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Making the best use of Delve blogs - options for publishing to a wider audience?
Looking for some advice here on how to promote Delve blog posts: Delve and the Delve blogs are not currently widely used/explored yet in our organization (we are working on that! :)) but we received feedback from those colleagues who are active bloggers that it is somewhat frustrating for the blogs to have limited reach / visibility beyond the sharing option to Yammer. It's obviously not a great incentive for putting time and energy into blog posts if you think very few colleagues will see or read them. Any advice on how to address this in the current set-up of Delve and is there anything on the roadmap that could address this painpoint? I couldn't find any pointers on the O365 roadmap but maybe others here might be aware or have found good ways of dealing with the same question. Thanks!
Had also posted the same question in the general community but reposting here hoping for additional ideas.
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- I'm not a techie but I really don't understand why the Delve Blog link can't direct you to a blog solution which others in your organisation can comment on.... I don't want to link to Yammer. I've set up a team comms site in Sharepoint (as that has the option for people to comment on posts) but am unsure how to a) replace my delve pre-existing blog link (sway) to the new Sharepoint comms site and b) how to open it to everyone in my organsiation? I don't want to have to email people to look at new posts, I just want it open to everyone to view as they like... is this too much to ask?
While that seems like a very reasonable request, I would not hold my breath. From what I can tell, the Delve team has been reassigned to other work and changes to Delve should not be anticipated.
- Having seen an enigmatic post from Mr Mark-Kashman about blogs - actually a poll - today. I think something is cooking. I can only agree with@Dean Gross that proactive updates to Delve have stopped. Purely anecdotal for me as nothing official has been announced on Delve’s future.
There are some great ideas replying to this post, suggesting that blogs are featured on Communication sites and intranet sites. However, this does put a lot of onus on the Communications team or page administrators to choose what they think their colleagues should read and then manually feature these. I think development is needed to make it easier to see who is blogging in your organisation, enable users to 'follow' blogs they like and enable the sharing of blogs into other platforms like Teams and Yammer. I know you can copy/paste a link, but that doesn't present in a way that's particularly engaging, such as a thumbnail image and title.
I would agree with the thoughts here that the blogs on Delve seem somewhat unloved. My observation is that since the Graph has become more embedded across Office 365 the focus has drifted from Delve which was used very much as a showcase in the early days of Graph development.
What would make sense is to bring blogs into Communication Sites to give them visibility but also to fill some of the gaps in what is, to me, quite a basic offering. Alternatively, just deprecate this functionality if uptake is that low.
Mark-Kashman Naomi Moneypenny any thoughts on the future of Delve blogs?
- I agree with the idea of promoting in news articles - or on the home page of the intranet or in Yammer. I have some other ideas if you can write some code - you could probably use the Graph to showcase the latest posts of key bloggers on the intranet automagically.
I replied to the original thread, I mentioned perhaps using SharePoint Communication Sites, once available, as a way to showcase blogs or use the news feature instead for publishing articles.
I would like to know as well, did the Delve blogs ever take off, they seem rather stranded and a bit unloved but I could be completely wrong? Will the things Lucy mentioned improve anytime soon if anyone knows?
I have had the same thoughts! The blog option could be a great way for teachers in my district to share ideas, but the blogs are limited and not easily accessed. Would love to hear how others are using the Blog.
