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Measuring Employee Communications and Engagement: Why and How
Measuring internal communications is critical to the success of any organisation, but it's not always clear how to do so effectively. We explore the importance of measuring employee communication and engagement, and how it relates to organisational performance.
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.
PHS Group: Yammer Case Study with Q&A
Join us with Amy Ellis from PHS Group where she's sharing how PHS were able to transform its communication culture in just one year! Particularly with the support from leaders and Amy details just how important their role plays in this transformation.
Danfoss: Yammer Case Study with Q&A
Join Jorn Nurkka and Hanne Schou in learning how it can take a village to build a successful Yammer network! Communities aren't born successful. It takes careful nurturing. When successful there is not a single person who answers all questions, but participation is distributed.
Philips: Yammer at Philips with Dennis Agusi
Learn how Dennis Agusi from Philips has positioned their Yammer network to bring colleagues worldwide together and build positive collaboration practices. Dennis will show us how they use Yammer by sharing best practice tips on how to best use the channels at your disposal.
Marks & Spencer: Yammer Case Study with Q&A
Find out how Michael Kissman from Marks & Spencer built a thriving Yammer network that promotes care and humanity during difficult times. Learn how to make Yammer a safe space in your company and give everyone a voice so that communication can flow freely throughout the organisation.
CSIRO: Getting started in 90 days
Find out how the CSIRO team boosts Yammer engagement with knowledge sharing! No matter if staff have been at CSIRO for three days or 3,000 days, the 90 Day Club community members can share their thoughts, ideas, resources, lessons learnt and acronym decoders.
Juniper Networks: Community Branding
Join Kevin Crossman from Juniper Networks as he takes you through the visual design of the community icon and cover photo as a key method to reinforce organizational culture and to build confidence with users. Viva Engage displays the icon and cover photo differently than in Yammer, causing community owners to reconsider the imagery used previously. In this session, Kevin will discuss these considerations and share some examples of effective community branding elements, approaches to community types, and an example style guide.
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.
Help anyone in your organisation become a certified ‘SWOOPer’ in just 5 minutes
SWOOP has developed a range of training cards to help motivate your staff to become more collaborative on Yammer and Workplace from Facebook.
It’s Official: SWOOP Metrics and Employee Engagement Surveys Results Align!
We have evidence to show that what you see in SWOOP is reflected in what staff think and feel, as well as business results.
Do photos and videos spark conversation and engagement on enterprise social networks?
Does adding photos or videos to Enterprise Social Network posts create more engagement?
How to Use Hashtag Analytics to Track Employee Engagement
The origin of the hashtag can be traced to identifying key words in computer code. From there it evolved to tagging topics or groups in early chat rooms.