Kevin Griffin

Another video before lunch today. How to install and use an older version of InstructLab CLI. I have a project after lunch that requires 0.16.1 so thought it might be helpful if anyone else runs into this scenario.

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Slack was making memes about Microsoft copying thier product not too long ago. Now Slack has announced lists, which is pretty much a clone of SharePoint lists. Lesson, There's no holier than thou in business. If you can do what your competitor is doing and either do it better or do it for less, you're going to capture a share of the pie. It doesn't have to be an original idea. There's no copyrights for Ideas in the Software Business. It's all about execution, speed, price and security. With Slack's ambiguous data protection policies, Adding more structured data into thier program as a list is something that'd make me nervous What do you think of this development?

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We are just hours away from Dynamics User Group (DUG) NW Florida Meetup hosted by Brittany Burke! I'm super excited to be presenting at this VIRTUAL event tonight on tips and tricks for using Copilot for Power Automate! Will I see you there?? 👀 Registration 🔗- https://lnkd.in/dtS2iZ4v #communityrocks #powerplatform #powerautomate #copilot #powerplatformpartner #microsoftpowerplatform #microsoftcopilot

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Join your IT colleagues at SIM Portland Chapter May 8 event on #LeadingChange. DM me if you are an #ITmanagement practitioner so I can get you registered (free) and you can come learn more about SIM. #ITLeaders #CIO #CTO #networking #collaboration #pdxevents #pdxtech #continuingeducation

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Whether you're sourcing leads, organizing business contacts, or conducting research, this software empowers you to efficiently gather phone numbers from files in different formats. #phoneNumber #software #file #tools

I have been asked to present one of my Power Automate flows that I am building at Blackbaud's bbdevdays. This will be my first time presenting any type of coding. One of the challenges facing development offices is processing "inkind" gifts. "Inkind" gifts are basically gifts of "stuff." This includes anything from highly valuable art work to donations of canned goods to a food bank. These gifts often have to evaluated and verified by outside departments before going to gift processing. Ronald McDonald House Charities New York Metro (RMHCNYM) was looking to move away from paper forms and manual data entry. So I created a Microsoft Office Form to collect the information. The form allows for uploading a picture of the dontation. The Power Automate Flow starts an approval process that pushes the information from the form, including the picture, to the relevant department for verification. When verified, a second approval process is sent to the accounting department, including the picture, to ensure the gift qualifies according to all applicable laws and policies. When approved, the donor is automatically emailed an acknowledgment letter. If at any point the approval is regected the person regecting the donation adds the reason in the comments section of the approal and the donor is automatically emailed a rejection letter with the reason. All the of the approvals results, comments and who approved or rejected are added to the form results in the assoicated Excel sheet and the gift process. I've only been using Power Automate for a few months and this was the first one I built fully on my own so I am pretty proud of it. There are still a few tweaks that I am hoping the group will be able to provide some advice but all-in-all I think it is pretty good. Caveat for my earlier statement about building on my own, throughout the past few months I have recieved incredible advice from Austen Brown and Alex Wong and others in the Blackbaud Power Automate Community.

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📣 New Podcast Episode Alert!📣 Join Sean Fiene, Kenric Auguillard, and I as we sit down with Rahul Ranjit, Principle Program Manager at Microsoft to discuss how pro developers can approach low code development. Topics include: ☑ Why(and how) pro developers should consider low code tools ☑ Integrating pro-development tools with low code offerings ☑ Does low code mean a loss of control? ☑ How the development team may be evolving ☑ Is low code the silver bullet? ☑ How the addition of artificial intelligence is evolving this space Tune in to listen on Podbean, YouTube Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app 👇

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If you're building content and decide that videos are the only way you're going to discuss it (without available transcripts and time-marked/annotated videos), then a lot of us aren't watching. Videos aren't really that searchable, nor are we always in places where we have the capability for audio or the ability to devote undivided attention. Videos aren't asynchronous. You can't copy/paste commands or code snippets out of videos. You can't get an idea of what steps are coming up, sometimes making it really difficult to understand a solution end-to-end. Signed, All of us

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Peter will dig deeper on this at Summit, but please check the highlights of the conversation with Peter Joeckel and Sam Dharmasiri regarding how Gyde365 Discover gives true meaning and value to the ERP assessment. Influenced marketing messages vs true independent fit / gap assessment? What would you trust? https://lnkd.in/gEEYhfnC See you in Bellevue!

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I am looking forward to presenting at this year's Recipes for Winning #RFWin virtual conference for proposal professionals on August 8 and 9, 2024! The agenda is still being finalized, but I'll be part of the "Soloists" group, talking about Pricing Your Expertise as an Independent Consultant (working title). 🆓 Registration is FREE for paid members of the Proposal Industry Experts (PIE)'s community--yet another benefit of membership! 📹 With registration, you gain access to the full conference including all the recordings of the sessions for a full year, so you can still learn on your own time! ✔Registration is open... and I'll drop the link in the comments below. #VirtualConference #ProposalProfessionals #Proposals #Conference #AECMarketing

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This post is going to focus on the RVA Code & Coffee Meetup that I run with Michael Dixon. Earlier today I talked about INVESTING in your career through getting involved in your community. Hey all - Tomorrow, June 15th is the June edition of the RVA Code and Coffee meetup at the Gather location in Scott’s Addition. We start at 9:30 and go until about 12:30. We provide the coffee and it’s Blanchard's coffee on top of that! It’s a very well-attended meetup and over the last 13 months we have averaged 50 people every month and tomorrow we already have 52 people signed up! If you’ve never been before, our format is a bit different than many meetups. People are arriving between 9:30 and 9:45 and then between 9:45 and 10:00 am, we take some time to do a stand-up/introduction circle. We all stand in a large circle and each person, one at a time, takes a quick 5-10 seconds to say their name, what they do, and what they are doing or working on today. If you are writing code/working on a project then take a very quick 5 seconds to say “I’m working on a _______ project using ________ (whatever technologies you are using). Other acceptable type answers are simply networking or even socializing. Then we move to the next person. The goal is to go fast because when we have 50+ people, no one wants to stand there for 20+ minutes. We try to move through 10 people per minute. After the introduction circle, the remaining 2 hours and 15 minutes are completely unstructured. Do whatever you want. Socialize, meet new people, network, help others with technology you are skilled at, or work on your project by yourself or in a group! The world is your oyster!!! Just come out and be a part of the community! You can join our meetup group and sign up for the individual meetups at the web link below in the first comment. We always meet on the 3rd Saturday of the month and we look forward to seeing you soon!

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We get asked frequently what our Complexity Score means/maps to. It's basically a calculation of the effort required to manually convert a form template (InfoPath, Nintex for SharePoint, PDF, etc.)...how long is it going to take to manually convert that InfoPath form to a Power App (or Lightning Form) or uplift that Nintex for SharePoint form to the Nintex Automation Cloud or Nintex Automation On-prem (K2). A more detailed explanation of Complexity Score is in the screenshot below, but please pay particular attention to the IMPORTANT NOTE because it's something being overlooked by customers and service providers, many thinking traditional SharePoint migration tooling (e.g., ShareGate) is going to handle all of this for them (surprise, it's not):

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Have to move away from the "assembly line" concept of software development. It isn't about "X number of something in Y time" metrics. Software Developers are _experts_ at recognizing patterns and exploiting systems when it benefits them. It isn't lines of code today, or issues closed this month, or points in a sprint that delivers end results. A marketing graphics artist can kick out a pile of pieces in a day with loose enough requirements, or one carefully crafted piece in a month, the client has to decide what they ultimately want. Unfortunately, software engineering is considered well-defined science rather than art, and suffers from the bad analogy.

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There are really good reasons to find out more about your state's practitioner health program. Find out more in our most recent blog post on Dojo. #dentistry #mentalhealth