About announcements
Announcements are part of the Hub. With announcements, you can share information to groups of employees. Announcements are divided into categories to quickly distinguish between the different types of communication. It could be about the opening of a new office location, a promotion or retirement of a colleague, IT related news about the digital adaptive workplace, or anything else you would like to share.
Social interaction
As most customers have either a large group of mobile workers or a hybrid workforce, it is crucial to create and maintain social interaction between colleagues. This helps to strengthen your company culture and increases the retention of employees. That is why we added a few functions to announcements that allow organizations to create social interaction in their digital workplace.
Employees can respond to announcements by specifying a comment, mention ('@') or reaction type (such as a 'like', a 'love', etc.). And employees can keep track of (“Follow”) fun or important announcements receiving notifications in their Activity Feed when those announcements have been updated.
Each Announcement will also display a view count, showing how many unique users have viewed the announcement.
Create announcement
To create an announcement , you need to go to 'the Hub' and then to 'announcements'.
The Hub symbol:
There's various ways to create an announcement. You can eater click on '+ Create' or on '+ New'.
Let me show you:
If you choose to click on: it shows the following screen:
Then you need to click on 'Announcements' manually
If you choose to click on: 
you go directly to the following screen:
Step one
The first step is to choose a template. The explanation of how this works is provided in another article. See insert template article.
Choose a template or just simply go to 'Next' on your screen:
Step two
The next screen looks like the image below, and you are now in the first step to publish an announcement.
You can see that you can give it a title, as well as an image, video, or embed code. This works the same way as in the article about inserting a template. For further explanation of how that works, go to this article.
If you click on the 
, you can insert all kinds of inputs for your announcement. The options are labeled under 'Elements' or 'Grid'.
Extra information (click here: 'step three' to skip this)
In each 'grid,' you can select one of the 'elements'. See the image below:
Alternatively, you can select an 'element' without placing it in a 'grid.
You can select any 'grid' or 'element' to change, but not all have the same options.
This is what it means: 
You can add an extra 'element
You can change it
You can duplicate it
You can delete it
But this is not all!
You can select the edge of every element or grid.
Sometimes it doesn't register properly, but you really need to press the edge to get these options in order to adjust the position of the element or grid. You will see that the arrows will appear to adjust the position: 
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For an empty 'Grid', pressing the edge is also the only way to delete it.
Step three
If you're happy with your announcement, you can press 'Next' at the bottom right of the screen:
You can see in the top left corner that Step 1 is marked as complete, and you are now in Step 2: 'Settings':
Fill in the steps and select the options you want:
Step four
If you're finished, you can press 'Next' at the bottom right of the screen. You also have the option to go back to the 'Previous' step.
You can see in the top left corner that Step 1 and 2 is marked as complete, and you are now in Step 3: 'Recipients':
On this screen, you can choose and select the people you want to see your announcement. The option 'Everyone who has access to the category' is always selected by default. This means that all people who have access to the category can see your announcement.
In the exception that this doesn't apply, you can still add individuals or groups by clicking the '+Add' button.
Finnish
If you have completed all these steps and are ready to publish, you can click the 'Publish' button in the bottom right corner.
Extra information (save as draft)
You can always 'save as draft' before publishing.
You can find these drafts in 'The Hub' by clicking the 'Manage' button:
More information on how this works will come later!
Good luck!