Category: Community Management

February 14, 2023

Viva Engage – The artist formerly known as Yammer

Today the Microsoft product team announced a much anticipated and predicted change for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Viva – Yammer is evolving to Viva Engage.

February 12, 2022

The community answers the question: Why Yammer?

After a thought provoking perspective on Yammer was shared, I came together with 9 other Microsoft MVPs to answer the question, Why Yammer?

July 29, 2021

Authenticity and Trust in Enterprise Communities [Video]

I had a conversation with fellow Microsoft MVPs Benjamin Elias and Simon Terry about the new Yammer Post on Behalf of feature, and it’s potential impact on authenticity and trust organisations that use it.

July 26, 2021

Post on behalf in Yammer – Proceed with caution

The ability to post on behalf of someone else in Yammer just entered general availability. This could be celebrated as a new way to leverage Yammer for communication, but I suggest proceeding with caution and considering the options.

March 27, 2021

What is your community Alma Mater?

What is your community almamater? Where you have received industry or community growth and learning?

March 10, 2021

Future of user voices – Microsoft drops UserVoice

Microsoft is dropping UserVoice. A few industry articles have emerged on the topic, but at this stage other than 1st party solutions, the fate of UserVoice and all the content there is not super clear.

December 22, 2020

2020 – When the #YearOfYammer delivered

When did the Year of Yammer begin? When did it end? Depends on how you cut the numbers, but if 2019 was the #YearOfYammer announcements, then 2020 is absolutely the year when Yammer delivered.

February 13, 2020

#YearOfYammer hits Australia

The Yammer Product Team were in Australia this week demonstrating the many improvements coming in the #YearOfYammer and answering all of the hard questions.

November 4, 2019

Year of Yammer – what’s it about?

If you haven’t heard it yet, you will soon. The enterprise social buzz from Microsoft is that it is the Year of Yammer and we don’t have long to wait to find out whether this is hype or an absolute game changer.