This is part one of a two-part series on how to integrate Microsoft Teams into your organization to benefit members, volunteers, and constituents, but first .. why do this?

Over the past three months, Microsoft Teams has introduced several enhancements aimed at improving community engagement and volunteer collaboration—key areas of focus for trade associations dedicated to enriching the lives of professionals within their industry

Well, it turns out we are not the only ones to recognize that Microsoft’s Teams is fantastic for community collaboration. Microsoft has entered the community space with a no cost local community/ neighborhood / nonprofit level, and we are pretty darn excited about this direction.

How secure is Teams?… I get this question in almost every meeting. Let me try to answer this in less than 300,000 words… Elevator Response: Teams is more secure than any other collaboration platform out… Read more: How secure is Teams as a collaboration platform with/for highly sensitive documents?

ProfessorBOK is one of our Teams apps that one can install on any community channel. It exists as a web page today and we will have a Teams BOT version in 2 weeks. THis app… Read more: Professor BOK : Members use ChatGPT to securely get to your Body of Knowledge