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Make PowerPoint Enhance Your Presentation Don't be a PowerPoint Fool Episode 202 (Ellen is based in Iowa) In this conversation with Ellen Finkelstein we explore: Common mistakes to avoid when presenting with PowerPoint How to take a more productive approach to your presentation How your words, slides and delivery contribute to your success Why text on your slides stop people from listening How non-designers can create attractive slides The importance of practicing your presentation Your secret helpers - Text Pane and Presenter View Guidelines and tests for effective slide design How to fix boring slides About our Guest Ellen Finkelstein: She's a PowerPoint MVP and has been one since 2010. That's a Microsoft award and it stands for Most Valuable Professional. There are only 18 in the United States. Ellen has been training and writing about PowerPoint since before 1999, including several books (written quite a while ago) and her PowerPoint Tip blog. She isn't a designer so she loves to help non-designers create great PowerPoint slides that communicate clearly, command attention, and help the audience understand and remember the message. ----- The Techniques that Will Make Designing Your Slides EASY!" https://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/pptblog/getstarted/ ----- And so that's what how you have to write the content. And I do recommend doing that outside of PowerPoint and it's thinking about what you're saying. So number two, I'll just go really quickly on the slide poor but everybody knows what death by PowerPoint is there's just lots and lots of text on a slide, slide after slide of text. There's a fair amount of research that shows that we can't listen and look at the same time. That research is why there are some states that have laws against even being on the phone while you're you're listening to someone and talking to somebody while you're driving. Okay, because you can't really listen and see at the same time, probably what the person is saying on the phone is a lot more interesting than what's in front of you. So when you put up a slide with a lot of text, people start to read it, we're more visual, the part of the brain that that takes in visual information is much bigger than the part that takes an auditory information. People read it, but they can read faster than you could speak. So they read ahead of you, they're not listening. And then when they're finished, they go back to listening to you. And they see that, oh, I've already read that. So why should I pay attention to the speaker? ----- That image should help people understand and remember what you are saying. ----- I mentioned that presenters screen which functions a little bit like a teleprompter, and so the audience doesn't see it, you see your notes that you've put in the Text Pane, but they just see the slides. ----- Never make text move. So don't make text fly in or fly up. It's almost always annoying to the audience. Because as the text is flying in, they see it and trying to read it, but it's moving. It gives people a headache. It's not nice to the audience to do that. So I would say I almost always use either appear or fade, if I'm using it on text, you know, it doesn't move at all. ----- ----more---- Your Intended Message is the podcast about how you can boost your career and business success by honing your communication skills. We'll examine the aspects of how we communicate one-to-one, one to few and one to many – plus that important conversation, one to self. In these interviews we will explore presentation skills, public speaking, conversation, persuasion, negotiation, sales conversations, marketing, team meetings, social media, branding, self talk and more.   Your host is George Torok George is a specialist in communication skills. Especially presentation. He's fascinated by the links between communication and influencing behaviors. He delivers training and coaching programs to help leaders and promising professionals deliver the intended message for greater success.   Connect with George www.SpeechCoachforExecutives.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgetorokpresentations/ https://www.youtube.com/user/presentationskills https://www.instagram.com/georgetorok/

Using API Tech to Track Audiences Rocco Baldassarre, Zebra Advertisement   – The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 926 Rocco Baldassarre Rocco Baldassarre is best known as the Founder of Zebra Advertisement. As the CEO and public face of the company, his main responsibility lies with consulting clients to develop customized advertisement strategies. Rocco was awarded Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional for his consulting work for Bing Ads and The Forbes 30 under 30 for Marketing and Advertising. He is the youngest person and only marketer to ever be awarded. His digital marketing agency manages $2 Billion in Ad Spend and is a three time Google Partners All Stars Winner and Stevie Award Winner. Clients include Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yellow Pages, Thomson Reuters, and among many others.   Listen to this informative Sharkpreneur episode with Rocco Baldassarre about using API tech to track audiences. Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show: - How you can't be a good marketer unless you understand what works for your company. - Why you need to be financially invested in a company to learn how good marketing works. - How Zebra Advertisement looks at your whole business to help market and scale it. - Why you shouldn't hire a marketer who only does campaigns. - How understanding what goes on in your company will make you an effective marketer.   Connect with Rocco: Guest Contact Info Twitter @TheZebraTeam Instagram @zebraadvertisement Facebook facebook.com/ZebraAdvertisement LinkedIn linkedin.com/company/zebra-advertisement   Links Mentioned: zebraadvertisement.com   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you familiar with what a bit of mindfulness can bring you?Well, there is a method called the Mindful Coach Method that helps people gracefully and powerfully reconnect to their somatic experience at the moment and re-identify as their core selves, not the selves they've become, to meet societal demands.Great power comes with being present in your life, and today we will bring that power back into your life.Join the interview with Michael Rearden and Brett Hill as they discuss the mindful coach method and how to be more present.ABOUT MY GUESTAfter graduating with a degree in interpersonal communication, Brett Hill became a technology expert with a distinguished technical career. He presented at technical conferences worldwide for companies like Microsoft, authored books, and was awarded Microsoft's distinguished “Most Valuable Professional” award for 9 years.Brett's true passion through this time was not only “inner work.” but also teach teaching mindfulness and meditation in many forms. He studied Hakomi, a mindfulness-based somatic psychology, with founder Ron Kurtz and trained in group leadership under the guidance of Amina Knowlan, creator of Matrix Leadership. In addition, he taught beginning and advanced meditation for several years at the Lotus Center in Okla. City and established the Quest Institute meditation center in Dallas. He has a few meditations online and creates custom recordings for clients' needs.Brett is on a mission in his work as a coach, teacher, speaker, and author to help people be more present and connected to their authentic voice and the world itself.  He specializes in mindful communications and coach training so we can connect authentically, speak truly, and listen deeply. ​Make sure to LIKE, COMMENT, SUBSCRIBE/FOLLOW, & SHARE this video.Brett HillWebsite: https://bretthill.coach/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mindfulguy/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brett.hill.391/Twitter: https://twitter.com/bretthillInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/brett.w.hill/_________________________________________________________________________Michael ReardenWebsite: www.Revenconcepts.comReview & Follow The Podcast On Your Favorite App: https://coachinginsession.buzzsprout.com/Support the Podcast: Paypal, Cash AppInterested in working with me? - Membership PlansEmail Me: Coachinginsession@gmail.com#mindfulcoachmethod#mindfulcoach#somanticexperience#coaches#coachingSupport the show

Brett Hill states, "I believe passionately that mindful communication can help people and help the world become a better place." After graduating with a degree in interpersonal communication, Brett Hill become a technology expert and created a distinguished technical career He has presented at technical conferences worldwide for companies like Microsoft, has written hundreds of published articles, and was awarded Microsoft's distinguished "Most Valuable Professional" award for 9 years. But alongside that career, Brett's true passion was studying, practicing, and teaching mindfulness and meditation in many forms. He studied Hakomi, a mindfulness-based somatic psychology with founder Ron Kurtz and he also trained as a facilitator in Matrix Leadership group dynamics with founder Amina Knowlan. He taught beginning and advance meditation at the Lotus Center in Okla City and went on to establish the Quest institute meditation center in Dallas. He currently teaches meditation at BeMeditation in Seattle. He credits much of his professional success in the corporate world to the skills and tools he picked up from the mindfulness world. He says "mindfulness has helped in every aspect of my professional and personal life. I believe passionately, it's the most important skill a person can develop as it can transform not only your life, but the world." Eventually, the desire to share the many benefits of mindfulness with others, so that they could live a richer and more powerful life of intention and connection, led to the work he does today as a mindfulness and communications coach, author, and speaker. Join us for Brett's story of how he can navigate this dichotomy of technology and the world of spirituality. You can reach Brett here: https://bretthill.coach/ https://linktr.ee/mindfulguy

Saravana Kumar, the founder of Kovai.co is a techie, a marketer who was ahead of the curve, a and maverick salesperson.Even during his early career, he has done the unthinkable of switching from a product company like Microsoft to consulting company like Accenture. While at Accenture, he continued working with Microsoft products, he spotted gaps that left enterprise clients in the lurch. The techie and entrepreneur in Saravana Kumar built a product to address the challenge and managed to sell it to an enterprise market successfully. All this while working part-time for Fidelity International and moonlighting on his idea during 2 weekdays and the weekend. During the initial days of Kovai.co, Saravana Kumar was able to win 30 enterprise clients clocking in $300k in revenues. Saravana Kumar also had the sales and marketing acumen that made him run content marketing when the term itself was known only to a handful.He built an audience for his idea by writing 600+ articles about the Microsoft BizTalk server which created the initial buzz and demand for the product even before it its launch. This also led to Microsoft recognizing him as the ‘Most Valuable Professional' in BizTalk Server, a credential he has held for the past 15 years.To further build the sales pipeline, he also attended user group events across Europe and succeeded at winning at least 10 leads from every event. As a SaaS brand's leader, Saravana Kumar is also adept at doling out deals that others cannot refuse. A skill that came in handy in building a leadership team consisting of ex-Microsoft employees among many others. Tune into our latest episode where Saravana retraces Kovai.co's journey from being a one-person company to a multi-product SaaS company that is now 250+ people strong.Key take aways:02:13 - Introduction/Who is Saravana Kumar?03:18 - The birth of BizTalk360, the first product04:09 - From London to Kovai (Coimbatore)04:52 - I see. I solve. I sell.07:04 - Leaving Microsoft for a red carpet welcome at Accenture16.56 - Building an audience before the product19:23 -Nuances of  pricing a SaaS product24:56 - The two ingredients that helped couture the enterprise market (blog and events)29:03 - Tracing the growth journey from $100k to $8 Million34:42 -Giving a Microsoft guy a deal he could not refuse36:06 - A Founder's Mindset ingrained since childhood41:47 - Coping with the challenges of a multi-product strategy47:34 - The biggest cost in building a software company49:19 - Acquisitions to fuel business growth52:46 - Building leadership talent from past network58:45 - The Culture DNA of Kovai.co1:02:03 - Kovai.co - The story behind the name1:02:34 -  Kovai Connect - A program to nurture young talent01:03:08 - The next 5-10 years for KovaiKey mentions16:42 - Sarvana Kumar wins recognition for exceptional community leadership - The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Walking buddy becomes the new COO for Kovai.co - SaaS firm Kovai.co appoints Andrew Cloke as new COO1:07:10 Saravana Kumar featured on the cover of the Latka SaaS magazineMicrosoftIIT Madras Stanford University AccentureNational Health Service Fidelity International Biztalk360Serverless360 Andrew Cloke

Brett Hill is a Somatic Mindfulness and Communications Coach  who created The Language of Mindfulness®,  soon to be a book, training, and TEDx talk (2022). He hosts the host of the Language of Mindfulness and Organizational Mindfulness podcast and co-founder of the The Future is Mindful virtual conference on the future of work. Brett is also a published technologist with two Microsoft Press books, having worked as a technical storyteller and international speaker for Microsoft and others. Microsoft named him as a “Most Valuable Professional” for 9 years. But his real passion has been studying and teaching interpersonal communication, meditation, depth psychology and mindfulness. He graduated with a degree in interpersonal communication and moved on to study mindfulness-based somatic psychology and mindful group leadership. He established the Quest institute meditation center in Dallas.  All of this combined with his speaking and teaching experience, has led him to create the Language of Mindfulness - so we can have all amazing, connected conversations, every day.https://www.languageofmindfulness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/brett-with-signature.png Language of Mindfulness website : https://languageofmindfulness.com Podcasthttps://www.languageofmindfulness.com/mindfulness-podcast/ Lead capture page I'd like to reference:How to start a mindfulness meditation practicehttps://languageofmindfulness.com/now Social Media:https://linktr.ee/mindfulguy Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brett.hill.391Facebook LOF page ttps://www.linkedin.com/company/languageofmindfulnessInstagram: Brett.W.Hillhttps://www.instagram.com/brett.w.hill/Linked in personal Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mindfulguy/Linked in company page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/languageofmindfulnessTwitter: @bretthill TikTok: mindfulguyYoutube channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUhl0dcGWVMXsFzlANu4MIAYou can watch it here: https://youtu.be/PBbGUwmGfOoLike and subscribe and follow me on instagram @wakeupwithkcWebsite: https://www.wakeupwithkc.com/Jewelry provided by: Pretty Bling Boutiquehttps://www.facebook.com/prettyblingboutique/Media Manager: Steven Joiner : stevesjnetwork@gmail.comPhone: 816-605-4561Logo created by: Eden Fritz AguiarProducer & Marketing Dir, Clovercrest MediaOpener created by: Zachary LaPlantCMG | Social Media Manager| Chief Video Editor Music is provided by: Just The Way It IsAdrian WaltherSX7PA8K4SYANWVLZ

Show NotesWhenever you're perusing the web, you're likely to come across some new discovery about the benefits of mindfulness —a simple form of meditation that psychologists and neurologists have been studying for decades. Simple, but also powerful — proven to strengthen everything from our relationships to our hearts to our immune systems. And that's just the start. No wonder mediation training is now finding its way into everything from kindergarten classes to boardrooms.Despite its growing popularity and benefits, however, most people don't have a mindfulness practice. So I thought a podcast on the purpose, practices and rewards of mindfulness might help convince more people to give it a try.  To serve as our guide, I contacted Brett Hill, a mindfulness coach who's been studying and teaching mindfulness and other forms of meditation for decades.  It was a rich conversation that I think you'll enjoy. About Brett HillAfter graduating with a degree in interpersonal communication, Brett Hill carved out a distinguished  career in technology, including working for Microsoft Corporation, where he received that company's distinguished "Most Valuable Professional" award for 9 years. But alongside that career, Brett followed his true passion, studying, practicing, and teaching mindfulness and meditation in many forms. He studied Hakomi, a mindfulness-based somatic psychology, with founder Ron Kurtz. He also trained as a facilitator in Matrix Leadership group dynamics with founder Amina Knowlan. He taught beginning and advance meditation at the Lotus Center in Oklahoma City, OK, and went on to establish the Quest institute meditation center in Dallas, TX. Today he shares his expertise in mindful communications as a coach, author, trainer, and speaker at languageofmindfulness.com_________________________For more insights into the art and science of difficult conversations, check out my website. You can also sign up for my free newsletter.

Brett Hill is a Somatic Mindfulness and Communications Coacht who created The Language of Mindfulness®, soon to be a book, training, and TEDx talk (2022). Brett is also a published technologist with two Microsoft Press books, having worked as a technical storyteller and international speaker for Microsoft and others. Microsoft named him as a “Most Valuable Professional” for 9 years. But his real passion has been studying and teaching interpersonal communication, meditation, depth psychology and mindfulness. He graduated with a degree in interpersonal communication and moved on to study Hakomi, a mindfulness-based somatic psychology with founder Ron Kurtz. He also trained as a facilitator in Matrix Leadership group dynamics with founder Amina Knowlan and established the Quest institute meditation center in Dallas. All of this combined with his speaking and teaching experience, has led him to create the Language of Mindfulness - so we can have amazing conversations, every day. brett@languageofmindfulness.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/businesstherapy/support

Welcome to the show! I've got a great guest with me today and we are going to be talking about mindful communication. I talk about communication, especially from the Psychology of the Voice perspective and the literal voice perspective but my guest today is going to add an entirely different level to what you've heard me talk about around using your voice to effective communication. In this episode, Brett and I talk about the ways we don't communicate effectively anymore, how mindfulness plays into effective communication, why we don't communicate from a place of mindfulness and how we can and so much more!   Make sure you sign up for the upcoming Masterclass training Unleash Your Voice!  Our next round starts on August 5th. www.captivatetheroom.com/masterclass    Guest Bio Brett Hill is a Mindfulness and Communications expert who created The Language of Mindfulness®,  soon to be a book, training, and TEDx talk (2021).  Brett is also a published technologist with two Microsoft Press books, having worked as a technical storyteller and international speaker for Microsoft and others. Microsoft named him as a “Most Valuable Professional” for 9 years. But his real passion has been studying and teaching interpersonal communication, meditation, depth psychology, and mindfulness. He graduated with a degree in interpersonal communication and moved on to study Hakomi, a mindfulness-based somatic psychology with founder Ron Kurtz.  He also trained as a facilitator in Matrix Leadership group dynamics with founder Amina Knowlan and established the Quest institute meditation center in Dallas.  All of this combined with his speaking and teaching experience has led him to create the Language of Mindfulness - so we can have amazing conversations, every day. He currently teaches as a meditation instructor at Bemediation.com, hosts the Language of Mindfulness podcast, and is available for coaching, speaking, or training at LangaugeofMindfulness.com   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brett.hill.391 Facebook  Language of Mindfulness page https://www.linkedin.com/company/languageofmindfulness Instagram: Brett.W.Hill Linked in personal Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mindfulguy/ Linked in company page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/languageofmindfulness Twitter: @bretthill  TikTok: mindfulguy Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUhl0dcGWVMXsFzlANu4MIA

Episode 206. The social media events around the January 6th storming of the US Capitol have sparked raging, divisive debates in the US. But the banning of individuals and the deplatforming of apps and groups are not new phenomenons. The Right of Free Speech that is enshrined in the First Amendment to the US Constitution is not limitless. It does have legal boundaries. And private companies, even monopolies, have the legal right to control access to their platforms. But does that make it right? Today, I will wade into this decidedly thorny issue with Troy Hunt, who brings a plethora of global technology and security experience to the debate. Troy Hunt is an Australian Microsoft Regional Director and a Most Valuable Professional awardee for Developer Security. He’s a blogger, international speaker and author of several online courses, and he runs the very valuable internet security service HaveIBeenPwned. Further Info Troy Hunt’s blog on deplatforming: https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-226/ EFF's take: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/05/censorship-cant-be-only-answer-disinformation-online Legal limits of free speech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exceptions Listener survey: https://bit.ly/Firewalls-survey-2021 Patron survey: http://bit.ly/Firewalls-patron-survey-2021

Brett Hill is a Mindfulness Coach who created The Language of Mindfulness, soon to be a book, training, and TEDx talk (2021). He studied Hakomi, a mindfulness-based somatic psychology with founder Ron Kurtz and established the Quest Institute meditation center in Dallas. He also trained as a facilitator in Matrix Leadership group dynamics with founder Amina Knowlan, ecstatic dance with Gabriel Roth, and contact improvisation with Nancy Stark Smith. Brett is also a published technologist having worked as a technical storyteller and international speaker for Microsoft and others. Microsoft named him as a “Most Valuable Professional” for 9 years. Listen & Subscribe on: iTunes / Stitcher / Podbean / Overcast / Spotify Contact Info Website: www.LanguageofMindfulness.com Free Gift from our Guest: 8 Ways To Be More Mindful in Virtual Meetings Most Influential Person Phil Del Prince Senior Trainer and Co-Founder of the Hakomi Institute in Boulder, CO Effect on Emotions Mindfulness has helped me mitigate my negative sides and reinforce and access as a resource, my more positive sides. By helping me be mindful with my emotions, I can go, Oh, I'm having a reactive part and I'm having an empathic, loving presence part. If you're familiar with the story of The Two Wolves; we ask the question, which wolf do I feed? Let's feed the emotional, empathic parts. Not that the other part isn't real and legit. What do I give a voice to? Thoughts on Breathing Mindfulness and breathing are intimately connected for me. My breath is my go-to, ground point. I always say, when you are mindful under stress, you have to practice when you're not. It's so simple, so easy, so uncomplicated to connect breathing and mindfulness. When I find myself getting into an argument, getting angry or upset, the very first thing is, I go to my breath. So simple, just take a pause and inject a space into a ‘too-fast conversation'. Suggested Resources Book: Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn Book: Buddha's Brain by Rick Hanson and Richard Mendius App: Headspace / Calm / Insight Timer Bullying Story I was bullied pretty badly. I could pray for mindfulness on the part of any of the bullies, that's for sure. When I put myself back in the moment, I wasn't feeling very mindful about the things that were going on. I felt very victimized and I didn't have a lot of compassion for people. I feel like I was really missing a mentor to help me reframe things. Related Episodes 469 Evolve Toward Health, Joy, And Wholeness; Laurie Warren 287 Heal Faster With Mindfulness and Electromagnetic Field Therapy; Dr. William Pawluk 146 Separate Emotions From Decision Making Suggests Jeremy Ryan Slate Special Offer from Bruce Have you been trying to lose weight? Are you discouraged? It’s not hopeless. YOU CAN DO IT. I coach ppl just like you. I’m Bruce Langford, a practicing hypnotist, and you will get results with my help! I personally lost 35 pounds and I’ve kept it off. Feel good and look good. Believe it. Go to www.MindfulnessMode.com/weightloss Watch my short video and get 5 Tips on How To Lose Weight For Good. Our Sponsor Use hypnosis to help others stop struggling with their deep rooted issues like weight loss, smoking, painful experiences. Are you a coach or a healer who would love to have new skills to help your clients? Hypnosis can help people reach goals faster and easier than you thought possible. Become a hypnotherapist. The Cascade Hypnosis Center offers world-class training. www.CascadeHypnosisCenter.com

This episode is brought to you by me. If you like this show and want to support it, please visitmy courses on Pluralsight and buy my new book "200 Things Developers Should Know", which is about Programming, Career, Troubleshooting, Dealing with Managers, Health, and much more. You can find my Pluralsight courses and the book at www.developerweeklypodcast.com/About Oren Eini is the CEO of RavenDB, a NoSQL Distributed Database that's Fully Transactional (ACID) both across your database and throughout your database cluster. RavenDB Cloud is the Managed Cloud Service (DBaaS) for easy use.Oren Eini, aka Ayende Rahien, is a frequent blogger at ayende.com. He has over 20 years of experience in software development with a focus on the Microsoft and .NET ecosystem.Oren has been awarded Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional. He's an internationally acclaimed presenter appearing at DevTeach, JAOO, QCon, Oredev, NDC, Yow! and Progressive.NET conferences as well as authoring "Inside RavenDB", published by Hibernating Rhinos.He remains dedicated and focused on architecture and best practices that promote quality software and zero-friction development.Show resources:The RavenDB website https://ravendb.net/Follow Oren on TwitterOren's blogConnect with Oren on LinkedInFallacies of distributed computingLet me know what you think of the show by rating at in your favorite podcast player. You can easily do this by going to https://ratethispodcast.com/developerweekly. 

Moving to a new country. Looking for a new life. A new beginning. The difficulties with a new language. You cannot express yourself properly. You don't have friends and family close by anymore. So hard and at the same time so wonderful. So full of discoveries. Such an adventure! That is what my guest in this episode went through. I spoke with Veronika Kolesnikova. Veronika is a Software Engineer and a Microsoft MVP focusing on AI. MVP means Most Valuable Professional. She moved to Boston in the US in 2013 from Russia. Even though she describes herself as an introvert, she does not shy away from opportunities to present and do public speaking on meetups and conferences. "Challenge myself" that is a recurring line that Veronika kept mentioning during our conversation. The desire to improve herself via public speaking is how she got the Microsoft MVP award. We spoke about career, cultural differences, community, dreams and how Aerial yoga helps her to be a better Software Engineer. Check out in particular the lesson she got from her driving instructor back in Russia. Full show notes and links: https://SoloCoder.com/57

During this mini episode, You, Me, and Your Top Three host and CGS Advisors CEO, Gregg Garrett, speaks with Deborah Parizek, Executive Director of the Henry Ford Learning Institute, regarding the future of education. She addresses how the COVID-19 pandemic has shortened the cycle for change in new education models as well as for disruptive corporate learning and development models. She also shares tips for parents to balance their role as a leader at work, at home and now as an ad hoc educator. About Deborah Parizek A non-profit leader and educator with 25 years of experience in dynamic learning environments, Deborah Parizek drives HFLI’s efforts to provide workshops, programs and site coaching that pair effective education and human-centered design approaches, empowering learners to lead transformational change in, with and for their community. She is known for cultivating the conversations, empathy, and capacity critical to addressing complex challenges. Deborah was recognized by Crain’s Detroit Business in 2018 Notable Women in Nonprofits report, and by Corp! Magazine as a 2019 Most Valuable Professional. Prior to joining HFLI in 2005, Deborah designed and directed extensive teacher leadership development programs for multiple school systems and earned the distinction of Master Teacher from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. She served as one of the founding teachers of Henry Ford Academy in Dearborn, Michigan, helping shape its vision and write curriculum for many of its core components, including the Senior Mastery Process. Deborah earned an M.A. Educational Studies, an M.A. in Chinese Languages and Literature and a B.A. in Chinese and Russian Studies, all from the University of Michigan. A thoughtful champion of Design Thinking’s role in changing how we learn and lead, Deborah is a frequent presenter at national and local events, consistently sharing actionable information with real-life applications. Show Highlights 1:23        A focus on education as parents look to balance their role(s) at work, at home and now as an ad hoc educator 2:25        Deborah Parizek, Executive Director of the Henry Ford Learning Institute 3:40        Education in times of disruption and ambiguity: What should leaders focus on? 5:38        Resiliency or adaptability: How is education changing? 9:09        Disruption to the education system: Will it force other systems to adjust their norms? 13:45      Leader at work, at home and as an ad hoc educator: How do parents balance this new lifestyle? 18:45      Hints at how to educate and prepare people for success as new ways of working emerge Additional Information Contact Deborah Parizek: Parizek’s email   Contact Gregg Garrett: Gregg’s LinkedIn Gregg’s Twitter Gregg’s Bio Contact CGS Advisors: Website LinkedIn Twitter

Today’s guest on this week’s Azure DevOps Podcast is Kendra Little, a DevOps Advocate for Redgate Software and a Microsoft Certified Master in SQL Server. She has trained IT leaders, developers, and database administrators around the world on topics including performance tuning, preventing and managing incidents with business-critical databases, and optimizing operations and the software development cycle. Kendra is also the founder of SQLWorkbooks where she creates online training videos and teaches in-person courses on SQL Server. And one last neat fact about Kendra: she has been awarded the ‘Most Valuable Professional’ award by Microsoft seven times!    Today Kendra and Jeffrey will be discussing database DevOps — which doesn’t get much play in the sea of noise that is DevOps for web applications or backend services! It’s kind of a hard topic, but it’s also where a lot of the magic happens — and Kendra lives in it day-in and day-out! Tune in to get her insight on what database DevOps is, how you should be thinking about it, her views on branching and where it fits into database DevOps, what automating database deployments looks like, and what tools and resources developers should be looking at in regards to database DevOps.   Topics of Discussion: [:36] Be sure to visit AzureDevOps.Show for past episodes and show notes! [:47] Where to get a hold of Jeffrey’s new book, .NET DevOps for Azure. [1:26] About today’s episode and guest. [1:58] Jeffrey welcomes Kendra to the show! [3:26] Kendra shares her background and journey in the industry of software development. [7:22] What is database DevOps? And how should people be thinking about it? [11:00] Where should the DBA be in the process of planning a change in the database code? [15:05] Kendra gives her view on branching and how it fits into database DevOps. [21:23] A word from Azure DevOps Podcast’s sponsor: Clear Measure. [21:49] Kendra describes what automating database deployments — and, if it fails and you have to rollback — looks like. [26:37] If you do write undo scripts, where does that fit in with all the tooling? [33:09] What tools should developers be looking at in regards to database DevOps? And what tips does Kendra have for those just getting started? [39:02] Kendra gives her recommendations on what listeners should first follow-up on after listening to this week’s episode!   Mentioned in this Episode: Azure DevOps Clear Measure (Sponsor) — Reach out to Jeffrey @JeffreyPalermo on Twitter if you have a user group or conference and would like some free copies of .NET DevOps for Azure! .NET DevOps for Azure, by Jeffrey Palermo bit.ly/dotnetdevopsproject Kendra Little (LinkedIn) SQLWorkbooks Redgate Software Redgate’s SQL in the City Summit DevOps Topologies “The Unnecessary Evil of the Shared Development Database,” by Troy Hunt Redgate’s SQL Change Automation Redgate University   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

GUEST BIO: Sonia Cuff helps companies to change business processes to successfully adopt new technologies the right way and to achieve great business results.  Sonia has been awarded Most Valuable Professional by Microsoft in multiple categories and is also an online writer, trainer and speaker. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil’s guest on today’s show is Sonia Cuff. Sonia has been working in the IT industry since 1995, in various roles and was awarded the Most Valuable Professional by Microsoft. For many years, Sonia ran her own business which helped all kinds of businesses to adopt new technology. She is a conference speaker, blogger and author. Today, she works for Microsoft as a cloud advocate. KEY TAKEAWAYS: ­­ (1.02) – So Sonia, can you expand on that brief introduction and tell us a little bit more about yourself? Sonia explains that when she got started in IT, she had to learn everything on the job. In those days she was working on Office 365 and productivity and went on to get involved in virtual CIO consulting, as well. Last year, she joined Microsoft and is now one of their Cloud advocates. In that role she is involved in working with IT communities, helping them to figure out how to make their lives easier. Primarily by showing them how to run the stuff they normally do in a hybrid or cloud scenario. It is a role that she really enjoys. (2.28) –Phil asks Sonia to tell the audience more about her developer advocacy work which is a part of this role. Sonia explains that Microsoft has been running an advocacy program for some years now. They have been reaching out to developers regardless of what language they work with. Their approach is to go to wherever people are programming rather than just stick to working with Microsoft user groups. Her team focuses on interacting with these communities and getting feedback. They want to learn what’s tripping developers up and how Microsoft’s products can be improved. This information is then fed directly back to product engineering. It enables them to improve their products. Importantly, it also identifies new products that need to be developed. Developer advocates take feedback and inspiration from numerous sources including conferences, talks and blogs. (4.43) – Phil asks if that role has given her a new perspective on software development. Sonia says that it has and that she is noticing a lot of common threads between different areas. (5.16) – Phil asks Sonia for a unique IT career tip. Sonia comments that the further she has gotten into her career the more she has realized that the simple things are true. For her “always be learning” is the tip that sticks in her mind. She has tried to do exactly that and feels that taking that approach has really paid dividends for her career. Sonia is not a programmer, but does not let that stop her from working to understand as much as possible. Today, she still can’t write code from scratch, but knows enough to be able to look at something like PowerShell script and understand what it does. Even after 20 years, Sonia still finds herself having to learn new things from scratch. But, she feels comfortable with that. In fact, that is why she loves working in the industry. She enjoys being challenged and the fact that she is always being challenged and learning. (7.00) – Sonia is asked to share her worst career moment with the audience. Sonia starts by explaining that she ended up turning her worst career moment into a talk, which she delivered at Microsoft Ignite, Florida, last year. Her worst moment happened when she was spreading herself too thin. She was so stretched that she seriously considered jumping on a plane, leaving the country and not telling anyone where she had gone, including her family. She knows that she is far from the only IT professional to find themselves reaching breaking point emotionally and mentally, like that. Sonia has also realized that talking about this experience is important because it can help the IT community as a whole. (8.15) – Phil asked what she learned from that situation. Sonia explained that, these days, she ensures that she makes her colleagues and manager aware of her workload. In the IT industry, there is a get things done, no matter what it takes culture, which can sometimes be detrimental and put people under too much pressure. She is also careful to make time for important things outside of work. For example, going to the gym or walking the dog. These two activities help her to switch off from tech, clear her head and get the beneficial endorphins flowing. Basically, doing this helps her to get the work-life balance right. Sonia does not believe you can achieve perfect work-life balance every week. But, you do need to strive to do so over the long term. Inevitably, you will find yourself under pressure some weeks. But, you must make sure that does not go on so long that you do not get time to unwind and take care of your personal life. Phil agrees he has found it to be more about integration. He describes it as being about how you fit all of the pieces of your life together and make it work for you. (10.28) – Phil asks Sonia to share her best career moment. Right now, that was getting the chance to give her speech at Microsoft Ignite. When Sonia gave her talk, the response was extremely positive. She had people coming up to her straight afterwards, in the corridor and talking to her on social media. From there, things have really snowballed. She has travelled to Australia, the USA and head office to talk to different groups about mental health in IT. Microsoft’s response to the issue of mental health problems has been very positive. They have taken it on board and are clearly passionate about helping. The fact that so much has come out of giving just one speech is fantastic. Currently, it is Sonia’s career highlight. Landing her dream job at Microsoft is her second best moment. She still gets a buzz from arriving at a Microsoft office and discovering that her blue badge lets her in the door. It thrills her every time. (12.43) – Phil says that he believes that companies like Microsoft now understand that mental health issues are a problem within the industry. They are taking this more seriously. Sonia agrees, but, thinks some firms are still struggling to reach out to employees and ask them what do we need to do to support you? The problem is that these sorts of conversations still have not been normalized. Also, there is still some stigma surrounding the subject. People need to feel that they can share the fact that they have had a bad week and are under stress with their colleagues. Most people do not do this. Mostly because they feel that they will get a black mark against them for admitting that they are struggling. This is why Sonia believes that it is not enough for the company owners and management to change. Individuals need to do so too. The culture has to be changed one person at a time. Everyone has to be supportive and be open about their issues too. (14.33) – Can you tell us what excites you about the future of the IT industry and careers? Sonia really enjoys the fact that things are always changing, even more so than years ago. She feels that the pace of change has accelerated, drastically. This is especially the case when it comes to Cloud platforms. Today, the platform owners are very much in control. As a result, they can change things whenever they want and do so as often as they want. Sonia says that she is looking forward to seeing more self-healing systems. She believes that in the not too distant future AI will remove a lot of the more mundane tasks. (16.31) – What drew you to a career in IT? Sonia’s path into IT was far from typical, it certainly was not planned. One day, she was asked if she wanted to join the IT department. The guy she was seeing at the time was located there at the time. She ended up saying yes, and discovered she had an aptitude for the work, the rest is history. (16.51) – What is the best career advice you have been given? Strangely, the best career advice Sonia has ever been given was “pace yourself”. It is good to be enthusiastic about your work, but you need to make space for the rest of your life too. (17.24) – If you were to start your IT career again, now, what would you do? Sonia jokes that she kind of feels like she is starting her IT career again, because she is learning so much new stuff, at the moment. But, she goes on to say that she would probably focus on PowerShell and automation, if she was brand new to IT. (17.42) – Phil asks Sonia what new objectives she is focusing on. Sonia is currently trying to work out how to have the most positive impact on the IT community. Currently, she is trying to measure whether blogging, engaging in forums, social media or public speaking is best. (18.09) – What is the number one non-technical skill that has helped you the most in your IT career? Sonia feels that being a parent has helped her the most. This is because you have to deal with the fact your kids do not always want to do what you want them to. So, you have to find ways of persuading them. That means taking the time to explain things to them and you have to be able to do so in a way that they can understand. Being a parent hones all kinds of skills that come in handy for your career. (18.42) – Phil asks Sonia to share a final piece of career advice. Sonia says that you should remember that IT is a big industry. There are so many things you could be doing, within the sector. So, there is no need to be afraid to dip your toe into a different area. There is nothing stopping you from experimenting and changing direction, to see what fits. BEST MOMENTS: (5.26) SONIA – “The further on you get down your career; you realize that the simple things are true.” (6.51) SONIA – “You need to get comfortable with the fact there's there will always be things that you don't know. And that's an exciting part of the industry.” (12.47) PHIL – “Mental health is something that's gaining more visibility. And I think companies such as Microsoft presumably are, taking it more seriously” (19.15) SONIA – “Don't be afraid to dip your toe into a slightly different area of tech, even within the infrastructure area. Just see what fits.” CONTACT SONIA: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SoniaCuff LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/soniacuff/ Website: www.soniacuff.com  

Vangelis(or Vangos) Pterneas, honoured by Microsoft with the title of Most Valuable Professional for his contributions to the technical community and CTO of Kinetisense, explains the impact their product has in motion analysis for patients and clinicians and how they use Microsoft Kinect to accomplish it. Kinetisense is a real-time motion analysis tool for practitioners, physiotherapists and personal trainers. It can analyse the range of motion for the patient’s shoulders, the back, the elbows and the knees allowing the practitioner to understand the improvement (or not) in motion. Kinetisense is useful to clinicians but also to athletes and even dentists, as Vangos explains, due to posture change after dental surgery. He goes on to talk about the rest of the team and the funding the Canadian company has received. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central during the eHealth Forum Festival in Technopolis, October 2016.

Conversamos com a Fernanda Saraiva, líder do programa Microsoft MVP no Brasil, sobre o programa Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional). Com ela Alexandre Chohfi, Giovanni Bassi, Victor Cavalcante e Wennder Santos, todos da Lambda3 e MVPs discutiram o programa, tiraram dúvidas, falaram sobre benefícios e impacto na carreira, e mais. Se você quer conhecer o programa, ouvir casos que aconteceram com MVPs, ou quer saber como ser nomeado um MVP, esse programa é pra você. Troféu do programa MVP Feed do podcast: blog.lambda3.com.br/feed/podcast Feed do podcast somente com episódios técnicos: blog.lambda3.com.br/feed/podcast-tecnico Feed do podcast somente com episódios não técnicos: blog.lambda3.com.br/feed/podcast-nao-tecnico   Pauta: O que eh o programa MVP Historia do Programa MVP Por que você contribui? Como a Microsoft encontra os novos MVPs? Mitos do programa MVP Beneficios de ser um MVP e MVP Summit Impacto de ser um MVP Como ser nomeado MVP? Links Citados: Programa MVP Encontre um MVP MVP Summit Indique um MVP Participantes: Fernanda Saraiva - @FRRSaraiva Alexandre Chohfi - @AlexandreChohfi Giovanni Bassi - @giovannibassi Victor Cavalcante - @vcavalcante Wennder Santos - @wenndersantos Edição: Giovanni Bassi - @giovannibassi Créditos das músicas usadas neste programa: Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 – creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Nous discutons avec Salim Adamon de la plateforme Dynamics CRM. Dynamics CRM est un logiciel de gestion de la relation client développé par Microsoft. Tel quel, le produit se concentre principalement sur le secteur des ventes, du marketing, et du service (help desk), mais Microsoft commercialise Dynamics CRM comme une plateforme de xRM et encourage les partenaires à utiliser son API propriétaire (basé sur Microsoft .NET) pour répondre aux nombreuses exigences de gestion de la relation client. Bio: Consultant en informatique et développeur de solutions avec un intérêt particulier pour les solutions d'entreprise, depuis les quatre dernières années, Salim se concentre sur la conception de solutions basées sur la plateforme Microsoft Dynamics CRM. En 2014, il a reçu la reconnaissance Most Valuable Professional (MVP) de Microsoft. Il a participé à divers projets avec des rôles allant d’architecte à celui d’analyste d'affaires en passant par programmeur Microsoft .Net. Il est passionné de technologies et aime la musique et le sport. Vous pouvez suivre son parcours sur son blog. Liens: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Microsoft Dynamics CRM Community

Nous discutons avec Benjamin Niaulin de ce qui explique le succès de Sharepoint en entreprise. SharePoint est une série de logiciels pour applications Web et portails développée par Microsoft. Les fonctionnalités des produits SharePoint sont la gestion de contenu, les moteurs de recherche, la gestion électronique de documents, les forums, la possibilité de créer des formulaires et des statistiques décisionnelles. Passionné des technologies Microsoft, Benjamin Niaulin aide les gens autour du monde à atteindre leurs objectifs avec la palteforme SharePoint. Il est conseiller au sein de l'équipe GSoft. Munit d’une certification Microsoft Certifié Trainer et plus de 5 ans d’expérience en tant que formateur et présentateur, il adore démystifier SharePoint et le rendre accessible à tous.  A ce titre, en 2013, il a recu la reconnaissance Most Valuable Professional de Microsoft. Nous vous invitons à suivre son blog http://bniaulin.wordpress.com/. Liens Livre: Pro SharePoint 2013 Branding and Responsive Web Development Conférence SharePoint Site: Nothing But Sharepoint Site: Sharepoint Community Actualité: Windows Azure SDK 2.1

Hackeando a los malos con sus propias armas: Chema Alonso es socio fundador de Informática64 y “Most Valuable Professional” de Microsoft en el área de seguridad de la empresa. La ULL no se responsabiliza de las opiniones vertidas en este video.