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How to revive your online community
Learn how to revive your Yammer or Workplace from Facebook community.
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?
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.
How are You Going?
We thought we’d explore how organisations are really going using our SWOOP sentiment analysis data from the past three months; covering the period of “pre-COVID-19”, “Transition to Working From Home” and now “Working From Home (WFH)”.
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.
You’ve just been told to Work from Home. You have Workplace. Are you home free?
Under the above scenario it’s clearly better to have Workplace from Facebook in place than not. But I suspect few of us would see all our anxieties from the COVID-19-enforced change to our working environments overcome that simply. Most of us have had the experience of working from home (WFH) occasionally, but what about when your whole team has to WFH?
The SWOOP Diversity Index: How is it Calculated?
You may have seen on your personal SWOOP dashboard something called the Diversity Index. You will also see it at the Groups, Team, Business Unit/segment and Enterprise levels where we average the diversity scores across the respective membership. In this article, we explain why and how the Diversity Index is actually calculated.
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.
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.
Enterprise Social Networks: An Alternative to Major Cultural Change Programs?
I've written before about how we need to move beyond the ubiquitous “culture survey” into real-time digital sensing, where we draw cultural assessments from how employees actually behave online.
Millions of dollars to be saved but don’t put it all at risk without measuring collaboration
Collaboration platforms Microsoft Teams and Workplace by Facebook are saving companies millions of dollars every year, resulting in up to 800% in ROI by keeping employees engaged and connected. But without analytics to help you clearly understand where collaboration is – and isn’t – happening you have no way of measuring if you’re receiving the business benefits.
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.
How Workplace is changing company culture to deliver a better product
Global creative agency We Are Social enjoys an active, productive global digital community for its 750 employees and can claim Workplace from Facebook as a truly integral part of its business and culture. We Are Social shares its experience to achieve success on Workplace.
Teams and Projects – Setting Collaboration Performance Targets
Digital teams are way too large to enjoy the benefits of being a truly high productive team. At an average size of 296 members, there is little chance of achieving the level of cohesion and productivity that more appropriately sized non-digital teams do. A fundamental shift is required in how digital teams are formed. If teams are to truly perform online, they should limit their size to less than 10 members.
How Flight Centre used Workplace to save a man’s life
Not too many companies can claim they saved a life using their Workplace network. Global travel agency Flight Centre can.
Will the ‘Real’ Digital Team Please Stand Up?
Other than simple reports on digital team size and number of messages shared, the team-level analytics currently available are rudimentary at best. My previous article on building effective digital teams examined research my company, Swoop Analytics, did on over 1,300 self-declared digital teams across several organizations using the Workplace by Facebook platform. The average membership from these "teams" was nearly 300 and therefore, most could not be considered real teams. Nevertheless, one would expect that many, in spite of their size, are gaining value from their use of the digital platform.
Listening to employees through Workplace and SWOOP
What do stingless bees have to do with a Workplace network? For Australian Catholic University (ACU), the stingless bees are an example of how its Workplace network has connected thousands of staff across the country and led to immediate business value.
Secrets of the world’s best Workplace networks revealed
At SWOOP we’ve recently conducted the world’s largest-ever analysis of Workplace by Facebook networks, examining 68 organisations worldwide who opted into SWOOP’s benchmarking.
NBN boss Bill Morrow shows true leadership in response to the #MeToo campaign
As stories of sexual abuse flooded social media in response to the #MeToo awareness campaign, NBN Co chief executive Bill Morrow’s thoughts went straight to his employees.