Introducing Communication Sites for Communicators #tspbug

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Introducing Communication Sites for CommunicatorsShowcase key Office 365 “Modern” Communication Site features

By: Kanwal Khipple

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KANWAL KHIPPLE, CEO

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What we are planning on discussing today

INTRODUCING COMMUNICATION SITES

KEY FEATURES

LESSONS LEARNED

Welcome to a brave new world

INTRODUCING COMMUNICATION SITES

KEY FEATURES

LESSONS LEARNED

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

Perfect for internal cross-company campaigns, weekly and monthly reports or status updates, product launches, events and more

Use Cases

What are you hoping to leverage Communication sites for?

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

Features you should know

INTRODUCING COMMUNICATION SITES

KEY FEATURES

LESSONS LEARNED

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

Kanwal Khipple

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Surface news on the homepage across sites

Rollup News

What we have learned to date

INTRODUCING COMMUNICATION SITES

KEY FEATURES

LESSONS LEARNED

Communication Site Hacks

• Pages rollups• Leverage Site Columns and add to Library

• External Access• leverage

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

These tips work not just for Communication Sites but overall for site planning activities

Lessons Learned

• Understand what is out of the box

• Focus on content 1st and UI second

• Promote content effectively

• End user friendly emphasizes governance issues like data silos & site sprawl

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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

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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