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. :-)
Related to Delve, I would also like to know the future of Profiles, will there be a home for them (People Explorer?) that integrates LinkedIn when Delve no longer exists? People Explorer would allow you to click on a skill or fact like University and see all the people with that same thing. [EDIT: I just found something close to this in the new search capability]
Second, personal blogs. We have a few people who go to the trouble of digging through Delve to write a personal blog, but they are never surfaced and there is no Home Base for people to see them (unless I am missing something).
So much potential, so little "there" there...
Blogs is the main thing I use Delve for, mostly after I've been to a tech event to type up my notes so they are accessible to me when I need them and so I can share them with colleagues who need to know what I learned at the event.
I could type them up in OneNote but frankly find it an awful interface for that, too freeform, OneNote is for taking initial notes as best I can tell, not a final presentation foe the edited version. Sharepoint blogs are a pain to use, UX from the 90s and on root canal surgery level. Delve blogs have a good UX and just work. Hopefully MS will port them to SharePoint or something.
Delve makes a good single pane of glass to access what I need to access.