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Announcements - How do I see them in this new network?
Mark-Kashman recently posted a huge announcement for SharePoint & Groups. Thankfully he posted on Yammer since that jumped right out at me - he included the link for the announcement on this new network that I had never seen or was notified about.
Perhaps I am doing something wrong - but how can I set myelf up to see these big announcements from all the product teams like I was able to do by joining a group in Yammer?
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Hi Adrian. To put it simply, it appears to me that this new platform does not support the notion of "announcements", i.e. there are only plain posts, no matter how "authoritative" they are.
Am I correct?
- Thanks Darrell - So in this case SharePoint is the Community and video (for example) is one of the Spaces? This unfortunately does not get me what I want. In Yammer I can join the SharePoint or Video group, but I don't want to get emails for every discussion. But when Mark makes an announcement, I do get an email and in Yammer I get a visual indication there is something to go look at. On the topic of visual indications, it took me 8 frustrating minutes just to find this thread again to respond to you. I am not seeing anything on this site that says someone responded to me etc. Is there a way to do that here? I don't want to have to go back to Outlook every time I want to find a discussion I am interested in.
Yes, it is a big change from the Yammer announcements feature we all benefitted from. So far I see the options are
- Subscribe to a Space and get notification of all conversations. Much like belonging to a distribution list.
- Reply to or subscribe to a conversation and get all responses to that conversation.
It isn't clear to me yet whether being a member of a Space without subscribing to updates, will mean I can still receive announcements in a space.
MichaelHolste, Lana O'Brien AnnaChu- might you have something to add here?
- MichaelHolste
Microsoft
Hey Darrell, I missed one of your questions. You can subscribe to a space, but 'membership' only exists at the Community Level (one level up).
-Mike
- Hi Adrian. Good to see you join the network.
In this network are Communities and the subset of discussions are in Spaces. Spaces are where the conversations are held. You can subscribe to a Space to receive conversations via email. Look for the Ellipses ... menu on the Space title and choose subscribe. In my attached pic, I have subscribed already, so I see the Unsubscribe option.
There were some early teething problems getting the emails sent to Space subscribers. But I think it's working now.In IE11 (Win7 or 10), I don't see the ellipses on the Space menu, or next to the Conversation Options heading. They are there if I hover my mouse, but they don't appear at all. I do see them in Edge, so that plus this thread is the only reason I figured out how to subscribe and replicate the Yammer Daily Digest.
