Boards a new way to organize and discover content in Office 365 Delve

Office 365 Delve helps users discover content that is relevant to users. A new feature that allows content surfaced in Delve to be easily organize introduced to Delve. This feature called Delve is being rolled out to Office 365 customers who have opted for the First Release option.

Users can create boards in Delve to group related documents together and share it with other users. For example a user can create a board that groups all documents that are related to a to a particular topic.

Creating a new board or adding a document to an existing board is pretty easy. Clicking the + button on any card that is shown in delve will show an input area to enter name of the new board along with the list of existing boards.

 

A document can be grouped under multiple Boards and the Board names are displayed on the delve card.

 

 Boards that a user has created and the boards that are shared with him are shown in the left navigation.

 

Clicking on the board name from the navigation or from the card takes user to the board page that list all the documents grouped under the board.

 

 

From the boards page users can easily Follow a board or share a board with other users.  Users can also search for boards from the Delve Search.

Delve Boards allow you to group related contents and return to them easily when It matters to you.  Watch this video to know more about Delve Boards.

 

 

 

Enhanced collaboration with Yammer Document Conversation

Document conversation feature in Office Online allows to embed Yammer conversations about a document into Office Online apps like Word online and Excel online. This provides a simple and easy way to collaborate on documents that are stored in SharePoint Online document library or in One Drive for business.

To make use of document conversation Office 365 administrator has to make Yammer as the default social network in Office 365 settings. Once this is done, starting a document conversation is straight forward.  When a file that is stored in SharePoint Online or One Driver for business is opened in a browser, the document is displayed on the left and a contextual Yammer conversation pane is shown on the right. The Yammer conversation pane can be expanded and you can post a message to your coworkers or a group.

 Document conversation can also be started from SharePoint Online document libraries or One Drive libraries by clicking the Post link in document callout  hover view.

When a message with link to the file is posted in Yammer, the message will be displayed with an icon clicking on which will open the file from the online location with the Yammer conversation pane.

The cool document conversation feature works not only for office documents but with other common file types like PDF, MP4, GIF etc.

By allowing to have real time conversation from within the documents themselves the Document Conversation feature will enhance employee collaboration and engagement.