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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 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. :-)
Thanks for the reply Mark-Kashman, the value of this community is when MSFT leaders come and share. We don't expect you to have all the answers but at least giving some insight to the current thinking.
Having said that, you answered about personal blogs (which would be good to hear about), but this thread is about several things -- Delve, the profile page, blogs, and LinkedIn too. You want us to build communities in our companies, and we are all on board. The heart of communities within a company is the extended profile -- who the person is, the role, their work, and their point of view. Yammer is great for shorter form, but beyond that we should make a Communications Site for employee blogs? If the existing blogs are not a thing you plan on supporting, let us know so we can start phasing them out. Does anyone at Microsoft write internal blogs? If so, in what part of the platform?
Please continue to share here, it is much appreciated!
Rob.
RobOK wrote:Thanks for the reply Mark-Kashman, the value of this community is when MSFT leaders come and share. We don't expect you to have all the answers but at least giving some insight to the current thinking.
Having said that, you answered about personal blogs (which would be good to hear about), but this thread is about several things -- Delve, the profile page, blogs, and LinkedIn too. You want us to build communities in our companies, and we are all on board. The heart of communities within a company is the extended profile -- who the person is, the role, their work, and their point of view. Yammer is great for shorter form, but beyond that we should make a Communications Site for employee blogs? If the existing blogs are not a thing you plan on supporting, let us know so we can start phasing them out. Does anyone at Microsoft write internal blogs? If so, in what part of the platform?
Please continue to share here, it is much appreciated!
Rob.
Mark-Kashman Is there any progress on Profiles? If you could mature them and surface them more, it would be great. For example, I want the skills, projects, and schools to be clickable so I can see all people with the same tag.
Is anything being done in this area?
Rob.
We don't use blogs here at the moment (and I don't expect them to take off) but we do have colleagues on Yammer who have created a 'personal' group and post like a blog. They work incredibly well for a mostly non-desk based workforce. In fact one of our most interesting groups is the blog from one of our door men ...
Diageo do the same thing with a group for the CEO who posts his musings every Sunday evening. I'm hoping we replicate this here as well.
Garry @ Selfridges
Thanks Garry Rawlins ... we use Yammer actively but more for links and short comments, not long form. We are not using blogs a lot but have 2-3 users who have extensively and I want to recognize them.
Hopefully we get updates here not only on Blogs, but Profiles, Delve, LinkedIn, etc.
