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Viva Connections serves as a gateway to a modern employee experience. From streamlining tasks to enhancing communication, dashboard cards bring in actionable tasks and information from virtually anywhere into a single dynamic app for employees.
We have seen growing adoption of Viva Connections, making us one of the most popular apps in Microsoft Teams. We are continuing to invest in Viva Connections, addressing customer feedback and enhancing capabilities. Here are the latest and greatest highlights.
Viva Connections is all about connecting you to the things you need, and now, you can get Desktop Notifications to ensure you don’t miss the latest news and announcements. This new capability gives your employees the ability to control which notifications they want to receive within Teams.
To better connect your employees to the resources they need most, we’ve recently rolled out the ability to import global navigation items into the Viva Connections Resources tab.
We’ve also released Viva Connections on the web that brings a dynamic, beautiful app experience directly into the browser.
Enhancing Communication Capabilities
The new customizable Spotlight offers communicators a sleek, above-the-fold section to highlight key news. Up to eleven pieces of news can be added to the Spotlight carousel for announcements and campaigns that need extra emphasis and durability. In case you missed it, read more about Spotlight here.
Highlight key news and campaigns with Spotlight
Announcements
New communication features also enable Regional Announcements, which provides additional attribute-based targeting based on job, title, and location. This is specifically geared for reaching Frontline Workers (FLWs) working in different regions, branches, stores, or departments by using filtering.
Filter your audience based on FLW attributes like location, department, and job title.
Learn more about how to set up regional filtering and using FLW announcements. Note this feature requires Frontline licensing.
Analytics for Admins
Admins can now understand how and when users engage with components of the Viva Connections experience. You can see data on overall traffic, usage, and engagement across each of your organization's Connections experiences. Learn more about how to access usage data here.
A view of analytics in Viva Connections
Dashboard Card Experiences & Bot Extensions
Dashboard cards in Viva Connections are the building blocks to a modern employee experience. We’ve focused heavily on creating and enhancing cards for all audiences. You can now personalize dashboard cards on desktop allowing your employees to customize their view by adding, removing or reordering the dashboard cards.
Here are some of the top dashboard card updates:
OneDrive Card update
This new card allows organizations to add a OneDrive Files Card to the Viva Connections dashboard, showing recently accessed, shared, or favorite files. This card is now generally available and requires no action for setup.
Pulse Card
The Viva Pulse card in Viva Connections allows you to create Pulse survey (s) via the dashboard, giving employees a quick and targeted way to share feedback and participate in workplace surveys. Once the survey is complete, the owner can view the response rate right on the card.
Assigned Tasks Card
The Assigned Tasks card automatically displays information to users about their assigned tasks to. This information is retrieved from the Tasks app in Teams and enables users to quickly take action and accomplish tasks right from their dashboard.
Learn more about our Viva Connections dashboard cards in this blog.
We hope you’re seeing how these features collectively enhance employee engagement, streamline communication, and provide valuable insights into employee interactions with the app. Keep checking back to see what we do next!
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We have seen growing adoption of Viva Connections, making us one of the most popular apps in Microsoft Teams. We are continuing to invest in Viva Connections, addressing customer feedback and enhancing capabilities. Here are the latest and greatest highlights.
Staying Connected
Viva Connections is all about connecting you to the things you need, and now, you can get Desktop Notifications to ensure you don’t miss the latest news and announcements. This new capability gives your employees the ability to control which notifications they want to receive within Teams.
To better connect your employees to the resources they need most, we’ve recently rolled out the ability to import global navigation items into the Viva Connections Resources tab.
We’ve also released Viva Connections on the web that brings a dynamic, beautiful app experience directly into the browser.
Enhancing Communication Capabilities
The new customizable Spotlight offers communicators a sleek, above-the-fold section to highlight key news. Up to eleven pieces of news can be added to the Spotlight carousel for announcements and campaigns that need extra emphasis and durability. In case you missed it, read more about Spotlight here.
Highlight key news and campaigns with SpotlightAnnouncements
New communication features also enable Regional Announcements, which provides additional attribute-based targeting based on job, title, and location. This is specifically geared for reaching Frontline Workers (FLWs) working in different regions, branches, stores, or departments by using filtering.
Filter your audience based on FLW attributes like location, department, and job title.Learn more about how to set up regional filtering and using FLW announcements. Note this feature requires Frontline licensing.
Analytics for Admins
Admins can now understand how and when users engage with components of the Viva Connections experience. You can see data on overall traffic, usage, and engagement across each of your organization's Connections experiences. Learn more about how to access usage data here.
A view of analytics in Viva ConnectionsDashboard Card Experiences & Bot Extensions
Dashboard cards in Viva Connections are the building blocks to a modern employee experience. We’ve focused heavily on creating and enhancing cards for all audiences. You can now personalize dashboard cards on desktop allowing your employees to customize their view by adding, removing or reordering the dashboard cards.
Here are some of the top dashboard card updates:
OneDrive Card update
This new card allows organizations to add a OneDrive Files Card to the Viva Connections dashboard, showing recently accessed, shared, or favorite files. This card is now generally available and requires no action for setup.
Pulse Card
The Viva Pulse card in Viva Connections allows you to create Pulse survey (s) via the dashboard, giving employees a quick and targeted way to share feedback and participate in workplace surveys. Once the survey is complete, the owner can view the response rate right on the card.
Assigned Tasks Card
The Assigned Tasks card automatically displays information to users about their assigned tasks to. This information is retrieved from the Tasks app in Teams and enables users to quickly take action and accomplish tasks right from their dashboard.
Learn more about our Viva Connections dashboard cards in this blog.
We hope you’re seeing how these features collectively enhance employee engagement, streamline communication, and provide valuable insights into employee interactions with the app. Keep checking back to see what we do next!
Continue reading...