okay, thank you so very much. I can also share. If you didn't get that in the chat I can also share. Christopher's LinkedIn and email address for you, because I have it's in the chat right now but I can, I can stay share with you. So you can, you can have, you can have like a one on one with him. Alright, that'd be great. Thanks. Christopher have like another question concerning Microsoft teams. My question is about integration. Is it integration friendly like I know slack and the rest of the meeting software is like the kind of like allow some form of integration with life for instance I know there's an integration with slack and zoom you can either decide to integrate slack to integrate zoom into your team if you want to use zoom meeting inside of slack. So does the Microsoft team application does it does it support like integrations to it does in fact Microsoft teams has an entire storefront of third party tools that you can easily adopt either at the personal level or at the organizational level depending upon how the security is set up by the company. So those integrations can be with Microsoft products for like project server or with with Dynamics 365 and a lot of nonprofits do use Microsoft Dynamics 365 because of some of the opportunities that Microsoft gives them. There's also third party tools with time sheet systems with accounting systems with other project solutions, it's got scrum and agile plugins that are available there's there's thousands of plugins that have already been developed, and then it's also available to the power platform for Microsoft. So the power platform allows an individual to build their own low code or no code application is basically a drag and drop interface for you to build a small little application either for a mobile or for a web app. And then it can connect to an Excel file it can connect to to teams it can connect to SharePoint, based on what you understand and how far you're in with this that can become a component that you can incorporate into your Microsoft teams interface and again that could be at just the one user level or it can be something that the organization could choose to push out to every employee. And then that's natively integrated in am I going to share my screen again real quick is that you can work with a word documents directly in Microsoft teams, you open this document up by clicking on it, and you're not leaving teams. This brings a web version of word into teams in real time to open up this documents and allow you to do all the same types of editing you what there's a few features that aren't quite there. But for the most part, if you can do it in your desktop word, you can do it in the teams word as well. Again, providing that integration right back in this there's less time to load there's no risk of the file leaving the secure environment, because the tools are all right So, another thing I remember I mentioned IMCP, we have built a customization that allows us to bring all of this content from IMCP down into the fingertips without ever leaving my team space. This is love this registers and recognizes who I am as Christopher cost, and it will bring in all the content that I'm allowed access to from this for me to see this this is an integration. And you'll see right here it's even got things that I myself have done for the organization where I was posting a conversation there around diversity. So there's a number of ways that we can integrate in. I mentioned that there's the apps. So just quickly showing you, again, built for your org. This is where you have custom grown this is that IMCP piece I was talking about built for your order very custom pieces. Third party apps are things that are not built by Microsoft or part of the main store but need to be brought in through that trusted environment. There's a special thing that you can do as a developer to have that. And then there's things that are actually published in the store whether they're from Microsoft or third party. And you can just go through and find something you're looking for Wikipedia. It's a very common thing to see. We've got utilities for the forms the power automate I mentioned I mentioned earlier. If you're a development or you do a lot of development, you can integrate this with Azure DevOps or JIRA as well. We've got these things called connectors that tie you back into certain things for specific types of data to come in. And then there's IT tools available to you. You've got well pieces. So yes, I'm sure there's a lot of integration capability for things that people and firms have already developed have vetted with Microsoft and gotten published in the store. There are things that are not published in the store but that have been certified in the right way that they can be trusted as a third party application. And then there's a completely custom development that doesn't go through the certification process. It's just for your organization itself. So, I wanted to quickly go into the last area. Let me stop with sharing. Okay, the last area that I want to talk about today is going to be in, you know, the inclusion aspect of this and when I talk inclusion, a lot of people immediately fall into. Here's the woke conversation but what organizations need to realize inclusion has very little to do with race inclusion has to do with simply making people feel like they belong. And inclusion can be two people that are both white both male, one of them is incredibly introverted one of them is extremely extroverted. I'm the extrovert by the way. I have an introvert they're hesitant to raise their hand they're hesitant to join in the conversation they're hesitant to participate, because it's just not their comfort level. These tools give you ways that you can provide your ideas and your thoughts. Again, teams has a lot of the same capabilities that zoom has video conferencing, the chat conversation, the razor hand feature something that zoom teams. And that's what they always put in during the pandemic because they recognize more people are in these conferences they need to figure out how do they get these people there. How do you also avoid 25 people talking over one another in conference, you need tools. That's inclusion. That's meeting people where they're at it has nothing to do with race or diversity or LGBT status, as everything to do with just making sure that every person in the room has an ability to have themselves heard if they have an idea to share. So raise your hand chat or two biggest things that people recognize this now also has transcription service that's something that Microsoft teams introduced first with artificial intelligence, but more and more the other tools are incorporating transcription so it's listening to everything being said, and it brings it in other tools that are AI based. There are no taking tools. One's called butterfly.io I believe that you basically can't subscribe to that as a person. And then when you get invited to a meeting you can invite your bot, your, your note taking bot to your meeting as well. They get brought in as just that they're a regular person and it records the important note things there's certain ways that they work differently from from bot to bot. But the idea here is it takes notes doesn't transcribe the meeting and record it word for word, but with you and your input it learns from you and it takes notes for you. So those are tools that meet you where they're at those the types of things that Microsoft teams has made available through more interfaces and more apis for programmability that really sets Microsoft teams way ahead of any of the other tools that you would ordinarily think of because when people are sitting here focusing on, I just need to have a chat, I just have a conversation I just need a video call with somebody. But when you actually get past that moment and you start realizing I need to work to an end goal, you start realizing there's way more language is another area. There are Microsoft teams meetings that allow you to turn on live captioning so that you don't just have a written transcription you've actually got live captioning in the English language. It's a live event where it's a streamed service. All of the things that the live presenters are saying can be transcribing up to six different languages so if you're going to be broadcasting to an international audience. You can choose English plus five or six of the most natural languages that make sense for that particular meeting and everything being said in the spoken language be translated to the other language as a live caption. There are other tools that right now Microsoft teams is really leading versus all the other tools in their space, and that is going to mean more people are going to have an opportunity to participate and engage with you. And the importance for that is, whether you're a nonprofit or you're a for profit organization, the next million dollar ID, sorry, the next million dollar idea, could be coming from somebody that isn't comfortable using traditional to get heard, but they can put it in a chat, they can raise their hand using a simple little nod in their click. And the next thing you know is your organization is being able to take an opportunity and be innovative where you're competitive. So, for now, I think you know that's really want to leave it's a lot. So I'd like to just open it up now for just open conversation dialogue anything you guys like to talk about. So Christopher. Hello Christopher. Hello Stella. Okay, so talking about inclusion. How do, talking about inclusion. How does the, your product, how does it cater to the needs of probably the blind, the deaf, the dumb. How does it cater to their needs. So, Microsoft has accessibility built into every tool. And that's your traditional accessibility consideration for hearing impairment, vision impairment, and other learning capability. Those types of things lie rely on the underlying accessibility built into windows by a great amount, but Microsoft teams tied in with that windows or even the underlying capability accessibility on an iOS device or an Android device really does tap into whatever those assistive technologies are Microsoft teams are going to allow is going to allow the information to interact. So, if you're thinking through accessibility of, I got to find a particular field, and I got to put something in there. Transcription of voice to text is built into iOS is built into teams through the iOS device and the windows interface that you can then do the same thing with the magnification feature in the Microsoft windows. It works seamlessly over the teams so that if you need to have that larger focus area. It just travels from application to application that's true with all of the Microsoft Office applications as well word Excel PowerPoint, etc. Thank you. Hi. I think my takeaway from my takeaway from today is, I think my takeaway from today is the first thing I can take away is the security capabilities that I've just learned about about teams. Also the integration. Another takeaway from big takeaway is the inclusiveness like for people to be able to interact in other forms, aside from actually talking the other ways that they can, they can, they can collaborate without having to be somebody else put on quotes and and that general platform to just collaborate in every in any form that I think that works best for you. And I think that's my big takeaway from it. Indeed, you know that's the, that's the important thing is we live in a world where privacy is a great concern data protection is a great concern and Microsoft has put that into the intentional design of everything they're doing with the teams and everything in the Office 365 stack, and you can rest assured that Microsoft is not perfect, nor is anybody else. But they're very attentive and Microsoft is actually the largest security company in the world, we just don't realize it because we don't think about it, but Microsoft has more data about security breaches and they have more information on security than any other company in the world. They just collaborate with all the other companies and share that and make it available to them. So all of that wealth of knowledge and that collaboration they do with other security companies. They can incorporate all of that lesson learned into their tools to provide better ways of handling. At this point I think we have just about two minutes left based on our timing. At this point I really first and foremost want to thank Christopher for taking out his time from his very busy schedule to be with us today to tell us to talk to us about Microsoft teams. I know most of us here have been using the tool but he's giving us like a little bit more insight on how we can use it more. And Christopher we thank you so much for being here, we appreciate your time, your insight and everything that you've done. Christopher shared his link with us, his link to his LinkedIn page on the chat, you can follow him on LinkedIn, his email is also there, you have things you need to follow up with him, absolutely, he would respond to you as soon as he can. I just want to take this opportunity to thank you Christopher and also everybody that's been able to make it to this event. I know a lot of us have had NGO projects that we're working on. And I know this insight will give us that platform to be able to collaborate with people that want to collaborate with anywhere in the world. And I also know you guys have jobs that you do and you've taken time out from your busy schedule to be with us on here. And thank you so much for your time. I just want to close with a little bit of insight, more insight about TechSoup with just one minute update. 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Thank you so much. Thanks guys, bye. Thanks everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Christopher. Thank you everyone. Thank you Chris. Thank you everyone. Thanks Chris, thanks Armstrong. Thanks Stella, thanks for being around. Thank you Reggie.