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The power of Viva Engage – a voice for all
The core business case for Viva Engage is that it gives every employee a voice. That’s what makes Viva Engage unique - it allows for two-way conversation and gives every person an equal voice.
The world’s top performing Viva Engage networks and communities for 2024/25
We announce the world’s top performing Viva Engage enterprises and communities for 2024/25 and the results might surprise you!
Use Viva Engage to Amplify Business Priorities While Engaging Employees
Robin will share her organization’s recent Viva Engage journey, and how her department is now taking a more focused approach to the application. You’ll learn about their plans to “re-introduce” Viva Engage with a new community aligned with business priorities. It’s designed to help employees gain plain-language insights from people who are integral to bringing key business initiatives to fruition.
Awakening Engagement: The Journey of Revitalizing Our Viva
In this dynamic presentation, learn about Cox Communications' transformative journey of turning a dormant Viva Engage community into a top-performing communications channel. Discover how they secured leadership support, rebranded their platform, and implemented a robust strategy and communications plan that revitalized employee engagement and sense of community. Plus, learn how they utilize metrics to drive their direction and measure their impact, ensuring their efforts align with company priorities.
Realising our omni-channel vision at Vodafone
The Internal Comms team at Vodafone have a clear vision of delivering a consistent omni-channel communication experience for their 100k + colleagues. When they moved from Workplace from Meta to Microsoft Viva Engage in May 2024, they took a big step forward in bringing that vision to life. Ed Nunn will share the story of their move to Viva Engage, give insight into the choices and tactics that have helped them unlock real value from Viva Engage, and share how Viva Engage is supporting the realisation of their vision for communications.
Relaunching with purpose!
Helen Nias will share the story of how Arqiva relaunched Viva Engage with a renewed purpose, a new position in the internal channels landscape, and a greater focus on unlocking business value. Hear how they reinvigorated their network to such an extent that Arqiva can now celebrate being crowned a SWOOP Analytics Collaboration Champion – there’ll definitely be some top tips in this talk!
Making Viva Engage the heart of your internal comms landscape
Hear how the Places for People team has created a thriving Viva Engage network that sits at the very core of their internal communications efforts. They’ll share how they’ve nurtured a communication culture that’s built around community, where leaders are present and engaged, everyone has a voice and internal comms is about the conversation rather than the message.
Preparing for launch: How to set up forViva Engage success
In this talk, Andy Pamphilon will share the story of how they created the right conditions for Viva Engage success at London Stock Exchange Group. He’ll share some fantastic advice plus an impressive framework for rolling out Viva Engage and establishing it as a key channel within the Group, creating and maintaining enthusiasm and understanding every step of the way.
“Ask-me-anything” about Viva Engage
In this session we have leaders from Microsoft’s Viva Engage product teams joining for you to ask anything you like. Ask Microsoft about roadmap, features, adoption or just anything on your mind.
From conversation to transformation
Empowering employees to move from volunteering conversations to actionable participation using Viva Engage, witnessed a shared association of moral identity. Volunteering has been part of the Tata Steel organisational DNA for over a century. Sneha will share how Viva Engage led to the strengthening of the Tata Steel volunteering identity. This conversation-led transformation connected the workforce with a common sentiment that positioned the organisation strongly in the community-centric narrative.
Key insights from 2024/25 Viva Engage Benchmarking Report
This year’s Viva Engage Benchmarking Report is loaded with evidence-based metrics that helps you with just about all aspects of Viva Engage and is coupled with insights from previous years’ benchmarking award recipients.
Maximising Viva Engage: Top tips for connecting during a period of organisational change
Join Leonie Thirkell from Ventia as she shares her top tips and tricks for leveraging Viva Engage to foster connection during times of organisational change. This session will provide practical advice on best practices for community admins, using dashboards to streamline digital workspaces, automations, and creating an effective channel mix for frontline workers.
Beyond dashboards: How generative AI is shaping the future of analytics for internal communications
The emergence of generative AI is revolutionising work around the world, and no industry is left untouched. Analytics is one of those areas that have a tremendous about of opportunity to deliver even more actionable insights to a far greater amount of people than previously possible.
In this session Cai Kjaer, CEO of SWOOP Analytics, will paint a picture of where analytics in the field of digital workplace and employee engagement is heading and show you SWOOP’s current explorations in this area.
Connecting with frontline using Viva Engage
Australia Post is using Viva Engage communities to connect with their large and diverse frontline team to ensure they’re receiving key updates and information from the business. Colum and Ashleigh will talk about their Viva Engage journey and using communities as a focal point for communications.
SWOOP Analytics is SOC 2 Type 2 cybersecurity compliant
SWOOP Analytics has successfully completed our SOC 2 Type 2 compliance examination, one of the world’s most rigorous cybersecurity auditing standards designed to protect customer data.
The risk of navigating blind in internal communications
We explain the importance of navigating the data of internal communications and the value it offers to enhance your strategy, refine your messaging, and improve the overall employee experience.
Did you (really) see that? All views are not equal
We explain the importance of going beyond the vanity metrics of ”view” , “seen by” and ”impressions“ to understand if employees are really engaging with essential content at work.
Unlocking intranet insights: The power of Members and Guests in SWOOP Analytics for SharePoint intranet
Most intranets have two types of visitors – your direct employees and external partners.
SWOOP Analytics’ new Members and Guests feature allows you to easily distinguish between the internal employees and external collaborators, ensuring you have a complete picture of your intranet’s engagement patterns.
Supercharge Viva Engage with SWOOP Analytics’ Official Keywords feature
We've introduced a new feature which allows you track keywords happening across Viva Engage. SWOOP Analytics' Official Keyword feature shows how frequently specific phrases and keywords are used across all Viva Engage communities.
Celebrating 10 years of SWOOP Analytics!
Recognising 10 years of SWOOP Analytics and some highlights of what we’ve achieved over the past decade.