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Do conversations endure longer on Microsoft Teams or Yammer?
Does a conversation on Microsoft Teams have a longer or shorter life span than a conversation in Yammer?
How to run a successful Yammer network during the COVID-19 pandemic
Bringing fun to work, prioritising physical and mental health and wellness, ensuring leaders overcommunicate with their employees, and measuring interactions with analytics, are among the keys to a successful Yammer Community.
Why polls and surveys can get it wrong
Polls and surveys so often get the result wrong - just look at the recent US election! With data, you get real-life results. In the workplace, this allows you to see what’s really happening and how people are really feeling.
SWOOP’s new look: a collaborative achievement
SWOOP’s refreshed new look was a collaborative exercise, almost all done online.
New look and feel for SWOOP
We're launching a complete refresh of the SWOOP user interface, making it cleaner and easier to navigate.
SWOOP Chat - Show me the money: What's the ROI on Collaboration?
Distinguished Fellow & Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, acclaimed author, researcher, consultant and collaboration expert Dr Heidi Gardner joins SWOOP Analytics to do a deep dive into the ROI on collaboration.
SWOOP Chat – Microsoft’s Modern Collaboration Architecture (MOCA), with Rishi Nicolai
Rishi Nicolai, Digital Culture and Change Specialist at Microsoft speaks about MOCA and the importance of behavioural change for effective collaboration.
Working From Home: Are You Overworked, Overwhelmed or Overjoyed?
As we settle into our new normal, a plethora of survey-based research addressing productivity gains or losses has found those working from home are experiencing a range of emotions.
Want more responses in your collaboration network? Try adding attachments
Have you ever wondered about the impact of adding photos, videos, GIFs or links to your post in your enterprise social network?
SWOOP Chat with ANZ Bank
ANZ Bank shares its experience using Microsoft Teams and Yammer to keep employees connected and collaborating during the COVID-19 pandemic. ANZ explains how data from SWOOP Analytics has increased engagement from executive leaders on Yammer, allowing leaders to build genuine relationships and trust across the organisation.
What’s the ROI on collaboration?
What’s the ROI on collaboration? It’s a question we’re often asked at SWOOP Analytics.
While we know collaboration in the workforce leads to higher performing teams, which leads to better business outcomes, it can be difficult to put a dollar value on collaboration.
Online Communities: What Does Good Look Like?
SWOOP Analytics looks at online communities and reveals how Community Management can be complemented by SWOOP data.
How Network Analytics Can Help Us Avoid Digital Fatigue
The working from home (WFH) mandate has inspired a love-hate relationship in many of us. What we lose in our daily commutes, we gain in digital fatigue. Too many ZOOM meetings, too much time online, too many demands are all common complaints. I previously wrote about digital overload, noting activity levels alone do not indicate overload.
SWOOP Analytics explains why Microsoft Yammer & Teams make the perfect partnership for collaboration
SWOOP Analytics has benchmarked hundreds of organizations using Yammer and Microsoft Teams, and millions of interactions world-wide, to know exactly what “good” looks like. By introducing the Yammer Communities app to Microsoft Teams, it allows a direct connection to the entire company from within your day-to-day team.
All the buzz on Microsoft Teams
We look to bees to see the importance of productivity when it comes to a tool like Microsoft Teams.
SWOOP Chat - What does "good" look like in Microsoft Teams?
We give you a brief overview of the findings from our world first benchmarking of Microsoft Teams, share with you worst practices in Teams, show you what a high performing team looks like and share real-life best practices from customers.
SWOOP Chat with Jessica Lipnack
Jessica Lipnack is the author of Virtual Teams, a book written in 1997 but one that describes how most people are working during the COVID-19 crisis. Jessica and SWOOP Chief Scientist Dr Laurence Lock Lee discuss how to keep teams productive while working virtually and the new challenges facing leaders around the world.
Are you ready to say goodbye to all-company emails?
Are you ready to say goodbye to all-company emails? We look at five Workplace from Facebook companies who have put a stop to the all-company email and instead communicate and collaborate on Workplace.
One Bright Spot in COVID-19: The Rise of Self-Directed Teams
Those of you struggling with working from home (WFH) may have some doubts about this, but bear with me. If I asked you “who is in your team?” could you answer easily? Or would your answer be “well that depends ... do you mean our whole department? The people I work with the most? Which team do you mean? I’m on multiple teams.”