Hello, it's Matt and welcome to Collaboration Coach.
In this video I'm going to show you how to create a Viva Connections news feed for your intranet home page.
You can see I've got one here
and it's got a mixture of news posts created by my organisation,
posts that came from external news sources
and also videos that I've uploaded here too.
So I'm going to show you how to add the Connections feed
and then I'm going to show you how to create the external news posts and the video news posts as well.
So the first thing to do to add the feed to your page is to edit it,
so I'll go into edit mode
and I'm going to add my feed to the top of my page.
So I'm going to go up to the top of the section,
find the plus button here so I can add a new web part
and then I'm going to type 'Viva' in the search box
and that will bring me up the feed for Viva Connections - that's the one I want.
Now when I drop this onto the page you'll see that it automatically picks up the items that it's going to show
and that will be things like news items, posts and so on.
These are things that I've already created.
The only real configuration you can do here is to change the name
so I'm going to call this 'Company feed'.
You'll notice if you go to the 'edit web part' there's basically nothing that you can change there.
But what you can do is add content to that feed by creating it
so that's what we'll do next.
So I'm just going to republish that so my home page is published and the feed is visible to everybody
and now I'm going to create some new items.
The first thing I'm going to do is create one of these video items here.
This is an example of a video news page.
I've got other examples here too - these ones here -
these are both video news posts.
So you can create a video news post from your home page by going to the 'new' button,
and choosing 'video news link'.
When you do that you get this panel pop-up on the right hand side.
Now what this needs is a url or an address for a video that is already in your SharePoint environment.
To get the link you just need to go to the SharePoint video,
'copy link' and then paste it into that box.
So let's do that now.
I've got my video stored in 'site contents'
and I've created a library called 'videos' here,
and you can see I've got a list of mp4s here,
so I'm going to choose this one here and then choose 'copy link'.
Now I'm going to make sure that everyone at Collaboration Coach with the link can edit this.
I can change that if I want to not allow editing
but I want to make sure that everybody can see it, that's the important thing.
So I can apply that and then copy that link.
Now I go back to my home page
and I'm going to go 'new',
'video newslink',
and then paste that link into the box here.
It will go away and find that video and it will ask me to change some of the metadata.
So for example I could change the preview image,
the title and the description.
The title is going to be 'Activity Overload',
and I'm going to change the image.
You're going to upload an image here.
There's my png.
When my image comes back I just press 'add image' and now that's ready to go.
So I can just hit 'post'
and now that video will appear in my company feed.
Now it doesn't happen straight away, sometimes I have to wait for a few minutes or up to an hour I've found.
So I can now close this and refresh the page
and eventually my video will appear in this list.
Now the next thing I'm going to do is add a external news post.
So this is a post that's been created by another website.
So I just need to hit the 'new' button,
choose 'news link',
and now again it's asking me for the url or the address of that particular post.
So I've got one from the Harvard Business Review,
I'm going to just copy that, paste it into the field,
and again it goes away,
finds that page,
automatically adds in a lot of metadata for me -
so it gets the preview image, the title and the description, I don't have to do anything else.
So I can hit 'post',
it will post it for me and then add it to my company feed.
Now after a little while you'll start to see your posts appear in the feed.
For example here's my video
and I can click on the play button and it will play that video straight in the browser for me,
and when it comes to the external post, if I just page through my feed I can see that here,
when I click on that it will take me to another tab and show me that page from the original website.
Notice also you can react to posts in this way,
so you can give a post a thumb,
you can also share the post from the feed through email, Yammer or just get a link.
And you can see how many views there have been
and the same applies for the video as well.
So that's how you add a Viva Connections news feed to your intranet home page.
Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you next time.
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