1. Office365 Sway usage in a Learning and Corporate Environment
SharePoint Saturday Denver 2018
Presented by: Paras Dodhia
Before I begin this presentation let me tell you a little bit about myself.
My name is Paras Dodhia and I am currently with KPMG Canada as a Team Lead, SharePoint Support this role involves managing the document management collaboration platform for the firm.
I have over a decade worth of experience with the Microsoft platform as a solution architect, developer, administrator, and trainer.
Aside from this I am the founder of Mindlab an IT consulting company which was discovered in 2001.
Mindlab has been involved with several high profile IT SharePoint/Office365 related projects. One of them being with the 2015 Toronto Pan Am Games and another name to mention is Tervita one of the leaders in the oil and gas services industry.
For more information please feel free to contact me through one of the channels listed in the slide.
Team Lead, SharePoint Support (with KPMG Canada)
LinkedIn:
Blog:

2. How many of you have used Sway before?
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Quick show of Hands
How many of you have used Sway before?
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3. Outline Overview of Sway What can you achieve? Getting Started
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Outline
Overview of Sway
What can you achieve?
Getting Started
Creating and Sharing a Sway
Technical Demo
A Moment of Curiosity
In this presentation, I will provide an Overview of Sway, where I will focus on What can you achieve? And how we can Get Started.
Next I will go over how to Create and Share in Sway.
this will be followed by a fun part, where I will do Technical Demo
At the end, we will have A Moment of Curiosity, for questions and answers….hopefully more answers than question
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4. What is Sway? Cloud based story telling application
Create web based newsletters, presentations, and documentation in minutes.
More then 24 million users
Multilingual - Available in 39 languages
Sway suggests media to populate in your card based on your keywords
Save precious time with effortless design
Sway is a tool to create web based content – it’s a tool in comparison to Word , Excel, and OneNote
Bring content from any where and make the presentation dynamic
Its multilingual – translate the Sway interface to any language
The content you populate will still need to be manually converted
As you type keywords images populate from various sources such as Wikipedia, Bing, Creative Common open source

5. What can you achieve and make using Sway?
Examples
The Universe -
Making Water Work -
Web based responsive presentations

6. What can you achieve and make using Sway? Continued.
Corporate Environment. Continued.
Examples
Vision Document -
Resume -

7. Getting Started Go to Sway.com or your Office365 instance.
Login with your Windows Live or Office365 ID.

8. Creating a Sway Create New – bare bones template.
Start from a topic – powered by Wikipedia – search for any subject and let Sway build the skeleton of your presentation with media and content.
Upload any file with content and let Sway generate the presentation.

9. Add content from anywhere

10. Sharing a Sway Specific people or groups.
Those in your organization with a Link.
Anyone with a link.
Embed to a Web page.

11. File size limits for Sway

12. The Future – roadmap.office.com

13. Demonstration Goals Create a Sway
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Demonstration
Goals
Create a Sway
Shareable Corporate Template. From this template we will create the following.
Press Release
Business Process Interactive Training Manual
and finally Share a Sway By
Embed to a Webpage
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14. A Moment of Curiosity Q&A + Discussion
OK time for QA- I hope more A’s then Q’s – *laugh*
Q&A + Discussion

15. Thank YOU
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Paras Dodhia
Team Lead, SharePoint Support (with KPMG Canada)
LinkedIn:
Blog:
The true genius  of these tools is their ease of use and simple integration! I created an example form and connected it to flow in a matter of minutes.
See you at the SharePint
I look forward to hear from you. Please feel free to contact me via any of the social media channels listed. Thank you
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