Category: Community Management

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?

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.

October 19, 2019

Success factors for a thriving Yammer network – Yammer blog

In the 9 years I have been a Yammer Community Manager I have picked up a few things that I see as essential. I’ve shared my tips in some recent presentations and now on the Yammer blog.

April 17, 2019

6 ways to bring some fun to your Yammer network – Yammer blog

In my second post for the Yammer blog put forward the idea that bringing some fun to your Yammer network will help foster a positive organisational culture.

March 15, 2019

The event which unlocked our Yammer Success – Yammer blog

In my first post on the Yammer blog I share the story of a key business event, how we used Yammer as a key tool, and advice for how you can do the same for your events.

March 2, 2019

Sharing lessons and ESN love – Yammer blog

I’m delighted to have been one of a group of enterprise social practitioners, MVPs and consultants who will be contributing to the official Yammer Blog in 2019.

September 18, 2012

Being one with the bees – My Swarm conference overview part 2

Before I was lucky enough to score tickets to Swarm Conference I was impressed by the effort that they put into building momentum for their event and watching the twitter feed closely.

September 10, 2012

The speakers of Swarm – My conference overview part 1

I consider myself very lucky to have been able to attend this year’s Swarm Conference after winning tickets through Yammer (thanks again guys). I do believe that your perspective on an event changes depending on whether you had to pay for it or not, so with that in mind I believe this is a conference well worth paying for. This...