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Announcing the 2021 Yammer Community Champions!
The competition was fierce, but SWOOP Analytics and Microsoft’s worldwide search has uncovered the most passionate Yammer community managers for 2021.
We announce the winners in this article.
While you were sleeping - connecting shift workers with Yammer
It can get pretty lonely working in the middle of the night in London while the rest of the city sleeps. For London Underground’s maintenance workers and engineers, the hours between midnight and 5am are some of the busiest.
Learn how Transport for London uses Yammer to help connect employees across the network and why it was identified as one of the world’s top Yammer networks.
How to revive your online community
Learn how to revive your Yammer or Workplace from Facebook community.
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.
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?
SWOOP Chat with Humana
Jeff Ross and Nick Wallander, online Community Managers at US health insurer Humana, share their journey engaging 43,000+ employees and 24,000+ contractors on Yammer and Microsoft Teams, especially during the COVID-19 work from home environment.
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)”.
SWOOP Chat with RACQ
Learn how one of Australia’s largest member organisations, providing roadside assistance, insurance, banking and more, is using Microsoft Teams and Yammer to keep employees connected with leaders during the COVID-19 work from home environment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What Sort of ‘Team’ should I be aspiring to? Should I be on Microsoft Teams or Yammer?
Microsoft Teams has been established as the collaboration hub for Office 365 and will often become the first port of call for those looking to collaborate online. But is Teams always the correct place to collaborate? Should you be using Yammer?