RedCape

10/16/2026

The chat during our livestream is where some of the best questions show up. Some of your questions need a little research. Some deserve more time than we have on the show.

In this free Future Ready Friday session, Vickie Sokol Evans, MCT, answers your questions about Microsoft To Do and Copilot personalization, then compares where custom instructions live in Copilot, Claude, and ChatGPT.

She also shows how she found those questions: AI scanned the transcripts of recent episodes for anything she said she would come back to.

You'll learn how to:
* Clear a flagged email in Outlook without marking it complete
* Use hashtags in Microsoft To Do to match tasks to the time you have
* Find custom instructions in Copilot, Claude, and ChatGPT
* Use AI to scan transcripts for follow ups

Free Microsoft 365 and Copilot training with Vickie Sokol Evans, MCT.
More sessions: https://www.futurereadyfriday.com

10/09/2026

Picture the first morning of a multi-day workshop. A room full of people who have never met, and one by one, each person stands up to introduce themselves. Most of the room is doing the same thing: writing down a name, usually just the first one, while the speaker keeps talking. By the time they look up, they have missed what the person said. That is a lot of brainpower spent on spelling instead of listening.
What if the names were already on the page?

And it keeps working for the whole workshop. Your attendees can use it in conversations around the table, jot down what another attendee said, and mark who to follow up with.

In this free Future Ready Friday session, Vickie Sokol Evans, MCT, walks you through a simple plan. We start by exporting the list from the registration system into Excel, so we're working with exactly what each attendee typed in. Then we build the handout from it.

You'll learn how to:
• Start from your registration export instead of retyping a list
• Build Full Name and Location columns in Excel
• Try the same task with Copilot and compare the results

The rule for the session: Registration types it, Excel moves it, you verify.

Free Microsoft 365 and Copilot training with Vickie Sokol Evans, MCT.
More sessions: https://www.futurereadyfriday.com

10/02/2026

Sent a lunch poll by email and got answers back in five different formats? Learn to build one poll in Microsoft Forms with Copilot and get results you can trust.

Free Microsoft 365 and Copilot training with Vickie Sokol Evans, MCT.

More sessions: https://www.futurereadyfriday.com

06/15/2025

Here it is. The spiral.
June 18, 1983
🕒 24 hours of MTV
📝 Song titles, timestamps, VJs, and more
Some kids kept journals.
I built an MTV metadata archive in real time.
At 14.
With a Bic pen and a spiral.
Was it a little much?
Yes.
But looking back… it tracks. 😄
These pages are proof of who I’ve always been:
Someone who sees the pattern.
And builds the system.
If you saw the video, here’s your behind-the-scenes.
If you didn’t, go watch that first. This’ll make way more sense. (It’s the post right before this one.)



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


12/02/2024

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11/29/2024

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11/27/2024

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11/14/2024

RedCape is on the road this week changing lives from the shoreline of Miami to the peaks of Albuquerque. Future Ready Friday will return next week. In the meantime, check out one of our previous episodes at www.futurereadyfriday.com.

10/25/2024

"It’s an honor to travel the globe teaching Microsoft productivity tips and Generative AI with high performers who want to future-proof their careers. "Want to increase your digital productivity and AI skills? Join Vickie Sokol Evans for our Future-Ready Friday livestream no matter where you are in the world. Join live at 10:30a CT or watch a previous episode at
www.futurereadyfriday.com

07/12/2024

If you missed Vickie Sokol Evans LIVE today for Ep. 3 on Future-Ready Friday watch the replay here! Tune in on Friday, July 26 for Ep. 4!

Join Vickie as she walks through the short but accelerated history of Generative AI, ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini and what it means for the way you work. Use...