April Dunnam
Microsoft Business Applications MVP
FULL SHOW NOTES
https://podcast.nz365guy.com/101
- Personal background – living in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the local food scene
- April's focus on the Microsoft Business Applications arena – PowerApps and Flow
- Has Flow replaced the former workflow tools that were in SharePoint?
- Professional background – working on InfoPath
- Thoughts on PowerApps and Flow replacing old InfoPath form
- How PowerApps compares to InfoPath around the native functionality to print a document, and thoughts on Microsoft addressing this issue
- The main thing that April thinks is necessary for the print functionality within PowerApps
- Experience attending the MVP Summit for the first time
- Building apps in Azure SQL and SharePoint
- Thoughts on Common Data Service playing into the future of what she does
- Being one of the MVPs that is also a business owner – about ThriveFast
- Her #1 tip for picking up customers for a consulting business
- The meaning behind her titles SharePoint Siren, Automation Princess, and Karaoke Queen
- Being a music fan and interests outside of singing
- Journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP, being mentored by Melissa Hubbard and other MVPs
- Where she sees PowerApps and Flow are going in the near future
- Thoughts on AI and where she thinks it is going and whether it’s going to impact our lives more
- Thoughts on how AI will affect her job or personal role 5 years from now – building the right code, understand business models, create new ways of looking at them and developing technology
- Training resources for somebody to get up to speed CDS and the model-driven side of things
- Advice to people become effective at public speaking and talking about IT-based topics
- Tips for public speaking – preparation, creating content, presentation/demo
Books & Other Resources Mentioned
- ThriveFast.com
- InfoPath Forms Services
- Microsoft Docs PowerApps
- Shane Young YouTube channel
- Line of Business (LOB) Apps with Canvas, PowerApps, and Flow (Pluralsight)
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April Dunnam
April Dunnam is a process automation pro, collaboration tool enthusiast and karaoke queen. She's a woman who codes but is passionate about teaching others to build apps and automation with zero code. She feels very fortunate to have a job where she can make that happen every day as a Power Platform Advocate at Microsoft. This is a platform designed to help non-coders and coders alike build apps, solve their business problems, and grow their careers.
Before joining Microsoft, she was a consultant and Microsoft MVP where she found her passion for making technical videos on YouTube. You can find her YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/aprildunnam. You can follow her on twitter https://twitter.com/aprildunnam and find her code samples on GitHub at https://github.com/aprildunnam