Archive - The Modern Work Mentor

Lowering Copilot’s entry point

The communication about the entry point for Copilot doesn’t seem to have had the reach Microsoft had hoped for. Organisations are voicing their…

Nov 4, 2023 •

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September 2023

Staying close to your current task

Sep 18, 2023 •

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July 2023

Which Copilot? Explaining the Copilot family tree

Introducing the #CopilotChallenge. Write a prompt using Bing Chat that generates an explanation of what Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Viva Copilot…

Jul 23, 2023 •

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June 2023

What goes around, comes around.

Microsoft Loop and the karma of continuing collaboration

Jun 11, 2023 •

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February 2023

Microsoft Loop components in Word Online and Microsoft Whiteboard

Loop components are our places of portable productivity. We create components and add different Loop blocks to suit our collaborative purposes. Then we…

Feb 11, 2023 •

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Micro-productive moments in the flow of work

I use Microsoft 365 applications for most of my work. Many of my conversations are held in Microsoft Teams chat and channels. Chat is a frequent source…

Feb 5, 2023 •

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December 2022

Microsoft Loop components and atomic collaboration

Do you remember when Microsoft Loop components were described as atomic units of productivity? Well, I think it was secretly a genius description. I…

Dec 22, 2022 •

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At your service

Dear reader. I am Darrell ‘as a Service’ Webster, at your service. You might recognise my middle name as coming from a technology background. A cloud…

Dec 16, 2022 •

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September 2022

Stay present in a task

I’m impatient. If I click a button in an application and see a “loading” animation, I find something else to do while I wait. If I have to upload or…

Sep 8, 2022 •

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May 2022

How to access Microsoft Teams meeting chat before, during, and after

When I last wrote about accessing Microsoft Teams meeting chat, I was reflecting on 9 months of restriction and confusion. In 2021, Microsoft changed…

May 30, 2022 •

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March 2022

Microsoft Loop for 1-on-1 meetings and collaboration

Use Microsoft Loop in 1-on-1 meetings and chats. Make it easy to find and add your notes, objectives and action items from previous discussions. The…

Mar 25, 2022 •

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February 2022

Microsoft Loop Components: Reaching people where they are working

I think it was the right strategy to launch Loop as components in a Teams Chat experience first. One of the core tenants of Loop is that you will be…

Feb 25, 2022 •

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