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Cathy Dew

Cathy Dew

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

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Area of Expertise

  • Arts
  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Office 365 SharePoint Productivity
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • SharePoint governance
  • Office 365 Office 365 Governance Microsoft Teams SharePoint
  • M365 information architecture
  • Design
  • Branding
  • Copilot for Microsoft 365

News: Who, what, when, where, and how

Today there are numerous methods to share news within your organization. This session explores the various types of news and what you should use when.

Optimizing your information architecture

Managing a portal in today's landscape of SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Loop, and Microsoft Teams can introduce information sprawl. This session covers using information architecture principles and governance to manage collaboration spaces effectively. By employing hubs, policies, labels, and best practices, you can enhance data management and empower users to use Copilot efficiently.

News: Who, what, when, where, and how

Today there are numerous methods to share news within your organization. This session explores the various types of news, the audience for each option, and what you should use when. Learn about how to create effective communications for your organization.

Ensuring brand consistency with Microsoft 365

Learn how to keep your brand consistent and improve your digital presence using SharePoint, Office, Stream, and Designer.

This session will explore effective strategies for leveraging these powerful tools to maintain a cohesive and recognizable brand identity. By integrating the functionalities of SharePoint, Office, Stream, and Designer, you can create a unified digital experience that reflects your brand's values and aesthetics.

Empower Users with an Efficient Portal

In today's fast-paced and decentralized organizations, it is crucial to create spaces that enable users to work and collaborate efficiently. The wide range of solutions, including SharePoint, Viva Connections, Viva Engage, Teams, and Outlook, often leads to confusion about where to work.

This session aims to clarify the various offerings and discuss strategies for providing a portal that simplifies and addresses users' questions.

Women In Technology Panel

Have you ever seen a line for the men’s restroom? Probably not. The line is almost always comprised of women. Until you go to a IT conference.

According to a March 2018 report posted on statista.com, “female employees make up between 26 percent (Microsoft) and 43 percent (Netflix) of the workforce at major tech companies....” Furthermore, in June of the same year, Forbes reported that “Only 25% of IT jobs are held by women” and “Female executives only make up 11% of the total at Fortune 500 companies.”

The North American Collaboration Summit is proud to present a Women In Tech panel session, where you can hear from the 25% of NACS speakers who are women. This is your opportunity to learn how these women became successful IT professionals, ask questions about how you or your company can foster growth in the Women In Tech culture, and participate in the discussion moderated by Women In Tech leader Cathy Dew.

SharePoint branding and page authoring updates

In this session we will cover the SharePoint brand center and recent updates for page authoring including the new flexible layout sections and editorial card web part.

SharePoint and PowerApps for the win

Learn how to empower businesses with solutions built with PowerApps. In this session we will explore common scenarios, methods and techniques for creating PowerApps. We will look forward to what features are still to come for PowerApps as well.

Ensuring brand consistency with Microsoft 365

Learn about how to create brand consistency in SharePoint and beyond using the latest branding capabilities offered by the SharePoint brand center

Empower change through Diversity and Inclusion

In the constant changing of today's work environment, there are still challenges to tackling diversity and inclusion. There are many patterns for inclusion that we can use in our daily work life. Come join our lively discussion filled with the multi-skilled speakers to discuss things that are happening, how to effect change, and make a difference in your work world.

Build SPFx solutions using Dynamic Data that engage users

With the introduction of dynamic data into SharePoint Framework, we are now able to build solutions that can interact with either first party or custom data sources. Bringing this world of connected web parts back to SharePoint and enabling a wide range of solutions to the hands of developers and unlocking scenarios for our portals. In this session learn how to build a SPFx solution using Dynamic Data and follow the patterns of the out of the box solutions from Microsoft as your design guidebook. 

Cathy Dew

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

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