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UNICEF: 15x Growth in readership on Yammer
Learn how Paola Storchi from UNICEF have structured the Yammer network to promote knowledge sharing, collaboration, and growth! UNICEF uses a micro-story model to drive engagement and action in its 22,000-strong Yammer community. The session will highlight how platform activity grew dramatically in 2021-2022.
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.
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.
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.
IT governance under attack as collaborative tool use goes ballistic: A way forward
Picture it now. The head of IT security has just been informed the whole company is moving to Working from Home (WFH) over the next week. All of a sudden, Microsoft Teams or Zoom or Webex or Slack (or put your favoured collaboration tool here), has to be rolled out post haste.
Why I’m joining SWOOP: The Urgent Need to Measure Collaboration Effectiveness
For the past 15 years, I have been helping organizations around the world implement, grow and measure collaboration and knowledge management tools. From my days as one of the first enterprise Community Managers in Australia at financial services company AMP, to my most recent experience rolling out a global sales knowledge management community at American Express, the goals and objectives for enterprise collaboration and social networks remain largely the same as they were.
What if your Fitbit could tell you when you are burning out at work?
We are all being asked to collaborate more, and that's a good thing, isn’t it? Well, apparently not if it leads to collaborative overload, according to Babson College Professor of Global Business Rob Cross.
SWOOP Award Winners share their collaboration secrets
Not taking yourself too seriously is one of the top tips from community managers from the world’s best performing Yammer networks. We brought together some of the Australian-based winners of SWOOP Analytics’ 2019 Global Yammer Benchmarking Report for an awards presentation at Sydney’s Microsoft Technology Centre.
Tips for Yammer success from the world’s best
At SWOOP we’ve had the privilege of working with hundreds of Yammer networks from around the world. We’re constantly learning from every community – what works, what “good” looks like, how leaders are engaging employees, how to break down organisational hierarchies and what doesn’t work.
Coffee and Collaboration – More in common that you’d think
Much like when we get new collaboration tools in the digital workplace - we get lots of instructions on how to use all the features but not so much about how we might collaborate better.
Creating business value and boosting revenue with Workplace
Within 10 months of launching Workplace, more than 5,000 Compass real estate agents reported Workplace had helped them grow their business and make more money. Compass’ Workplace network has shown immediate value in its ability to create instant, revenue-generating connections across the family of Compass agents.
Surviving the Team Collaboration Platform Invasion
A key to surviving the teams platform invasion lies in taking a purposeful, rather than ad hoc approach.
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.
Digital Hub Platforms Can Improve Enterprise Collaboration
Looking for the perfect digital hub? Then look in the camera. That’s right, the perfect digital hub is you.
The Doctor Is In: Practicing Enterprise ‘Social Radiology’
As we become increasingly consumed in our digital world, a common question we hear is “does our online behavior mimic how we are offline?”