1. Stories from the Frontline Yammer Customer MVP Panel
Microsoft Ignite 2016
5/19/ :47 AM
BRK2018
Stories from the Frontline Yammer Customer MVP Panel
Becky Benishek, Kevin Crossman, Simon Denton, Amy Dolzine & Loni French
Facilitator: Simon Terry
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Becky Benishek
Becky is a first-year Microsoft Office Servers & Services MVP.
At the Crisis Prevention Institute, she drives engagement on and analyzes the data behind three global Yammer networks that offer professional development, strategies, and best practices to employees, customers, and partners who support individuals with special needs.
She also writes, has a working Commodore 64, and builds too many Lego structures for the size of her house.
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Kevin Crossman
Kevin is a former Jive Champion and a first-year Microsoft MVP. He is the service owner for content collaboration in Office 365 for Juniper Networks in Sunnyvale, CA. Microsoft technologies of interest and responsibility include Yammer, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Office 365 Video, and Delve.
As a long-time Apple user, the MVP award makes Kevin sort of feel funny inside. He also enjoys tiki bars, music, movies, and baseball (go SF Giants!).
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Amy Dolzine
Amy is a first-year Microsoft Office Servers & Services MVP and is a Global Knowledge Awareness Advisor and Yammer Awareness Lead at EY.
Amy only reads through her ears, is a cat and dog lover, a mom, and wife. She has lived in 7 places, worked for 5 companies in 19 years in and around Cleveland, and just became an American citizen this year. She also loves museums of all kinds, art, skiing, sailing, and singing – although not necessarily at the same time.
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Loni French
As the community manager of the Yammer network at Guardian Life in New York City, and first-time Microsoft Office Servers & Services MVP, Loni helps over 6,000 employees connect and collaborate to find and access the news and resources they need to do their jobs.
Helping others to learn and watching as they 'get it' gives her all the feels. She is also passionate about the environment and cycling, likes corny jokes, and gratuitous action movies.
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Simon Denton
For 14 years he was a Civil Engineer and involved in a diverse range of projects from building shopping centres in the Middle East to stabilising aging parts of the London Underground. The global recession forced a change of direction and now he is an Office Servers and Services MVP and a Collaborative Systems Architect at Mott MacDonald.
Yammer was his gateway into the world of community and he is currently driving the adoption of Yammer as well as the rest of the Office 365 stack throughout Mott MacDonald.
He loves sports, real beer and good coffee.
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Simon Terry
Simon Terry is a member of Change Agents Worldwide, a network of future of work professionals helping organizations with learning, collaboration, innovation and new ways of work. He is also a Microsoft MVP for Office Servers and Services.
With senior management and consulting experience from companies in banking, healthcare, consumer products, media, telecommunications and startups, Simon has seen the best and worst of collaboration and productivity.
Simon is an amateur baker, occasional speaker, regular blogger and full time Australian.
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