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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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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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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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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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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