Marijn Somers
Microsoft MVP. Freelance Microsoft 365 expert focusing on user adoption and governance. Trainer. Licensed watchmaker.
Appears in 224 Episodes
EP 191: Barrel time!
Steve and Marijn have a wide ranging talk background dancers, events, colonoscopy, their Scotland travel with Scottish Summit, whisky, episode 200, visiting their own ...
EP 190: The gifts of AI
Steve takes his bag of shit to the SmartBytes evening and talks about the gifts that AI has brought us. They end up with a very good household-name dram.
EP 189: Harnessing Gags and AI
The boys put on their harness and see how they can govern AI.Â
EP 188: From Ai to BJ with Quality Content
The boys take a leap of faith when discussing AI.. Where will it lead to next?
EP 187: Electric Ducks
Ducktails - woohoo!! The boys are talking about the random spawning of ducks in Steve's house, conference travel, new website url's they bought and Steve's changing jo...
EP 186: Being real Consultants
Marijn got fanmail, a user that had a real usecase and was looking how to tackle a problem. So the boys become cunts - I mean consultants and do some live consultancy!
EP 185: The Gunfight on Steve's Street, and honestly..
The boys start off with an AI created intro, Marijn gets winded up about the use of "and honestly" he sees everywhere, Steve talks about lady gardens, but they are int...
EP 184: AI stories and 4 English Whiskies
The boys have a whisky-infused talk about AI use cases, share fun stories and have 4 different English whiskies throughout the episode.
EP 183: AI is a people Challenge
Marijn came back from MVP Summit in Seattle, but can't say anything, because NDA! The topic changes in what AI can do for you, and why people are the secret ingredient...
EP 182: An Irish foursome
On this special day of the day, when we celebrate Saint Paddy, the boys taste 4 whiskies while they work out how to measure collaboration.
EP 181: SharePoint matures like fine whisky
Happy Birthday to 25 year SharePoint! The boys reminisce and share war stories. They end with an amazing smoky dram.
EP 180: Of Mice and Men
In this episode of Microsoft 365 Distilled, the boys celebrate Burns Night in true Scottish fashion: with tartan‑level enthusiasm and a whisky that would make even the...
EP 179: Eyeballs on AI
Happy new year everyone! The boys are back and making plans for fun events this year. Marijn hates the fact that Steve is now higher up the CommunityDays speaker board...
EP 178: SP prophecy from Jura
The boys discover Jura and their wheel to describe the full range of whiskies. They compare it with different SharePoint elements, techniques and ingredients to put in...
EP 177: Hidden Gems in SharePoint
Marijn makes a total arse of himself at a whisky tasting. Because why not. The boys are talking about undiscovered gems in SharePoint,which they uncover in an old-scho...
EP 176: What we think of people
This time, the boys are not alone! Anouck Fierens, co-host of the FusionTalk podcast is joining them for a dada-dram! The talk of tonight? How, and what people think. ...
EP 175: 5s Sexy Site Culture
The boys talk about Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu, Shitsuke. In short: the 5s methodology. After Marijn's session on Marie Kondo, this is another methodology to clean...
EP 174: The Zagreb Connection
The boys are at Collabdays Zagreb and talking to Frane Borozan and Danijel Cizek, from Syskit. They are enjoying some Croatian whisky (well, some of them...) and talki...
EP173: Agentic Cable Pulling
Marijn for once, does something useful (in Steve's house).A new Modern Workplace workshop arises, so that means the boys will be live workshopping (aka pisstaking) aro...
EP172: Does your Microsoft 365 spark joy?
Marijn talks about his new session that is delivering in Helsinki and Oslo. That one is about finding a methodology to handle data, and Marijn chooses the Marie Kondo ...
