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Which Personal Booking System is Right for You?
Did you know that professionals on average spend 5 hours per week trying to schedule meetings? Personal booking systems are here to help you reclaim your precious time! What are Personal Booking Systems? Personal Booking Systems are platforms that allow you to create and schedule [...]
Intro to Intranet Success Metrics
A lot of effort went into implementing, building, and preparing your digital workspace. Whether you’ve passed a development milestone or are ready to go live today, you’ve come a long way. The next step — measuring your digital workspace's success — requires the same amount of [...]
Viva Engage: What Is It?
Microsoft Viva is Microsoft 365's Employee Experience Platform with a goal to unite communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights in the flow of work. Viva modules are accessed through Teams so that employees are encouraged to be their best selves from anywhere! The latest module [...]
Viva Goals and the Employee Experience—What You Need to Know
Microsoft Viva—dedicated to the employee experience—delivers education, critical company information, and insights right in the flow of work. Now, they're adding a new application to the suite that helps teams achieve their goals more efficiently. Viva Goals’ foundation embraces the OKR framework helping companies align [...]
Viva Dashboard | What is it? How to use it. How to make it your own.
The Viva Dashboard is one of Viva Connections' most powerful yet misunderstood components. The Dashboard pulls the tools your employees need in a quick and easily consumable dashboard that they can access in the office or on the go. Dynamic interactive dashboard cards allow employees to complete simple tasks or review critical data right in the flow of their work.
Microsoft 365 and Office 365 Enterprise: Which plan is best for you?
Choosing a Microsoft plan can be overwhelming. With so many features available it can be daunting to decide which plan has the right mix for our team’s needs. With this post, you’ll be able to clearly identify which plan is the right fit for you! [...]
Office 365: Business or Enterprise?
Microsoft 365, formerly known as Office 365, is an all-in-one package of work-related applications and services. As a cloud-based model, it lets participants use a variety of tools and features to improve their organization’s productivity. Microsoft 365 has three plans: Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Business, [...]
Microsoft 365 Business Premium or Microsoft 365 Enterprise Licenses, which one is for you?
Having an efficient, hybrid work environment with easy-to-use software is one of—if not the biggest—needs in companies today. Harnessing the ability to create distinct types of documents tailored to your specific needs and collaborating with your colleagues gives users the tools they need to complete [...]
An In-Depth SharePoint Version Comparison: 2013, 2016, 2019, SP Online
Need an in-depth comparison between the different versions of SharePoint? You found it! In this article, we will be discussing the features of SharePoint versions 2013, 2016, 2019 and Online. To develop a better understanding between the SharePoint Servers (2013, 2016, 2019) and SharePoint Online, [...]
Microsoft Teams Essential vs Microsoft 365
How do I know which Microsoft product is right for my organization? With different, yet similar products like Microsoft Teams (free), Microsoft Teams Essential, Microsoft 365 Business, and Microsoft 365 Enterprise, it’s no wonder we can get lost in deciding which product is right for us. [...]
The Microsoft 365 Conference
The Microsoft 365 Conference welcomes you back to the community, the learning, and the celebration. We invite you to come to Las Vegas for the largest, in-person gathering of the Microsoft community in the world. The conference embraces Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Sharepoint and Microsoft Power Platform. You’ll meet peers from around the world to share knowledge and experience, and you’ll be guided by dozens of Microsoft product team members and industry experts as you learn what you need to create the inclusive, hybrid workplace of the future. You’ll discover what’s new from Microsoft executives including Jeff Teper and Charles Lamanna. You’ll dive deep into Viva, Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform, Outlook, Yammer and more with Microsoft's product leaders including Karuana Gatimu, Naomi Moneypenny, Mark Kashman and Dan Holme. And you’ll gain real-world insights from Microsoft MVPs, experts and customers. No other event offers the breadth, the depth, and the practical, real-world guidance you’ll find at the Microsoft 365 Conference.
The Dos and Don’ts of Scheduling Microsoft Teams Meetings
Over 500,000 organizations use Microsoft Teams as their primary messaging platform and Microsoft Teams meetings have become a daily occurrence. Whether it is an interview, a conference call, or catching up with a friend, virtual meetings are here to stay. With this comes the expectation [...]
Setting up your design space in PowerPoint
PowerPoint design and presentations have been a major part of most of our work lives for quite some time now. However, not everyone is leveraging this powerful corporate presentation tool to its fullest. For designers, it's often a frustrating environment, where Photoshop and other Adobe [...]
Templates in Microsoft Teams: An Easy Way to Customize Teams in your Organization
Now that workplaces are increasing their online and work-from-home capabilities, Microsoft Teams is an important tool for ensuring information is delivered efficiently and effectively, and your people stay connected. It is hard for some users to understand their tasks, ask questions, and stay focused while [...]
How to Invite Hotmail and Gmail Users to a Microsoft Teams Meeting
Working remotely has been such a pleasure, right? Telecommuting as a concept has had a positive impact on the business environment, allowing organizations and their employees to be productive in remote locations. While the benefits of telecommuting are unprecedented and significant, working remotely has also [...]
Creospark welcomes Daniel Glenn as Senior Director of Hybrid Office and U.S. Delivery
2021 has been an unprecedented year of growth for both our Cloudspark and Creospark team. 31 news clients found their way into our Spark family. Eight new permanent employees have enriched our team. Almost 20 new co-op students discovered what it’s like working for a [...]
Hybrid office, process transformation and secure cloud: what it means at Creospark
If you’ve been keeping up with us for a while, you probably know what we’re all about. If you don’t - that’s ok, we’ll cut you some slack (just this one time). At Creospark, we like to think of ourselves as an organization that [...]
Microsoft Ignite 2021 Recap
Another year is ending, and this means that Microsoft Ignite has taken place yet again. Microsoft Ignite is Microsoft’s 3-5days annual conference where you can attend presentations, whiteboard sessions, and hands-on labs around Microsoft technologies. Networking is also a large element of this conference, where individuals can meet with Microsoft experts, [...]
Microsoft 365 Office features to empower your hybrid office
Let’s start by thinking back on the massive shifts that have hit the work environment in the last year and a half and forced us all into a business transformation frenzy that we call the hybrid office, shall we? Traditional work habits were put [...]
