Want to improve the visual appeal and layout of the news on your SharePoint intranet to improve engagement and adoption?
By downloading Lightspeed365’s free intranet web part you can extend your design options and enhance the presentation of your news feed to improve usability, boost the visibility of news and increase views.
And it’s 100% free with zero costs and obligations.
What is Lightspeed365?
Lighstpeed365 helps organisations to drive adoption and get maximum business value from their SharePoint intranet by building additional features for users, content editors and internal communicators. These help to take your intranet to the next level and provide a satisfying and richer employee experience.
SharePoint is a brilliant platform to build an intranet on. However, when you just use SharePoint Online straight out of the box for your intranet there are several gaps in functionality and missing features. A SharePoint intranet can also lack the flexibility in design that many intranet teams are after.
That’s where the additional features (web parts) from Lightspeed365 come in – helping fill the critical gaps that occur when intranet teams and internal communicators use SharePoint out of the box.
About Lightspeed365’s news web part
A key job of any intranet is to keep employees informed.
The news feed on a SharePoint intranet homepage or on an individual landing page is one of the most important and most widely used intranet features, helping to deliver targeted internal communications from right across the organisation.
The news feed web part that comes out of the box with SharePoint is useful, offering:
- The ability to curate and display news form one stie or from multiple sites
- Some layout options including grid, list and carousel formats
- Audience targeting based on Entra ID profiles
But beyond this, this native SharePoint web part usually falls short of what internal communications and intranet teams need to truly drive engagement with news and get high number of views.
They often tell us that they are frustrated by the lack of design options and feel the web part doesn’t meet needs and expectations.
Lightspeed365’s free news web part significantly extends your options around presenting news, offering:
- Ways to enhance the presentation of news.
- Many additional configuration options such as the ability to increase the legibility of headlines, add the date published and more.
- The ability to add site tags to show where a news item resides.
- Modern website-like styling
By downloading the web part, you’re effectively upgrading your intranet news experience.
Why are you running this promotion?
We’re on a mission to improve the world’s SharePoint intranets. This promotion provides the opportunity for intranet teams to experience the difference that Lightspeed365 web parts can make in improving your SharePoint intranet.
Of course, we’d love to gain some new Lightspeed365 customers from the promotion, but we’re also intranet nerds that love making a difference.
Is the Lightspeed365 news feed web part really free? Where’s the catch?!
Yes, you can download the web part for free with no upfront or hidden costs. And we don’t ask you to complete a dodgy form demanding the details for your credit card details.
So there really is no catch at all or any other future obligation.
How can I download and install the web part?
It’s super-easy for an intranet administrator with the correct rights to download and then deploy the Lightspeed365 news feed web part. It will only take a few minutes.
Get over to our download page and view the installation video for full instructions.
Unfortunately, we’re unable to offer support for downloading or installing the web part.
How does the web part work?
Once you download and install the web part it will just appear in the normal SharePoint editing experience as one of many different web parts your intranet team or content editors can add to a page. They can also configure the web part as they would like any other, using the web part settings that appear in the right hand panel within the SharePoint editing experience.
Will Lightspeed365 update the news feed web part?
We won’t update this webpart regularly like our paid products. However, we may release a new free version sometime in the future which you can, of course, upgrade to if you’d like.
Do you have any other Lightspeed365 features that can boost intranet adoption and value?
Yes! We have a huge range of features (web parts) as part of the Lightspeed365 offering that:
- improve the way you can present content and communications
- add the must-have functionality you need for a world-class intranet
- provide additional services on top
- extends the ROI of SharePoint by plugging the gaps
- ultimately drives usage of and engagement with your intranet
- provides exceptional value.
Why not arrange a free Lightspeed365 demo?
