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sadalit

I'm a Microsoft employee. All opinions are my own.

Interests: knowledge management, process improvement, social media, social computing, social networking, usability, web 2.0 and enterprise 2.0 technologies

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How Businesses Are Using Mixed Reality To Overcome COVID-19 / Coronavirus Challenges

Image credit: Microsoft As people around the world are experiencing school closures, event cancellations, travel restrictions, and widespread uncertainty about resource availability in the coming weeks, many of the customer conversations I've been having around Mixed Reality are pivoting to... Continue reading

Posted Mar 13, 2020 at A Matter Of Degree

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What It Feels Like To Live In The Time Just Before Hyper-Reality

What should we be savoring about our current physical reality while we still can? Continue reading

Posted Dec 3, 2019 at A Matter Of Degree

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How Mixed Reality Can Place Knowledge Exactly Where You Need It

Image credit: Microsoft In my work we're seeing a lot of evidence that spatial mapping and placement is the next big breakthrough in how we experience information. Culturally, we're starting to become used to accessing and receiving information exactly when... Continue reading

Posted Nov 26, 2019 at A Matter Of Degree

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The Discipline of Market Leaders, Revisited: One is No Longer Enough

Five years ago, when I was a full-time tech consultant, one of my go-to business texts was The Discipline of Market Leaders, by Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema. At this time, the tech startup I was working for was going... Continue reading

Posted Sep 11, 2018 at A Matter Of Degree

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Betsy - what a good idea to make that recording. I think I didn't ever do that because I wasn't sure I could bear to listen to it later. Hope you have a wonderful holiday too.

Commented Nov 21, 2017 on Missing Trip Summary (or, Questions I Didn't Ask My Dad Before He Died) at A Matter Of Degree

Stacy - thank you for sharing that. Big difference in how your parents passed. I agree that the present is the only thing. Still somehow I would have liked to know what he thought of it all.

Commented Nov 21, 2017 on Missing Trip Summary (or, Questions I Didn't Ask My Dad Before He Died) at A Matter Of Degree

Missing Trip Summary (or, Questions I Didn't Ask My Dad Before He Died)

My father on Cape Cod, 1954? Photographer unknown. My father died this past Saturday, November 18. He was a month away from turning 90. While his death was sudden and unexpected, it was not entirely shocking, given his age and... Continue reading

Posted Nov 21, 2017 at A Matter Of Degree

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Need to generate large, production-looking dummy datasets? Look no further!

False front facade in Bremen, Germany, by Mario Lurig on Flickr. One of my colleagues on the Data Architect team, Patrick El-Azem, just released a new tool for the community which will be extremely useful for developers, architects, data scientists,... Continue reading

Posted Aug 28, 2017 at A Matter Of Degree

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I was visited by the Ghost of Television's Past

New Television Antenna by Norman Rockwell, shared by Georges Nijs on flickr Saturday, February 25, 12:30 pm - there's a knock on my front door. It's a young woman who tells me she is from Nielsen, looking for antenna-only households.... Continue reading

Posted Feb 27, 2017 at A Matter Of Degree

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I'd like to thank the Academy - the Microsoft Academy, that is

With respect to everyone around the world who is suffering right now, and at the risk of tone-deaf blogging, I have to share that I feel like a million bucks today, because last night I passed the final project in... Continue reading

Posted Feb 1, 2017 at A Matter Of Degree

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The Interstate of Things: Saying Goodbye to the Mass Pike Tollbooths

"Mass Pike Tollbooth" by William F. Yurasko on Flickr On October 28, the Massachusetts Turnpike switched to an all-electronic tolling method, and immediately thereafter, began to tear out the tollbooths that had been the gateways and choke points of the... Continue reading

Posted Nov 16, 2016 at A Matter Of Degree

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Jonathan - excellent point about the downside of customer targeting based on purchases. If you're buying items for someone else, whether as a favor or as a gift, you may not want offers based on that. I briefly imagined a utopian future where legislation is passed that lets consumers access and fine-tune their corporate marketing profiles... but would anyone take the time to do it?

Commented Oct 14, 2016 on The Loyalty Card Store-Account Swipe (and why the data collection implications are keeping me up at night) at A Matter Of Degree

Sympmarc - we both know, that's where incentives come in. Plenty of retailers play the "employee who signs up the most new loyalty members today gets $50" game... I haven't heard of tying incentives back to loyalty member data collection but it seems completely do-able if cashiers sign in under a unique ID. Bonuses could be calculated on quantity of data collected - especially for those who don't make commission.

Commented Sep 7, 2016 on The Loyalty Card Store-Account Swipe (and why the data collection implications are keeping me up at night) at A Matter Of Degree

@Julie Turner - that HBR article is excellent and opened my eyes on a few topics. In a state like MA, where retailers are no longer allowed to ask customers for their ZIP code, how can cell phone tracking possibly be legal?

Commented Sep 7, 2016 on The Loyalty Card Store-Account Swipe (and why the data collection implications are keeping me up at night) at A Matter Of Degree

The Loyalty Card Store-Account Swipe (and why the data collection implications are keeping me up at night)

"So many coffee loyalty cards" - by Nick Webb on Flickr Over the Labor Day weekend I went to a retail store with my daughter for some supplemental back-to-school shopping. I have a loyalty card with this retailer, and had... Continue reading

Posted Sep 6, 2016 at A Matter Of Degree

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The day Cortana saved my bacon

Last Friday it happened - Cortana helped me succeed (without my having to ask). I was working at home in the morning, waiting out the worst of the rush hour. I had a 10 am meeting about an hour away,... Continue reading

Posted Sep 22, 2015 at A Matter Of Degree

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100 Days at Microsoft

Satya Nadella discusses Microsoft's new mission statement at MGX, July 2015 I've been a Microsoft employee for 100 days as of today, and thought I'd celebrate the occasion with a blog about the experience, while it's all still fresh. Since... Continue reading

Posted Aug 19, 2015 at A Matter Of Degree

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To The Mothership! Starting a new role at Microsoft.

Albuquerque, NM, April 2011 - at the site of Microsoft's founding Today I start a new role as a Partner Technology Strategist at Microsoft! After nine years in the Microsoft partner ecosystem, I'll be seeing this business from the other... Continue reading

Posted May 11, 2015 at A Matter Of Degree

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Ask your technology services provider these questions

How your tech services provider runs its own business may be even more significant to your project's success than the work they've done for others like you. Continue reading

Posted Jan 15, 2015 at A Matter Of Degree

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Three Ways Technology Services Firms Can Amplify The Power Of Their People

Just before the holidays I got a call that reminded me how much I love my business. The call was from a client I'd last worked with in 2008 or 2009 - for each of us, that was two companies... Continue reading

Posted Jan 6, 2015 at A Matter Of Degree

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Mike, this definitely rings true. There's also a role aspect to each of the five stages - i.e. the extent to which the partner has dedicated and differentiated roles handling the different facets of the partnership. You allude to this and I think it deserves emphasis. In Stage One you may have a single hero who is perspiringly trying to manage the entire partner relationship. At Stage Two you may be realizing this can't scale. By Stage Four you have probably identified such key roles as an Executive Sponsor, Marketing Sponsor, Technical Sponsor, etc. (and these roles are filled by different people). In other words: it takes a village.

Commented Nov 5, 2013 on Five Stages of Microsoft Partnership at Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge Worker

The importance of trust to adoption and governance

1. Trust Is Critical to Adoption I heard a story on the radio a few months ago that has stayed with me. From a news perspective, this story is about changing healthcare practices to reduce costs, and the important role... Continue reading

Posted Aug 6, 2013 at A Matter Of Degree

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Nikki, thank you for your comment, it made my day!

Commented May 13, 2013 on How to make the SharePoint I Need To web part sort alphabetically at A Matter Of Degree

Going public about my momentous and exciting role change

Image courtesy of the Ad Generator, which mashes up fragments of real corporate slogans with Flickr images to generate ersatz advertisements on the fly. OK, perhaps it's not momentous and/or exciting to anyone but me. But today I want to... Continue reading

Posted Feb 28, 2013 at A Matter Of Degree

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Follow-up to the Inaugural Boston Women in SharePoint Chapter Meeting

Many thanks to all those who came out last night for the first Boston Women in SharePoint Chapter meeting, and to Leanne Bateman for organizing! We had a great discussion at MeadHall in Cambridge about the reality of being a... Continue reading

Posted Feb 13, 2013 at A Matter Of Degree

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