Blue Plate Special: Sunny Day Real Estate
Born in the shadow of Seattle’s grunge explosion, Sunny Day Real Estate emerged in 1992 as something altogether different. While the Pacific Northwest was...
CollabTalk Podcast | Episode 187 with Peter Ward
In Episode 187 of the CollabTalk Podcast we discuss the growing gap between what organizations see in Microsoft Copilot demos and what is...
Nothing in Technology Is Free: The Hidden Cost of Vibe Coding
We’ve all heard the saying that if a product is free, you’re probably the product. We understand this instinctively when it comes to social...
Agent Sprawl Is the New Shadow IT
Shadow IT never fully goes away. Instead, it evolves. Fifteen years ago, I was writing about employees were expensing Dropbox accounts, syncing SharePoint libraries...
Content Strategy: Short-Form as Signal
Here’s a topic that I’ve been discussing at length with fellow MVPs and content creators: The rise of short-form content has created a false...
Blue Plate Special: Blancmange
Emerging from the gray edges of post-punk London in 1979, Blancmange arrived like a transmission from a stranger, equal parts art-school experiment and electronic...
5 Unrealized Quality-of-Life Demands from Microsoft Users
We live in an era of tech development where it feels like every single software update is chasing the next shiny object. Companies throw...
Your Organization Has an AI Strategy. Does It Have a New Operating Model?
There’s a pattern playing out in enterprise technology right now that should feel familiar, because it has happened before. Organizations acquire the new capability,...
Three Governance Questions Every Enterprise Needs to Answer About Agentic AI
I sat down recently with podcast host Mirko Peters earlier today for a conversation about Microsoft 365 governance, and the discussion kept circling back...
Project Failure Files: Pushing Back on Reporting Overload
In Episode 91 of the Project Failure Files weekly webcast, Sharon and I discuss “Drowning in Reports” and the slow creep where project teams spend...
