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Susan Hanley is a consultant, author and Microsoft Office Apps and Services MVP. She specializes in helping organizations build effective intranet and collaboration solutions using SharePoint. You can find her speaking schedule, white papers, books and conference presentations at www.susanhanley.com.
What you need to know about linking to files and pages in SharePoint
SharePoint Online has some great capabilities when it comes to creating "durable" links to files. But, it turns out that the type of file and the type of link and your browser can deliver different experiences. In other words: It’s...
Viva Connections: What your intranet wants to be
With Microsoft Viva, companies get a new integrated Employee Experience Platform that brings together communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights in a collection of apps delivered in Teams. Here's how Viva Connections...
Great news for intranets at Microsoft Ignite 2020
Navigation, branding, and more ways to engage and delight were big intranet themes at this year's Ignite event.
How to connect a Yammer community to a communication site
One of the best ways to get engagement on intranet sites is to bring a relevant Yammer community to SharePoint using the Yammer Conversations web part. Here's how you go the other way and connect your Yammer community to your...
Which is better for collaboration – Yammer or Microsoft Teams?
Fundamentally, both Yammer and Teams (and email) are about conversation – but they support different types of communication and are for different audiences. The choice about which app to use depends on both.
There's new and updated planning resources for modern intranets in Microsoft 365
Here's useful guidance and best practices to help you get started with a new intranet project and helpful advice about moving from classic to modern SharePoint.
7 tips to help create and manage multilingual SharePoint communication sites
Microsoft 365 now lets you create intranet sites in multiple languages. You can create pages and news in a user’s preferred language, and show site navigation, site title, and the site description in the preferred language, too. The...
SharePoint tips and resources for your COVID-19 communication site
Here's some helpful tips and reliable resources for your SharePoint crisis management site to support your organization during the COVID-19 pandemic.
8 capabilities that should be among your 2020 SharePoint intranet resolutions
The beginning of the year is a great time to think about intranet goals. And now that were seeing the rollout of new capabilities announced for SharePoint at Microsoft Ignite 2019, I wanted to share my favorites – and offer advice...
Introducing Project Cortex: The future of enterprise knowledge gets a big boost at Ignite
Microsoft is touting game-changing knowledge management innovations at its Ignite 2019 event. Project Cortex is a new service in Microsoft 365 that uses AI to reason over organizational data and organize it into shared topics like...
A site by any other name: renaming the site address in SharePoint Online
Site address renaming is rolling out to Office 365 tenants now. Here’s what I learned from my first site address rename on a production site.
One simple view to improve SharePoint page and site management
Adding a few key columns to the All Pages view in the Site Pages library in modern SharePoint sites can be a game changer for Site Owners when it comes to de-bugging and content management. This is especially important for...
Tips for where to post news articles in SharePoint Online
You wrote it, but will it get read? Learn where to post news articles in SharePoint to get the most visibility.
Welcome to the intelligent intranet: Key announcements from SharePoint Conference 2019
Microsoft announces new intranet capabilities for SharePoint and Office 365.
6 tips to get mega value from the new megamenu navigation for SharePoint
Follow these six tips to get started with the new megamenu navigation option for SharePoint online communication sites.
Resources to help you modernize your SharePoint intranet
Thinking about converting your classic SharePoint intranet to modern? Use these great recent resources to guide and inspire your planning.
Microsoft Ignite 2018: Fantastic new capabilities for intranets announced
Day 1 of Ignite 2018 brought us new capabilities for modern intranets. SharePoint and Office 365 are ready to deliver engaging modern, mobile-friendly, intranets in the cloud.
How updates to SharePoint self-service site creation affect governance, IA
Updates to Microsoft's SharePoint Online make it easier to upgrade to the new modern team site experiences. But they could affect your information architecture and governance plan.
6 tips for planning SharePoint hub sites
Get the most value from SharePoint hub sites with advance planning — here's how to get started.
2018 SharePoint Conference: Key announcements for information architects
At last week's 2018 SharePoint Conference, Microsoft announced new experiences to showcase custom metadata in Teams and on pages.
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