Voicera lands $13.5 million with help from big enterprise investors

It seems that everyone agrees that meetings are a time suck. There have been many attempts to use technology to make it easier to organize and run them, but Voicera, a Bay area startup, is attacking the problem from a different angle. It wants to make … Continue reading Voicera lands $13.5 million with help from big enterprise investors

Cisco Spark Assistant bringing voice commands to meeting hardware

 Anyone who has used modern meeting software knows it’s still fraught with challenges trying to get everyone into the meeting, futzing with the hardware or software and smoothly integrating external documents like PowerPoint presentations. Cisco is trying to improve and simplify the meeting experience with voice commands, and today it introduced Cisco Spark Assistant, a voice… Read More Continue reading Cisco Spark Assistant bringing voice commands to meeting hardware

Schedule Meetings the Easy Way by Using Microsoft FindTime

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you an easier way to schedule meetings using an add-in for Office 365 called FindTime.

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Amazon’s AWS acquired meeting productivity startup Do to expand Chime

A business meeting in a conference room. Amazon has quietly made one more acquisition to build out the productivity services on its cloud platform AWS. The company has acquired Do.com, a startup that had built a platform to make meetings more productive by doing things like managing notes in preparation for them, and creating reports for those who were not there, as well as organising the meetings themselves. Amazon is… Read More Continue reading Amazon’s AWS acquired meeting productivity startup Do to expand Chime

Check out these Official Microsoft Teams Training Materials on the Microsoft Virtual Academy

The Microsoft Virtual Academy now has a training course available to provide an introduction to Microsoft Teams and then information about deploying and managing the collaboration service for your organization.

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Quick Tip: How to Save Chats in Microsoft Teams

A very big part of Microsoft Teams is the ability to have text based conversations in any channel of your teams site. These chats, depending on the subject and intensity of the disucssion, can get very lengthy so being able to mark a specific comment… Continue reading Quick Tip: How to Save Chats in Microsoft Teams

Quick Tip: How to Schedule and Use Meetings in Microsoft Teams

Integral to the setup of Microsoft Teams is the ability to easily create and join meetings through the service. There are options to schedule them or create an impromptu meeting just as if you ran into a colleague at the water cooler.

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