Azure, JavaScript & PCF: Level Up Social Media Monitoring & Analysis

Azure, JavaScript & PCF: Level Up Social Media Monitoring & Analysis

An immersive, AI enriched social media monitoring and analysis model driven app to monitor any Twitter hashtags or mentions of your choice! Built on the Power Platform, integrated with Azure, leveraging JavaScript & Power Apps Component Framework (PCF), visualised in a Power App!

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VIDEO: When Power Platform and JavaScript worlds collide

VIDEO: When Power Platform and JavaScript worlds collide

Integrating the web platform with Model Driven Apps can seem quite daunting, these platforms can seem so big and complex. Never fear, that's where the Power Platform can help. With a few bits of integration, we can pull data from social media sites, plug it into a web app, enrich the data with Azure powered artificial intelligence and surface the data back up to Model Driven Apps for a user friendly (and enjoyable) social media monitoring.

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VIDEO: Virtual Quizzes (#PPPQ) and Community Engagement with Power Platform

VIDEO: Virtual Quizzes (#PPPQ) and Community Engagement with Power Platform

The story so far on how the virtual Power Platform Pub Quiz initiative #PPPQ is leveraging the power of the platform to run live virtual quiz events featuring trivia questions across the power platform stack. t’s a true showcase of how the Microsoft Community & Power Platform come together to help us learn, engage and connect with each other despite being physically apart.

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I didn't know PowerPoint could do that!
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I didn't know PowerPoint could do that!

Death by PowerPoint should be a punishable offence. In this article I will share with you my top 10 thing you may never have known PowerPoint could do.in a bid to save humanity from this brutal form of torture in the future. We will look at Zoom, Design Ideas, Design Perspectives, Presenter Coach, QuickStarter Live Presentations, 3D Models, Making Videos, Subtitles & Translations.

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Microsoft Business Applications and Power Platform - Powered by Azure

Microsoft Business Applications and Power Platform - Powered by Azure

They say a picture tells a thousand words and I’ve had enough of waving my hands around trying to explain what the power platform is and how it fits into the Microsoft ecosystem. So I made my own diagram - I hope you will find this as useful as I have!

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Virtual Quizzes with the Power Platform

Virtual Quizzes with the Power Platform

The basic premise of a pub quiz is pretty simple. You have some teams, you ask some questions, you calculate their scores and you have a winner. All translates pretty easy to a virtual world except two bits: Calculating score & Teams collaborating to agree an answer. There are many ways to overcome this but the focus was to keep it as low cost, simple and reliable as possible.

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‘Compliance made easier’ in Dynamics Marketing: Consolidated Double Opt-in
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‘Compliance made easier’ in Dynamics Marketing: Consolidated Double Opt-in

One of the new features of release wave 1 2020 was a very humbly titled ‘Compliance made easier’. In my mind compliance = boring but actually it’s got some really cool stuff that is not so boring and deserves to be talked about. Lets take a look at how we can now consolidate double opt-in requests for an enjoyable and compliant customer experience.

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Social Post Approvals in Dynamics Marketing Option 2: Flow from a Business Process Flow

Social Post Approvals in Dynamics Marketing Option 2: Flow from a Business Process Flow

Power Automate has some really awesome approval functionality and the ability to trigger Instant flows from business process flows in Dynamics is in public preview. Whopeee! Lets go build a delightfully low code approvals process in Dynamics Marketing.

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Webinars with Dynamics Marketing - Part One
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Webinars with Dynamics Marketing - Part One

Microsoft has partnered with a webinar provider called On24, which is the only provider currently supported for use with Dynamics 365 Marketing. So I decided what a great reason to dig into the good, the bad and the ugly of how ON24 and Dynamics Marketing work together in real life.

In this first article (Part One) I will share some lesson learnt from my experience of integrating the systems, then focus on setting up from the Dynamics Marketing side and figuring out the synchronisation between ON24 & Dynamics Marketing.

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VIDEO: Dynamics Marketing - The who, the what and the why 
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VIDEO: Dynamics Marketing - The who, the what and the why 

Recording from my session at ‘Empower Your Career’. Dynamics Marketing is Microsoft's purpose-built marketing app designed with Marketers in mind. It is enriched with Artificial Intelligence and data insights to execute and automate multi channel marketing campaigns. This session covers - What does it do?; Why is it awesome? (+ demos); Who is it for?; licensing update latest

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Event Check-in App for Dynamics Marketing

Event Check-in App for Dynamics Marketing

Dynamics Marketing allows us to automatically send out unique QR codes to registered event attendees. In this article I will show you how Power Apps & Power Automate can be leveraged to create and event check-in app so we can say goodbye to paper lists and post event painful data entry.

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