Christian Buckley
RD+MVP | Award-Winning Product Marketer & Tech Evangelist | Board @TekkiGurus | #CollabTalk podcast + tweetjam
Lehi, Utah, United States
Christian is an award-winning product marketer and technology evangelist, and both a Microsoft Regional Director (RD) and Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Christian's 30-year tech career has included Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Evangelist for several leading SharePoint ISVs, and he was part of the Microsoft team that launched the hosted SharePoint platform in Office 365. He has worked with some of the world’s largest technology companies to build and deploy social, collaboration, and supply chain solutions, and sold his first software startup to Rational Software in 2001. Co-author of books on both SharePoint and software configuration management (SCM), Christian is one of the most widely published names within the Microsoft ecosystem, and can be found online at www.buckleyplanet.com and @buckleyplanet
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How to Winter-Proof Your M365 Tenant
In this session, we delve into comprehensive strategies and practical solutions to secure and optimize your Microsoft 365 tenant for seamless performance throughout the winter season and beyond. We'll discuss how to:
1) Declutter your Microsoft 365 Tenant
2) Optimize Microsoft 365 Costs
3) Automate Operational Processes
4) Manage Access and Permissions
5) Establish Teams and SharePoint Provisioning
Join us to empower your organization with knowledge and tools to winter-proof your M365 tenant, ensuring robustness, security, and cost-effectiveness.
Task Management in Microsoft 365
A review of the 3 task mgmt solutions offered by Microsoft, the state of task management across M365 (Teams, SharePoint, To-Do, Outlook), & insight into where tasks are created, integrated & managed.
Five Ways to Jumpstart Internal Comms with AI and Viva
How internal comms teams can leverage the latest Viva Engage, Loop, and Copilot tools to improve communication and productivity & create a more engaged and productive workforce.
As the Hybrid Workplace becomes the norm, more and more organizations are recognizing the need to more thoughtfully design and deliver an end-to-end employee experience (EXP) that touches tools, processes, and people. This session will lay out the elements of a successful EXP strategy. It will share takeaways from industry leaders, provide insights from the latest Work Trend Index study, highlight the latest features within Microsoft Viva, and help your organization better plan and prepare for a sustainable EXP strategy.
Elevate Your Comms: Bridging External Marketing & Internal Strategy in the Digital Era
The line between external marketing and internal communications is blurring. As the dynamics of content consumption change, there's an emergent need for strategic content alignment, ensuring your internal communications resonate as powerfully as your external ones. This session promises not just information but transformation. Strategize, modernize, and revolutionize your content narrative for today's digital age!
Key Takeaways:
+Aligning Internal & External Strategies: Discover how to seamlessly integrate your internal content approach with the dynamism of external marketing strategies.
+Community Insights with Viva Engage: Leverage social collaboration and community-building to foster a more connected, engaged workforce.
+Master the art of content distribution through Teams, SharePoint, Engage, and Outlook with the revolutionary Viva Amplify.
+Get a hands-on introduction to transformative AI tools and discover how they can refine and redefine your content narrative.
Who Should Attend?
+Internal Communications Personnel striving for impactful resonance.
+Marketing Professionals aiming to bridge external and internal content strategies.
+People Managers looking to optimize team engagement and collaboration.
20 Microsoft 365 Productivity Tips
In this fun and informative session, Christian will share 20 of his favorite Microsoft 365 productivity tips, with a focus on personal productivity.
Everything You Need to Know About Tasks in Microsoft 365
Microsoft is integrating the various task-based capabilities within the M365 ecosystem, creating a consolidated user experience. We're not 100% there yet, but for project managers and task-driven stakeholders, it is important to understand what is available today, how tasks communicate (and don't communicate) with each other across workloads, and where Microsoft is going in the future. This session is a review of task management across the entire Microsoft 365 landscape (Teams, SharePoint, To-Do, Planner, Project, Azure DevOps, Outlook, and more) to help you understand where tasks are created, integrated, and managed end-to-end.
10 Essentials for Effective Teams Governance
Microsoft Teams is the fastest-growing product in Microsoft history, providing a powerful platform for collaboration and communication. However, because Teams was built on the backs of two leading workloads: SharePoint and Exchange, managing the security, compliance, and governance of Teams comes with some additional complexity. In this session, we'll walk through 10 essentials for effective Teams governance to help you 'know where to go' to meet your organizational requirements.
Understanding the Employee Experience (EXP)
As the Hybrid Workplace becomes the norm, more and more organizations are recognizing the need to more thoughtfully design and deliver an end-to-end employee experience (EXP) that touches tools, processes, and people. This session will lay out the elements of a successful EXP strategy. It will share takeaways from industry leaders, provide insights from the latest Work Trend Index study, highlight the latest features within Microsoft Viva, and help your organization better plan and prepare for a sustainable EXP strategy.
Maximizing Your Personal Productivity in Microsoft Teams
While Microsoft 365 adoption continues to grow, some organizations struggle to get employees past the email and OneDrive basics. Microsoft Teams is a great way to focus your collaboration efforts, giving you and your project teams the flexible features they need to get work done, while providing administrators with the security and governance controls required by the business. This session introduces a number of productivity features that will have an immediate effect on your personal productivity, improving overall adoption and engagement.
KEYNOTE: Making Change "Stick"
Increasingly, organizations are thinking about and thoughtfully planning out their employee experience (EXP) strategy. While it's great that so many companies are thinking about adoption, engagement, and the health and well-being of employees, making organizational change "stick" remains difficult. In this keynote, Christian will share four ingredients required for lasting organizational change, and make the case for identifying change agents or "champions" within the digital workplace to implement real change.
10 Essentials for Effective Teams Governance
Microsoft Teams is the fastest-growing product in Microsoft history, providing a powerful platform for collaboration and communication. However, because Teams was built on the backs of two leading workloads: SharePoint and Exchange, managing the security, compliance, and governance of Teams comes with some additional complexity. In this session, we'll walk through 10 essentials for effective Teams governance to help you 'know where to go' to meet your organizational requirements.
20 Office 365 Productivity Tips that You've Probably Never Used (But Should)
Sometimes you attend sessions that cover deep and complex topics that require a lot of attention, thought, and work on the part of the attendee… and then there is this one.
In this fun and informative session, Christian Buckley will present his favorite Office 365 Productivity tips. The tips shared will focus on personal productivity, spanning the entire Office 365 platform (Microsoft Teams, Yammer, SharePoint, Office apps, etc).
Attendees should walk away with two or three gems that could change the way they work on a daily basis. A one-minute tip could end up saving you hours of effort, making this session well worth your time.
How Organizations Can Prepare for Microsoft Viva
As organizations investigate the Microsoft Viva offerings and begin to develop their own Employee Experience strategies, one common questions is: What can I do today to prepare for these new solutions?
In this session, we'll cover the 4 business areas of Microsoft Viva (Culture & Communications, Productivity & Wellbeing, Knowledge & Expertise, Skilling & Growth) and their current (pre-Viva deployment) state, and what can/should be done to prepare for Viva. In addition, we'll walk through the customer and partner resources available to organizations to help you develop a comprehensive strategy.
Do I Use Planner, Project Online, or Azure DevOps?
A review of the 3 primary project and task management platforms offered by Microsoft. We'll take a look at Microsoft's efforts to integrate the various task-based capabilities within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, reviewing what is available today, how tasks communicate (and don't communicate) across workloads, and where Microsoft is going in the future. This session will review these three specific solutions, as well as the current state of task management across the entire Microsoft 365 landscape (Teams, SharePoint, To-Do, Outlook, and more) to help you understand where tasks are created, integrated, and managed end-to-end.
Teams10X - Sep 28-29, 2022 Sessionize Event
Microsoft Teams Day Online 4 Sessionize Event
The North American Collaboration Summit 2021 Sessionize Event
Christian Buckley
RD+MVP | Award-Winning Product Marketer & Tech Evangelist | Board @TekkiGurus | #CollabTalk podcast + tweetjam
Lehi, Utah, United States
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