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Virtual Quizzes with the Power Platform
The basic premise of a pub quiz is pretty simple. You have some teams, you ask some questions, you calculate their scores and you have a winner. All translates pretty easy to a virtual world except two bits: Calculating score & Teams collaborating to agree an answer. There are many ways to overcome this but the focus was to keep it as low cost, simple and reliable as possible.
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.
The story so far: An ABC Consultant
A story of the power of believing in yourself and the beaut of the Microsoft community - my journey from a lost graduate to a newly fledged Microsoft Business Applications MVP
Social Post Approvals in Dynamics Marketing Option 1: Custom Button
Exploring the use of a custm button to call a Power Automate flow as part of a process to approve social posts in Dynamics Marketing. Including a step by step ABC guide on how to do it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Form Processing + Power Automate: Lessons Learned from AImee in Action
I put AImee with Power Automate to the test in a live demo recently at Global AI Bootcamp, it was super simple form which asked people to write their name, email, favorite colour and their guess of how many cookies were in the jar - what could possibly go wrong!?
I will share some lessons learned which led to a much improved and more robust flow for fail proof Form Processing which significantly reduces ways for 'bad' data to get into Dynamics and provides a user friendly log report for any issues along the way.
Those emergency Flows you hope you never need - Pending Send Emails
A delightful and simple flow to automate sending emails sat in 'Pending Send' in Dynamics, via outlook instead. Then very importantly marking the email as 'Sent' so it doesn't get sent again once the email router is up and running, plus providing reassurance to users that their mail is being sent. This impressed my colleagues no end that a no code rookie like me could build, test and provide a plan B in under 30 minutes.
Sending Birthday Special Offers with Dynamics Marketing and Power Automate
Automating some birthday love via Dynamics Marketing (with a little help from PowerMate).
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.
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.