by Grace Finlay | Jul 22, 2021 | Business, Marketing
What’s all the fuss about LinkedIn Lead Generation increasing sales? Salespeople that utilize social networking on LinkedIn are 50% more inclined to reach the targeted quota. In addition, they outsell social networks by 78% and attract half as many new prospects to their sales pipeline. However, I wouldn’t say I like the term social-sold or social selling. It’s too corporate and cold.
What’s more important? A company page or LinkedIn leads? Well, the answer depends on your perspective. Your company page should not be filled with useless links, sales pitches, or fluff. Likewise, LinkedIn leads generated from your company page will not be very useful if it is. But if you’ve taken the time and effort to build a really valuable company page with meaningful, useful information about your company, then you may consider the LinkedIn leads a bonus.
Salespeople can actually add leads to their networks with LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and the leads can be compatible with your own qualified prospects. Sales Navigator is one of the fastest-growing paid network marketing companies in the business today. The Sales Navigator system allows users to create a network, connect with others, add leads, and track activity in real-time. It also allows sales professionals to manage their leads and contacts easily. Moreover, you can access company information to learn more about individual contacts. In addition, Sales Navigator offers many other functions that can enhance your sales process. These include identifying top prospects and generating prospect lists for targeted campaigns, conducting webinars, teleconferences, and tracking the results from social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
by Contributed | Jul 22, 2021 | Technology
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Call Summary:
Unfortunately, we had technical difficulties and were unable to record this month’s call. We’ll record the presentations again and update this blog with links when they are ready.
This month’s community call featured presentations:
- Shared mailboxes in Outlook – Juan Balmori (Microsoft) and Ankush Oberoi (Microsoft) discussed shared mailboxes and shared folders. Shared mailbox is now in preview and we encourage you to try it out and give us feedback at https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-js/issues.
- Message recipients changed event for Outlook – Elizabeth Samuel (Microsoft) shared a new PnP sample demonstrating how to use the Recipients Changed event to tag an email when there are external recipients.
Q&A (Question & Answers)
Due to the technical difficulties we had on this call, we could not access the chat to read your questions and provide follow-up. If you had a question that did not get answered during the call, or in this blog, please reach out to us by using our short survey form. We’ll address any questions you have during the next call.
Can you add some additional error handling around failure cases for an Outlook add-in that uses the On-send event? We have a scenario where if an On-send add-in fails due to service outage users are unable to send emails unless an admin performs a companywide deactivation of the add-in. It would be helpful to let end-users still send their emails if the On-send add-in fails to load or throws an unhandled exception.
That’s by design for the On-send event when we released the 1.8 requirement set. The good news is that the team is working on enabling a new version of this event that will deal with the “add-in unavailable” cases. We are working to get this into preview soon, so please keep an eye out on future community calls.
On the iOS and Android platforms, you only support Outlook API 1.5. Do you think we will see support for 1.6+ before 2022?
We have this in our backlog, but we don’t yet have an ETA.
Outlook on mobile still does not support compose mode add-ins, or the On-send event. This was a highly requested feature on the UserVoice system. When will Outlook on mobile support both of these? How did the ‘Exclaimer’ add-in from June 2021’s community call work on Outlook mobile without support for compose mode add-ins?
We have this in our backlog, but we don’t yet have an ETA. The Exclaimer add-in isn’t designed for use on Outlook on mobile.
Is there a way to write a CSV file to the local computer’s storage where the add-in is running?
Office Add-ins run in a browser runtime and only have the capabilities of any web app running in a browser. It’s not possible to write directly to disk from the browser in any way that works cross-platform. A recommended approach to write to a CSV file is to write to files using Microsoft Graph and OneDrive.
Resources
Outlook shared mailbox
PnP: Use Outlook event-based activation to tag external recipients (preview)
Office Add-ins community call
Office Add-ins feedback
The next Office Add-ins community call is on Wednesday, August 11, 2021 at 8:00AM PDT. Get the calendar invite at https://aka.ms/officeaddinscommunitycall.
by Scott Muniz | Jul 22, 2021 | Security, Technology
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Cisco has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Intersight Virtual Appliance. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. For updates addressing lower severity vulnerabilities, see the Cisco Security Advisories page.
CISA encourages users and administrators to review Cisco Advisory cisco-sa-ucsi2-iptaclbp-L8Dzs8m8 and apply the necessary updates.
by Scott Muniz | Jul 22, 2021 | Security, Technology
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Drupal has released security updates to address a critical third-party-library vulnerability that could affect Drupal 7, 8.9, 9.1, and 9.2. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system.
CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Drupal security advisory and apply the necessary updates.
by Scott Muniz | Jul 21, 2021 | Security, Technology
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The Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security and operated by MITRE, has released the 2021 Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses list. The Top 25 uses data from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) to compile the most frequent and critical errors that can lead to serious vulnerabilities in software. An attacker can often exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system, obtain sensitive information, or cause a denial-of-service condition.
CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Top 25 list and evaluate recommended mitigations to determine those most suitable to adopt.
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