Posts by Joaoferreira

How to easily embed Strava Club activities in a SharePoint page

Keeping up with fitness routines can be challenging, but fitness tracking apps like Strava that provide virtual competitions can help us stay motivated and engaged with physical activity. These tools provide an incentive by allowing us to set goals, track our progress, and compete against others.

Embedding Strava activities in a SharePoint intranet page is a great way to promote exercise and encourage healthy habits among employees. By integrating this fitness tracking platform with the company’s intranet, employees can easily share their fitness activities with each other, creating a sense of community and accountability that can help motivate them to stay active.

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By João Ferreira May 10, 2023 Intranet 0 Comments

Unleash your brand’s potential with the new SharePoint brand center

In today’s digital age, branding has become more important than ever before. With the rise of social media and online marketing, businesses must create a strong and recognizable brand to stand out from the competition. But branding isn’t just important for external marketing efforts – it’s also critical for internal communication and collaboration within an organization.

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By João Ferreira May 2, 2023 Branding, Intranet 2 Comments

Revolutionizing content creation: The game-changing capabilities of Copilot in SharePoint

SharePoint is a powerful platform for creating and sharing content within an organization. However, for content authors, the process of setting up a SharePoint site and creating engaging pages can be time-consuming and complicated. The good news is that the future of SharePoint is bringing powerful, intuitive, and expressive experiences with fewer manual steps and the help of AI.

Copilot in SharePoint is one of the new capabilities that will enable content authors to spend less time setting up SharePoint sites and give them confidence that their site is using the best that SharePoint has to offer.

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By João Ferreira May 2, 2023 Intranet, SharePoint 1 Comment

What’s new for SharePoint – April 2023

In April 2023, Microsoft released several updates for SharePoint and related technologies, including the retirement of SharePoint 2013 workflows in favor of Power Automate and a new forms experience for Microsoft Lists. Additionally, users can now browse SharePoint sites on the Viva Connections mobile app and a new prebuilt model for analyzing contracts will be added to Microsoft Syntex.

Don’t miss out on the latest SharePoint updates and continue to read this post to stay ahead of the game!

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By João Ferreira May 2, 2023 What's new 0 Comments

Transform Stream videos on SharePoint with custom thumbnails

Are you looking for a way to make your Microsoft Stream video content stand out from the rest? Have you considered using custom thumbnails to grab the attention of your audience? As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and this applies to video thumbnails as well.

By choosing the right thumbnail, you can entice viewers to click on your video and increase engagement. In this blog post, I’m explaining how to use Microsoft Stream on SharePoint to add custom thumbnails to your video and audio files. With these tips, you can take your video content to the next level and make a lasting impression on your audience.

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By João Ferreira Apr 27, 2023 Stream 0 Comments

Revolutionize your video sharing experience with SharePoint video collections pages

Sharing videos is becoming increasingly important in many organizations, particularly schools, universities, and other institutions that rely on video content for teaching, training, and communication purposes. However, managing and organizing these videos can be challenging, especially when they are scattered across different channels and sites. That’s where SharePoint Video Collections Pages come in to make things easier and more organized.

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By João Ferreira Apr 27, 2023 Intranet, SharePoint 1 Comment

What’s new for SharePoint – March 2023

Today, I’m excited to dive into a new topic and explore the latest updates for SharePoint that were announced in March 2023.

The latest SharePoint updates bring a range of exciting features that are designed to further enhance its capabilities and functionalities. These updates aim to address some of the most pressing challenges faced by organizations today, including the need for improved collaboration, information management, and security.

In this blog post, you will take a closer look at some of the new features and enhancements that SharePoint has introduced, and how they can benefit businesses of all sizes. So, let’s dive in and explore the latest SharePoint updates!

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By João Ferreira Apr 3, 2023 What's new 0 Comments

Building a SharePoint intranet with ChatGPT and Bing – Navigation

SharePoint intranets are a great way to keep your team connected and informed. However, having a good menu in your SharePoint intranet is crucial to ensure that users can navigate through the site more easily.

Menu items should link to the most needed and used resources around your intranet, even if they’re very deep within your architecture.

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By João Ferreira Mar 29, 2023 Intranet 0 Comments

Building a SharePoint intranet with ChatGPT and Bing – Announcements and Alerts

Announcements and alerts are all important features in a SharePoint intranet and are used to disseminate information to employees or members of an organization.

All these features are important for keeping employees informed and engaged with the organization and can help to improve communication and collaboration within the workplace.

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By João Ferreira Mar 20, 2023 Intranet 3 Comments

How to use video as a background in SharePoint pages header

Using video backgrounds instead of images can be beneficial for several reasons. Video backgrounds can create a more immersive and interactive experience for the user, can provide a context to the content on the page or increase brand awareness by making a lasting impression on the viewer.

Overall, video backgrounds can be a powerful tool for enhancing user experience, however, with SharePoint pages you can not use videos as backgrounds in the title area… Unless you customize the page as I’m explaining in this article.

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By João Ferreira Mar 15, 2023 Branding, Intranet 2 Comments