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. :-)
Appreciate the transparency Mark.
I do like the idea of a blog related to a person's profile and not related to a site (some other collab platforms have the same idea). But, given the current state of the Delve blog (and Delve as a "thing" generally) it might be better to remove the feature than limp along in the current state. I certainly don't view it as a high priority for the SharePoint/OneDrive team.
I know there's infrastructure related to OneDrive that might be a place for personal "pages" to be stored, maybe that's a solution.
If we move away from the existing blogs, I'd hope Microsoft would provide a way to transition content from the old system to the new. I can't be the only one using the Blog functionality.
Right now Blogs is the main thing I use Delve for. Boards could be very useful but rely on everyone playing nice and storing documents on OneDrive/SharePoint. Blogs are great to create an aide memoire for myself and to record information in a way that other people can access if they want/need, especially whe it's somethignt hat doesn't relate to a specific team (organisational unit), Team (on Teams) or project. For example I attended Evolve Conference yesterday and will over the next few days type up my notes from the talks I attended. Most of what I learned there isn't connected to any project I'm on at the moment, nor does it relate a specific team/Team in our organisation, but it might be useful background for someone or cause management to say "Hey, Stephen seems to know a bit about this, we'll put him on the new, hot and interesting project we're about to kick off."
If Blogs in Delve do die I hope there will be an opportunity to export the content and republish elsewhere. I suppose I could always copy-paste into my Wordpress?
