Communities
News, conferences, and groups to keep you current
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Communities
- Microsoft patterns and practices community Website, YouTube, GitHub, Discord
- Microsoft Tech Community – SharePoint
- SharePoint Stack Exchange
- SharePoint subreddit + Discord
- Microsoft 365 subreddit
Conferences
- Microsoft 365 Community Conference - the flagship Microsoft-backed community event (US)
- TechCon365 - US series (Seattle, Chicago, Dallas)
- CollabDays - free community-run events worldwide
- European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference (ESPC) - Europe
- Digital Workplace Conference - Australia + NZ flagship event
- Check Meetup for ‘Microsoft Events’.
- Official yearly events: Ignite (IT pros, November) and Build (developers, May-June)
- For conference recordings: Microsoft Learn events
- Community days
News and updates
- Official MS 365 blog (+ podcasts / YouTubes)
- Official SharePoint Podcast - Intrazone (wrapped up in 2025, archive)
- Official SP Community blog (+ podcasts / YouTubes)
- Official ‘Microsoft Mechanics’ YouTube
- Practical 365 - Tony Redmond and crew, the best independent M365 coverage
- Official MS 365 Community Call YouTube
- Sharegate blog
- TechTarget on Knowledge Management
- Collab365 - community resources, events, and learning
- #SharePoint on Twitter #sphelp (my (outdated) influencer list)
- #SharePoint on Bluesky (bluesky.ms)
Bloggers
- A lot of blogging happens on LinkedIn + Substack. For the rest:
- Medium: SharePoint
- Andrew Connell (github)
- Chris O’Brien
- Elio Struyf (github)
- John Liu - YouTube (github)
- Julie Turner
- Joanne C Klein
- Marc Anderson
- Stefan Bauer (github)
- Waldek Mastykarz & Mavention
- Hands On Tek by João Ferreira
- Daniel Anderson on LinkedIn
- Step Two blog (James Robertson) (slideshare) + Intranet awards
- NN Group Intranet awards
- Rencore blog
- Sharegate blog
- Archive - MSFT SPFx Community Lead Vesa Juvonen
YouTube
- Kevin Stratvert
- SharePoint Maven
- Vlad talks Tech
- Daniel Anderson
- Steve Corey
- SharePoint Dougie
- Untethered 365
- Laura Rogers
- Academy 365
- Office Skills with Amy
- Sympraxis
See also: Power Platform for Power Platform creators and forums.
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