Prepare content for the Feed
The Feed aggregates SharePoint news posts, video news links, and conversation in Yammer into one central place. In the mobile app, the Feed displays as its own tab. On desktop, the Feed can be included by adding the Feed web part to the home site, which will be covered in an upcoming unit. Technically, you don't need to do anything for content to populate in the Feed if your organization already uses SharePoint news posts and Yammer.
Feed content comes from three main sources:
- Organizational news posts published in SharePoint
- Posts in Yammer communities
- Videos posted as videos news links from organization news sites in SharePoint
You don't need to do anything for content to populate the Feed, but you can influence the hierarchy of content in the Feed. To ensure the most important news is prioritized in the Feed:
- Promote important communications - Use News boost to raise the visibility of the most important news posts.
- Highlight community discussions - Feature posts in public Yammer communities that you’d like seen by the entire organization.
- Publish from official news sources - Post news from organizational news sites in SharePoint to impact content ranking.
- Use video news links in SharePoint. Rather than sharing a written news story, you may want to use a Video news link in SharePoint to share an update, rebroadcast an all-hands meeting, or provide reusable training materials.
Learn how Lamna Healthcare prepares content for the Feed
As the Internal Communications Manager of Lamna Healthcare, you know that your organization already uses SharePoint to distribute news, and Yammer to facilitate conversations and announcements. However, you have spent time investing in this area to ensure the Feed has a constant source of new content. You work with the Viva Connections planning team and other organizational communications specialists to establish an authoritative organizational news site for each department of the organization. You work with other communication specialists on your team to decide upon a publishing schedule that ensures new content is created at least every 30 days from organizational news sites and other sites. The most important news posts will get boosted to make sure they're seen. Additionally, the communications team develops a similar schedule for “All company” posts and announcements in Yammer. As often as possible, video news links will be used.