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December 2025 Content Wrap-Up

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Aaaaand here we are with the final entry of 2025, wrapping up another year of daily blog posts here on buckleyPLANET plus other content wherever it may be found. I’m going to keep it brief — not because there’s not a lot to summarize, but because I’m recovering from throat surgery this morning and need some sleep.

ESPC25 recognitionWhat’s going on? Well, if I can over-share for a moment, I’ve had some health issues for the past couple of years, and finally got annoyed with it all enough to see some doctors to get things fixed. It’ll be a long recovery, but I’m optimistic that by the time of my next planned travel in March, I should be back to normal. In fact, my goal is to start running again, and by the end of 2026 to have participated in at least one half-marathon. Things went well, I’m already breathing better, and ready for recovery. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be trying to sleep more and just take it easy…which means no travel, and no voiceovers for a few days while I recover. Ok, enough of the over-sharing…

An early 25th birthday for SharePoint at ESPC25As for December’s content, ESPC25 in Dublin, Ireland was fantastic! I had two highly-rated sessions: “From Assessment to Action: Strengthening Microsoft 365 Governance” which had a packed room (200+ easily) and great audience interaction, and “Building Thriving Communities: From User Groups to Large-Scale Events” which received a 10/10 rating, was voted one of the 20 best of show, and the audio is being made available to those who register for the ESPC website. Always my favorite event of the year, and this year was no different. As in years past, I was able to once again participate as a Community Reporter (some of the recordings included below), conduct the post-keynote interview with Jeff Teper, and co-moderate the SharePoint Birthday Party panel alongside Microsoft’s Heather Cook. One other highlight was receiving a special recognition award from the ESPC team for having participated as a speaker at every ESPC since the very first conference, held in Berlin back in 2011. Thank you for the recognition!

Additionally, while at ESPC, I participated in a webinar with fellow MVP Ruben Toribio entitled “Copilot Unlocked: Mastering Prompt Patterns, Agents, and AI Extensibility in Microsoft 365” that you can watch on LinkedIn or YouTube. Post-ESPC, I joined a panel of fellow RDs Stephanie Donahue (Avanade) and Joel Oleson (Sony Interactive) (Suzanne George was not able to join us) for the MN365 User Group to share our Microsoft Ignite 2025 Takeaways, which you can also watch on LinkedIn.

Two other online events this month were the latest Guardians of M365 Governance episode, and finally, the end-of-year CollabTalk TweetJam panel with fellow MVPs Charless Lakes II, Shari Oswald, Adam Ball, Ben Stegink, and our 6th Beatle, Wes Preston. Watch it on LinkedIn.

And here’s the content produced this past month:

From ESPC25 in Dublin

ESPC25 post-keynote interview with Jeff TeperSome of my output from ESPC. More community interviews to be posted by the event team, and I have a couple more keynote summary blog posts that I’ll share in January.

  • Notes from ESPC25 [blog]
  • Why Confident AI Is a Business Problem [blog]
  • [ESPC25 Reporters] Christian Buckley interviews Thomas Gölles [YouTube]
  • [ESPC25 Reporters] Christian Buckley interviews Magnus MÃ¥rtensson [YouTube]
  • [ESPC25 Reporters] Christian Buckley interviews Chirag Patel, Eric Overfield & Jonah Andersson [YouTube]
  • [ESPC Reporters Wrap-up] Christian Buckley interviews Zoe Wilson & Sara Fennah [YouTube]

Articles

Articles on various topics…

  • Five Practical Ways to Be Productive in a Distracted World [blog]
  • What Happened to Klout, and Can We Still Measure Social Media Influence? [blog]
  • Why Change Fails and How Systems Thinking Helps [blog]
  • Takeaways from Microsoft Ignite 2025 [blog]
  • Summary of Guardians of M365 Governance Ep.24 [blog | YouTube]
  • December 2025 CollabTalk TweetJam [LinkedIn | YouTube | Facebook]

Content Strategy

I’ve started compiling my notes and articles into the planned book structure. I’m excited about this one — but it’s more than simply a compilation of the articles I’ve written. Most of these posts have been part of an outline from years back. it’s all coming together…

  • A Look Back (and Forward) at My Content Strategy Series [blog]
  • Content Strategy: Tapping into Adjacent Topics [blog]
  • Content Strategy: Streamlined Storytelling Across the Funnel [blog]
  • Content Strategy: Localized Storytelling for Regional Audiences [blog]
  • Content Strategy: Extending Your Reach with Micro Content [blog]

Project Failure Files

Sharon and I continue to host weekly episodes of PFF every Monday morning at 9am Pacific. And for the first time I’ve started to go back through some of that content to…get this…create new content! The link at the bottom is the first post like this. Had some great feedback on this post. Lots more like this in the future.

  • Project Failure Files: Disengaged and Burnt Out [blog | YouTube]
  • Project Failure Files: Not Learning From Mistakes [blog | YouTube]
  • Project Failure Files: The Festering Sore of Disengagement [blog | YouTube]
  • Project Failure Files: Not Prioritizing Workloads [blog | YouTube]
  • Congratulations, You’re That Boss [blog]

#MVPbuzzChat

Only two interviews this month due to the holidays and a couple of reschedules. No worries. More to come in January.

Articles on AI topics

The ideas for content on the topic of AI continue to roll forth…

  • From Tools to Teams of Humans + Agents [Smarter Consulting]
  • On Hypnagogia, AI, and Letting Ideas Arrive [blog]
  • Copilot Agents: Getting Real Work Done with the Researcher Agent [blog]
  • Why AI Sometimes Gets It Wrong [blog]
  • Digital Transformation in the Age of AI Agents [blog]
  • Turning AI Concerns into Opportunities [blog]
  • Prompting is Becoming a Core Business Skill [blog]

Music

More from my weekly Blue Plate Special series, published every Saturday.

  • Blue Plate Special: Depeche Mode [blog]
  • Blue Plate Special: Kent [blog]
  • Blue Plate Special: Elvis Costello [blog]
  • Blue Plate Special: Big Country [blog]

Personal

I thought it would be nice to talk about the meaning of Christmas.

  • Celebrating Christmas [blog]

And that’s a wrap for 2025. Time for a nap…

Christian Buckley

Christian is a Microsoft Regional Director and M365 MVP (focused on SharePoint, Teams, and Copilot), and an award-winning product marketer and technology evangelist, based in Dallas, Texas. He is a startup advisor and investor, and an independent consultant providing fractional marketing and channel development services for Microsoft partners. He hosts the #CollabTalk Podcast, #ProjectFailureFiles series, Guardians of M365 Governance (#GoM365gov) series, and the Microsoft 365 Ask-Me-Anything (#M365AMA) series.