Microsoft Search is looking to bring the search experiences across all Microsoft 365 services together into a single unified experience.
Attend this session to learn how the experience impacts your users, how you can configure it as well as scenarios where you should customize it.
Microsoft 365 Toronto User Group June 2021Kanwal Khipple
The document discusses the latest announcements from Microsoft 365 in June 2021. It introduces Microsoft Viva Learning, which creates a central hub for learning content within organizations. Key features of Viva Learning allow users to easily search, share, organize, and assign learning content directly within Microsoft Teams. Managers can track learning assignments and completion statuses. The document also discusses updates to OneDrive and ShareDrive including new sharing options for lists and activity reports for OneDrive sync admins. It concludes with tips for maintaining a positive mindset during the shift to hybrid work.
Intranets With Office 365: What You Need To Know #INT103 #365EduCon 20211214Kanwal Khipple
There is a growing trend of organisations moving to “the cloud” to meet their intranet needs. While many organisations are running their Intranets “on premise”, many are considering entirely cloud-based solutions or running them on platforms like Office 365. What's more organizations are challenging the Intranet to be more of an interactive and engaging digital hub for their digital workplace than just a communication centric portal.
The top two questions for many companies is “should our intranet be built with Office 365?” and "how should we best leverage it with Office 365?"
In this session we will explore:
• The benefits Office 365 brings to an intranet...
• Where the issues and challenges will lie...
• When and how you may integrate Office 365 with your existing intranet and digital workplace today.
Within the Office 365 ecosystem, what is the best method to have your message heard by the right audience? This presentation walks through the different options in the Microsoft arena, including SharePoint News and Communication Sites, Yammer, Teams, and more.
A successful collaboration strategy includes technology, process alignment, and the user experiences. However, organizations tend to focus the most on technology, and the least on people -- when the opposite should be true. As this presentation explains, culture is the key to any successful collaboration strategy.
The document discusses how work is changing due to technology innovations and increased collaboration. It notes that work can now be done anywhere, anytime, on any device, with more people both inside and outside an organization. However, collaboration is still challenging and adoption of collaboration tools needs improvement. The document proposes several ways to improve collaboration, such as better meeting management, using analytics to understand work patterns, and planning adoption campaigns. Overall it argues that changes in how people work requires continuous effort to improve digital skills and drive organizational change.
Your users may struggle with these questions:
Should I share via Microsoft Yammer, Microsoft Office 365 Groups, or Microsoft OneDrive?
Should I share a file in Outlook, in a meeting, from OneDrive for Business, on Yammer, in a Group, or in a SharePoint site?
What happens when your users can’t decide what technology or feature to use? They use what they know, or what’s easy; even if better options exist.
In this session, join Richard Harbridge as he helps you maximise the value of your Office 365 investment by providing the guidance you need to help your users make better, more effective decisions on how they get work done.
Tackling Governance, Site & Teams Sprawl With Microsoft 365Richard Harbridge
Without an effective governance strategy in place, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Sites can quickly go from an organized and effective workspace to an out-of-control, sprawling digital wasteland. Sound familiar?
It's very common for organizations to experience Microsoft Teams & SharePoint Sites sprawl. But, when it does happen, how can you tackle it?
Join Microsoft MVP & 2toLead CTO, Richard Harbridge, as he explores:
* Challenges organizations face with Microsoft Teams & SharePoint Sites sprawl.
* Solutions to tackle Microsoft Teams & SharePoint Sites sprawl.
* Best practices to get more from Microsoft Teams & SharePoint.
* Real-world guidance on out-of-the-box solutions and custom approaches.
* How Orchestry can improve experiences, management and organizational outcomes.
Practical Tips on Designing an effective Digital Workplace #m365vconfKanwal Khipple
Attend this session to better understand how you can build your digital hub powered by SharePoint Online. We’ll dive into how Hub Sites, Communication and broader team sites can support with your digital workplace strategy. Along-side, learning practical tips on how to build your own digital workplace, Kanwal will also share lessons learned on content strategy, migration strategy, brand strategy as well as governance strategy for your SharePoint sites.
The Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference
SharePoint Upgrade & Migration Planning: From Strategy To ExecutionRichard Harbridge
How do organizations successfully migrate or upgrade SharePoint to SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, & Modern SharePoint From Classic SharePoint Or Legacy Versions Of SharePoint Server?
In this session, MVP and expert Richard Harbridge will discuss what important considerations should be understood and planned before an upgrade/migration, what approaches have successfully worked for other companies, and practical guidance on how best to succeed with your modernization or migration project.
Proven Strategies for increasing Adoption and EngagementChristian Buckley
While Office 365 continues to grow at a rapid rate, adoption can be slow and difficult without a strategy in place. This presentation covers a number of different topics that all have an impact on end user adoption and engagement. This presentation shares: a "go to market" strategy for a successful Office 365 deployment; productivity features that will enhance adoption; strategies for keeping end users engaged; how to track usage and activity so you can measure your success; and touches on many of the productivity features (Groups, Delve, Yammer, co-editing, etc). The primary focus, however, is on the management/ongoing educational aspects of a successful deployment.
The document discusses governance and adoption of Microsoft 365. It provides an overview of governance approaches, including enablement, managed, and optimized phases. It emphasizes the importance of roles, policies, guidance, and readiness assessments. Visual breakdowns are given for governance key activities for various Microsoft 365 workloads. The presenters aim to review successful governance approaches, understand how to advance governance and adoption, demonstrate how Orchestry can help, and provide best practices for adoption.
Helping Organizations & Users Decide: When To Use What In Office 365 - aOS Ca...Richard Harbridge
The document provides information about an aOS Canadian tour taking place in February 2017, visiting Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto on various dates. It then discusses various Microsoft Office 365 and related technologies, how they can be used together, and guidance on when to use different options. The discussion covers tools and capabilities like Yammer, Office 365 Groups, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Flow, PowerApps, and others. It emphasizes understanding the current technology landscape and guiding users on the journey to more effective use of Office 365.
Sam Marshall of ClearBox consulting and David Francoeur, of Bonzai taking a non-technical look at intranet search, to help you improve results and the overall experience.
If you're responsible for search configuration then we welcome you, but this webinar is also for intranet managers and digital team members who care about content and ensuring the intranet is truly useful to colleagues.
The business cost of poor search
Why intranet search is hard
How to improve the search user experience
Ways to diagnose why search fails
Quick ways to enhance your search results.
State Of The Industry: What's Changed In The Past Few Years With Digital Work...Richard Harbridge
Office 365 and SharePoint are evolving fast. A few years ago many of us may have begun modernizing our Digital Workplace environments - planning an upgrade or a migration to a new SharePoint server or even SharePoint Online. Since that time many things have changed in both SharePoint and Office 365, not to mention within our organizations. New services have been added, and many of those services are improving with each passing month. What approaches, strategies and rollout models are other organizations using? What can we learn from their successes?
Join us for this facilitated and interactive discussion where instead of just looking forward, we look back into key changes that we all need to understand better. This discussion will be facilitated by Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP, and internationally recognized expert on Office 365 and SharePoint. Together we will discuss what has changed in the past few years for developers, IT professionals, and Digital Workplace leads while exploring how organizations are leveraging related Microsoft services in different ways today.
Tackling Office 365 & SharePoint Adoption Like A ServiceRichard Harbridge
Office 365 provides an incredible amount of value to individual employees, teams, departments, and organizations. Much of this value is not realized immediately upon purchase or deployment of Office 365. The value is realized as more and more users understand, adopt, and embrace the technology.
So how do we drive faster, sustainable and effective adoption? Perhaps more importantly, how do we ensure our adoption approach scales and can keep up with the innovation the Office 365 service provides?
Join Richard Harbridge as he shares real-world experience, advice, and activities that other customers are leveraging to get more from Office 365 and drive more meaningful adoption.
This document discusses optimizing mobile productivity for organizations. It recommends developing a usage strategy by identifying groups' mobility needs, roles, and common usage scenarios. The strategy should select apps and configurations to create app portals and related policies. Training should onboard users and guide them toward secure, productive mobile usage. The document stresses that if organizations connect mobile devices to work, they should develop a usage strategy, onboarding process, and security/compliance policies to guide users rather than leaving them on their own.
In the 3rd of 3 joint webinars with Beezy and CardioLog Analytics, we discussed the basics of gamification, and how you can develop a "motivation hacking" strategy within SharePoint or Office 365 to help shape user behavior and improve adoption and engagement.
Extending Collaboration with SharePoint and Microsoft TeamsChristian Buckley
Webinar presented on July 11th, 2018 for the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Community that walks through the latest updates on SharePoint and Microsoft's messaging around "intelligent communications," and the role of Microsoft Teams alongside existing and future SharePoint infrastructure. Great guidance for people wondering how SharePoint and Teams should coincide.
Making The Most of Meetings with Microsoft Teams, Yammer & Microsoft 365Richard Harbridge
Meetings are necessary in any modern organization today. Sometimes they are highly productive, valuable, focused, and have a strong impact over time. What is it that makes a meeting, especially a remote meeting more effective? How do you ensure your meetings are more successful, or how can you improve meeting outcomes in your daily work? When and how should we use Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Yammer, OneNote and other meeting related technology?
Join Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP, CTO at 2toLead and internationally recognized expert on Microsoft 365 and the Digital Workplace, who will share best practices on:
• How organizations today are making the most of meetings
• Improving pre-meeting collaboration and planning
• How organizations are benefiting post meeting from improved technologies and skills
Let us help you take your meetings, especially remote ones, to the next level and deliver more value.
Microsoft Search is looking to bring the search experiences across all Microsoft 365 services together into a single unified experience. Attend this session to learn how the experience impacts your users, how you can configure it as well as scenarios where you should customize it.
This document provides a step-by-step guide to optimizing a website for search engines. It begins with an introduction to search engine rankings and keyword research, including analyzing competitors. It then discusses making a website "SEO friendly" by checking for errors and following best practices. The document outlines on-page optimization techniques like optimizing meta tags, headers, images, and file names. It emphasizes the importance of having a solid foundation for any SEO efforts.
Finding, or not finding, information is consistently the most called out issue in the enterprise. Technology companies spend millions developing features that remain idle because, while everyone is concerned about optimizing enterprise search, no one is doing anything about it. The PM cuts the budget because "the devs will do it." The IA/UX architects do not have the specific expertise. The developers want to do it but do not have appropriate guidance.
This is a call-to-action for developers and ITpros to make sure that they get what they need to make search in the enterprise work. Because, after the interactive marketing agency has left the building, they are the ones that will be hearing "search sucks" directed at them.
The key to using the Internet as a business tool is to reduce that frustration and connect with customers in the easiest, most direct way possible. SEO (search engine optimization) is, perhaps, the fastest growing marketing tool available today and it works by putting your website at the top of search results page on Google and Bing when customers are searching for terms relevant to your business.
SEO Guide for Beginners, The Beginner Guide to SEORahul Kumar
The Beginner guide to SEO: Learn all the facts, tactics, strategies of SEO. The best SEO Guide for Beginners. How it works & what factors affect search. Call +91-782-774-2414 for any help.
Google is the dominant search engine, crawling and indexing webpages to understand their content and how they relate to each other. It then ranks pages based on over 200 factors, with the goal of displaying the most relevant results first. Search engine optimization (SEO) aims to help websites rank higher through both on-site techniques like optimizing content and design, and off-site efforts like building links and social media presence. Understanding how users behave online through search queries and on-site behavior is important for SEO success. The document provides an overview of how Google works and recommendations for an SEO best practices guideline.
Top 9 Search-Driven Analytics Evaluation CriteriaJames Capurro
In our personal lives, search has transformed how access information. Google, Facebook and Amazon have raised our expectations for how we want to access data at work. Finally, after a decade of failed promises and misguided approaches in the enterprise, search is making a comeback.
In this book, we present nine different criteria that you can use to evaluate search-driven analytics products - everything from training time to search intelligence, data modeling, and total cost of ownership.
Search engines like Google crawl the web to build indexes of billions of web pages. They use algorithms to determine the relevance and importance of pages to calculate search rankings (page rank). SEO involves optimizing content and web pages to target relevant keywords so they can rank highly in organic search results. Basic SEO practices include creating accessible content and optimizing it for target keywords, building links from other relevant sites, and engaging audiences on social media which search engines now also consider.
The Internet can work wonders: If you are looking for guidance on a home improvement project, there is a YouTube video for every conceivable “how to.” Need a last-minute recipe or want to find a unique gift item? Presto, with a few clicks results appear on your screen. Of course, it can also be frustrating. The key to using the Internet as a business tool is to reduce that frustration and connect with customers in the easiest, most direct way possible. In other words, don’t let potential leads get lost on their way to your website! (http://bit.ly/2ghsK8H)
At the 2011 Polish IA Summit, I examine big changes in optimizing for search engines.
We now know that Google is not infallible (seems that companies are easily able to game the PR system) or t all knowing (seems it takes a competitor with a friend at the New York Times to reveal said PR gaming). We also found out that Google can be capricious with blanket suppression of content from certain sites regardless of whether users find it relevant.
This presentation looks at search optimization tools ant tactics that work regardless of these changes and how to keep the site optimized.
Stuart Church, director of Pure Usability, teamed up with Pete Walker of the ILRT to run a workshop session at the Towards e-recruitment conference at the University of Warwick in January 2007. The session focussed on the need for a more user-centric approach to e-recruitment with Higher and Further Education.
SEO & Content Together. How SEO can help to improve your content strategy and get maximum ROI via search engine & branding. How to get branded content on top rank in search engines? How to create intent-based content to get maximum ROI?
SEO is an ongoing process focused on improving user experience through high-quality content. It is no longer a project but requires continual effort. While technical on-site factors remain important, SEO today is fundamentally driven by off-site factors like content and social sharing. Measuring SEO success relies on tracking quality metrics like organic traffic, time on site, and lead conversions over quick fixes or guarantees.
Bearish SEO: Defining the User Experience for Google’s Panda Search LandscapeMarianne Sweeny
The search sun shifted in March 2011 when Google started rolling out the beginning of the Panda update. Instead of using the famous PageRank, a link-based relevance calculation, Panda rests on a machine interpretation of user experience to decide which sites are most relevant to a searchers quest for knowledge. This means that IA and UX practitioners need to start thinking about the machine implications of the way they structure information on the web, and think ahead about the human implications for how search engines present their sites in response to searcher queries. Bearish SEO will present real, actionable methods for content providers, information architects and user experience designers to directly influence search engine discoverability. Need is an experience. It is a state of being. The goal for this presentation is to ensure that user experience professionals become an integral part of designing search experience.
Search Product Manager: Software PM vs. Enterprise PM or What does that * PM do?John T. Kane
This document discusses the roles of search product managers and provides examples of search metrics and KPIs. It outlines the speaker's background and experience as a search PM, describes different types of search use cases, and compares roles of software vs. enterprise search PMs. It also lists references and thoughts on future directions for search and product management.
Intranets in the Cloud: What you need to know #spsmontrealKanwal Khipple
In this session we will explore, the benefits Office 365 brings to an intranet, where the issues and challenges will lie and when and how you may integrate Office 365 with your existing intranet and digital workplace today...
SEO – Search Engine Optimization, breaks in two parts first we will understand about the Search Engines, a platform we will be using to rank our website #1, later we will understand the optimization part. At the end there’s a bonus part which will help you track and analyze the work you we will be undertaking with this guided process.
This document discusses search engine optimization and the development of search systems. It notes that computer science has directed search system development with a focus on results relevance, while neglecting user experience. The intent is to inspire deeper engagement in designing search experiences that do more than just sell products. It also discusses challenges like the volume of online information, differences in language and perception, and the limitations of current search systems.
Why hire an information architect consultant for your business by emanuel bai...Emanuel Baisire
Information architecture refers to the way in which organizations align websites to target specific audiences. It relates to how information is organized on a website and how different pages are linked together. Information architecture is considered to be both an art and science of finding and managing information on a site. Graphic designers, interaction designers and other team members are equally important in designing or improving website usability. Although graphic designers and other specialists are involved in information architecture, their attention is usually focused on specific functions. The rationale of hiring an IA consultant is to ensure that the proposed site is well organized and capable of guiding users to locate crucial information or product in a timely fashion. A well organized site improves user experience and eases the process of product and service searches. This trend often translates into increased number of new and return visitors to a website. A continuous flow of new and returning visitor is likely to increase product sales and customer satisfaction.
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Attend this session to hear about recent Microsoft 365 product feature changes that are impacting organizations today. If you are leveraging Microsoft 365 to improve productivity then feel free to ask questions.
Microsoft 365 Toronto User Group February 2021Kanwal Khipple
Microsoft Viva is an employee experience platform that aims to empower employees and foster well-being and learning through four components: Viva Connections for communication and culture, Viva Insights for productivity and well-being, Viva Topics for knowledge and expertise, and Viva Learning for accelerated skills development. It utilizes artificial intelligence and integrates with Microsoft 365 applications like Teams and Outlook to provide personalized insights and recommendations to individuals, managers, and leaders.
Microsoft 365 Toronto User Group April 2021Kanwal Khipple
Speaker 1: Kanwal Khipple
Kanwal Khipple, Founder and CEO of 2toLead, passion lies in continuing to push for user experience innovation when redesigning digital workplace for many of the top Fortune 100 companies in the world. Kanwal has been recognized as an Microsoft 365 MVP by Microsoft (2009 to 2020).
Session 1: Latest Microsoft 365 Announcements
Attend this session to hear about recent Microsoft 365 product feature changes that are impacting organizations today. If you are leveraging Microsoft 365 to improve productivity then feel free to ask questions.
Schedule:
5:30pm – Introductions and Q&A
6:00pm – Session 1
6:45pm – Closing
Without an effective governance strategy in place, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Sites can quickly go from an organized and effective workspace to an out-of-control, sprawling digital wasteland. Sound familiar?
It's very common for organizations to experience Microsoft Teams & SharePoint Sites sprawl. But, when it does happen, how can you tackle it?
Join me as we will explore:
* Challenges organizations face with Microsoft Teams & SharePoint Sites sprawl.
* Solutions to tackle Microsoft Teams & SharePoint Sites sprawl.
* Best practices to get more from Microsoft Teams & SharePoint.
* Real-world guidance on out-of-the-box solutions and custom approaches.
* How you can improve experiences, management and organizational outcomes.
Enabling and empowering remote employees #HOU365Kanwal Khipple
From the beginning, we have always been a remote first company. Consulting with customers remotely can be a challenge and was an important skill that we have been teaching to our teams. Though building trust with your team was harder than originally thought. We experimented and tried out a number of ways to be inclusive for our diverse team.
Attend this session to learn about
Enabling every employee to have an impact
Supporting and encouraging work/life balance
Encouraging innovation through experimentation
What being a remote first company taught us #msvmKanwal Khipple
From the beginning, we have always been a remote first company. Consulting with customers remotely can be a challenge and was an important skill that we have been teaching to our teams. Though building trust with your team was harder than originally thought. We experimented and tried out a number of ways to be inclusive for our diverse team.
Attend this session to learn about
- Enabling every employee to have an impact
- Supporting and encouraging work/life balance
- Encouraging innovation through experimentation
Microsoft Search is looking to bring the search experiences across all Microsoft 365 services together into a single unified experience. Attend this session to learn how the experience impacts your users, how you can configure it as well as scenarios where you should customize it.
Harness Collective Knowledge with #ProjectCortex #msignitethetourKanwal Khipple
Join us to learn about the most significant innovations ever unveiled for knowledge management and intelligent content services in Microsoft 365. Get the latest updates on Microsoft Search and other experiences that connect you with knowledge, insights, expertise, answers and actions, within your everyday experiences across Microsoft 365
Practical Tips on Designing an Effective Digital Workplace #mwcp19Kanwal Khipple
Better understand how you can build your digital hub powered by SharePoint Online. We’ll dive into how home sites, Hub Sites, Communication and broader team sites can support with your digital workplace strategy
Design in your org part of Designing Experiences in #Office365 #mwcp19Kanwal Khipple
The document provides an overview of a full-day workshop on design and the digital workplace. It includes an agenda that covers topics such as gathering insights, UX patterns, and designing an organization. The workshop aims to teach how to incorporate design into projects and improve teams' design skills. User needs and pain points are also identified to help prioritize a roadmap for the digital workplace initiative.
Gathering Insights part of Designing Experiences in #Office365 #mwcp19Kanwal Khipple
The document discusses personas that could be used to understand key user types within an organization and their needs and goals related to using an intranet system. It provides examples of five primary intranet personas - the Connector, Collaborator, Communicator, Consumer, and Contributor - and describes each with a sample profile detailing their characteristics, expectations, frustrations, and key metrics of success. The profiles are intended to help guide priorities for improving the digital workplace experience by considering users' perspectives.
A day in the life part of Designing Experiences in #Office365 #mwcp19Kanwal Khipple
The document summarizes a full-day workshop on enabling productivity within teams. It describes four user journeys showing how employees can communicate important news, collaborate on marketing campaigns, automate business processes, and answer questions from anywhere. Key goals are to break down communication barriers, coordinate work across teams, ensure new employees have everything they need, and provide information promptly from any device. The workshops aims to encourage design thinking and user-centered practices within organizations.
Beyond the Intranet - Digital Workplace apps, Solutions n Bots #spslaKanwal Khipple
How to respond to the ever-increasing demand for powerful and integrated solutions that support users' needs across their digital workplace and beyond. Leveraging Office 365 means that you have access to entirely new ways of building solutions faster than ever before. The best part? It's not just IT that can build these great solutions!
Practical Tips on Designing an Effective Digital Workplace #SPSNYCKanwal Khipple
Better understand how you can build your digital hub powered by SharePoint Online. We’ll dive into how Hub Sites, Communication and broader team sites can support with your digital workplace strategy
Beyond the Intranet: Digital Workplace Apps, Solutions n Bots #powell365Kanwal Khipple
Many organizations have already established a powerful Office 365 Intranet, but they haven't answered the question What's next . In this session we will respond to the ever-increasing demand for powerful and integrated solutions that support users' needs across their digital workplace and beyond. Leveraging Office 365 means that you have access to entirely new ways of building solutions faster than ever before. The best part? It's not just IT that can build these great solutions!
Join Kanwal Khipple as he shares real world examples, and best practices for how organizations can deliver more value with integrated solutions built by the business, by IT, or a combination of both. In this session, we will talk about Bots, Microsoft Flow, PowerApps, Microsoft Forms, Integrations, Office 365 development, industry innovation and more!
Workshop: Designing Experiences in Office 365 #spc19Kanwal Khipple
As part of this workshop, we will aim to go through a number of practical tips and tricks that you can leverage when building your own SharePoint portals, designing your PowerApps as well as learn best practices that are applicable when working with any technology.
Detailed Agenda
UX Laws and Principles what are the key markers for creating a great user experiences? These principles can be applied to not just SharePoint but user experience that users interact with. Learn these and forever be prepared to build experiences that greatly improve the user experience.
How Design Sprints work learn how to run them effectively with champions and executives involved.
SharePoint Themes learn how to leverage themes in SharePoint, how to create and apply themes in your current tenant
UX Audit what you need to consider when performing an UX audit of your existing applications
Best Practices reviewing best practices that I have learned over the years based on complexity and business value.
Resources
Wireframing Toolkit will provide a wireframe toolkit that you can leverage to create your own wireframes
Personas critical to getting your application right but also important to start with a template. Will be provided during the workshop.
Sustainability requires ingenuity and stewardship. Did you know Pigging Solutions pigging systems help you achieve your sustainable manufacturing goals AND provide rapid return on investment.
How? Our systems recover over 99% of product in transfer piping. Recovering trapped product from transfer lines that would otherwise become flush-waste, means you can increase batch yields and eliminate flush waste. From raw materials to finished product, if you can pump it, we can pig it.
INDIAN AIR FORCE FIGHTER PLANES LIST.pdfjackson110191
These fighter aircraft have uses outside of traditional combat situations. They are essential in defending India's territorial integrity, averting dangers, and delivering aid to those in need during natural calamities. Additionally, the IAF improves its interoperability and fortifies international military alliances by working together and conducting joint exercises with other air forces.
How RPA Help in the Transportation and Logistics Industry.pptxSynapseIndia
Revolutionize your transportation processes with our cutting-edge RPA software. Automate repetitive tasks, reduce costs, and enhance efficiency in the logistics sector with our advanced solutions.
An invited talk given by Mark Billinghurst on Research Directions for Cross Reality Interfaces. This was given on July 2nd 2024 as part of the 2024 Summer School on Cross Reality in Hagenberg, Austria (July 1st - 7th)
Transcript: Details of description part II: Describing images in practice - T...BookNet Canada
This presentation explores the practical application of image description techniques. Familiar guidelines will be demonstrated in practice, and descriptions will be developed “live”! If you have learned a lot about the theory of image description techniques but want to feel more confident putting them into practice, this is the presentation for you. There will be useful, actionable information for everyone, whether you are working with authors, colleagues, alone, or leveraging AI as a collaborator.
Link to presentation recording and slides: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/details-of-description-part-ii-describing-images-in-practice/
Presented by BookNet Canada on June 25, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
How Social Media Hackers Help You to See Your Wife's Message.pdfHackersList
In the modern digital era, social media platforms have become integral to our daily lives. These platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Snapchat, offer countless ways to connect, share, and communicate.
Kief Morris rethinks the infrastructure code delivery lifecycle, advocating for a shift towards composable infrastructure systems. We should shift to designing around deployable components rather than code modules, use more useful levels of abstraction, and drive design and deployment from applications rather than bottom-up, monolithic architecture and delivery.
Performance Budgets for the Real World by Tammy EvertsScyllaDB
Performance budgets have been around for more than ten years. Over those years, we’ve learned a lot about what works, what doesn’t, and what we need to improve. In this session, Tammy revisits old assumptions about performance budgets and offers some new best practices. Topics include:
• Understanding performance budgets vs. performance goals
• Aligning budgets with user experience
• Pros and cons of Core Web Vitals
• How to stay on top of your budgets to fight regressions
Quality Patents: Patents That Stand the Test of TimeAurora Consulting
Is your patent a vanity piece of paper for your office wall? Or is it a reliable, defendable, assertable, property right? The difference is often quality.
Is your patent simply a transactional cost and a large pile of legal bills for your startup? Or is it a leverageable asset worthy of attracting precious investment dollars, worth its cost in multiples of valuation? The difference is often quality.
Is your patent application only good enough to get through the examination process? Or has it been crafted to stand the tests of time and varied audiences if you later need to assert that document against an infringer, find yourself litigating with it in an Article 3 Court at the hands of a judge and jury, God forbid, end up having to defend its validity at the PTAB, or even needing to use it to block pirated imports at the International Trade Commission? The difference is often quality.
Quality will be our focus for a good chunk of the remainder of this season. What goes into a quality patent, and where possible, how do you get it without breaking the bank?
** Episode Overview **
In this first episode of our quality series, Kristen Hansen and the panel discuss:
⦿ What do we mean when we say patent quality?
⦿ Why is patent quality important?
⦿ How to balance quality and budget
⦿ The importance of searching, continuations, and draftsperson domain expertise
⦿ Very practical tips, tricks, examples, and Kristen’s Musts for drafting quality applications
https://www.aurorapatents.com/patently-strategic-podcast.html
Quantum Communications Q&A with Gemini LLM. These are based on Shannon's Noisy channel Theorem and offers how the classical theory applies to the quantum world.
Are you interested in dipping your toes in the cloud native observability waters, but as an engineer you are not sure where to get started with tracing problems through your microservices and application landscapes on Kubernetes? Then this is the session for you, where we take you on your first steps in an active open-source project that offers a buffet of languages, challenges, and opportunities for getting started with telemetry data.
The project is called openTelemetry, but before diving into the specifics, we’ll start with de-mystifying key concepts and terms such as observability, telemetry, instrumentation, cardinality, percentile to lay a foundation. After understanding the nuts and bolts of observability and distributed traces, we’ll explore the openTelemetry community; its Special Interest Groups (SIGs), repositories, and how to become not only an end-user, but possibly a contributor.We will wrap up with an overview of the components in this project, such as the Collector, the OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP), its APIs, and its SDKs.
Attendees will leave with an understanding of key observability concepts, become grounded in distributed tracing terminology, be aware of the components of openTelemetry, and know how to take their first steps to an open-source contribution!
Key Takeaways: Open source, vendor neutral instrumentation is an exciting new reality as the industry standardizes on openTelemetry for observability. OpenTelemetry is on a mission to enable effective observability by making high-quality, portable telemetry ubiquitous. The world of observability and monitoring today has a steep learning curve and in order to achieve ubiquity, the project would benefit from growing our contributor community.
Introduction to Microsoft Search #SRC101 #365EduCon 20211214
1. Microsoft Search is looking to bring the search experiences across
all Microsoft 365 services together into a single unified
experience. Attend this session to learn how the experience
impacts your users, how you can configure it as well as scenarios
where you should customize it.
INTRODUCTION TO SEARCH SRC101
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and know.
What does this mean?
By leveraging existing mental models, we can design more
successful user experiences by reusing patterns for which users
are accustomed and allowing them to focus on their tasks.
With a 92% market share, the elephant in the room here is
Google. Specifically, users’ mental models for how search
and search features work will be heavily shaped by
their experience with Google (or with the dominant search
engine in their country), so your own site-search features should
cater to the expectations created by the big search engines.
7. Twelve years of innovation and evolution at a glance
2009 2021
8. The modern way to process complex search layouts is non-linear
In the old days of web search, users would reliably focus
their attention on the first few results at the top of the
page and would sequentially move from result to result
down the list. That linear SERP pattern still exists today,
but it’s the exception rather than the rule.
As the complexity of the SERP has grown, people’s
attention is distributed across the page.
In a pinball pattern, the user scans a results page in a
highly nonlinear path, bouncing around between
results and SERP features. With the high cost-benefit
and often eye-catching nature of these features, our
mental models have adapted to balance our
attention between “organic results” and SERP
features as a more effective and reliable means to
getting the answer we need.
10. Three key Search Engine Results Pages (SERP) features we see today
Featured Snippets
People Also Ask
Knowledge Panel
11. The impact of google on our users and their brains
Search features like those discussed have an impact on user behaviour by:
1. Acting as a signpost: Things like images or video thumbnails enables users to quickly verify the results are relevant
2. Directing the user’s attention: Humans do a continuous cost–benefit analysis to decide whether the interaction
cost of scanning or clicking on a result is worth their time. Users have learned that most of the time the SERP features
contain the answers they’re looking for (thus, they have a high benefit) and they involve little interaction cost, because
they don’t require an extra click, reading lengthy content, or leaving the current view
3. Modifying queries and tasks: We know that most users are terrible at generating alternate search strategies. But
through SERP features, Google can present several expanded interpretations of the query in natural language and
allow the user to explore those alternatives without leaving the page.
4. Providing quick answers: In cases where users have a simple information need, SERP features can provide a quick
and easy answer. If users want an address, phone number, or definition, there’s no need for them to click to through to
visit a site. Good abandonment occurs when users finds their answer on a SERP and decide to end their task
successfully.
Features like these are impacting the mental models of our user base, and therefore finding similar
patterns is important for us to consider in the context of Microsoft365.
13. Design challenges within the Digital Workspace
Search and navigation work hand in hand to promote information findability. As content footprints grow and complexity,
findability becomes an increasingly challenging problem to resolve for end users.
Where Do We See Challenges?
As Microsoft continues to expand the scope and scale of functionality within its suite, this can sometimes leave core user
experiences strained or stretched. Furthermore, many companies struggle in effectively implementing what is available.
Search
Navigation Search
14. How users seek information
“I know little to nothing about
what I am looking for”
“I’m hopeful the information exists
but don’t know how to find it.”
Knowledge Possessed
Little
Discover Mode
Expected Speed
Slow
Guidance Required
Much
“I know a good deal about what I
am looking for”
“I know what I need exists and
exactly how to find it.”
Knowledge Possessed
Much
Search Mode
Expected Speed
Fast
Guidance Required
None
“I know something about what I
am looking for.
“I know what I need exists but I’m
unsure exactly how to find it.”
Knowledge Possessed
Some
Browse Mode
Expected Speed
Moderate
Guidance Required
Some
15. Design challenges posed by search
Led by innovation on the web, users are becoming increasingly reliant
on search.
The convenience of searching on mobile, coupled with faster internet speeds and
more sophisticated devices, have acclimated people to getting exactly what they
want, where they want, and when they want it.
In our daily lives, search has become friction-less, and as a result, expectations
have risen dramatically.
16. End User
Search should “just work”
Search should be easy
Search results should be
relevant and personalized
Search should provide answers to
our questions, not just more links
17. Design challenges posed by search
Search in SharePoint has a long history of delivering poorly designed and executed search experiences,
leading to a frustrated user base often preferring to avoid its use altogether. In many cases, these issues actually
stemmed from content issues, information architecture issues, or user training issues. However, it also suffered from
its fair share of design issues.
In fact, even today, when interviewing users during a current state review it remains the #1 most common
complaint.
We know search is important, let’s look at the costs of getting it wrong:
Wasted time
searching for
content
Demotivated
employees
Increased
service costs
Increased risk
Wasted time
recreating
content
Uninformed
decisions
Loss of
confidence in
the platform
18. Design challenges posed by search
Search only succeeds if it is designed in a way that
allows users to consume a lot of information very
quickly. Put plainly, our goal is to realize the most
benefit (best results) with the least effort possible.
If users don’t see immediate evidence that their search
is yielding good results, they quickly abandon the
solution and look for alternate means to find the
information. Once trust in search is lost, it is
incredible challenging to get it back.
Effort
Value
22. Modern
Classic
Microsoft Search was initially released with little to no configurability at launch but is slowly seeing an
increasing number of ways to tweak and customize to a company’s unique needs.
23. Vision: A consolidated approach across the Microsoft stack
Microsoft Search One capability.
Every search experience.
in Bing
in Office.com
in SharePoint
in Edge
in Windows
in PowerPoint
in Outlook
in OneDrive
in Stream
in Yammer
in Word
in Teams
in OneNote
Microsoft Graph + Bing technology
24. A much more consistent search across Microsoft
26. With Bing, authenticated users can search for external and internal content using a single Search
experience.
27. A centralized dashboard for all search telemetry across your environment, allowing you to
optimize results and address problems proactively.
28. Allow site owners to drill down into site-specific reports to see what their users are
looking for.
29. Microsoft Graph gleans insights from the people, sites and documents you work with, and ranks search
results relevant to your needs. You'll still be able to see all the results that satisfy your query, but
personalized search will prioritize the results that are most likely to achieve your objective.
30. Search will adapt to the context of the user to focus or broaden their search results
From
Microsoft 365 Home
From
SharePoint Home
From
SharePoint site
31. Results cards are tailored to the type of content they are attempting to surface. Searching for people via the
consolidated Microsoft Search delivers a fairly consistent experience across Microsoft 365 (and even Windows).
This helps with change management efforts and is aligned with the Microsoft roadmap of providing a
consolidated experience.
32. Searching for people via the consolidated Microsoft Search also links users to the common people ‘card’
experience used throughout the M365 ecosystem, and SharePoint in particular.
33. Results cards are tailored to the type of content they are attempting to surface
34. Preset verticals assist with finding common, specific types of content across the organization
41. Add more relevant organizational properties to your people results
Add any of the following attributes to be displayed from AAD:
▪ UserPrincipalName
▪ Fax
▪ StreetAddress
▪ PostalCode
▪ StateOrProvince
▪ Alias
Add up to 15 additional custom attributes from AD or AAD.
42. Modify the default contextual search behaviour for sites (home, hub or site)
Set-PnPSearchSettings (PnP.Powershell) | Microsoft Docs
43. Search and locate images easily. Tags embedded in image files are preserved, and authors can
add their own tags to images.
search examines
images at upload time
and automatically
assigns keywords to
them. Currently the
auto tagging only
supports a small list of
30 “basic tags”.
44. search for Power BI artifacts (reports, dashboards, workspaces) based on keywords
to get results list displayed in a new PowerBI vertical.
45. Adding custom data sources to integrate your third-party content. Integrate results from supported third
party data sources, or create your own custom data sources
Microsoft Graph Connectors
46. You can add search verticals that are relevant to your organization. These will appear on the Microsoft
Search results page in SharePoint, Office, and Bing.
For example, you could create a vertical for marketing-related
content and another for sales, based on the type of information that
each group needs. You can add verticals to show results only from
content indexed via custom connectors.
Manage Verticals and result Types
47. You can design the result layout for a custom vertical using the search layout designer. You can start
designing the layout by choosing templates offered in the layout designer and using them if they fit
your requirements
Microsoft Search Layout Designer
48. Group results from the same source in a single block Result clusters help users discover all third party content in
one place. The results shown in a result cluster are grouped together based on the search vertical configuration.
52. Favorite search features that are either In Development or Rolling Out.
Personal Query History (GA)
As you start typing in the search box, you will see suggested searches and results based on your previous activity in Microsoft 365 and based on content that’s trending in your
organization. Personal query history will show the queries you have previously used. These personal query suggestions are served from your personal search history. Personal query
suggestions are a quick way to get back to results you've found before.
Custom filters on native verticals (Feb 2022)
New support for custom filters on native verticals in Microsoft Search allows you to customize out of the box verticals for Microsoft Search by adding custom refiners.
Custom result types in Microsoft Search (May 2022)
New support for custom result types allows you to create result types with modern display templates with adaptive cards for SharePoint content (PDF, sites, pages and lists) for
SharePoint home and sites, Office.com and Bing.com.
Source https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap
54. Using natural language capabilities to simplify search
Sample Queries
▪ PMs I met with recently
▪ Who is Ying’s skip level?
▪ Who knows about Typography?
▪ Files Kathy shared with me last week
▪ Engineers in London Available now
By making the search experience more user friendly, we can
reduce time in effort involved in:
▪ Reformulating queries
▪ Applying filters
▪ Scrolling through results
55. pattern that lets you zoom in on a person to view, explore, and search the enterprise graph around her or
him. This has the dual purpose of enabling you to find content through people, and to understand people
through their content.
coming soon
57. A new action menu with search results will allow an item not only to be opened in the web experience, but
directly opened in the client application, downloaded, shared or copy the link to the item.
58. People-centric search is a pattern that lets you zoom in on a person to view, explore, and search the
enterprise graph around her or him. This has the dual purpose of enabling you to find content through
people, and to understand people through their content.
coming soon
59. introducing new capabilities in profile enrichment where you can directly enrich user profiles with information
from HRMS systems like Workday, SAP SuccessFactors and more using Microsoft Graph connectors
coming soon
60. customize out of the box verticals for Microsoft Search, add custom refiners and
create new verticals for SharePoint content.
coming soon
62. Identifying root causes to search problems
Often times it is content bad practices that plague the efficacy of Search
▪ Poor naming conventions
– Content is difficult to find due to jargon, abbreviations or other bad practices
▪ Poor search scoping
– Search is scoped to too much/too little content and therefore users feel that information is missing
▪ Poor security practices
– People have access to too much information, or too little
▪ Poor content publishing practices
– Rather than relying on best practices for version control, multiple copies of a document are saved
▪ Missing content lifecycle processes
– Old/outdated content is not archived or moved when it is no longer broadly useful
▪ Limited metadata
– Search relevancy is hampered by inaccurate, poorly designed, or missing metadata
64. End User
Search is difficult, confusing
or overly complicated to use
Search is yielding
too many results
Search is yielding
the wrong results
Search is yielding results
that are out of date
65. Communicator
Search is yielding results
without appropriate context, so
even if my content is found, users
don’t have confidence they have
found the right thing
Search is not elevating my
more important content
It’s not always easy to understand
what needs to be done to content
to make it easily searchable
66. Administrator
Search does not include results
from our other core systems
Search is difficult to offer
in multiple languages
Search does not offer built-in
methods to flag problems
Search requires maintenance and
expertise to remain optimized
68. The search box context behaves contextually which is nice in theory but also means a user needs to
consciously consider where they are searching from every time they want to run a search (high interaction
cost).
Challenge
The helper text is a good idea but it’s easy to miss, disappears when you type, and has labels
that not all users will find (e.g., “Search across sites”).
69. An extension of the search box problem is the search box suggestions. Once typing begins we further lose
sight of what we are searching against.
Challenges
While a good Search UX technique, you can see here that it
adds to the lack of context clarity.
70. While the breadcrumb is a common UI element, it is not one that many users are
accustomed to seeing (or using) in the SEPR context.
Challenges
As a result, most users seem to miss it in
the context of Search Results pages and
certainly do not have an intuitive sense
of what effect this may have on the
results they are seeing.
71. It is possible to override a site’s search scope but it can only be changed to Hub or Tenant levels, leaving
a wide gap for environments where content spans multiple hubs.
Challenges
In these cases we have to choose
between too little content, and too much.
72. You have the ability to configure key corporate ‘assets’ like People, Locations, Bookmarks (best bets) at the
organizational level. What happens when organizational-based results are relevant for site based search
Challenges
▪ Key corporate ‘assets’ like People,
Locations, Bookmarks (best bets)
don’t show up unless you are at the
organizational level.
73. Out of the box refiners are incredibly limited.
Challenges
It is difficult to offer tailored search
experiences leveraging enterprise
metadata to help users filter and sort
through pre-defined verticals.
74. People don’t necessarily know where things live but more importantly, labels like “whole organization” are
not necessarily clear.
Challenges
Especially on an intranet, people
expect to be able to search for
things like Locations and People –
it’s a traditional type of content you
would find there.
Intranets also want to project that
“its content” is authoritative and
approved, and sometimes pulling
content in very broadly works
against that desire.
75. One of the biggest complaints we hear about search is that it brings back multiple
copies of the same thing – eroding trust in the system.
Challenges
Users don’t have an easy way to
report what they are seeing is a
problem, and it it’s not easy, no
one will do it.
76. The people card is overall a really great experience.
Challenges
Many limitations in adding
custom enterprise properties to a
user’s profile.
Additional attributes can be
displayed, but they are not
searchable.
SharePoint profile properties are
disconnected from the new
experience and painful to update
77. Microsoft Search utilizes a complex ranking model driven by Graph and artificial intelligence which draws
upon a host of data points to make results relevant and helpful.
Challenges
The relevancy model cannot be
configured in a systemic way
other than via ad-hoc overrides
79. Answers
via Admin
Scopes,
Redirects
& Visibility
via PS
Refiners
Not available
Verticals,
Ranking &
Connectors
via Admin
Custom
Cards
Navigating solutions based on complexity
Search
ootb
Targeted
Solution
“as is”
Search
Replacement
PnP Modern v4
Custom
Connector
custom
ootb configuration
Complexity
Custom
Web Part
Targeted
Extended
Solution
via Handlebar
or Extensibility
81. There are options to ensure users are aware and continually reminded to use the tailored experience.
On landing pages
surfacing other core
content, add a clear
call out to your new
experience to ensure
users have an easy
path to it.
82. There are options to ensure users are aware and continually reminded to use the tailored experience.
If this is an organizational
resource, add a bookmark
to ensure users can take
advantage of this new
experience.
This complements
Note: Recommend setting
intranet search scopes to
Organizational to ensure
this is seen more readily.
83. There are options to ensure users are aware and continually reminded to use the tailored experience.
If this is a site specific
resource, consider
redirecting search queries
to your custom search
results page rather than
the default experience.
85. Experiences that allow the end user to easily browse to what they need
When to Use
▪ Allows users to filter by one
primary refiner via simple
buttons
▪ Simple design leverages out of
the box web parts
▪ Suitable for lower volumes of
content which is easily
accessible by even unfamiliar
end users
▪ Suitable for content that resides
in a single Document Library
▪ Suitable for a targeted
application
Filter by primary vertical
using a list web part with
dynamic filtering
enabled.
Document Library to
surface all policies that
reacts dynamically to
filtering
86. Experiences that allow the end user to easily browse to what they need
Design
▪ Evolution of the previous
example which allows for the
expansion of an item to see
additional properties
▪ Allows users to filter by one
primary refiner via simple
buttons
▪ Simple design leverages out of
the box web parts
▪ Suitable for lower volumes of
content which is easily accessible
by average end users
▪ Suitable for content that resides
in a single Document Library
▪ Suitable for a targeted
application
Item properties to show
relevant information
about the policy
without leaving the
page.
88. The PnP 'Modern Search' solution is a set of SharePoint Online modern Web Parts allowing SharePoint
super users, webmasters and developers to create highly flexible and personalized search based
experiences in minutes.
89. With tailored experiences
like those above in place,
administrator can
ensure search queries
from the now persistent
search box can redirect
users to the desired page
90. Highlights
▪ Easy to deploy
▪ Highly customizable
▪ Scope of content
▪ Layout of results
▪ Sorting of results
▪ Modular
▪ Results can be displayed with or without:
▪ Search box
▪ Verticals
▪ Filters
▪ Multilingual
▪ Support for localization with the correct configuration
▪ Can be aligned with multilingual page publishing
▪ Common Architectural Patterns
▪ Relies on classic concepts like Result Sources and Managed Properties
Solving design challenges posed by search
A highly versatile solution with many advantages
Considerations
▪ If not managed, can be seen as competing with Microsoft
Search, creating a disjointed experience
▪ Requires some knowledge to initially set up
▪ Some planning required to support multilingual
▪ More elegant/tailored displays require template
manipulation
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