>> Thanks so much for joining me.
I'm excited to show you the possibilities
of what we can do with your social intranet.
Let's get started with looking at Yammer.
You know Yammer from how to connect
your organization across lots of geographies,
across multiple functions, and lots of ways
to connect people across your entire organization.
We can think of Yammer in terms of
the communities that you can create.
Both the communities of practice,
and the communities of interest,
as well as just being able to put people in
a place maybe where they can connect with leaders.
I'm showcasing here one of
the things that we do at Microsoft.
We have a group for Satya, our CEO,
and he's able there to share his top of mind,
and share his understanding about
what's going on inside of the organization.
While also getting great feedback from us, his employees.
As I scroll through, you'll see that I
have a vibrant and rich community.
People are engaging, they're
sharing videos and conversations,
and it's a great way to really get that top of
mind and understand the voice of our employees,
as well as what our senior leadership team
is also thinking about.
As I scroll through here, I think okay,
wouldn't it be great if I could have
this conversation also be part of our intranet site.
As many of you do inside of your organizations,
we have intranet sites that really
help to showcase the latest content
from a news perspective
maybe articles or even blogs from our senior leaders.
I can showcase this content as part of what we're
doing here in a SharePoint communications site.
As I scroll through, you'll see that I have
great conversations available to
me from my Yammer community,
and I can also see that I have news articles
coming as well as understanding polls,
and surveys, and other web parts
that I might be able to feature as part of this.
I can see the latest content could be policy documents,
procedures, whatever it is that you want to share.
But it's really using that rich set
of communication capabilities,
that we have built into SharePoint.
So let's explore a little bit more
about what we can do with Yammer,
and bring these conversations
into what you're doing with communication sites,
as well as your existing team sites.
I'm going to go ahead
and actually create a whole new site.
And when you look at this new site,
and really pick out a template,
we can think about the different
options that we want to use.
When I look at team sites,
it's really about collaboration every single day,
and so that core group of
people that you're working with,
and understanding the focus is really the content.
I'm going to choose to use a communication site.
A communication site is really about broadly
informing and engaging with your entire base.
So, it could be an audience,
maybe it's something about your
project that you want to share with
a wide group of stakeholders inside your organization,
or in fact it might just be something that helps
you to communicate out new information,
or perhaps even create a new group
for a specific leader who
wants to share their top of mind.
So whatever you want to really inform and engage,
the communications site is a great place to start.
I can pick out these different layouts, for example,
I've got topics, I've got
a showcase site that I can pick out.
So, I'm going to go ahead and click "Topic,"
and we're going to give this site a name.
I'm going to say it's called "Leadership Connection,"
and it will create the site as part of this.
I will click on the site description
which I could fill out later,
and I can actually give it
some classification information too.
In this case it's general purpose,
because basically everybody in
my intranet is able to access this.
You can customize these site classification levels
to whatever you need them to be.
I'm going to click "Finish" here,
and that beautiful communication site
is going to be created right away for me.
One of the great things we have as
part of this communication site is
it makes it really easy to
showcase the content that you need.
When the site is created, you'll see that I
get a rich set of functionality.
And so, when I look through here, I can see "okay,
this is information I
understand what I'm supposed to do here."
I've got news, I've got events perhaps
that I want to feature, different documents."
I'm really looking at all of that piece that's here.
What I want to do though, is make sure that I'm
able to include my conversations from Yammer.
I'm going to click "Edit,"
and I'll get available to me the different guides here.
You'll see that I have section breaks on the site here,
so I can actually create
different sections as part of my page layout here.
I could add in a couple of
columns if I wanted to to split the orientation,
or I can just click through here
and open up the Web part gallery.
When I click through, you'll see that I get all of
the web parts that are available
to me as part of SharePoint.
So, there's a really rich set of
functionality that we have here.
I can click through, you may be
familiar with some of these already,
the one we showed at the top of
the page is called the hero Web part,
it usually has a lot of content and images as part of it.
We have "Microsoft Forms" which
allows us to do polling and surveying.
And we've got a "People" Web part that
helps you to showcase maybe experts,
or people that you should be contacting
as part of your project.
And then we have "Twitter," and finally "Yammer."
So let's talk about the Yammer Web part,
and how we can help make
that connection between both the content of
our intranet site and
the conversations that you're having
inside of your community.
As I scroll through here, you'll see
that I have some different options.
But it all starts with identifying your Yammer community.
So, I'm going to type for CEO Connection,
and you'll see that it's automatically populated.
Now auto-population is happening
because I'm logged into Office 365,
and it knows the Yammer communities
that I have access to.
I click through on to CEO Connection,
you'll see that I get a range of options.
I can already see that there's
some content coming up as part of my web part here,
and you'll see that it's populating
this in a great card format.
I can see here that I have a range of different options.
So, "Top Conversations" allows me to
actually feature the most
popular conversations in a group.
So this is a great way if you just want to
engage people inside of your community.
Maybe they're going to come into your community for
the first time through your intranet site.
So, this is a good way to be able to
say here's what's popular,
here's the replies, maybe the amount of likes.
It's kind of a great way to showcase
the conversations that are popular,
and really refresh all the time.
You can see I also have this option
here for Latest Conversations.
And those Latest Conversations are personal to you.
So if you've already been into
the CEO Connection group in this case,
and you visited that content as part of Yammer,
you're going to see the latest conversations
since you were last there.
This is a good way to keep up to date as
much as possible with the latest in the group.
So, because it's personal to you,
oftentimes we think about
this Latest Conversations piece as
being a way to actually showcase
information in a team site,
maybe a little bit more than a communication site.
But you have the option. You can choose whichever
one is most appropriate, for both your site,
or your article, or your page that you're creating,
and think about which is the best way
that you want to engage that community.
You don't have to permanently make this choice either.
You can edit the setting at any time,
and I'll show you how to do that later.
We can also just curate
different conversations specifically for this page.
Because this is the home page of my specific site,
maybe there are questions that people ask all the time.
Maybe there are threads that have gone on before
that I think could be beneficial to everybody.
And so I can actually copy and paste here
different links to those specific conversations.
Let me show you how to do that.
Let's click over back to our CEO Connection group.
So for example, if I wanted
to feature Andy's conversation
here about diversity recruiting
because it's a common question that comes up,
I can click through onto the ellipsis
here and go to "View Conversation."
"View Conversation" will take me to
a page in Yammer that basically shows that
entire string of thread and helps me
to get all of the content in one place.
I might take that URL and copy it,
and then I'm going to paste it over here into this box.
You'll see that immediately the card pops up on
the side and I can see
that multiple people have replied here,
and that multiple people have liked the thread.
And so it's a great way to be able to curate
specific conversations that you want within
that same group and really use that as
a basis to have a springboarder for your conversations.
I'm going to go back to Top Conversations for now,
and you'll see that automatically we're
able to have that come up and
I'm going to click "Publish" and we'll scroll
down and you'll see our
conversations have popped up here.
If I wanted to go in and then edit this Web Part,
it's very easy to do.
Like I said before, you can change
this at any time so whatever
setting is working for you maybe
you're running a specific campaign,
or maybe you have a different piece
of conversations that you're going to highlight,
then you're able to change that at any time.
I'll click "Edit" here and then you'll see
that it's easy to manipulate this Web Part.
As I scroll over the Web Part,
you'll see that I get this little pen icon here
which is the editing text and allows
me to go through and choose
these different options and change them as I wish.
You'll also see that we have another option here.
It says "Use the classic version of Conversations."
And so this is referencing back to
a different style of feed that
we had available for Yammer.
This may be a good choice if you want to
see all of the conversations that are
going on and the whole thread so you'll see
both the thread starter or
where the initial post that started the conversation,
and then you're going to see all of
the replies as part of that too.
This feed does not work on
the mobile application for SharePoint.
So it's something you should be aware of
and it's why it's our classic version.
But it can be used in lots of
different situations too so,
you should try to pick out generally
the one that works best for you.
In this case, we're going to use
the latest version and that's what we're going to
recommend as the default but
if you have options that you need the classic version,
that's why we have it there for you too.
So I'm going to stick with my top conversations,
I'm going to click out of this page and hit "Publish."
I'm going to show you quickly also how to create
a new news article because you would
think about how these conversations come about.
Maybe you're on a post about
an upcoming broadcast or
an event that's going to happen or
maybe you're sharing something from a field trip
or some other visit where you're publishing out news.
I can easily publish news by
going to the SharePoint home page.
When I click through onto the SharePoint home page
you'll see that I get a range of options.
This is my personalized feed here and
these news articles that are up
here are actually personal to me.
So they're being powered by
the Microsoft Graph and it
actually allows me to get content that
maybe I didn't get promoted to but it's really
understanding what it may be of interest
to me based on what it is
we're doing with our colleagues.
I'm going to create a new news post
here and I can pick out the site that I recently created,
in this case Leadership Connection.
And when I create that new news post,
then I can look at
the different ways to include the Web Part.
Again, specifically to what you're
doing for your news articles,
you can pick out the right kind of feed.
It's important to engage
that conversation in that community,
so think carefully about
what options and what conversations
you're trying to showcase here.
So I can name my page here and I think
my news article is going to be about
a recent field trip for example.
And so we'll click through here.
I'm going to add in some nice images and so,
I could do a web search for example if I wanted to do
that so I'm just going to
pick one of these backgrounds here.
They're powered by Bing and they're available
with all the Creative Commons
information as part of that too.
I can drag to set a focal point on this specific image,
so if it's a person's face
or whatever I want to show I can do that.
And then I've got this great information here.
So, I can click through and add
a Web Part here that shows you how to add text,
or images, or other kinds of content too.
It's a rich publishing set here so I can
copy and paste in things even bulleted list from Word.
And let's about the recent travel and what we've learned.
So, I'm just going to type in some text for
now and then you'll see
that I have rich
editing capabilities here too so I can make this bold,
I could make it into a headline for example.
So all those capabilities are built straight in there.
I'm going to go ahead and add
my conversations now from the Community.
So, scroll through I can do a couple of different things,
if the list looks very long of
the different Web Parts you can
just search for Yammer right here.
So I can do that and
then you'll get this familiar interface.
Again, think about where you want the conversations
for this specific article to be posted inside of Yammer.
So in this case I'm still going to
pick our CEO Connection group,
and I'm going to say only the latest conversations
need to be a part of this.
And so that card format is automatically there,
it's part of the page now that I have for
my news articles and
here's the conversations they're about.
You can see that I can click through and post
straight to Yammer right from the Web Part.
When I do that, I'm going to add in some text here say,
"It's great to hear about this recent field
trip," and this will post directly to my Yammer group.
So I click "Post" and you will get
that message confirmation that we've posted
to Yammer and I can also click through to
see the conversation inside of the Yammer group.
So it's a really great way to
engage people right there but have
all of those conversations be
still housed in the same place in Yammer.
So all those conversations will be curated into
that CEO Connection group, makes it really easy.
And then I can see that conversation continue it here,
and click "Like", I can do replies et cetera.
So I can agree here and say "Yes,"
I'm just going to click "Post" as part of that.
And then you'll see that when I go over here
that my conversations have updated on the page.
And I'll refresh the page so you
can see the latest as part of
this. There we go.
So here's our latest conversation,
the one I just posted and you can see the reply there.
And you'll see that the like count and
the reply part is in here also.
So, I think this is a great way to
really showcase the capabilities that
we have as part of the new
Yammer Web Part inside of SharePoint,
and think about the ways to
build out your social intranet.
When we encourage you as you think about
the SharePoint sites whether
they're team sites or communication sites,
of how you're actually engaging
conversations inside of your communities.
We have a great range of options as part of the Web Part,
and it's all natively mobile supported.
So it makes it easy for anybody to
participate as part of your intranet content.
I hope this has been helpful to you
today and look forward to
any questions or comments you may have
on how to build your social intranet.