Use Announcements: How to Create Posts

WHERE TO FIND: Experience → Announcements → Posts

The Posts section within Announcements serves as your primary workspace for sharing news, important updates, and corporate information. Here, you can create and manage content that will be prominently displayed on the platform’s main Dashboard, ensuring your colleagues stay informed the moment they log in
Beyond internal communication, this section enables you to manage external visibility. This means your posts can be published not only within the company network but also to external channels such as Spark.work Career page, your corporate website.

VISIBILITY: Access to this section is permission-based and primarily intended for Administrators and HR team members to create and manage content. All other employees will see these updates on the platform’s main Dashboard, where they can view and interact with the posts.

• Create new publications: Use the + Add Post button to share news or vital updates with your team instantly.

• Manage schedules: View currently published posts under the "Posted" tab or those planned for later in the "Scheduled" tab.

• Analyze engagement: Monitor likes, comments, and colleague reactions in real-time through the "Recent Activity" feed.
• Use the dropdown menu to customize what you see:
  All Activity: A complete stream of all interactions.
  Comments: Focus specifically on discussions and feedback left by colleagues.
  Reactions: See quick feedback through likes and emoji reactions.

1. Navigate to the Experience, select the Announcements and Posts section
2. Click the Add Post button
3. Publish As: Choose the profile under which the announcement will be published:
• Company Profile: Select Company Profile if you want to publish the announcement under your company's official profile (e.g., Tech Success). This is suitable for company-wide news, events, or job postings.
• My Profile: Choose this to publish under your own employee profile (e.g., Katharina Frank). 
• Your photo and full name (e.g., Katharina Frank) will appear as the author in the feed.
4. Content Editor & Toolbar: The main text area is where you craft your message. The toolbar at the top offers several ways to enhance your post:
• Text Formatting: Use standard tools for bold, italics, underlining, and text alignment.
• Advanced Layout: Insert tables, horizontal lines, or numbered/bulleted lists to organize information.
• Rich Media: Add links, special characters, or view the Source code for custom HTML adjustments.
• Google Editor: You can toggle the "Enable Google Editor" switch if you prefer using Google’s interface for drafting your description.
5. Upload media: Attach images or videos to make your post more engaging.
6. Mention: Tag specific individuals to ensure they receive a notification.
7. Schedule: Use this to set a specific date and time for the post to go live automatically.
8. Audience: 
•  Limit to Employee Groups: If your news is only for a specific department (e.g., HR or Marketing), toggle this on and select the relevant Employee Group.
9. Post Visibility:
• Show in Feed: Displays the post on the Dashboard.
• Show on Career Portal: Selecting this makes the post External, meaning it will be visible to people outside the company on your public career page.
• Visible on mobile devices: Ensures the post is formatted and sent to the mobile version of the platform.
10. Preview: Use this to check the layout before it goes live.
11. Post: Click this to publish immediately or confirm your scheduled time.
12. Cancel: Discard the changes.

• Preview: Use the Preview button to see exactly how your post appears to the audience.

• Edit: 
•  For Scheduled posts, you can modify all settings, including the scheduled date and time.
• For Posted announcements, you can edit all content and settings except for the publication date.

• Delete: Permanently remove a post by clicking the delete icon 🗑.
• Switch between tabs: Use Posted to see live announcements or Scheduled for upcoming posts that will go live automatically.
• Use Date Pickers: Use the calendar fields to filter the list by a specific date range (e.g., to find posts from last month).
• Search & Filter: Find specific announcements by using the Search bar or filtering by Audience (Internal/External).
• Sort: Use the Sort by menu to organize the list by Most Recent, Most Commented, or Most Liked.