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Introducing Communication Sites for CommunicatorsShowcase key Office 365 “Modern” Communication Site features
By: Kanwal Khipple
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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?
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
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
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
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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