Office365 Sway usage in a Learning and Corporate Environment
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The document discusses Office 365 Sway and its usage for learning and corporate environments. Sway is a cloud-based storytelling application that allows users to create web-based newsletters, presentations, and documentation quickly. The document outlines how to get started with Sway, create and share Sways, and provides examples of Sways for corporate and learning purposes. It concludes with a demonstration of creating a Sway from a template and sharing it by email or embedding it on a webpage.
Office365 Sway usage in a Learning and Corporate Environment
- 1. Presented by: Paras Dodhia Team Lead, SharePoint Support (with KPMG Canada) Twitter: @parasvdodhia Email: paras@dodhia.co LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mindlab/ Blog: https://blog.dodhia.co Office365 Sway usage in a Learning and Corporate Environment
- 3. Overview of Sway What can you achieve? Getting Started Creating and Sharing a Sway Technical Demo A Moment of Curiosity
- 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
- 5. What can you achieve and make using Sway? Examples • The Universe - https://sway.com/universe_cheatsheet • Making Water Work - https://sway.com/making_water_work
- 6. What can you achieve and make using Sway? Continued. Corporate Environment. Continued. Examples • Vision Document - https://sway.com/Template_Vision_Document • Resume - https://sway.com/Template_Resume_Writing_Samples
- 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 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 Email Embed to a Webpage Goals
- 14. A Moment of Curiosity Q&A + Discussion
- 15. Paras Dodhia Team Lead, SharePoint Support (with KPMG Canada) Twitter: @parasvdodhia Email: paras@dodhia.co LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mindlab/ Blog: https://blog.dodhia.co
Editor's Notes
- #2: 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.
- #3: Quick show of Hands How many of you have used Sway before?
- #4: 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
- #5: 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
- #6: Web based responsive presentations
- #15: OK time for QA- I hope more A’s then Q’s – *laugh*
- #16: 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