Michael Sampson: Re-Imagining Productive Work with Office 365
by Volker Weber
I have been reading Michael Sampson's new book "Re-Imagining Productive Work with Office 365" for a day now, and I will make this easy for you: if you are dealing with Office 365 in any capacity, whether as a competitor, as a future or current Microsoft customer, as a business user or IT professional, then buy this book immediately. It's only $19 for a single copy.
What are you waiting for?
OK, you want to know why. Here is the deal: while most books would look at the plethora of tools in Office 365 and then describe their features, Michael takes a different route. He tells you how to drive certain opportunities. Example? You want to facilitate discussions. There are three major ways to do that with Office 365: Groups, Yammer, Sharepoint. Michael helps you understand the capabilities and how to put them to work.
I like his style. It's almost scientific in that he backs up his assertions with findings from research and case studies. You can take a look if you are still not convinced.
This book is actually not a book. It's a PDF and it is formatted to be read on a 3:4 screen like the iPad. It's typeset in landscape so that you can also read it on your laptop. Instead of buying a single copy, you can also license it for a team, for your company, or for the world. One way or the other, Michael will find a way for you to compensate him for his work.
If you want more than a book, Michael is also available for consulting. And he has designed a workshop covering the same topic as his book.
Comments
Very delighted to see you liked the book. Thanks for the above.
Great tip Volker, just bought it and already scanned it fast.
I'm going for the full read starting this evening.
Thanks again for the tip!
Frank
If it is as good as it sounds, that is definitely something that was missing. After being with Microsoft myself, everything around O365 felt natural and given. Now I am working in a non-MSFT company that is leveraging O365 as "normal users" coming from an on-premise world of Microsoft collaboration. Oh my, are my colleagues lost - they did not get any help in transitioning to the cloud and the breadth of O365 features makes it even more difficult. I will give the book a try as well!
This sounds very interesting. I am using Office2016 (which is somewhat also Office365) and find that the devil is in the detail - copy / paste a URL from Chrome to Outlook ... paste does not work (Crtl+V) but Edit/Paste and match style does ....
Excel: double click on a tab in the sheet ... you may or may not be able to edit the text.
Modifying a formula ... cursor is not accurately displayed to where the letter that you type will appear.
The whole thing looks much better than the old one, but I have encountered a few more things like that. I know that I have colleagues that go crazy with this type of problems.
And it is a shift to MS. Do not even try to import your OS X adress book with Outlook. Function not forseen. Import neither.
You are standing way too close to a tree to make out a forest, I'm afraid. You are talking bugs, not architecture.
:-)
I have to agree ... just looking at the bugs makes me feel that I would not want to enter the forest. And that is most likely the mistake. I will have a look at the book to see if I can live with the bugs.
Looking at the forrest
Not seeing the falling tree
The funeral was well attended
Thank you for the hint. Ordered it.