PEOPLE / KNOWLEDGE / MOMENTUM
A lot of the public trail exists because I learned in communities and then tried to return the favour.
Microsoft’s Reconnect profile records four MVP awards and my time leading the North West SharePoint User Group UK community, including communications and the group’s Yammer network.
That period involved local meetings, national events, travel, conference sessions and a lot of conversations with people trying to solve similar enterprise problems in very different organisations.
Talk about the problem. Show the thing. Have somebody tell you where it breaks. Improve it. Repeat.
A Flow demo on Microsoft’s SharePoint Patterns & Practices development call, alongside engineering updates and community discussion.
A session in Microsoft’s online Flow Conference programme on using Flow as middleware for PowerApps.
Recorded sessions across Teams, Power Apps, Power Automate and Microsoft 365, plus longer workshops built around real solutions rather than feature tours.
The series covered remote work, employee wellbeing, education, communities, development, Power Platform, charities and life after lockdown. Guests included people from Microsoft, Deloitte, Avanade and the wider technical community.
A practical employee-directory build using Power Apps and Dataverse. The surviving course page includes feedback specifically about going beyond the obvious “simple” version and exploring more of what the platform could do.
A longer-form solution build using SharePoint, Power Apps and Power Automate: data modelling, security choices, approvals, notifications and application UI. Less “here is a connector” and more “here is how the pieces become a system.”
The best technical communities are not audiences. They are distributed debugging sessions with better coffee.