1. 9 Reasons to love modern sharepoint
Tara Saylor

2. (And a few reasons I still Swear)

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7. The making of a communications nerd
Started in advertising, but moved to employee communications
Master’s degree in Communications Studies
Lifelong Mac user won over by Office 365
Talks about intranets whenever possible
Who they mean by “the business”
A lot of my job is explaining change to people who were happy with how things were and really aren’t too excited about the fact it’s changing
When IT says “we should talk to the business” that’s me.
World wide site roll out for Deere
Moving 28,000 people off a platform with 9+ years of content
Creating a personalized, customized digital workspace where one never existed

8. 57% of companies use Sharepoint for Communication
Evolved from document management to a web collaboration platform
Gatehouse 2019 State of the Sector Report

9. Sharepoint then…
Document management,

10. …getting better....
File management, fairly easy to customize if you knew how, “the ribbon”
Started to get some easier layout elements, but you needed to know what you were doing to configure them

11. …. Sharepoint Now
Editing has moved almost entirely on page (you still can do documents and libraries)

12. 9 Reasons to love moderns sharepoint

13. Reason1: It finally looks like a website
Less of an issue if you’re on the back end, but if you KNEW how many tables I’ve built in an effort to appease people who want sharepoint to “look good.”
You can take this to end users, and they get excited about the designs,
I get that “pretty” isn’t important all of the time, but “intuitive” is.

14. Reason 2: Instructions are built in
On every page template, the default text out of the box explains what you need to do next.
We literally had to rebuild templates in 2015 to do this for our users, and it was not easy. I was gearing up to do it, and SOLVED

15. Including prompts
Little blue dots magically appear for the things it wants you to do next. It’s pretty close with its suggestions

16. Reason 3: WYSWYG Webparts

17. WYSWYG Webparts

18. WYSWYG Webparts

19. WYSWYG Webparts

20. Happy end users are using the tools and don’t need as much support
Remember:
Happy end users are using the tools and don’t need as much support
I get that this look and feel stuff doesn’t make tech hearts go pitter patter. But it does make life easier for end users, and happy end users aren’t making your life miserable. Plus, think of the saving and support you don’t have to do when microsoft is making it this easier for them.
Deere literally hired people to build sites because it wasn’t intuitive and people had so much trouble. That costs money.

21. Reason 4: Limited customization
There’s no way for users to add their own scripts any more, and if it ain’t in the menu, you probably can’t do it.
LOTS of configure options for those web parts, though.
This helps keep things consistent from site to site and it’s easier to maintain.

22. Fewer update nightmares
Get all these “inherited” customized sites that were a nightmare to maintain and broke every time you updated
This helps keep things consistent from site to site and it’s easier to maintain.

23. Fabric and SPFx

24. Reason 5: Code not needed to do cool stuff

25. Including smart personalization and publisher controls
Not quite sure how “interleaving” is going to work.

26. Reason 8: Accessibility included*
Transcripts, prompts for alt text that are hard to miss, suggested text, instructions for working with screen readers and other adaptive tech.
Still some issues with things like quick links not having an underline…..lots of cues, buuuuut
Contrast ratios aren’t guaranteed
AND DOUBLE-CHECK YOUR TRANSCRIPTS

27. Reason 6: Integration with Teams
SharePoint web parts as tabs in Teams
Teams connectors as SharePoint web parts for pages and new

28. Reason 7: Still the same lists & libraries

29. Reason 9: Hub sites Shared theme and navigation
Calendar and news roll up
Search across hubs
Easy to unlink and relink

30. Career Resources Wellbeing Locations Job Listings Learning
Annual Reviews
Wellbeing
Benefits
Maternity Resources
Clinics
Fitness Centers
Mental Health
Locations
Innovation
Realization
Continuous
WHQ
Malvern

36. When Sharepoint makes me swear

37. Reason 1: Designed for giant monitors
Expectation

38. Reason 1: Designed for giant monitors
Reality

39. Reason 1: Designed for giant monitors
Normal
“Compact”

40. Reason 2: Analytics still stuck
Hey look- some people looked at stuff in the past week. …thanks, that answers everything/
Google Analytics helps. Tygraph helps, audit logs and admin logs help, but we need power BI

41. Reason 3: Unexpected new features!
You don’t know when things are going ot hit, you don’t know exactly what they’ll look like, and you then have to go tell all your site owners how to deal with the fact their sites are broken.

42. Reason 4: No unification across hubs
Career Resources
Job Listings
Learning
Annual Reviews
Governance falls on site admins
Hard to push content org-wide
Limited ability to turn off functionality that might be off-brand or not accessible
Locations
Innovation
Realization
Continuous
WHQ
Malvern
All at the same company
Wellbeing
Benefits
Maternity Resources
Clinics
Fitness Centers
Mental Health
It’s not being a control freak- it’s wanting to create something unified for all associates. Plus, there’s lots of duplicative work being done, like every site linking to travel instead of having one main link on a navigation that’s inherited.
When something breaks, you fix it hub by hub by hub

43. Stay in the know

45. Resources SharePoint blog
Modern SharePoint look book with layout examples
Fabric
Get started with SPFx and SPFx on GitHub
Accessibility for Office
A List Apart for website best practices
Nielsen Norman Group for Intranet benchmarking and UX
Intranet in-a-box report from Clearbox Consulting

46. I love talking SharePoint!
@anokheeTara