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Last year, we reported on Storyline, a feature which Microsoft said would be available this year in early preview. The feature had already been available in Viva Engage (formerly Yammer), but now it has been integrated directly into the main Teams client.
Essentially, Storyline is a personal feed for individual employees to share updates, experiences, and work-related thoughts. It gives people a space to post content that is not tied to a specific team or channel, making it a kind of internal blog or social media wall built right into the app that many people are already forced to use every day.
The way it works is quite simple. Unlike a group chat where every message pings a whole team, these posts are tied to you as an individual. It operates a lot like LinkedIn, but it lives entirely inside your company's digital walls. There is also a dedicated page in your chat-with-self tab where all your past posts are collected, giving you one place to manage your feed.
And just as with regular social media, you can follow your coworkers and leaders to have their posts appear in your activity feed. This means you will see updates from people you choose to follow, not just from the teams you are a part of. You might see an update from a manager about a new company direction or a post from someone in a completely different department sharing a useful lesson they learned.
Of course, none of this works if your company does not turn it on. Getting started depends entirely on your organization's settings.
So, if your admin has enabled the feature, you should eventually get an option to make a "New storyline post" from the Chat tab, appearing right below the "New Message" button.
If you do not see it, you might have to go bother your IT department.
