{"id":9238,"date":"2020-04-13T04:04:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T04:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/?p=9238"},"modified":"2020-04-13T04:04:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T04:04:39","slug":"elaborate-intranet-home-page-or-beautiful-search-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/2020\/04\/13\/elaborate-intranet-home-page-or-beautiful-search-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Elaborate Intranet home page or beautiful search experience?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large\"><p>Does your company need an elaborate Intranet home page or do you just give people what they want? Search&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>While the day to day work for modern #cloudfirst businesses is trending towards #MicrosoftTeams, not all of your content exists there (particularly if it wasn&#8217;t born there &#8211; it may live in old SharePoint Team Sites, Communication Sites and elsewhere).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So many times I have found that organizations spend far too much time thinking about what goes on the &#8220;home page&#8221;. What rolls up, where that content comes from, etc. All in an effort to make the Intranet &#8220;interesting&#8221; so people go there and use it. I say give the people what they want &#8230; search. Make rich content, make it accessible via your Intranet navigation (psst, I heard <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/getnavo.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>NAVO<\/strong><\/a> is a little bit awesome in this scenario), but just get it out there and get stuff done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this video, I share our beautiful photo rotating search home page and pose the question &#8211; perhaps Search should be your home page?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Regroove Tipsicle - Rethink your SharePoint Portal Home Page with a beautiful Search Rotator\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vvQiO-af3gQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Search Home Page in SharePoint for the win &#8230; with style<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does your company need an elaborate Intranet home page or do you just give people what they want? 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