Empower all communicators to inform and engage every audience
Keep your team up to date! And do it in a way that’s easy for anyone to consume and stay engaged. With SharePoint news articles, you create data-rich announcements and reports that look great on any device and within other applications – like Microsoft Teams, filled with content from inside and outside Office 365.
- Stay in the know with important and relevant news across devices
- Create compelling communications with multimedia and dynamic content from Office 365 and beyond
- Scale the reach of your story with automatic news distribution and promotion to your audience
- Engage your audience with likes, comments, and social re-sharing
- Publish, distribute and measure organizational news and communications
Twenty use cases for SharePoint news
1. Answering Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
2. Distributing quarterly report read-outs
3. Soliciting volunteer applications for day of giving activities
4. Raising awareness about big team and company announcements
5. Training: tips and tricks
6. Highlighting an external news article on our company
7. Update your colleagues on what you are doing
8. ‘How to’ about a certain product the company sells/makes
9. Advertising “Bring your kids to work” day
10. Culture: learn, live and share our culture
11. Need to know: get ready for the big event
12. Emphasize required HR training, like yearly business conduct video
13. Inside story: how we assess accessibility at Contoso
14. Words from our intern: fueling the growth mindset
15. Get the 101 on our current ad campaign and strategy behind it
16. Behind the scenes: lessons in inspiration for your next big-dig project
17. Train the trainer: listen to a subject matter expert give the pitch
18. How to: use LinkedIn Elevate to share with your external network
19. Share campaign results along with video, dashboard and survey
20. Welcome a new group during a merger and acquisition
Additional resources
- “Updates to SharePoint news in Office 365, including Microsoft Teams integration” [BLOG; 4/11/2018]
- “Create and share news on your SharePoint sites” [support]
- “Create and send a news digest” [support]
- “Use the News web part on a SharePoint page” [support]
- “Add team site News in a Microsoft Teams channel” (uses the SharePoint News connector)
[support.office.com article] - “Team News in the SharePoint mobile app” (iOS & Android) [support]
