Examples of custom streams

Strategies for creating streams

You should consider creating and organizing your custom streams based on the following strategies. You can 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 can create streams for immediate, soon, and later items. You could check Immediate often and Soon occasionally. 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 can create an Blog stream where you follow the blogs of the CEO, CTO, and VP of your department. For more information, see Creating custom blog stream.

Can't miss

This stream can be convenient 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 can't miss. Then, make sure to select Email or Mobile from Updates so that you receive notifications when activity happens in this stream.

Note: The option to change your email notifications preferences may be unavailable in your community.

Team and Product streams

To these streams you can add the people you work with, the content you all are working on, and the places where your team most frequently posts. Or, create one good Team and Product stream to check throughout the day for updates from your team and the product you're working on.

Following stream

When you start following people, places, and content items, they are automatically added to this stream. You can use this stream if you want to check in throughout the day but not create a lot of custom streams. This stream is included for you by default, and you can add to or delete content, people, and places from it.

Tag streams

When you follow tags, you follow updates of the content which is marked with this tag. 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.

Examples for creating custom streams

Here are more specific streams that you might create, depending on your role in the organization.