team productivity tools constantly evolve and over the last couple of years we've had some
interesting innovations and with that microsoft continued to invest in their hybrid remote and
asynchronous communication platforms to help build better ways of working well
microsoft have introduced a brand new feature as part of the viva engage platform which is an
interesting take on workplace productivity and collaboration and in today's video we're going
to look at storylines to help you understand what this new feature does and explore how it embeds
inside of their viva engage platform for taking your productivity and collaboration a step further
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so make sure you hit like and subscribe if you enjoy this video so microsoft have introduced
storylines now you're probably wondering this looks very similar to something i know facebook
instagram maybe even snapchat or tick tock the ability to see stories has been something we've
used over the last five years and they want to bring this to the workplace essentially
it's very much the same you can upload stories through the mobile application and be able to
view them in a carousel much like you would with facebook scrolling through it you can see updates
from your company leaders company employees or maybe even just colleagues you're working with
and they suggest uploading things that you and your company might need to know across the day
and it's an interesting new more personal approach when using hybrid and remote work now this is
so weird to see but it is part of something called the viva engage platform where essentially if you
go in you'll have a profile and i know what you're saying this looks super similar to facebook and
it does essentially you'll have a profile where you can upload storylines which are essentially
announcements achievements and feedback that you can post to your company and they'll basically be
broadcasted out to everyone or the community that you choose now from here people can comment join
communities and interact with you and helping to build a more sort of collaborative environment and
i guess a more healthy environment focusing more on the person as well you can join communities not
just about work but also about topics like pet lovers where you can share photos of your dog
i think they're trying to build this sort of interactive community especially the a lot of
the sort of apps don't have this because there's this not this sort of water cooler conversation
that doesn't happen for hybrid or remote people so i think they're trying to bridge that gap between
that audiences now you're probably wondering is this brand new and do microsoft intend to continue
to evolve this well actually this feature or this sort of feature was released with slack back in
october 2020 at one of their events they announced they'd introduced something called video stories
which i i personally like the concept of the idea but the practicalities of people actually doing
it across a workday is a whole different story i would find it a little bit weird recording a
video update and posting it but then the world has evolved so much in the last couple of years that i
think people are a lot more comfortable than they used to be at least i'm just saying this i'm even
somebody who creates video on youtube and i'm not as comfortable uploading short videos to
colleagues but i definitely see microsoft having an investment in this hybrid and remote experience
and i guess if a company is that remote bringing together the communities the engaged platform
and that the ability to upload stories is something that they're going to try differently
now one of the most interesting things from this whole announcement is they're actually going to be
embedding this in platforms like yammer microsoft teams and outlook so you'll be able to see stories
from those experiences which is so strange i remember somebody posting something about
outlook stories being a thing in the future and it probably might be the ability to see a story
of what your colleague is working on right now or next could be quite interesting but quite
distracting when you're browsing your email but an interesting update for the microsoft 365 platform
now we're set to do another feature on 365 updates that are more recent so if you're
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below thank you very much folks i hope you enjoyed this share what you think about this new feature
it's so strange to see um and i'd honestly love to hear what everyone else is thinking in their minds
thank you very much folks and i'll talk to you all very soon cheerio for now