{"id":473169,"date":"2022-12-08T15:06:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T13:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=473169"},"modified":"2022-12-08T15:08:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T13:08:36","slug":"microsoft-teams-taking-on-facebook-groups-with-own-community-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/473169-microsoft-teams-taking-on-facebook-groups-with-own-community-feature.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Teams taking on Facebook groups with own community feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has launched a new communities feature for its Teams collaboration app on Android and iOS.<\/p>\n<p>Communities on Teams function similarly to Facebook groups, allowing users with common interests to share content in one location.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whether your group is a recreational sports team, event planning committee, parent-teacher association, or even a small business, this new experience gives groups of all kinds a digital space to stay connected before, during, and after gatherings,&#8221; Microsoft said.<\/p>\n<p>The features of Microsoft Teams communities include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Posting messages to everyone in the group.<\/li>\n<li>Organising events and adding them to a community calendar for everyone to see.<\/li>\n<li>Sharing and storing documents dedicated to group activity.<\/li>\n<li>Filtering content to quickly access photos, videos, events, and links.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Like Facebook group admins, community owners can add and remove members, manage settings, set community guidelines, and moderate content.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said communities also feature a new Teams events experience for organising virtual, hybrid, or in-person events.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For instance, you can add new events or meetings to your community calendar, invite guests, track attendance, and follow up with attendees through direct private chats,&#8221; it explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When it comes to online events, you can easily add dial-in details and a link so your participants can join seamlessly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And for in-person events, you can add a location and give attendees precise directions with a visual map.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To set up a community, users can choose one of the suggested community types on the Microsoft Teams app&#8217;s home screen.<\/p>\n<p>From here, they will be able to add branding elements like a group picture.<\/p>\n<p>They can then invite group members through their email address or phone number, or by sharing a link or QR code.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/470193-reddit-user-turns-his-windows-11-desktop-into-a-windows-xp-experience.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Reddit user turns his Windows 11 desktop into a Windows XP experience<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communities on Teams function similarly to Facebook groups, allowing users with common interests to share content like photos, videos, website links, and events in one location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":473203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[123,39614,75810,2808],"class_list":["post-473169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-teams","tag-productivity-apps","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473285,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473169\/revisions\/473285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}