Marijn Somers
Microsoft MVP. Freelance Microsoft 365 expert focusing on user adoption and governance. Trainer. Licensed watchmaker.
Appears in 183 Episodes
EP150: AI - Bull Shit or Hot Shit
149 episodes of M365 Distilled took place before we arrived at Collabdays Hamburg! All Marijn had to do was get us a room to record in with a few friends. Well, he sur...
EP149: The Team Goes South
Steve and Marijn check out a HBR article (https://hbr.org/2024/08/is-your-organizational-transformation-veering-off-course) that identifies some traits of team that ha...
EP148: Igniting awareness for success
This is the last of the series of podcasts called the apologise series as Steve managed ot catch up with the programs recorded and published so hopefully we are back t...
EP147: A bag full of Shit & a pink cross
So Marijn talks about indecision and the trouble in deciding on a Twix or not… and missed out on a Peated Yamazaki, depriving Steve of a chance to taste one of his fav...
EP146: An Obvious and Satisfying Podcast
This is the first of a new series of podcasts called the Apology Series… Life has been a little tricky over the last 3 months for Steve with a separation from my long-...
EP145: SharePoint Renovation & Elephant Whisky
OK, we talk about SharePoint and a question that Marijn received about Sorting our SharePoint Shit. You know the scenario, what do you do to help a company that Set u...
EP144: The Fax about Communications and Collaboration
It started when we discussed how mail is still the prevalent business communications tool and how good or bad it is for collaboration.Unusually for the M365 Distilled ...
EP143: The Jenga Way in Poland
Poland was a blast at Collab days a few weeks ago. Steve and Marijn spend time in this podcast looking at Jenga and how they used to consider governance risk in their ...
EP142: The Battle of the Intranet: Gloves Off!
The Boys talk about the new gameshow “ IT Depends” which you can find here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcB3Ba6K6N3HMUbt6yVT1Bg and then.... 🎙️ Ladies and gentlem...
EP141: Meet SaFe Expert Gianni Solito
We have a guest who has been listening to the podcast since Episode One “ Gianni Solito “ Gianni uses SaFe AGILE methods for managing adoption and change as we talk th...
EP140: Modern Wonders of the M365 World
As always the start is about our travels and community speaking events was from Miami to Bremen we talk about Tetsi flies and the rule of ‘Don’t look at the Boob’ when...
EP139: The M365 Bare Necessities
Imagine that you have 5 days to migrate a small company to M365 from Google Docs… What would you start with, Apps, Email MS teams, Power platform… when the Boys put t...
EP138: 2024 Return of Innovation
In Short... the boys look at what is on the roadmap and mix them in with some of their own ideas that might not be true... can you work them out 😊 We look at some of t...
EP137: M365 distilled washback awards 2023
Merry Christmas to every listener of M365, although we suspect that you will not listen to this before the 24th Dec, Monday's celebration day... but if you are listeni...
EP136: A lot to say about nothing
The Boys are back after a hectic time at Lisbon and ESPC where they created 9 podcasts from the CoreView stand @ESPC so this is a kind of recap of the people we met an...
EP 135: CoreView @ ESPC: 3 levels of Copilot business case
The last episode at #ESPC and we are here once more with Kas! This time we bring Jasper Oosterveld on board as a guest! He talks about business cases for Copilot and t...
EP 134: CoreView @ ESPC: Day Two Roundup with Chirag
Final day at ESPC, which means it is time for a little round up of all the goodness that was spread on day 2. We have Chirag Patel on, the man with many 3letter acrony...
EP 133: CoreView @ ESPC: Simeon Cloud talks security
Last podcast of day 2 at ESPC, and we have Kenneth van Surksum with us. Kenneth is a Security MVP, who has been involved with Simeon Cloud for years, using them for hi...
EP 132: @ESPC with CoreView: Karuana distills Copilot adoption
The best thing about live events is running into very cool people. Karuana Gatimu from Microsoft, famous for all the work she did on Microsoft Teams adoption, is now t...
EP 131: CoreView @ ESPC: Day one Roundup with Kevin
Day 2 at ESPC, which means it is time for a little round up of all the goodness that was spread on day 1. We have Kevin McDonnell, Manager at Avanade, MVP and good fri...
EP 130: @ESPC with CoreView: The Princess and the Crane
In this episode, we have Imre Tholen as a guest, together with princess Kas. Imre is the collaboration expert at Mateco IT and talks about his experience with CoreView...
EP 129: @ESPC with CoreView: 5 Pillars of cloud governance
Welcome to the second episode, live from #ESPC! We’ve got a couple of new guests joining us today: Kas Nowicka from CoreView and Ragnar Heil from Rencore.In this episo...
EP 128: @ESPC with CoreView: The view improves when clouds collide
The boys are in Amsterdam at ESPC23 and bring the spectacle of M365Distilled, live from the CoreView booth!Picture this: a room buzzing with energy, the smell of fresh...
M365Distilled @ESPC with CoreView
With a Special theme tune for EPSC @ CoreView the boys are joined by Kasia Nowicka, Kas to friends, to launch a series of podcasts directly from ESPC recorded live fro...
EP 126: A Duvelish plan for finding Hidden Value
Value is not always easy to find when thinking about all aspects of M365. Applications focus on functionality, and new solutions are set up without considering what i...
EP125: Miss Stilled and Sexy Governance
The Podcast will now be formally known as M365Distilled... the name the boys finally landed on after a few amusing alternatives as we introduce Misky365 and Miss Still...
EP124: Move over Agile and Waterfall
The boys review the events visited and the future speaking opportunities for this year. And then recall a conversation over lunch bounced from the CollabDay Belgium p...
EP123: From Pussy Galore to Apps Galore
Steve is in a mood and Marijn is suffering big time... We are trying to identify all the end-user apps that need governance and adoption and how much work is required....
EP122: Reflecting on The Power of Focus
Firstly if you want to Governance at the South Coast Summit (join their workshop at Practical Microsoft 365 Baseline Governance – South Coast Summit ), it is Last cha...
EP121: Goalong Governance docs
Firstly if you want to Collab Days Poland (join their workshop at Practical Microsoft 365 Baseline Governance – ) So Marijn lost for the first round of the battle betw...
