Microsoft recently launched My feed web part to all SharePoint Online tenants. In this blog we will explore my feed web part and how you can make your SharePoint site or page more dynamic and relevant to individual users by adding the My feed web part.

What you can do with My feed web part?

Using My feed web part, you can make your SharePoint site or page more dynamic and relevant to individual users. The My feed web part shows mixed content and activity from across Microsoft 365, based on what’s likely to be most relevant to the logged in user at any given time.

The content shown in feed is personal to each user. Different users will see different content at the same time.

What you will see in your feed?

Your feed can show your own documents as well as different content from others. You can only see the documents or other content that you have access to or directly shared with you. The content can be:

• The documents stored in SharePoint site or OneDrive
• The documents or links someone sent you as an attachment in email, or through a Microsoft Teams chat
• Microsoft Teams meeting invitations and recordings
• Recommended news posts
• Other content from across Microsoft 365

How to add My feed web part?

Microsoft has made my feed web part available directly under web part toolbox. So, there is no action required from admin center or you don’t have you activate any feature or configure any site settings.

Follow below steps to add my feed web part to your SharePoint online site:

1. Go to SharePoint online page where you want to add this web part.
2. Edit the page by selecting Edit at the top right of the page.
3. Open web part toolbox by hovering your mouse above or below an existing web part and selecting plus icon.
4. In the web part search box, enter My feed to quickly find and select the My feed web part.

Properties of My feed web part

You can see the properties available for this web part by selecting the Edit button on the left of the web part. Currently there are only two options you can set:

1. Maximum number of items to show in feed (1 to 15).
2. Whether you want to include SharePoint news.

You can choose to turn off SharePoint news in the My feed web part if your page already contains SharePoint news.

Here’s how my feed web part will look like on SharePoint online page:

How Microsoft know what’s relevant to users?

This web part shows the feed based on the signals that you and your colleagues send when you work in Microsoft 365. For example, when you and a colleague attend the same meetings or update the same document, it’s a signal that you’re likely to be working together.

Other signals are who you follow, who you communicate with through email or in Teams, who your manager is, and who has the same manager as you.

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