Final 12 months, we reported on Storyline, a characteristic which Microsoft mentioned could be accessible this 12 months in early preview. The characteristic had already been accessible in Viva Have interaction (previously Yammer), however now it has been built-in straight into the principle Groups consumer.

Basically, Storyline is a private feed for particular person staff to share updates, experiences, and work-related ideas. It provides folks an area to put up content material that isn’t tied to a selected workforce or channel, making it a type of inside weblog or social media wall constructed proper into the app that many individuals are already pressured to make use of each day.

The way in which it really works is sort of easy. Not like a bunch chat the place each message pings an entire workforce, these posts are tied to you as a person. It operates loads like LinkedIn, nevertheless it lives solely inside your organization’s digital partitions. There’s additionally a devoted web page in your chat-with-self tab the place all of your previous posts are collected, providing you with one place to handle your feed.

And simply as with common social media, you may comply with your coworkers and leaders to have their posts seem in your exercise feed. This implies you will notice updates from folks you select to comply with, not simply from the groups you might be part of. You may see an replace from a supervisor a couple of new firm course or a put up from somebody in a very totally different division sharing a helpful lesson they discovered.

In fact, none of this works if your organization doesn’t flip it on. Getting began relies upon solely in your group’s settings.

So, in case your admin has enabled the characteristic, you need to ultimately get an choice to make a “New storyline put up” from the Chat tab, showing proper under the “New Message” button.

If you don’t see it, you may need to go trouble your IT division.