SharePoint Online: Organize, filter and manage news and newsletter effectively

In my new video I am going to demonstrate how you can use news posts and important messages effectively in a SharePoint intranet portal. I previously described the distinction between permanent and temporary content in my blog post: SharePoint Online: (News-) Page Content Lifecycle.

To present all important and interesting news messages to users, the News web part plays a crucial role.The News web part is very flexible and versatile, and it can query news messages from different sites to aggregate them on one page as an overview for users. The News web part contains a property section called "Source". With this setting it is possible to define from which site or sites the news messages should be collected or queried. Beside these static sources, the web part offers the source setting "Recommended sites for users". If you use this setting, the web part queries the news by this criterion:

... shows sites that will display posts for the current user from people the user works with; managers in the chain of people the user works with, mapped against the user's own chain of management and connections; the user's top 20 followed sites; and the user's frequently visited sites.

The second important setting section is the Filter section within the web part properties. With the filter, it is possible to narrow down the news messages to specific ones. For example, it is possible to set up a News web part to show only news messages tagged with the keyword "Personal". For this it is needed to either create site columns in the site library or managed properties if you want to query across sites.

In the video below I demonstrate with some examples how news messages can be created and organized and how a monthly news digest can be sent to various users. I also explain how it is possible to use columns from the site page library or managed properties to filter news by various keywords.

Official Microsoft documentation: Use the News web part on a SharePoint page

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