Introducing Communication Sites for CommunicatorsShowcase key Office 365 “Modern” Communication Site features
By: Kanwal Khipple
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October 28, 2017
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INTRODUCTIONS
KEY FEATURES
LESSONS LEARNED
ROADMAP
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No matter what your role, its important to know your visitors.
PUT USERS FIRST
What content will be helpful to them?
How do they want the content to be presented?
What content should be surfaced at the top versus the bottom of the page?
How do you want to engage/interact with users?
How can users create content?
I love creating compelling content that inspires others
to engage. I need to be able to create content where
ever I am, when ever I want and on any device.
GOALS
Publish organizational news
quickly and easily
EXPECTATIONS
Simple interface to create
content & connect numerous
services. Having users interact
and share insights directly on
content.
FRUSTRATIONS
Complex and tedious content
creation experience process
gets in the way of creating
content.
“KEY CHARACTERISTICS
Age
Occupation
Education
Family
Location
32
PR Manager
Bachelor’s Degree
Single
United States
FUTURE STATE
OUTLOOK
SHAREPOINT
ONEDRIVE
TEAMS
YAMMER
CURRENT STATE
OUTLOOK
SHAREPOINT
ONEDRIVE
TEAMS
YAMMER
Judy
Communicator Persona
engage communicate capture voice of the user
TOUCH POINT CHANNELS
Phone Website Mobile App
Speech Chat
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KEY FEATURES
LESSONS LEARNED
ROADMAP
Communication Sites
Perfect for internal cross-company campaigns, weekly and monthly reports or status updates, product launches, events and more
Three designs to help you jumpstart getting your message out fast, communication sites with configurable templates for the sites and pages
INITIAL DESIGNS
Topic ShowcaseShowcase
Use Cases
What are you hoping to leverage Communication sites for?
SharePoint App
Supports easy to access, engage with and create content for communication sites from any device
Create Communication Sites
Allow users to create from a selection of multiple designs
Page Templates
Ability to select your page template
User Experience
Communication Sites truly follow some great user experience patterns
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KEY FEATURES
LESSONS LEARNED
ROADMAP
Have you signed up?
Rollout has begun
Give yourself full flexibility in terms of layouts
Full-width layouts
Each news article and page can have its own set of comments
Comments
Showcase a snippet of the page content in your email
Share news via email
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Surface news on the homepage across sites
Rollup News
Ability to customize site designs to match your brand
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KEY FEATURES
LESSONS LEARNED
ROADMAP
Use Cases
Perfect for internal cross-company campaigns, weekly and monthly reports or status updates, product launches, events and more
Brainstorm to help others communicate and engage
Think of a…
• place users want to explore but cannot
• super power that could be useful for your user
• Think of some real life activities your user likes to do together with others
• story your user might find inspiring or interesting
• person your users could learn from
• task that your users rarely complete
• task that your users frequently complete
• task when they’re transitioning between places or modes
• moment in your user’s day when its time to step away from work
• moment in your user’s day when they’re planned ahead and setting goals – weight loss
• moment in your user’s day when they’re excited or proud
• moment in your user’s day when they have experiences together with others (bday, leadership summits, scavenger hunts
Get more information and share this with your team!
TRAINING AND RESOURCES
Overview
• What is a SharePoint communication site?
• Create a communication site in SharePoint Online
• Overview of Communication Sites
Create and Manage
• Add a page to a communication site
• Add or remove columns on a page
• Customize the navigation on your SharePoint site
Governance and Administration
• Manage site creation in SharePoint Online
Functionality
• Hero web part
• News web part
• Image Gallery web part
• Events web part
• People web part
• Quick Links web part
• Using web parts on SharePoint Online pages
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KEY FEATURES
LESSONS LEARNED
ROADMAP
Here is a list of things that are currently not supported
WHAT’S NOT SUPPORTED?
• Supporting Multilingual scenarios (vote)
• Approval Workflow scenarios
• Scheduling content publishing
• Root site collection template (vote)
• Create Communication sites using PowerShell, API and PnP (vote)
• Anonymous access
• Aggregation of items
• Using Communication features on non-Communication sites
• Removing access to specific web parts
• Page level breadcrumbs (vote)
• Communication Site custom templates
• Navigation does not show up in the SharePoint app
Continued releases focus on improving publishing, improving experiences, reimaging how news is shared as well as feature enhancements
PAGE AUTHORS & EDITORS ROADMAP
2017
UX IMPROVEMENTSParallax effect on hero web part
Start from an existing page or page
template
Continued page performance
enhancements
IMPROVING PUBLISHINGNew text formatting features
Bing Image Search
News reach: create from SharePoint Home
and Android, email news digest
FEATURE ENHANCEMENTSMobile Notifications for News
Comments, Likes, Views across web and
mobile
New web parts, new features in current
web parts
Office 365 Connectors for pages
2018
Q1 – Q2
HUB SITES
Hub site news with content roll-ups from
sites
IMPROVING PUBLISHINGApproval and scheduling for pages / news
Create and edit tables
Custom Page Designs
FEATURE ENHANCEMENTSMicrosoft Flow integration
@mention support
More mobile notifications scenarios
More Office 365 Connectors for pages
Key modern web parts available on classic
pages
2018
(Top of Mind)
IMPROVING PUBLISHINGCollaborative editing and Wiki capabilities
for pages
Multi-lingual support for pages
FEATURE ENHANCEMENTSSite lifecycle and management capabilities
Organizational News
Content categorization and topic-based
rollups
Continuous releases focus on enabling and supporting hub sites as well as feature enhancements
COMMUNICATION SITE OWNERS ROADMAP
2017
BRANDING IMPROVEMENTS
Out-of-box site theming and branding
IMPROVING PUBLISHINGCustom site themes and site designs
FEATURE ENHANCEMENTSNews and pages in Microsoft Teams adds
reach
Personalized search in SharePoint Home
Site usage page
2018
Q1 – Q2
HUB SITES
Communication sites work with Hub Sites
IMPROVING PUBLISHINGMore branding options and site design
actions
FEATURE ENHANCEMENTSContent categorization
New search experiences across web and
mobile
Additional insights on site and content
usage
2018
(Top of Mind)
IMPROVING PUBLISHINGCollaborative editing and Wiki capabilities
for pages
Multi-lingual support for pages
FEATURE ENHANCEMENTSSite lifecycle and management capabilities
Investments are being to simplify the administration of communication and hub sites
SHAREPOINT ADMINS ROADMAP
2017
FEATURE ENHANCEMENTSREST API for remote provisioning
(available now)
New SharePoint admin UX (preview)
Branding in modern web experiences
Custom site designs and site theming
Android App for SharePoint 2013 & 2016
2018
Q1 – Q2
FEATURE ENHANCEMENTSSharePoint hub sites
New SharePoint admin UX (GA)
More branding options and site design
actions
Want to ask more?
• Share your gaps https://sharepoint.uservoice.com
• Ask questions to the broader community https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Communications-Sites-AMA/bd-p/CommunicationsSitesAMA
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