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Lonya French

Lonya French

Intranet and enterprise social media professional. Connecting people, information & expertise in a digital workplace to drive business forward.

New York City, New York, United States

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I am passionate about helping others learn new ways of working via digital communication channels. I am a community manager of Yammer communities, technology evangelist, Office 365 adoption specialist and a Microsoft Office Servers & Services MVP since 2016. I help colleagues connect and collaborate, through our digital workplace, to find and access the information and resources they need to do their jobs while staying connected to the culture and informed about company strategy.

Area of Expertise

  • Business & Management
  • Finance & Banking
  • Media & Information

Topics

  • Collaboration
  • Social Intranet
  • Enterprise Social
  • Innovation
  • Digital Workplace
  • Office 365 Office 365 Governance Microsoft Teams SharePoint
  • Yammer
  • SharePoint Online
  • Microsoft MVP
  • Microsoft Stream
  • Internal Communications
  • workplace strategy
  • Women in Technology
  • Digital Transformation
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Modern Sharepoint Intranets
  • Enterprise Social Media
  • Viva Engage
  • Microsoft Viva
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning

Supporting a Mobile Workforce with the Office 365 Collaboration Suite

Engaging teams that aren’t always in person, at the same location can be challenging. Now, more than ever, the digital workplace includes people in different time zones, using different technologies and with preferred ways of staying connected. In this session, you will hear first-hand how to leverages tools in the Office 365 Collaboration suite (Yammer, Microsoft Stream, SharePoint and more!) to:
• Creating connections regardless of work arrangement
• Building community and inclusion among a dispersed workforce
• Managing organization change by fostering collaboration, two-way dialogue at all levels
• Enable knowledge sharing and ideation

Enterprise Social Collaboration Case Study: Building Connections, Expertise and Improving Business P

Many companies are adopting enterprise social networks, like Yammer, as part of a strategic plan to increase productivity, foster a more inclusive, transparent culture and promote innovation through the sharing of knowledge and ideas. Hear how you can drive culture change and support employee engagement through enterprise social network adoption. In this session, learn how to:
• Enhance team collaboration and project management
• Connect employees to knowledge, expertise to increase productivity
• Get buy-in, engagement and participation from executive leadership
• Sharing and measuring successes
You will leave this session with practical advice and insights to get your organization started on or to enhancing your social business strategy.

Building business value, knowledge sharing, and leadership with Yammer communities

When we encourage, expect and recognize social and collaborative behavior enabled through Yammer communities we build trust; develop, model and embed new ways of working; foster a culture of agility and innovation; invigorate a knowledge culture; and provide exceptional client service. Internal social collaboration is built on the genuine engagement and interaction one has with peers. That engagement draws on transparency, open dialogue and insightful communication to generate value to the person and the organization.

Come learn more about how to apply purpose, community management principles and metrics that are generating tangible business value demonstrating how colleagues work more effectively together. You can use this to deliver exceptional client service and develop a culture of helpfulness where each of us is more engaged and more connected to each other and the work we do every day.

SharePoint Saturday New England 2019 Sessionize Event

October 2019

Lonya French

Intranet and enterprise social media professional. Connecting people, information & expertise in a digital workplace to drive business forward.

New York City, New York, United States

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