July 2026 Content Wrap-Up

Here’s the full July 2026 list, organized by category:

Articles on AI Topics

  • Why Easy Isn’t Enough [blog]
  • What Copilot Adoption Actually Looks Like in the Modern Organization [blog]
  • Your AI Training Might Now Be Fundable by Microsoft [blog]
  • Agentic AI Is An Organizational Virus [blog]
  • When AI Challenges Professional Identity [blog]
  • Why AI Is Creating More Writers Than Ever [blog]
  • With Copilot Cowork Generally Available, How Costs Change [blog]
  • Uncertainty is More Expensive Than Change [blog]

Other Articles

  • What Happens When End Users Give Up on Their Own Workflows [blog]
  • Workflow Ownership Is the Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About [blog]
  • The Costs of Automation That Never Make It Into the Budget [blog]
  • Five Signs Your Workflow Has Outgrown Its Platform [blog]
  • A Simple Framework for Deciding When Your Automation Needs More Structure [blog]
  • Good Technology Doesn’t Fix Broken Systems [blog]

Content Strategy

  • Content Strategy: Why Your Best Defense Is Content Nobody Else Can Make [blog]
  • Content Strategy: Let Your Audience Write Your Editorial Calendar [blog]
  • The Guest-to-Creator Feedback Loop [blog]
  • Why Writing Is So Hard for Beginners (And 5 Ways to Make It Easier) [blog]
  • The Brand Foundations Audit: Does Your Identity Still Hold Together? [blog]
  • Stop Trying to Write and Start Collecting [blog]

CollabTalk Podcast

  • CollabTalk Podcast 191 with Len Ward [blog]
  • CollabTalk Podcast 192 with Edwin Choi [blog]

#MVPbuzzChat

  • #MVPbuzzChat 359 with Sergio Sisternes [blog]

Music

  • Blue Plate Special: The Lightning Seeds [blog]
  • Musical Sampler, Volume 1 [blog]
  • Musical Sampler, Volume 2 [blog]

Launching a new User Group….and some Blatant Self-Promotion

  • Introducing #DallasMAC, a User Group Built for How People Actually Learn [blog]
  • Community Doesn’t Just Happen — It Gets Organized [blog]
  • Renewed as Microsoft MVP and RD [blog]
  • Happy Independence Day [blog]

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.