

Susan Hanley
Susan Hanley is a consultant, author and Microsoft Office Apps and Services MVP. She specializes in helping organizations build effective intranet and collaboration solutions using SharePoint. You can find her speaking schedule, white papers, books and conference presentations at www.susanhanley.com.


Viva Connections: What your intranet wants to be
With Microsoft Viva, companies get a new integrated Employee Experience Platform that brings together communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights in a collection of apps delivered in Teams. Here's how Viva Connections...

Great news for intranets at Microsoft Ignite 2020
Navigation, branding, and more ways to engage and delight were big intranet themes at this year's Ignite event.

How to connect a Yammer community to a communication site
One of the best ways to get engagement on intranet sites is to bring a relevant Yammer community to SharePoint using the Yammer Conversations web part. Here's how you go the other way and connect your Yammer community to your...

Which is better for collaboration – Yammer or Microsoft Teams?
Fundamentally, both Yammer and Teams (and email) are about conversation – but they support different types of communication and are for different audiences. The choice about which app to use depends on both.

There's new and updated planning resources for modern intranets in Microsoft 365
Here's useful guidance and best practices to help you get started with a new intranet project and helpful advice about moving from classic to modern SharePoint.

7 tips to help create and manage multilingual SharePoint communication sites
Microsoft 365 now lets you create intranet sites in multiple languages. You can create pages and news in a user’s preferred language, and show site navigation, site title, and the site description in the preferred language, too. The...

SharePoint tips and resources for your COVID-19 communication site
Here's some helpful tips and reliable resources for your SharePoint crisis management site to support your organization during the COVID-19 pandemic.

8 capabilities that should be among your 2020 SharePoint intranet resolutions
The beginning of the year is a great time to think about intranet goals. And now that were seeing the rollout of new capabilities announced for SharePoint at Microsoft Ignite 2019, I wanted to share my favorites – and offer advice...

Introducing Project Cortex: The future of enterprise knowledge gets a big boost at Ignite
Microsoft is touting game-changing knowledge management innovations at its Ignite 2019 event. Project Cortex is a new service in Microsoft 365 that uses AI to reason over organizational data and organize it into shared topics like...

A site by any other name: renaming the site address in SharePoint Online
Site address renaming is rolling out to Office 365 tenants now. Here’s what I learned from my first site address rename on a production site.

One simple view to improve SharePoint page and site management
Adding a few key columns to the All Pages view in the Site Pages library in modern SharePoint sites can be a game changer for Site Owners when it comes to de-bugging and content management. This is especially important for...