Forum Discussion
The Future of Delve
We certainly understand and know the pain point. We've been focused on enabling good authoring experience, feel we can offer a good team or executive (CxO) style blog with a dedicated communication site + news approach; esp with coming organizational news. But alas, the personal blog alludes explicit. One can publish news often in many locations (to a team site, to a comm site, to a hub site) and the feed of it goes out to people they are related to, even if the person is not active in the site where it gets published, the Microsoft Graph knows the relations and serves up as best a "feed" it can to each user - without requiring that person to "go to someone's blog." That said, the heads are noodling in these areas for sure. One thing you got me thinking about was a way to present all news someone publishes in all places they can, and seeing the feed through the eyes of what the person logged in has permissions to view. So you would see someone's "blog" but only have visibility to the content you're allowed to view. Just thinking out loud. let's loop in John_Sanders who is our news guru these days to review and possibly add some comments; plus Dave Cohen (US) who owns some of these pieces, too. :-)
We recently enabled Delve and there was a huge push by our IT department as it would make "everyone's lives better" and increase the use of O365. I'd say people are more confused then before and aren't using it. There either needs to be some change to Delve/Graph or we are going to find people just won't see the value.
Issues we are seeing thus far:
1. People seeing content from public Outlook Groups they are not a part of or member of.
2. Seeing content from SharePoint sites, where they are a visitor, yet never been to the site.
This is either going to mean that all groups need to be private and each SharePoint site will require custom permissions and there won't be such thing as a Visitors group that includes everyone.
I would like to assume with SharePoint and Groups, you would only see content that you've either collaborated on or are a member of. This is really confusing and cluttering peoples Delve....I hope we can see some changes to the algorithm soon.
- *This* is why Delve needs to be maintained and refreshed. Where customers have invested in promoting Delve to their users a clear roadmap is needed. I would certainly agree about seeing unrelated content. It’s a concern. I do see a lot of value in the Graph and the new cross asset approach makes sense and works well. We can only put our thoughts here and hope the relevant Microsoft read them. Thanks for sharing your experience.
