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This article covers:
What’s a Story
Blink Stories is a feature that allows you to share photos and videos that disappear after 72 hours. This feature helps you share moments from your day in a casual and creative way.
Why should I use Stories
Keep your audience in the loop with what’s going in your working day, across your team, and throughout your organization! There are loads of use cases for Stories, but here are some examples…
If you have a high volume of content
Think events, product launches, business meetings, conferences, customer engagement… These scenarios generate lots of chat and content that your audience love to hear about!
If you’re sharing informal content
Work isn’t just about the professional stuff! Stories are a great space to host informal content about your passions, interests, hobbies and much more!
To engage colleagues with internal campaigns
There are so many initiatives in our day-to-day professional lives where we need to raise awareness and engage our colleagues in what’s new. Think product launches, new services, innovative ways of working, new branding. The list goes on!
How it works
This feature needs to be turned on by your Organization. Read more here about requesting the feature.
Uploading a story
Follow the below steps to add your Story to Blink:
Click Add Story + on the Feed (shown on iOS and Android):
Capture or upload an image or video then use our editor to add filters, captions or stickers:
Define your audience, choose to notify and allow comments:
Post your Story 🥳
Delete Story if needed:
Your Story will be public for 72 hours. It then expires from the Stories carousel:
Story stored on user’s profile:
Viewing a Story
Click on any Story in the Story carousel:
Tap or scroll through user Stories:
Tap through a user’s Story
Scroll between users’ Stories
Like and comment on user Stories:
View others likes and comments:
Report a Story if needed:
Viewing stories on web
Org Admins are able to add the Stories widget to your Feed homepage so you can scroll through and interact with Stories:
Alternatively, click on a Story notification:
View the Story:
Like and comment on the Story
Close the Story
For this first iteration, Web surfaces individual Stories and the user cannot scroll through multiple Stories (yet!).
FAQs
How are Stories moderated? | A user can report a story from within the story itself. Stories are not ‘approved’ by anyone before posting. |
Who can post Stories? | All users are able to post stories. If a user is restricted from feed posting, they will also be restricted from story posting. |
How are we discouraging inappropriate posting, given the nature of this feature? | Stories are governed in the same way as feed posts today. Stories are saved against a user profile to encourage accountability. |
How can Stories be accessed? | On mobile: via the Stories carousel, notification centre, and a user’s profile (for archived). On Web: via notifications. |
Who can Stories be shared with? | We have kept restrictions in line with feed posting. The audience picker will default to the user’s largest audience to maximize reach. |
What order are Stories shown in? | They’re shown in order of posting; with your first post shown first. This is in line with other social media platforms. |