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Laurie Pottmeyer
Apr 28, 2020Former Employee
Using Tags in Teams
Hi there -
I wanted to share one of the features that I am starting to use a lot that many of you might find useful and that's adding a tag to an individual. Annie Colonna just wrote a blog abou...
Laurie Pottmeyer
Apr 28, 2020Former Employee
adam deltinger - That's a good one. My next use-case will be in the MVP team I manage where I'd like to assign tags to each MVP who has a specific interest/focus area so that when I want to ask for feedback or call their attention to something, I can mention the tag for the same reasons - people don't always stumble upon things but I don't want to clutter everyone's activity feed with notifications to different channels they might be in with details they don't really care about. Of course, this could create a lot of noise so I need to be strategic about what the tags are and make it opt-in.
Vesa Nopanen
Apr 28, 2020MVP
I think you had the keywords there "could create a lots of noise" and since tags act just like atmentioning a person it can do a lot of harm if used too much. Harm would be = it feels like a noise, people turn off atmentioned notifications which is one of keys how Teams excels.
Tags can be really useful, and they can speed up lots of things since you don't need to know who you need to tag separately - you just need to know the tag that works for the situation.
Smart use of tags can decrease the number of group chats and keep the work transparent. In short: tags can replace some need for channels and group chats and make Teams a better place! Thank you for this post Laurie!
Tags can be really useful, and they can speed up lots of things since you don't need to know who you need to tag separately - you just need to know the tag that works for the situation.
Smart use of tags can decrease the number of group chats and keep the work transparent. In short: tags can replace some need for channels and group chats and make Teams a better place! Thank you for this post Laurie!