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How to embed a Confluence page in SharePoint – Step-by-step integration guide
In many organizations, Atlassian Confluence serves as a vital knowledge base while SharePoint Online is the hub for intranet content and collaboration. Instead of keeping these platforms siloed, you can embed Confluence pages directly in your SharePoint intranet to create a unified experience. By using a Confluence SharePoint connector (in this case, a web part available from the SharePoint Store), you bring Confluence content into SharePoint seamlessly. This approach offers several benefits: your team can access wiki articles, documentation, and project notes from Confluence without leaving SharePoint, information stays up-to-date (no need for manual copy-paste), and you avoid the hassle…
The best replacement for Office 365 connectors within Teams
Update: This seems to be now delayed until December, which gives you slightly more time to test the replacement. Without much fanfare, but to the dismay of power users, Microsoft announced they’re shuttering Connectors for Microsoft Teams. The feature was a close relative of SharePoint’s Connector web part, which, too, will be discontinued. This feature was a circa-2016 precursor to Power Automate and allowed users to create a web part or Teams channel message based on new events in a handful of connectors that were available from Microsoft. The selection of connectors was sizable in Teams, but much smaller in…
Workvivo after Workplace by Meta shutdown: What Microsoft products are an alternative?
As Workplace by Meta prepares to shut down, Meta has nominated Workvivo as the recommended migration destination for customers. However, there’s another powerful alternative that organizations should absolutely consider: a combination of Microsoft Teams, Viva Engage, and Viva Connections. This Microsoft suite offers robust features and seamless integration that can significantly enhance your organization’s communication and collaboration. In this blog post, we’ll explore why Microsoft Teams, Viva Engage, and Viva Connections might be the perfect fit for your needs. The power of MS Teams Microsoft Teams serves as a comprehensive hub for team communication and collaboration. It brings together chat,…
Alternatives to Shift and 6 other unified workspaces
I was kind of surprised to learn that there is a huge market for web browsers that are specifically designed for work purposes. Perhaps you feel similar, so in this post you can learn from my experience. I’ll share some of the best apps I have found, and why, if you’re like me, you may well be wondering whether any of these apps are worth switching to from your regular Chrome. (You may be surprised.) I couldn’t find a distinct product category label for these apps. Other than calling them “work browsers” other descriptions that fit might be “work hubs”,…
Embed RSS news feed web part into SharePoint or Viva Connections (Updated 2025)
Despite first being released in 1999 (yeah, a quarter of a century ago) RSS feeds are still a go-to format to syndicate news from different sources. This makes it also an ideal tool to show local news, weather, traffic updates, and more to users of your intranet. SharePoint used to offer a built-in RSS reader web part, but it was broken for many years until it was removed in 2024 alongside other SharePoint Connectors. From the SharePoint store: RSS feeds web part Luckily there is an easy replacement available directly on Microsoft AppSource: RSS feed web part for SharePoint. It’s…
The best ‘new tab’ browser extensions for productivity
We're exploring 6 of the best Chrome 'New tab' extensions to see which ones are the best at helping you connect to your work apps
Top 4 SharePoint Dashboard Apps
Dashboards have traditionally been a staple for real-time data visualizations, of interest mostly to business intelligence users, data analysts or perhaps marketers.
The best personal dashboard apps for various productivity methods
Hey there, fellow productivity enthusiast! Are you also trying to build your own digital control center? Let's face it, we've all had those days when our to-do lists seem never-ending and we wonder how we'll ever get it all done.
The best replacements for Outlook’s Calendar Board
In June ’23 Microsoft – after just two years – will retire Calendar Board, Outlook’s special calendar view (available on the web version only) that let you add widgets to a personal dashboard. You had a choice of about a dozen different widgets and could arrange them anyway you liked, but the experience was always a little finicky and never saw 3rd party widget support. Released in 2021 at a similar time to Viva Connections, it was showing a degree of UI polish that suggested – when first released – Microsoft was indeed very committed to the idea of creating…
10 best SharePoint integrations [Updated 2024]
Having always been a popular Intranet platform, in recent years SharePoint has become ubiquitous. In part thanks to Viva Connections, a new set of features that improve employee engagement. Through Microsoft App Source, organizations find apps and extensions that suit their particular needs, for example to include data from outside sources like IT tickets, holiday allowances, lunch menus, etc. This helps make SharePoint into a hub for all external data so users have to spend less time hunting for tabs, and can monitor things more conveniently and centrally. In this blog post we have summarized the 10 most popular business…