A wiki is a great tool for organizing and sharing information with others. It also promotes collaboration between teams, departments, and even companies. So is social media. But what happens when you want to share social media updates on your wiki? How do you make sure employees have access to the most recent updates while keeping them focused on their tasks? The answer: embedding a social wall directly on your enterprise wiki!
If you’re looking for a way to incorporate social media into your enterprise wiki, you’ve come to the right place. In this article, we’ll walk you through the steps to embed a social feed on popular enterprise wiki software: Confluence, Microsoft SharePoint, and Notion.
There are several benefits to embedding a social feed on your enterprise wiki.
- It’s an easy and effective way to keep up with what’s happening in your organization and industry.
- It allows you to engage with customers and partners by making their voices heard on the platform you maintain.
- It gives you access to valuable input from the people who matter most: those who use your products or services daily!
Notion is a market leader in online collaboration and wiki software. A Walls.io social feed can be easily embedded on any page of your Notion workspace. This 2-step guide explains how you can achieve this.
To get started, sign-up for a free Walls.io account. Then, set up your social feed by connecting your social media accounts to Walls.io and start adding sources, such as specific hashtags or your different social media accounts. This tutorial explains the setup process in more detail.
Get a social wall for your enterprise wiki
2. Add an Embed Block in Notion
On your Notion page, add a new block and choose Embed from the block types available:
Enter the URL of your wall (f.e. https://my.walls.io/starbucks) and click the Embed link button:
That’s it! You can now customize the size of your social media embed by dragging the handlebars:
Notion tips & tricks
- You can use the show_header parameter to hide your walls header, f.e. https://my.walls.io/starbucks?show_header=0
- The Walls.io widget is fully responsive and will automatically adapt to the size of the section you are embedding it into. You can override this by setting a fixed width, height, rows, and columns when generating the embed code (we recommend going with the default for maximum layout compatibility).
Confluence is a wiki platform developed by Atlassian. It’s a collaborative tool that allows you to create and share knowledge in your organization. The platform includes an extensive set of collaboration, management, and security tools. If you want to spice up your Confluence enterprise wiki with a social feed, here are the steps to do it:
Sign-up for a free Walls.io account. Then, connect your social media accounts to Walls.io and add sources (hashtags, profiles, pages, etc.).
Set up your social wall in less than 5 minutes
Choose the page on Confluence where you’d like to add a social feed. Then, click on Edit, and paste the link of your social feed where you want the wall to be.
Once you have pasted the link, hover over the Change view menu and click Embed.
The embed will automatically show up on your page. So all you have to do now is click Publish, and your social feed embed is done!
Microsoft SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform that helps share files, data, news, and resources across many organizations. This 3-step guide explains how to embed the Walls.io widget on Microsoft SharePoint sites.
Sign-up for a free Walls.io account. Then, connect your social media accounts to Walls.io and add sources (hashtags, profiles, pages, etc.).
In your Walls.io account, go to Embed & Display and copy the iframe embed code marked in the screenshot below.
For most use cases, we recommend sticking with our Fluid default layout – if you prefer another layout, or want to pick a different color scheme or language, please have a look at the advanced settings before you copy the iframe embed code:
Most options should be self-explanatory, but more information is available here.
First off, navigate to Admin center > Sites > Active Sites.
Next, navigate to the site where you want to embed your social wall.
Once on the site, go to Settings > Site information (top right).
Next, click View all site settings.
Scroll down and click HTML Field Security.
Next, add my.walls.io to the list of domains and click OK.
Afterwards, go back to your SharePoint site and click Edit.
Next, click the plus sign (+) and type Embed in the search field; click on it.
Finally, paste the iframe code from step 2 into the Embed section.
Voilà – your social feed is successfully embedded on your SharePoint site!
Make your enterprise wiki more interesting
So there you have it! A social wall is an excellent way to engage your employees on your enterprise wiki. It allows them to easily share content with each other, tell their stories in a visual format and express themselves on any topic. You can even use the social wall as a tool for surveying your employees’ opinions about anything from company culture to new product development.
In conclusion, embedding a social wall is easy and will give your employees an opportunity to show off their work and make connections across departments or divisions. We hope this article has helped you understand how easy it is to get started with embedding a social wall into your enterprise wiki today!
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