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Microsoft Viva Turns 2!
On the 4th of February 2021, Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft, announced Microsoft Viva, calling it the first employee experience platform, designed to bring tools for employee engagement, learning, wellbeing and knowledge discovery directly into the flow of people’s work. During 2020, the whole world participated in the largest at-scale remote work experiment that we’ve ever seen, and this had a dramatic impact on how we all experienced the world of work. Gone were the days of spending most of our work-week in a physical office, of being able to build serendipitous connections by the watercooler. No longer were new starters automatically guaranteed to be in the office on their first…
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Writing a Great Session Abstract
In previous posts, I’ve talked about getting started with community speaking and how to set up your sessionize profile – today, we’re going to look at how you write a great session abstract. First of all though, it’s helpful to understand why a good session abstract is important. A good session abstract should help you stand out as a speaker when responding to calls for content – it is your opportunity to effectively communicate the unique value and relevance of your proposed session to the conference organizers. A strong abstract can effectively communicate the unique perspectives, insights, and solutions that you will share during the session. It should clearly articulate…