Welcome to August's Bits & Bytes

We hope you've been enjoying the summer, but those relaxing breaks can mean catching up on a lot of meetings! This month we're digging deeper into how Microsoft Copilot can help you get caught up.

A very powerful feature of Copilot is its summarisation abilities, especially when it comes to meetings. Our newest article explores using Copilot to prepare for, run, and recap your meetings, and how this can lead to more efficient, productive, and even enjoyable meetings.

With this being such a significant feature, we've made our quick Byte-size Bulletin tip video on the same topic! In the tip we show you how to use Copilot in Teams to recap your meetings, what features Copilot adds on top of your regular Teams setup, and how you can use Copilot chat to refine the recap and create new content from the meeting.

We hope you enjoy this month's Bits & Bytes!

Easily recap your meetings with Copilot

“Meetings have increased in length and frequency over the past 50 years, to the point where executives spend an average of nearly 23 hours a week in them, up from less than 10 hours in the 1960s.”

— Harvard Business Review

With a significant portion of our days now dedicated to meetings, it’s no wonder there’s constant debate about whether so many meetings are actually productive. But, love them or loathe them, meetings are here to stay, and will continue to fill our schedules for years to come.

But, we shouldn’t settle for boring or inefficient meetings. If they are a necessary evil, we have to make the most of them. This is where Microsoft Copilot can help. In this article, we’ll explore how Copilot can assist you in preparing for meetings, enhancing the meeting experience itself, and ensuring you use your time wisely in those inevitable post-meeting follow-ups.

Read more.

Top Tip! Meeting summaries with Copilot

In this edition's Byte-size Bulletin, we’re showing you how to use one of Microsoft Copilot’s most powerful features: its ability to create comprehensive summaries of your meetings.

Take a couple of minutes to watch the video to see how you can use Copilot in Teams to catch up on anything you may have missed, how to rewatch just the parts you really need, and how Copilot chat can be used to further refine your recap, and even make new content from it to help you plan your next meeting!

Watch the video.

Thank you for reading and sharing

For those of you experimenting with Copilot I wonder how you are finding it. Are you blown away, underwhelmed or so-so?

What seems to make the difference is guidance and experimentation. This month, I attended a Copilot prompt event hosted by our partners Pax8 and Microsoft - it was a great learning opportunity to put ourselves and Copilot to the test. It's a powerful tool, but it takes some time to tune it to your needs.

Let us know what successes, failures and questions you are experiencing.