‘Compliance made easier’ in Dynamics Marketing: Consolidated Double Opt-in
Dynamics 365 Marketing Amey Holden Dynamics 365 Marketing Amey Holden

‘Compliance made easier’ in Dynamics Marketing: Consolidated Double Opt-in

One of the new features of release wave 1 2020 was a very humbly titled ‘Compliance made easier’. In my mind compliance = boring but actually it’s got some really cool stuff that is not so boring and deserves to be talked about. Lets take a look at how we can now consolidate double opt-in requests for an enjoyable and compliant customer experience.

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Social Post Approvals in Dynamics Marketing Option 2: Flow from a Business Process Flow

Social Post Approvals in Dynamics Marketing Option 2: Flow from a Business Process Flow

Power Automate has some really awesome approval functionality and the ability to trigger Instant flows from business process flows in Dynamics is in public preview. Whopeee! Lets go build a delightfully low code approvals process in Dynamics Marketing.

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Webinars with Dynamics Marketing - Part One
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Webinars with Dynamics Marketing - Part One

Microsoft has partnered with a webinar provider called On24, which is the only provider currently supported for use with Dynamics 365 Marketing. So I decided what a great reason to dig into the good, the bad and the ugly of how ON24 and Dynamics Marketing work together in real life.

In this first article (Part One) I will share some lesson learnt from my experience of integrating the systems, then focus on setting up from the Dynamics Marketing side and figuring out the synchronisation between ON24 & Dynamics Marketing.

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VIDEO: Dynamics Marketing - The who, the what and the why 
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VIDEO: Dynamics Marketing - The who, the what and the why 

Recording from my session at ‘Empower Your Career’. Dynamics Marketing is Microsoft's purpose-built marketing app designed with Marketers in mind. It is enriched with Artificial Intelligence and data insights to execute and automate multi channel marketing campaigns. This session covers - What does it do?; Why is it awesome? (+ demos); Who is it for?; licensing update latest

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Event Check-in App for Dynamics Marketing

Event Check-in App for Dynamics Marketing

Dynamics Marketing allows us to automatically send out unique QR codes to registered event attendees. In this article I will show you how Power Apps & Power Automate can be leveraged to create and event check-in app so we can say goodbye to paper lists and post event painful data entry.

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Locate Tweets with Power Automate & Demystifying a Twitter Connector "Gotcha"​

Locate Tweets with Power Automate & Demystifying a Twitter Connector "Gotcha"​

Previously explorations covered social monitoring for tweets in Dynamics Marketing which was superbly fun. Recently with the use of some PCF & Bing power, things just got a little bit cooler in the Tweet world of Dynamics Marketing. A slight tweak to the flow has been made - take the tweeters profile location and trim any text after the first comma for example 'Sydney, Australia' becomes 'Sydney'. Then we leverage the wonderful Bing connector to calculate the longitude and latitude of the Tweeter.

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VIDEO: Power Up Dynamics Marketing

VIDEO: Power Up Dynamics Marketing

Explore some cool ways to enhance, extend and improve Dynamics Marketing by leveraging power platform tools in a way which is real world and practical. We will focus on improving both user and customer experience to help attain maximum ROI on Dynamics Marketing implementations by doing some cool and exciting magic with AI, Power Automate, Power Apps & Custom Controls.

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Trend Monitoring and Tweeting with Dynamics Marketing

Trend Monitoring and Tweeting with Dynamics Marketing

A crucial part of a marketers job is brand management. Keeping in tune with the the news and trends that impact their products and/or services ensures they can act in a timely and appropriate manner to their market. With the help of our good friend Power Automate (PowerMate) my users can now peruse relevant, topical news to their brand(s) and tweet about articles of interest without ever leaving Dynamics Marketing. I also threw in a little PCF delight for that extra visual appeal.

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Bringing Instagram into Dynamics Marketing: Powered by Flow and PowerApps Component Framework Controls

Bringing Instagram into Dynamics Marketing: Powered by Flow and PowerApps Component Framework Controls

Dynamics (for) Marketing has functionality for scheduled and instant social posting to Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn but nothing for Instagram. Fortunately Microsoft Flow already has an Instagram connector. So lets get our Instagram monitoring into Dynamics Marketing and leverage some PowerApps Component Framework Controls for extra sexiness.

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Social Media Monitoring & Analysis in Dynamics 365: Powered by Flow

Social Media Monitoring & Analysis in Dynamics 365: Powered by Flow

Dynamics (for) Marketing has functionality for scheduled and instant social posting to Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn among a few other social media related goodness. It also used to have some really cool social listening functionality too but with the death of 'Social Engagement' the amount of insight of social media power is pretty disappointing! So i decided to start having a play with our good friends Microsoft Flow and Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics API, to see how we could power up the social side of Dynamics Marketing, starting with Twitter.

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