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Examples of Custom Streams

You can create your own custom streams to help you keep up with the content, people, and places that matter most to you in your community. 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.

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: 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 organization can be beneficial if you like to read some things later but want to ensure you don't miss high-priority updates.

  • Content Streams: You can create a 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, especially if you're out of the office for a few days. Add only critical items that you can't miss to this stream. Then, make sure to select Email or Mobile from Updates so that you receive notifications when activity occurs in this stream.

    Note: The option to change your email notifications preferences may be unavailable in your community. You can choose between notification methods under your Preferences settings.

  • 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 without creating many 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 marked with this tag. You can create an entire stream for one tag or add tags to optimize your existing streams. For example, a QA Engineer might add the #test tag to a 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.

If you work in the Engineering department, you can create the following streams:

  • Email Watches: Follow critical items here and select Email or Mobile from Updates so that you receive notifications when activity occurs in this stream. Use this stream wisely to avoid creating an email overload.

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

  • 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 to stay current with their activities.

  • Research: Follow things related to your next big product idea.

  • Awesome Blogs: Follow blogs that you like.

  • Water Cooler: Follow fun people, amusing content, and community places where social events are organized.

If you work in the Accounting department, you can 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 to stay current with their activities.
  • Sarbanes-Oxley: Follow people, places, and content in your community related to Sarbanes-Oxley to stay informed on important regulations or processes.
  • Latest Wins: Follow the place where your latest wins are reported, as well as the VP of Sales and blogs from Sales team members.

If you work in the Sales department, you can create these streams:

  • My Region: Follow everyone working in your region, plus all of the places where you and they post most often.

  • Marketing for Product A: Follow content related to the marketing of Product A.

  • Customer Account B: Follow content related to the marketing of Product B.

  • Exec Blogs: Follow the blogs of the CEO, CMO, SVP of Sales, and other leaders who matter most to you.

  • Can't Miss: Follow critical items here and ensure you select Email or Mobile from Updates for notifications.

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

  • Comic Relief: Follow entertaining people and places where humorous stories and videos are posted.

Additional Features and Considerations​

  • Overview of Streams: A stream shows you real-time updates of activity as people interact with content, people, and places in the community.

  • Creating and Managing Streams: To create a custom stream, follow the steps outlined, ensuring you name your stream, drag and drop items to follow, and adjust notification settings accordingly.

  • Editing Custom Streams: As your projects and interests evolve, so should your custom streams. Regularly edit them to match your current needs.

If you need more information on notifications, customization preferences, or other related topics, refer to the resources available for your Jive community.

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