A new year often means seeking out new and better ways of serving your employees and customers. And while you try to anticipate their needs, change is constant. A great search experience makes your employees more resilient to change by allowing them to more readily tap into your organizational knowledge to find solutions and opportunities for collaboration. To provide the most relevant search results in these moments, we’re delivering a more consistent, flexible, and intuitive search experience to our Stack Overflow for Teams Enterprise customers that understands user intent and context, instead of relying on keywords alone.
Having an internal community that shares knowledge throughout the year enhances your search experience even more. When communal knowledge is accessible in a central place, it can be discovered and reused by others more easily. Your 2023 Stacked celebrates your Stack Overflow for Teams community’s most meaningful contributions so they are proud and eager to share more solutions, insights, and other knowledge in 2024.
Let’s take a look at the first Stack Overflow for Teams Enterprise release of the year in more detail, focusing on how your teams can celebrate your community’s contributions and how search improvements will make these contributions more discoverable.
Every year, many of us pause to celebrate our accomplishments, acknowledge people in our network who helped us get there, and identify areas where we’d like to improve. But at work, we’re often marching toward deadlines that take our attention away from recognizing these milestones. Enter Your 2023 Stacked: An annual look back that celebrates the most meaningful contributions to your Stack Overflow for Teams community, their impact, and the people who made them.
Your 2023 Stacked goes beyond the dashboard to provide a curated, interactive view of engagement that can be shared with your community to make them proud of their contributions and eager to contribute more in the next year. Here are the sections you’ll see on the page:
- Top Contributors: People contribute to communities in different ways. To be inclusive of the unique qualities that make your community great, we’ve broken out the 2023 Top Contributors section into different categories like “Most supportive” and “Most curious.”
- Popular Contributions: In the 2023 Popular Contributions section, you’ll see your site’s most popular posts and tags. This section inspires users to bookmark and engage with content, watch tags, join Communities, and contribute more knowledge in 2024.
Since Stack Overflow is so embedded in the technologist problem-solving process, search has always been core to our experience. But knowing exactly what to search for can be a blocker to finding a solution. Stack Overflow for Teams helps your organization share knowledge and break down silos so employees find answers and get back to work faster. Oftentimes, the answers they’re looking for already live on your site, they just need to find them. In this release, we’ve improved our search functionality to make answers more discoverable when and where they’re needed.
To do this, we’ve implemented some technical improvements to provide a better search experience with more consistent results and more relevant answers. Key to these improvements is semantic search, which can interpret the meaning of search queries beyond the exact words and phrases themselves. This extends the effectiveness of search to better understand the intent and the context of a search, not just the specific keywords a user enters in the search bar. As a result, users can more naturally interact with search and get the answers they need faster, with less time spent in product searching, adjusting search criteria to find the exact keywords, or parsing through content. This improved search:
- Provides more relevant search results by recognizing the relatedness of search terms and concepts and interpreting user intent.
- Allows you to search using natural question-and-answer language instead of a rigid syntax of keyword manipulation.
- Delivers more consistent search results across channels so you find what you need whether you’re searching in the platform or via a custom integration built with our API.
A more accurate, thorough, and accessible search experience helps users find answers faster, discover new content, and stay in the flow of work.
The Slack integration for Stack Overflow for Teams offers users a streamlined way to interact with their knowledge base without switching between apps. The latest update to our Slack integration uses Slack’s block kit so we can deliver enhancements faster and more frequently, like the modern notifications in this release.
Here’s to all your communities accomplished in 2023 and the great knowledge to be shared and discovered in 2024!
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The article brings up an important point about the need to improve people’s ability to identify true and false information. This is a critical skill in today’s world, where we are constantly bombarded with information from a variety of sources.
I’m concerned about the spread of false information on the Internet. It’s getting harder and harder to know what’s true and what’s not.
The article is right to emphasize the importance of media literacy education. We need to teach people how to evaluate the credibility of information and how to spot fake news.
I think we need to be cautious about the role of the Internet in our community. It can be a great tool for learning, but it can also be used to spread harmful information.
I love how the article says that the Internet is a ‘double-edged sword.’ It’s like saying that a banana is a ‘double-edged sword.’ Sure, you can eat it, but you can also slip on it.
Oh, the irony! The article talks about improving our community’s knowledge, but it’s full of grammatical errors and typos.
The Internet is a powerful tool that can be used for good or for evil. It’s up to us to use it wisely and to make sure that it benefits our community.
The Internet has revolutionized the way we access knowledge. It’s now easier than ever to find information on any topic. However, we need to be aware of the potential pitfalls of the Internet, such as false information and misinformation.
The Internet is a great tool for learning, but it’s important to be critical of the information you find online. Not everything you read is true, so it’s important to do your own research and verify the information before you believe it.
The article doesn’t really address the issue of digital literacy. I think this is a critical issue that needs to be addressed in order to improve our community’s knowledge.
I’m not sure I agree with the article’s assertion that the Internet has improved the efficiency of knowledge acquisition. I think it’s just made it easier for people to find information, not necessarily to learn and understand it.
I’m hopeful that the Internet can be a force for good in our community. It can help us to learn new things, connect with others, and make a difference in the world.
I’m not sure if the Internet has really improved our community’s knowledge. I think it’s just made it easier for people to spread misinformation and propaganda.