Microsoft Teams has announced the launch of the ‘Communities’ feature, an experience that allows users to connect, share and collaborate and that it is already implementing in the free version of this service for iOS and mobile phones. Android.
The technology company has recognized that, despite the fact that the ways in which users interact have changed, “There are some things that have not changed in a hybrid world”reason why has created a feature that allows for a human connection to the community.
The ‘Communities’ are born from this need, with which users can meet, organize and share ideas with other members of a group, as long as the free version of Microsoft Teams is used on iOS and Android devices. For the web version, on the other hand, this functionality will come later.
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Thanks to them, users will be able to organize events and add them to a common calendar so that all members of that community are aware of said date. They will also be able to share and store common documents and filter the shared content to access photos, videos, events and links.
Microsoft has indicated that administrators of these communities have the ability to control your settings, set guidelines and moderate the content in themas well as add and remove participants.
In case of adding events to the community calendar, administrators will also be able to carry out different actions depending on whether they are virtual, hybrid or face-to-face events. In this way, for ‘online’ meetings, they will be able to invite other participants to join and track attendance.
However, for face-to-face meetings, these users will have the opportunity to add the location where the meeting or meeting will take place, as well as precise instructions to get there thanks to a visual map.
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To be able to access this functionalityusers must remain in the Home tab of the mobile application, where a space called ‘Communities’ will be available.
