Are you an internal communicator who owns and manages the intranet? Are you looking to redesign your intranet but are not sure how Microsoft's Modern Communication sites fit into your project? Attend this session to learn about what features Communication Sites provide and how you can leverage them. This session will also be demo heavy to showcase key features that are available for 1st Release users in Office 365 tenants.

1. Introducing Communication
Sites for Communicators
Showcase key Office 365 “Modern” Communication Site features
By: Kanwal Khipple
#spsottawa
October 28, 2017

2. SharePoint
DIGITAL HUB
Your digital hub surfaces content, encourages expertise search
and allows you to build experiences that simplify decisions
Services

3. What we are planning on discussing today
INTRODUCTIONS
KEY FEATURES
LESSONS LEARNED
ROADMAP

4. SPEAKER | AUTHOR | SUPER GOOD LOOKING
KANWAL KHIPPLE, CEO
@kkhipple
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5. No matter what your role, its important to know your visitors.
PUT USERS FIRST
What content will be helpful to them?
How do they want the content to be presented?
What content should be surfaced at the top versus the bottom of the page?
How do you want to engage/interact with users?
How can users create content?

6. I love creating compelling content that inspires others
to engage. I need to be able to create content where
ever I am, when ever I want and on any device.
GOALS
Publish organizational news
quickly and easily
EXPECTATIONS
Simple interface to create
content & connect numerous
services. Having users interact
and share insights directly on
content.
FRUSTRATIONS
Complex and tedious content
creation experience process
gets in the way of creating
content.
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KEY CHARACTERISTICS
Age
Occupation
Education
Family
Location
32
PR Manager
Bachelor’s Degree
Single
United States
FUTURE STATE
OUTLOOK
SHAREPOINT
ONEDRIVE
TEAMS
YAMMER
CURRENT STATE
OUTLOOK
SHAREPOINT
ONEDRIVE
TEAMS
YAMMER
Judy
Communicator Persona
engage communicate capture voice of the user
TOUCH POINT CHANNELS
Phone Website Mobile App
Speech Chat

7. Summarize agenda item 2
INTRODUCTIONS
KEY FEATURES
LESSONS LEARNED
ROADMAP

8. Communication
Sites
Perfect for internal
cross-company
campaigns, weekly and
monthly reports or
status updates, product
launches, events and
more

9. Three designs to help you jumpstart getting your message out fast,
communication sites with configurable templates for the sites and pages
INITIAL DESIGNS
Topic ShowcaseShowcase

10. Use Cases
What are you hoping to
leverage
Communication sites
for?

11. SharePoint App
Supports easy to
access, engage with and
create content for
communication sites
from any device

12. Create
Communication
Sites
Allow users to create
from a selection of
multiple designs

13. Page Templates
Ability to select your
page template

14. User Experience
Communication Sites
truly follow some great
user experience
patterns

15. Summarize agenda item 2
INTRODUCTIONS
KEY FEATURES
LESSONS LEARNED
ROADMAP

16. Have you signed up?
Rollout has begun

17. Give yourself full flexibility in terms of layouts
Full-width layouts

18. Each news article and page can have its own set of comments
Comments

19. Showcase a snippet of the page content in your email
Share news via email
Kanwal Khipple
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20. Surface news on the homepage across sites
Rollup News

21. Ability to customize site designs to match your brand

22. Summarize agenda item 3
INTRODUCTIONS
KEY FEATURES
LESSONS LEARNED
ROADMAP

23. Use Cases
Perfect for internal
cross-company
campaigns, weekly and
monthly reports or
status updates, product
launches, events and
more

24. Brainstorm to help others communicate and engage
Think of a…
• place users want to explore but cannot
• super power that could be useful for your user
• Think of some real life activities your user likes to do together with others
• story your user might find inspiring or interesting
• person your users could learn from
• task that your users rarely complete
• task that your users frequently complete
• task when they’re transitioning between places or modes
• moment in your user’s day when its time to step away from work
• moment in your user’s day when they’re planned ahead and setting goals – weight loss
• moment in your user’s day when they’re excited or proud
• moment in your user’s day when they have experiences together with others (bday, leadership summits, scavenger hunts

25. Get more information and share this with your team!
TRAINING AND RESOURCES
Overview
• What is a SharePoint communication site?
• Create a communication site in SharePoint Online
• Overview of Communication Sites
Create and Manage
• Add a page to a communication site
• Add or remove columns on a page
• Customize the navigation on your SharePoint site
Governance and Administration
• Manage site creation in SharePoint Online
Functionality
• Hero web part
• News web part
• Image Gallery web part
• Events web part
• People web part
• Quick Links web part
• Using web parts on SharePoint Online pages

26. Give you guidance and recommendations to successfully plan and
implement an Office 365 Intranet http://office365intranets.com
DOWNLOAD INTRANETS WITH
OFFICE 365 WHITEPAPER!

27. Summarize agenda item 3
INTRODUCTIONS
KEY FEATURES
LESSONS LEARNED
ROADMAP

28. Here is a list of things that are currently not supported
WHAT’S NOT SUPPORTED?
• Supporting Multilingual scenarios (vote)
• Approval Workflow scenarios
• Scheduling content publishing
• Root site collection template (vote)
• Create Communication sites using PowerShell, API and PnP (vote)
• Anonymous access
• Aggregation of items
• Using Communication features on non-Communication sites
• Removing access to specific web parts
• Page level breadcrumbs (vote)
• Communication Site custom templates
• Navigation does not show up in the SharePoint app

29. Continued releases focus on improving publishing, improving experiences,
reimaging how news is shared as well as feature enhancements
PAGE AUTHORS & EDITORS ROADMAP
2017
UX IMPROVEMENTS
Parallax effect on hero web part
Start from an existing page or page
template
Continued page performance
enhancements
IMPROVING PUBLISHING
New text formatting features
Bing Image Search
News reach: create from SharePoint Home
and Android, email news digest
FEATURE ENHANCEMENTS
Mobile Notifications for News
Comments, Likes, Views across web and
mobile
New web parts, new features in current
web parts
Office 365 Connectors for pages
2018
Q1 – Q2
HUB SITES
Hub site news with content roll-ups from
sites
IMPROVING PUBLISHING
Approval and scheduling for pages / news
Create and edit tables
Custom Page Designs
FEATURE ENHANCEMENTS
Microsoft Flow integration
@mention support
More mobile notifications scenarios
More Office 365 Connectors for pages
Key modern web parts available on classic
pages
2018
(Top of Mind)
IMPROVING PUBLISHING
Collaborative editing and Wiki capabilities
for pages
Multi-lingual support for pages
FEATURE ENHANCEMENTS
Site lifecycle and management capabilities
Organizational News
Content categorization and topic-based
rollups

30. Continuous releases focus on enabling and supporting hub
sites as well as feature enhancements
COMMUNICATION SITE OWNERS ROADMAP
2017
BRANDING IMPROVEMENTS
Out-of-box site theming and branding
IMPROVING PUBLISHING
Custom site themes and site designs
FEATURE ENHANCEMENTS
News and pages in Microsoft Teams adds
reach
Personalized search in SharePoint Home
Site usage page
2018
Q1 – Q2
HUB SITES
Communication sites work with Hub Sites
IMPROVING PUBLISHING
More branding options and site design
actions
FEATURE ENHANCEMENTS
Content categorization
New search experiences across web and
mobile
Additional insights on site and content
usage
2018
(Top of Mind)
IMPROVING PUBLISHING
Collaborative editing and Wiki capabilities
for pages
Multi-lingual support for pages
FEATURE ENHANCEMENTS
Site lifecycle and management capabilities

31. Investments are being to simplify the administration of
communication and hub sites
SHAREPOINT ADMINS ROADMAP
2017
FEATURE ENHANCEMENTS
REST API for remote provisioning
(available now)
New SharePoint admin UX (preview)
Branding in modern web experiences
Custom site designs and site theming
Android App for SharePoint 2013 & 2016
2018
Q1 – Q2
FEATURE ENHANCEMENTS
SharePoint hub sites
New SharePoint admin UX (GA)
More branding options and site design
actions

32. Want to ask more?
• Share your gaps https://sharepoint.uservoice.com
• Ask questions to the broader community
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Communications-Sites-
AMA/bd-p/CommunicationsSitesAMA

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35. Thank You!
Organizers, Sponsors and You for making this possible.
50+ SharePoint Presentations @ Slideshare.Net/kkhipple
When to Use What Whitepaper @ WhentoUseWhat.com
Intranets w/ Office 365 Whitepaper @ Office365Intranets.com
External Sharing w/ Office 365 Whitepaper @ Office365Extranets.com
and more!
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