From the course: SharePoint: Creating Communication Sites

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From the course: SharePoint: Creating Communication Sites

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What's included

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- [Narrator] In today's world information overload is common. Organizations have become dependent upon email to share information. This results in workers becoming numb to their inbox. Have you ever wished there was a central place where you could review information that is just relevant to you? Let's look at a communication medium that is proven over hundreds of years, the newspaper. Imagine that the news is given to you in a big stack of papers with no rhyme, reason, or organization. How easy would it be for you to find what information is important to you? Luckily for us, someone decided that it might be helpful to have content grouped together in meaningful ways. That's why we have sections in newspapers. There are sections for national news, local news, business, lifestyle, etc. Not everyone needs to have all the information all the time. So each section has its own targeted audience. When we view those sections they all contain pictures, articles, and information that's relevant to that particular audience. In the evolution of SharePoint, communication in a visual and interesting manner has always been a challenge. When we create a SharePoint communication site this is what we get right out of the box. First of all we get the homepage. Across the top you see the hero web part. We're going to be exploring this in depth in the later lesson. We also get additional sections that we'll build as we add content to the site. For example, we have a news section, an events section, and a documents section. At the bottom we have the comments section and this is where your visitors can add comments and give you feedback on your site. Now remember, SharePoint is built out of what we call apps and what I call the bones of the site. So let's take a peak behind the curtain and see what we got right out of the box. To view the contents of the site first click the tools menu. And then select site contents. It looks like our default contents are documents, form templates, a style library, an events calendar, and library that holds our site pages. Keep in mind this is SharePoint. We can add additional apps as needed. This is the basic foundation of our communication site but it's only the beginning. From here we can create additional components and pages that will help us to collaborate and share information with others in our organization. Let's get started.

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