Here are some examples of custom streams you might create, depending on your role in
the organization or how you want to check in on community activity throughout the
day.
Consider creating and organizing your custom streams based on the following strategies.
Try using a combination of these to develop the best approach for your unique needs.
- My Stream
- Create a stream where you follow yourself. This can help you get to your
most-used items quickly.
- Priority Streams
- You might create streams for Immediate, Soon, and Later. You could check
Immediate often, Soon occasionally, and so on. In Immediate, follow your
high-priority people, places, and content items. In Soon, follow your less
urgent people, places, and content items. This kind of organization can be
good if you like to read some things later, but don't want to miss your
high-priority things as they are posted.
- Content Streams
- You could create an Awesome Blogs stream where you follow the
blogs of the CEO, CTO, and VP of your department.
- Email Watches
- This stream can be very handy if you're in and out of the community a lot,
and especially if you're out of the office for a few days. Add to this
stream only critical items that you just can't miss. Then, make sure to set
Email Updates to On when
you are editing this stream. You can also set your email notifications by
clicking your avatar in the top right and selecting
Preferences.
- Team and Product Streams
- Add to these streams the people you work with, the content you all are
working on, and the places where your team most frequently posts. Or, create
just one good Team and Product stream to check throughout the day for
updates from your team and the product you're working on.
- Connections Stream
- Follow people, places, and content items of interest here. This can be a
good way to avoid stream proliferation if you just want to check in
throughout the day, but not create a lot of custom streams. This stream is
included for you by default, but you can add to or delete content, people,
and places from it.
- Tag Streams
- Follow tags that make sense for you. You can create an entire stream for one
tag, or add tags to optimize your existing streams. If you're a QA Engineer,
you might add the #test tag to your stream that already follows the QA Group.
Here are more specific streams that you might create, depending on your role in the
organization.
If you work in the Engineering department, you might create the following new streams:
- Email Watches - Follow critical items here and then make sure to set
Email Updates to On when you
are editing this stream. You can also set this by clicking . If you go on vacation, you'll receive an email notification for
these critical activities. Use this stream wisely so that you don't create an
email nightmare for yourself.
- Product A - Follow everything related to one of the products you're working
on.
- Product B - Follow everything related to another product you're working on.
- Team - Follow everyone on your team so that you stay current with their
activities.
- Research - Follow things related to your next big product idea.
- Awesome Blogs - Follow blogs that you like.
- Water Cooler - Never miss a good joke or an after-hours trip to the pub. Follow
fun people, content items that are amusing, and community places where people
organize social events.
If you work in the Accounting department, you might create these streams:
- Customer Account A - Follow everything related to one of the customer accounts
you're working on.
- Customer Account B - Follow everything related to another customer account
you're working on.
- Team - Follow everyone on your team so that you stay current with their
activities.
- Sarbanes-Oxley - Follow people, places, and content items in your community
related to Sarbanes-Oxley so you don't miss important new regulations or
processes.
- Latest Wins - Follow the place where your latest wins are reported. You might
also follow the VP of Sales and the blogs of Sales team members here.
- Email Watches - Follow critical items here and then make sure to set
Email Updates to On when you
are editing this stream. You can also set this by clicking . If you go on vacation, you'll receive an email notification for
these critical activities. Use this stream wisely so that you don't create an
email nightmare for yourself.
If you work in the Sales department, you might create these streams:
- My Region - Follow everyone working in your region, plus all of the places you
and they post most often.
- Central Region
- West Region
- Marketing for Product A - Follow the people, places, and content related to the
marketing of Product A.
- Marketing for Product B
- Exec Blogs - Follow the blogs of the CEO, CMO, SVP of Sales, and other leaders
who matter most to you.
- Email Watches - Follow critical items here and then make sure to set
Email Updates to On when you
are editing this stream. You can also set this by clicking . If you go on vacation, you'll receive an email notification for
these critical activities. Use this stream wisely so that you don't create an
email nightmare for yourself.
- Comic Relief - Follow entertaining people and places where people post funny
stories and videos.