Stale to StellarModernize Your SharePoint Intranet in O365

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Your Webinar Team

Samantha Seibold

Catapult Systems

Eric Russell

Catapult Systems

Vlad Catrinescu

Valo Solutions

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The most common reasons Intranets go stale

• Lack of an Owner

• Poor user experience

• Lack of mobile support / remote access

• Old outdated content

• Hard to use aging technology

• Doesn’t help the employee

Quick Poll

Target your content

Select one of the global curated page templates

Select in which site this page has to be published based on your security model

Target users with specific business areas or office locations

Categorize page items

News, Events etc.

Security Trim your navigation

+ Add any type of link in the navigation:

• headers,

• internal links,

• external links, etc.

+ Securely navigate by seeing only the links you are entitled to.

+ Virtual navigation allowing any structural changes without impacting the user.

Add images and call-to-actions to every main element of the navigation

Easily figure out the location of the current content using the integrated breadcrumb

Support “My Links”

Define organization-wide tools that can be selected by every user in the “Our Links” section

Add your custom favourite content, including any current page to your “My links” section

Provide Personal Dashboards

See all your teams in one view

+ Supports: Microsoft Teams, Yammer,

Outlook Groups and SharePoint Sites

+ Your favourite teams always on top

Order new teams (with or without approval required)

Search for your teams Discover Groups you are not yet a member of

Include any legacy SharePoint sites in the view (Enterprise only)

Support preferred language

Ensures that the Intranet user interface and contents are provided for each user in their preferred language

Enable multiple language versions of the same content and allow the user to switch from one to the other using the language toggle

Choose your Intranet

+ Enable the global navigation on other sites that are not available within your intranet for an easy navigation

+ Set your “Home” intranet in cases of multiple intranet on the same Office 365 tenant

Enable Interactive Content

+ Two-way connection – comments made on the news page are displayed in Yammer and vice versa

+ Let employees vote and revote in case they change their opinion!

+ Display poll results after the voting is closed

Design a Hub… then reuse it!

+ News Hub + Events Hub

+ Search Hub

Make it easy to find people

+ Search your entire organization directory using a colleague’s name, or by any other attribute available in the user profile.

+ Configure the search filters, as well as the information displayed in the people cards, in order to build a customized people directory that is highlighting the information your organization cares about.

+ Utilize the people directory in a horizontal or vertical layout

Promote your people+ Highlight birthdays for creating

team spirit and celebrate

+ Display the upcoming birthdays

+ Ensure Employee Profile data is accurate

+ Highlight the person's image, name, title and contact information

+ Show one-by-one or many at the same time

Reuse content

+ Configure the Social web part to highlight social media activities and display them in the intranet

+ Allows employees to follow social media campaigns and visibility

+ Showcase all or some of your social medias (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, SlideShare, Twitter, Vimeo and YouTube)

Design to be visually impactful

Large highlighted news as a carousel

Visually impactful

Quick links availableas a bar

News FocusedAlso custom styling on pages e.g. additional web part styles

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Demo

Support multiple user experiences

Browser Native Mobile Apps Microsoft Teams

Where do I start?

If you currently have an Intranet, identify the most viewed content

Gather your core team

Define your minimum viable product (MVP)

Organize your requirements• Permissions

• Navigation

• Layout

• Search

• Branding

Build and iterate… avoid going from Stellar to Stale

How do I identify the most viewed content?

Connect your Intranet to Google Analytics or WebTrends

• Top Pages / Documents Viewed

• Most Active Users

• Searches (Successful and Unsuccessful)

Scan your old environment

• Date modified

• Total number of pages

• Total GB of data

• Free tools available, example SharePoint Migration assessment tool (SMAT)

• PowerShell scripts

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