Coming up, we've designed the new Microsoft Tech Community
as a single place where experts in the community can share,
collaborate, and learn across Microsoft products and services.
Over the next few minutes, I'll show you how to
personalize your experience,
search for answers to your questions,
and see and discuss popular event content.
Microsoft Tech Community is available for anyone to read,
search and view content posted without the need to sign in.
But, to get the full value to post, reply or like the content you see,
you'll need to sign up with your Microsoft account.
The first thing you need to do is go to techcommunity.microsoft.com.
Click on the prompt to sign in.
I'll be signing in as Katie today.
It will ask for your permission to use your profile.
So here I'm at the on-boarding experience.
Here you can select a number of different communities for you to personalize your experience.
I'm going to join a number of communities starting with Delve,
Excel, Office 365 and I'll add SharePoint as well.
So after I've joined these communities,
I can choose to add my organizational ID
which is my work email address.
But, that is optional.
I can accept the terms of service
By accepting the terms of service and hitting submit,
I should be a member of the new community.
And, I should be signed in as Katie Jordan.
So here you can see this is the landing page for the Microsoft Tech Community.
I want to see how it personalized my experience by clicking "My Home" in the navigation menu.
So, after clicking "My home",
you should be able to see all the communities that have already joined
as part of this demo.
And you can see all the latest conversations that are related to the communities
that have already joined such as, SharePoint and Office 365.
I can also see all the most popular posts that have been here
based on the number of replies and likes in this community.
I can also see which conversations have had the most experts join these conversations.
So we've named experts here in this community as MVPs
who are external experts in the community.
We've also got Microsoft Product managers.
Any Microsoft employee has a ring around their avatar which is blue.
MVPs have green rings.
Our commuity managers are also present here in the Microsoft Community
with red ring around their avatar as well.
Simply by hovering over the avatars,
you can see more detail about the roles they're in here in the Microsoft Tech Community.
Scrolling down a little bit further, you can see those four communities that I've just joined.
You'll also notice that at the very top here
there is a prompt asks telling me
that there are no spaces that I've joined so far.
So to just give you a little bit more of an explanation about spaces
let me go to the Office 365 Community
and show you a number of spaces that we have here.
Think of each community
as holding a number of different spaces to have different conversations
I could have conversations about Admin Center, Developer and many more.
There are a number of different spaces that I can favorite
using the heart icon at the very top right.
By clicking here, these will be added as favorite spaces in my personalized home exprience.
Within this Office 365 community, you can see there are a number of things happening here.
There are a number of announcements that I can see through the space on the right hand side here.
I can see the top contributors that are part of this particular community,
such as our MVPs here as well.
And you can also see all the different discussions around Office 365
that are populated through here as well.
So let's take a look at the Office 365 space I've just favorited.
As you can see we have a number of different things we we can see here.
we can see featured conversations
such as this migration challenge conversation here.
You can also see the latest conversations
that have been part of this Office 365 space.
You can see a number of relevant resources to Office 365
that we as Community Managers have pinned to the right-hand side.
So what if I want to find an answer to my question?
I can easily search the community for answers.
For instance I have a question about Office 365 governance
And quickly I can find responses populated via search.
I can see there's already a post about global admin.
I can click through to that response and see what I can find.
After selecting this result, I can see this question has 16 different responses.
I can get to an answer quickly by "View best response".
As you participate in the community, you can also strengthen your community credibility.
I've clicked on Jeremy's profile and I can see his information and his latest contributions.
If I click on achievements,
I can see the badges that he's earned based on his activity in the community.
The more you participate, the greater your involvement appears to others.
So let me show you how to go about writing your first post.
Since I was in the admin center space,
It reminded me of Ann Michaels recent Mechanics video which I want to share with the community.
I want to post a new post.
So I'm going to click here.
And i'm going to type in the Mechanics video
for the admin center.
And, paste my content.
And I want to embed the video into my post so others can watch it.
I can choose a label to make it easy for others to be able to find my post through search.
So I'm going to click on Office 365.
Add admin and hit post.
The Tech Community is also a hub for useful event-related learning content and discussion.
For example, here I'm interested in seeing what information exists.
around Microsoft's Tech Summit events.
I'm going to search for Tech Summit.
And i'm interested in the Office 365 Sessions.
And I can see a post
that has populated all the Office 365 sessions at the Tech Summit.
I'm interested in learning more about groups.
So I can click through and see the session content
including a video recording of session is posted.
The deck is also available to download.
So that was a quick tour of the Microsoft Tech Community.
Your online community for discussions and best practices on Microsoft products you care most about.
We hope that you'll head over to techcommunity.microsoft.com
and sign up today.
You can also follow us on Twitter for major news and posts we promotes.
Thanks for watching and we'll hope to see you in the community.
Microsoft Mechanics
www.microsoft.com/mechanics