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The Future of Microsoft and What 2023 Has in Store for You
The new year is upon us, and technology advances at such high speeds that it's hard to keep up! Well, that's where we come in to give you an exclusive summary of the most exciting thing coming from Microsoft in 2023 to ensure that you're [...]
How to stay productive during winter | Beat those winter blues
You wake up, grab your coffee and throw a blanket over your shoulders. You turn on your screen to tackle the day, but the cloudy weather makes it tough to focus. You feel drowsy, and ideas aren't flowing. What spell has taken hold of your [...]
Microsoft Teams Meeting Rooms: Optimized for Hybrid Work
How would you grade your company conference rooms? Hint: you need much more than four walls and a table to receive a high grade. These days, it’s important to think about the people who are NOT in the room just as much, if not more, than [...]
Microsoft Places – A Reinvention of the Workplace
It's hard to remember a time when everyone worked in-office, and we could just pop over to our work-bestie's desk for a quick chat. The reality is our environment is now a hybrid-first world, and this new work experience is one that many of us [...]
Connect Your Team | Microsoft Places
“We need to recognize that the role of the office has changed and people come in for each other to rebuild team bonds. To make the office worth the commute, employees need a “why” and it turns out that “why” is each other” - Jared [...]
An Eternal, Perfect Hair Day | Mesh Avatars Coming to Teams
Let's face it; sometimes, we don't want to show our faces. We all have those days where we're simply not in the mood to do our makeup, brush our hair, or even change out of our pajamas, but that doesn't mean that we don't want [...]
Merrier Meetings | Pop-out Shared Content in Teams
On the 10th day of Teams, Microsoft gave to thee. A pop-out window in a Teams meeting! Microsoft is constantly evolving the Teams platform, and one of the latest updates is truly a gift of productivity. The Pop-out feature now allows us to [...]
Corp Comm’s Little Helper | Viva Amplify
The best way to spread cheer is by Amplifying your message for all to hear! Disseminating crucial information to your Team is no easy feat. Virtual communication faces many challenges — messages can be lost in translation, misunderstood, or not read at all. Leadership [...]
More Isn’t Always Merrier | Chat With Yourself
We've got some gifts we think you'll find quite grand, to help guide you to Teams wonderland. 12 tips & tricks delivered with glee, we'll help you use Teams most optimally. Our topic for today is the "chat with yourself" feature on Microsoft [...]
Checking Your Pulse in 2023 | Viva Pulse
The holidays are a time to reconnect with loved ones and get a pulse on those we hold dear. But we could all be better at keeping in touch throughout the year. It's equally important to keep a pulse on your team. The Great Resignation [...]
What Is Viva Sales and How Can It Transform Your Business?
Microsoft Viva—a platform built and designed for the hybrid era— empowers employees to interact, stay connected, and work toward common goals to ensure long-term success. Composed of modules for the masses spanning four key pillars (Connection, Insight, Purpose, and Growth), Viva is now adding modules [...]
What is Viva Amplify?
In today's quickly growing hybrid era, it can be quite challenging to not only be heard by others but also be truly listened to. While many of us feel like we're simply screaming into the void, finding the proper channels, messaging, and timing are essential [...]
Everything You Need to Know About People in Viva
Our teams are full of talent, and we're all working amongst people with skills we never knew they had. Does your developer have a knack for design, or is your Graphic Designer secretly an excel wiz? Tapping into that talent enigma is a challenge. So [...]
The Ultimate Guide to Microsoft Forms
Microsoft Forms empowers all users with the tools they need to gather and review important insights, no matter their level of code-savviness. Here at Creospark, we’ve been Microsoft Forms fans from day 1 of the preview. We leverage the tool in nearly all departments and have found [...]
Microsoft Ignite’s Hybrid Office Recap
Microsoft Ignite 2022 was full of exciting updates and inspiring stories, leaving us with a lot to digest! If you didn't get the chance to attend or still reeling from information overload, put your worries aside because this recap will deliver you all the essential [...]
Prevent Microsoft 365 Teams Sprawl
Microsoft Teams is an intuitive, user-friendly chat-based app within Microsoft 365 that makes digital collaboration a breeze. In fact, it’s so user-friendly that anyone can create a new Team and get a group of users working together in no time. While creative freedom seems promising, we’ve found this [...]
Microsoft Ignite 2022: Creospark’s Session Picks
Registration for Microsoft Ignite 2022 is now available! The annual developer and IT conference for Microsoft will be held virtually and in-person from October 12th-14th. There are 818 sessions to assist you with discovering the newest technologies, gaining knowledge from industry experts, developing your talents, [...]
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 [...]
Foster empathy in your team by ending your Teams meetings 5 minutes earlier
Since the move to the cloud and the adoption of a hybrid office for remote work, we have found that there are days where we get back to back to back to back meetings. This leaves no time for washroom breaks, snack breaks, catch up [...]
Team engagement in a remote environment using Microsoft Teams
We now know that we’re capable of working remotely, and I think it’s fair to say that we have gotten pretty used to it, whether we wanted to or not! It has been such a long time! Seeing so many organizations adopt remote work simultaneously surely brought a lot of questions: are you [...]
