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People Shoutout

Peer-to-peer recognition, built into your intranet. Staff submit a shoutout for a colleague through a simple form - it goes live on the homepage instantly for the whole company to see. Thanks, kudos, great job, well done. Real culture, visible every day.

People Shoutout web part preview

The Problem

Good work happens every day and nobody sees it. Recognition lives in one-to-one emails, a manager's head or a quick Teams message that vanishes by the afternoon. Leadership talks about culture in all-hands meetings but there's no visible evidence of it on the intranet. New starters see a homepage full of policies and news but no sign of how colleagues actually treat each other.

The Solution

People Shoutout turns recognition into something visible. Any employee can submit a shoutout for a colleague through a simple form - who they're thanking, what they did, a short message. It posts to the intranet immediately. Wins get celebrated publicly, the stream becomes the best argument for your culture, and good behaviour gets reinforced for the whole company to see.

See It in Action

Real SharePoint Deployments

Screenshots coming soon. People Shoutout running on customer tenants.

What You Get

Low-friction recognition that anyone can use, on an intranet everyone already visits.

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Simple Submission Form

Pick a colleague, choose a type (thanks, kudos, great job, well done), add a short message. Thirty seconds, done. No training required.

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Instant Posting

Shoutouts go live on the intranet the moment they're submitted. No moderation bottleneck, no admin backlog. Recognition happens in the moment.

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Entra ID People Picker

Recipient is picked from your live Entra ID directory. Their photo and job title pull through automatically - no typing names, no misspellings.

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Configurable Recognition Types

Start with standard types or customise to your values - "Customer First", "Above and Beyond", whatever fits your culture. Managed through a SharePoint list.

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Visible Feed on the Homepage

Most recent shoutouts appear as a scrolling feed or card grid on the intranet homepage. Culture becomes something everyone sees every day, not just in quarterly reviews.

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Theme-Aware and Responsive

Inherits your site theme, adapts to any screen size. Works on desktop, mobile, and Teams tabs - so people can give and receive recognition from anywhere.

Why It Works

Recognition Where People Already Are

Standalone recognition platforms fail because they're yet another tool to log into. Slack kudos channels fade because they're a scroll above yesterday's lunch order. Email thank-yous stay private.

People Shoutout lives on the intranet homepage your team already opens daily. It takes thirty seconds to submit and it's publicly visible the moment it posts. That's the entire recipe - friction low, visibility high, culture gets built out in the open.

Included In

People Shoutout Is Part of the Complete Bundle

Web parts are sold as bundles, not individually. People Shoutout is one of the 13 web parts added in Complete, on top of the Starter 5.

Complete Bundle

All 18 Web Parts

People Shoutout plus everything in Starter (Welcome Banner, News Carousel Pro, Employee Directory, Important Message, App Launcher) and 12 more web parts covering navigation, polls, org chart, personalised email and calendar.

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Looking for the basics only? See the Starter Bundle →

Questions About People Shoutout

Do shoutouts go through moderation before posting?

No - submissions post immediately. That's deliberate. Moderation bottlenecks kill recognition culture: by the time a shoutout is reviewed the moment has passed and the person who submitted it has moved on. The submission form and the live feed work together to create instant, visible recognition.

What if someone posts something inappropriate?

Every submission is attributed to the signed-in user, visible to everyone, and stored in a SharePoint list HR or comms can manage. In practice this is rarely an issue because submissions are tied to real identities. If something inappropriate does get posted, anyone with edit permissions on the underlying list can remove it within seconds.

Can we customise the recognition types?

Yes. The default types (Thanks, Kudos, Great Job, Well Done) can be replaced with whatever matches your company values - "Customer First", "One Team", "Above and Beyond", etc. Each type can have its own icon and colour. Managed through a SharePoint list, so HR or comms updates it without a developer.

Does the recipient get notified?

By default, the shoutout posts publicly on the intranet feed - most recipients find out either by checking the homepage or because a colleague tells them. For direct notifications, we can optionally wire up a Power Automate flow that emails or Teams-messages the recipient when a shoutout mentions them. Ask during the demo if that's important.

Can we see reporting on who gets recognised?

Yes. Every shoutout is stored as a row in a SharePoint list with submitter, recipient, type, message and date. HR or leadership can build Power BI dashboards or SharePoint views to see trends over time - who's giving and receiving recognition, which values are being reinforced, where there are gaps. We can help scope that as part of a retained support engagement.

Does it work in Microsoft Teams?

Yes. When a SharePoint page is embedded as a tab in Teams, People Shoutout renders correctly and submissions work the same way. Field-based staff using only mobile Teams can still give and receive recognition.

Make Recognition Visible, Not Hidden in Inboxes

Book a 30-minute demo to see People Shoutout running on a real SharePoint tenant, or explore the Complete bundle.