Welcome to the Microsoft 365 Strategies For Internal Communications conference. In this fast-paced forum, you'll get to know your fellow peers, their biggest internal communications challenges, and a few fun facts.

When it comes to new ways of working, Prime Therapeutics was on the leading edge. We rapidly transitioned to remote work at the start of the pandemic in 2020. When offices reopened, our hybrid approach met employees’ needs for flexibility and connection. In today’s complex health care system, helping people get the medicine they need demands a variety of digital tools . M365 was that driving transformation.

You’ll learn:

• How we harnessed M365 tools to respond to world events
• Change management principles that build employee awareness and motivation for M365
• How to increase employee engagement by using the tools to tell the story

Comcast's digital workplace is evolving into a very engaging platform on SharePoint and enables employees to be at the forefront of the experience.

In this presentation you will discover:

• How to create design for modern SharePoint
• What channels support employee engagement and company culture
• How to give employees a space regardless of their location and how to make digital experience personal

You can drive a fully-engaged employee experience with Yammer at the center. But as communicators, we’re often unsure which tool to use when across O365, or even how to best use Yammer. With the advent of Viva as well, you’ll learn how Yammer plays a key part in your integrated employee experience and ensures you have a connected work culture.

In this session you will learn:

• Which tool to use when with Yammer and Teams
• How a great Yammer network will set you up for a great Viva experience
• What are the key requirements to drive a great Yammer network

In this presentation, Jamie Stokes will share the unique features of Cox Communications’ intranet and share her innovative approaches for how to sustain a large enterprise intranet with employees spread across the country:

• How do you use analytics to keep content engaging?
• How do keep search clean and relevant?
• How do you continue to building new engagement features?

Jamie manages all digital channels for internal communications across the company including the enterprise portal, video production and streaming and mass communications messaging. She helped spearhead the redesign of Cox Communications’ enterprise-wide social intranet including a fully integrated HR system tying together SharePoint Online, PeopleSoft and Oracle into one seamless user experience.

You will learn how CBN uses Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Microsoft 365 to:

• Communicate important information across the organization
• Collaborate across departments to break down silos and improve productivity
• Improve morale through Teams by spotlighting excellence

Grant County Public Utility District transitioned from an onsite environment to O365 by using all of the tools in the Microsoft Tool Box—plus Sharegate to help move to the cloud.  Their biggest challenges were moving 4500 InfoPath forms and workflows to the Power Platform and migrating 500+ sites into SharePoint Online—all the while ensuring the tightest security around their CIP data.

Hear how they accomplished this and how they are changing the PUD one app at a time.

Topics covered:

• Engaging Stakeholder in project involvement and adoption
• Early adoption from Excel Spreadsheets into O365 and Power Apps and Power Automate
• Migration tips and tricks
• Continued engagement with departments to simplify process improvement using Power Automate

In this "no-pressure" setting, you'll be able to ask your most pressing questions and receive honest feedback from your peers.