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World’s best Yammer collaboration champions
As part of SWOOP Analytics’ 2020 Yammer Benchmarking report we have identified the world’s best enterprise Yammer networks when it comes to collaboration and productivity, along with the top Yammer Communities.
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 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.
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.
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.
COVID-19 and Working From Home: An Unprecedented Research Opportunity
Have you ever wanted to better understand how productive you, your team and your organization really are when it comes to collaboration? If ever there was a time to research the effectiveness of how an organization is collaborating, it’s now. For those of you who have undertaken any experimental research, you will appreciate how hard it is to undertake a large-scale controlled experiment.
Enterprise social networks promote employee engagement & enhance performance: Study
Enterprise Social Networks like Yammer and Workplace by Facebook promote employee engagement and enhance performance, especially if leadership is engaged, according to ground-breaking new research from Griffith University.
Cross-generational collaboration at SWOOP Chat Sydney
What does a company of 30,000+ teenagers serving fast food have to do with a prestigious law firm, a government finance department and a catholic university? Despite the completely different roles of these organisations, they all use SWOOP Analytics to measure how their employees connect on their Enterprise Social Network (ESN), in this case Microsoft’s Yammer or Workplace by Facebook.
Social Learning is more than just Yammer
We often have mistaken cultural beliefs that all learning happens formally. Many still have a mindset where learning means classroom. Some executives and HR leaders have the same mindset – train to change. But this is shortsighted and costly. Driving new skills and behavior change through Yammer is relatively easy and effective.
How to run a successful Yammer network – tips from the experts
We’ve put together the top 6 tips to run a successful Yammer network, based on interviewing the world’s top performing Yammer networks from SWOOP’s benchmarking.
Announcement and Broadcasting Groups
When it comes to making an all-company announcement, arguably the richest channel is always face to face. But for large and distributed organisations, that becomes impractical. With an Enterprise Social Network (ESN), the CEO and executive can speak directly to staff at all levels, making the ESN a rich channel that can scale for large and distributed businesses.
This post continues SWOOP’s series on Groups within ESN platforms. The ‘Announcements’ group is often one of the first formed on a newly installed ESN; a venue for the CEO and other leaders to speak with all employees.
Executive engagement – the key to a successful Yammer network
The No.1 way to get employees engaged on a company’s Yammer network is by getting leaders to use the platform, according to communications managers at some of the world’s biggest companies. If a leader, including the CEO, is making the time to share ideas and connect on the social network platform, even the busiest front-line worker or middle manager would find it hard to explain why they can’t do so.
Why 90% of Organisations would NOT Survive a Digital Disruption
We provide some compelling ‘reality data mining’ analysis to support our case.
Surviving a Digital Disruption will require a major change in the way organisations currently work