{"id":126571,"date":"2015-04-14T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/?p=126571"},"modified":"2024-08-30T16:11:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T23:11:55","slug":"new-office-delve-people-experiences-in-office-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2015\/04\/14\/new-office-delve-people-experiences-in-office-365\/","title":{"rendered":"New Office Delve people experiences in Office 365"},"content":{"rendered":"
Editor’s note 9\/11\/2015:<\/strong> Today\u2019s post on Delve was written by Mark Kashman a senior product manager on the Office 365 team.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThrough others we become ourselves<\/em>.\u201d A company\u2019s most important assets are its people\u2014YOU. The knowledge and experience of you and your colleagues collectively brings great value to your company. And as you communicate and work out loud together within Office 365, the value of your work can be surfaced and discovered by others in Delve.<\/p>\n Today, we are announcing enhancements to Office 365 that leverage Delve for easier people-based discovery and greater self-expression:<\/p>\n Let’s delve into the details\u2026<\/p>\n Sometimes you want to search and discover content based on a keyword or topic, but often you want to learn more about a specific person and what\u2019s trending around them. Today\u2019s enhancements to the Office 365 personal profile experience, within Delve, deliver a richer people-based search and discovery.<\/p>\n The look and feel of Delve has been updated to be cleaner and more action-oriented, and designed to help you find, connect and collaborate with the right people. The entire profile page is now responsive for a great experience across devices, from 4-inch screens up to the very largest displays. In addition to core profile information, each person\u2019s organizational structure is now prominently displayed and easy to navigate. And there are numerous ways to get to someone\u2019s profile: a Delve people search, clicking their name in OneDrive for Business or Outlook Web App (OWA), clicking About me<\/strong> and more.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The new Profile<\/strong> experience in Delve, alongside the person\u2019s Activity<\/strong>, promotes their About me<\/strong> information, ways to Contact<\/strong> them, their Organization<\/strong> structure, Blog<\/strong> and more. Note: some of the features pictured above, like Working on<\/strong> and Praise<\/strong>, will ship in the near future\u00a0after today\u2019s announcement.<\/em><\/p>\n Learn more how to view and edit your profile<\/a> and how you can find people and information in Delve<\/a>\u2014both articles will be updated to correspond with all changes.<\/p>\n You will also notice a new section in your profile, Blog<\/strong>. We improved things to make it easy for you to express yourself within your organization in a more modern way. When you have new information or a point of view to share, simply click start writing<\/strong> in the Blog section of your profile.<\/p>\n The new tool allows you to both edit and view pages from your mobile device, auto-saving as you go. \u00a0It also provides the ability to post pages directly to Yammer, automatically creating friendly, readable URLs. And because it\u2019s integrated across Office 365, it\u2019s easy to embed documents inline from OneDrive for Business, videos from Office 365 Video, even photos from your desktop. And finally, it\u2019s fast, modern and ready-to-go.<\/p>\n This internal blogging tool is the first Office 365 experience to use the authoring canvas, a completely new page authoring platform for Office 365. Today, the authoring canvas helps you create engaging blog posts, and in the future, it will be enabled for use in creating various types of pages in Office 365, including those for individual profiles, Office 365 Groups and future NextGen Portals. And the authoring canvas will be backed by enterprise-grade, content management capabilities such as scheduling, versioning, compliance and taxonomy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n (Left)The new authoring canvas in desktop edit mode. The inline toolbox pop-up helps you easily add content. (Right) Viewing a page on a mobile device.<\/em><\/p>\n We are excited to introduce Delve mobile apps for Android and iPhone, ensuring that connecting, discovering and sharing information with others is easy, even on the go. These mobile apps can notify you about updates to files you are actively engaged with at any given time. You can even receive notifications on your connected Android Wear.<\/p>\n No matter how busy life gets, Delve has you covered, connecting you and your team with the right information and people<\/em>\u2014at the right moment<\/em>\u2014even on-the-go<\/em>.<\/p>\n With a single swipe, you can catch up on what\u2019s new and relevant to your day\u2014no matter where you are\u2014 with pivots on content and people. The images below highlight some of the new Delve app experiences:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n (Left) Main work activity feed. (Center) Discovering and finding people. (Right) New people layout with \u201cWORKS ON,\u201d \u201cWORKS WITH\u201d and other pivots.<\/em><\/p>\n We\u2019re extremely excited to bring these new ready-to-go people experiences to you via Delve and Office 365\u2014and we\u2019re just getting started. We are already hard at work planning and developing what comes next, which will roll out to the service automatically when the new features are ready. We will continue to refine the overall Office 365 profile experience, introduce a method to nurture your network via public kudos, provide ways to pull in additional profile information from trusted sources and machine learning insights, and enable customization of the profile experience via Add-ins and public APIs.<\/p>\n We will share and show more at Ignite<\/a> (May 4-8 in Chicago). Hope to see you there.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, April 15th, the Office 365 Network will host a People Experiences in Office 365<\/strong> YamJam from 9:00\u201310:00 a.m. PDT \/ 4:00\u20135:00 p.m. GMT. For those unfamiliar with a YamJam, it is similar to a \u201cTweetJam\u201d on Twitter or an \u201cAsk Me Anything (AMA)\u201d on Reddit, except it takes place on Yammer. In this YamJam, customers and partners can connect directly with the Delve and Profile product teams to ask questions and learn more about the announcement. Join the Delve group<\/a> to participate.<\/p>\n \u2014Mark Kashman<\/p>\n Delve mobile apps<\/strong><\/p>\n Q. Will the Delve apps for Android and iOS be available in all markets? <\/strong> Q. Which versions of iOS and Android do the Delve mobile app support? Q. Do you have plans to support Windows Phone soon? Q. Do the Delve mobile apps offer all of the same functionality available in the web experience?<\/strong>
\nThe FAQs were updated to provide clarification about the Ask Me About feature.<\/p>\n
\n\u2014Lev S. Vygotsky<\/p>\n\n
People-based search and discovery<\/h3>\n
A new way to express yourself in Office 365<\/h3>\n
Office Delve goes mobile\u2014unlocking better discovery through people<\/span><\/h3>\n
What\u2019s next for people experiences?<\/h3>\n
Join our YamJam to ask your questions<\/h3>\n
Frequently asked questions<\/h3>\n
\nA.\u00a0<\/strong>Starting today, the Delve app for Android and iPhone will be available in the U.S., Ireland and Norway markets and will expand to all supported markets in the following weeks.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>A.<\/strong>\u00a0Delve mobile will run on iOS 8.0+ and Android 4.4 and above.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>A.<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, we are hard at work on a Delve universal app for Windows and expect to provide more information soon.<\/p>\n
\nA.<\/strong>\u00a0We\u2019ll be iterating monthly to integrate not only the existing Delve web scenarios (such as Boards, improved profile, etc.) but will also look to introduce user-focused features to help you get even more done while on the go. Stay tuned for more updates.<\/p>\n