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SharePoint Intranet Festival | May 21, 2025 | Virtual
We’re thrilled to partner with Microsoft for the second SharePoint Intranet Festival, taking place virtually on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. The event is produced by SWOOP Analytics and is packed with expert insights to support your employee engagement strategy and enterprise-wide communication efforts. What makes this event special? It’s grounded in real-world intranet use cases designed for all employees, not just head-office folks. You’ll hear directly from leading organizations like Citi, Comcast, Prologis, Syngenta, Bauer Media, VELUX, NRMA, AustralianSuper, and Services Australia, who will share practical experiences and outcomes. It’s a rich blend of perspectives from both the private and public sectors. We’re also excited to feature Mark Kashman, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft, who will present “Your intranet of tomorrow: Friendly, Content-aware, and AI ready” during the Americas program. Mark will explore the latest SharePoint innovations across content AI, agents, sites, pages, and new creation experiences—making it easier than ever to build compelling digital workplaces. This one-day event is fully live, with sessions delivered across three regional time zones: Americas (click to view full agenda) EMEA (click to view full agenda) APAC (click to view full agenda) Expect practical advice you can apply right away—from how leading organizations structure their intranets, to tips on content governance, change management, and user adoption. You’ll walk away with real-world insights, access to intranet practitioners from around the globe, and a better understanding of how SharePoint and AI are evolving together. If you manage or influence your organisation’s intranet, this is a can’t-miss event. Register today for your preferred time zone, or all of them, today!
Viva Amplify From Address
Hi there I am currently trialling Amplify and am interested to know if it is possible to change the "From" address in publications. If I create a publication it comes from me as an individual but can I make these a Team or a shared mailbox address or a senior leader so the communication doesnt come from me. Hopefully it is an option I skimmed over. Thanks Ben
Can Autistic Black Coders & Microsoft do a partnership & sponsorship together?
Hello Sir & Madam, Please I would like to speak with someone that's a director & executive that is a discussion maker. Can you send me their details please? Because I really want to work with or work for Microsoft, and I have an event coming up, would you like to sponsor my event? Here is my email address, email address removed for privacy reasons It will be wonderful to hear from you as soon as possible, I need your help please. Kind regards Founder | CEO | Autistic Black Coders Mr Oluwaseye OgunfidodoHow to get the most from Viva Engage
New Viva Engage Benchmarking Report out In this brand new 2024-25 Viva Engage Benchmarking Report we’ve analysed more than 15 million Viva Engage interactions from more than three million employees across 70 enterprises and 3,751 Viva Engage communities. This is SWOOP Analytics’ 10th annual Viva Engage Benchmarking Report. Supported by a decade of Viva Engage (formerly Yammer) data, this report boasts the world’s most comprehensive, long-term analysis of Viva Engage usage and behaviour patterns, based on real-time interactions. The benchmark goals we suggest throughout the report come from 10 years of measuring best practice behaviours from multiple millions of employees across hundreds of organisations, so you can be confident that following our benchmark goals will give your Viva Engage network the best opportunity to thrive. We have made this a one-stop guide for Viva Engage. We’re addressing the questions and issues faced by you - all backed by a decade of data research and the latest real-life analytics available. This 2024/25 Viva Engage Benchmarking Report is a go-to resource for anyone using, or launching, Viva Engage.Request Access to Viva Amplify
I'm part of the GTM Strategy for Worldwide Enablement & Readiness Communities at Microsoft. I was reviewing Viva Amplify, and this is an amazing tool that would greatly simplify my team's ability to consistently manage and communicate with our field members. How does one go about requesting access to be able to Create Campaigns? I have reviewed the demo AI Campaign, but do not have ability to create new campaigns? Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated!
Webinar recording: Demystifying Microsoft Viva: How to Enable a Connected and Engaged Culture....
Hi all, Sharing this here as the feedback from many IC professionals is that they found the session so insightful and it was refreshing to have plain language used to talk about the Microsoft Communications and Communities bundle capabilities + how important Viva Goals is in the context of alignment. This webinar was in association with the Institute of Internal Communications in June 2024. Hope you find it useful as a share! https://siliconreef.co.uk/events/demystifying-microsoft-viva-webinar/ AlexINVITATION: Viva Amplify Research Study
We need corporate communicators to take part in a research study to inform the future Amplify experience. A bit more about the session: We will be conducting the session using a platform called usertesting.com. Please make sure to follow usertesting.com setup instructions ahead of your session, ensure that the usertesting.com extension is installed, and you are able to begin the test. During the session, we will ask you to log in to your own Amplify environment and create a new campaign and publication within which you will complete several tasks. You can delete the campaign and publication after the session is over. During the session we ask that you share your screen and to please think aloud so we can better understand your experience as you complete tasks. After each task and at the end of the session, you will be asked several questions to understand your experience using Amplify. Non-government/non-Microsoft employees will receive the local equivalent of a USD $50 gift for completed participation. Join now Use the link below to start your session until April 26. The session should take about 30 minutes. https://app.usertesting.com/pp/27f8e511-b724-4623-800c-3145c0a45cd6SharePoint for frontline workers?
Is anyone out there really pushing SharePoint as a tool for non-office workers (I'm thinking corporate sales staff, customer service, distribution or manufacturing)? Is the mobile SharePoint app good enough to bring news to the right people, or to bring people to the right documents?News page measurement
Hello Friends Has anyone found a Microsoft or third party solution for measuring news pages? I know I can see it in the page, and via the library - hovering on the page name. When creating monthly reports on views it is really quite the task to get the data. Managed to use Content Search in SharePoint classic to get the data. Any successes with data beyond the 90 day cycle? Also considering where a page has been translated, pulling the page view totals together?Build a solid IT base
Hello guys. Hope everyone is fine. This year I have the task of establishing the IT department on a growing small business. My goal is to develop a robust structure capable of efficiently handling current data traffic while being scalable to fulfill the company's growth. For that reason, I came here to ask for some advices. Firstly, what devices and what knowledge do you believe is necessary to have now to ensure that the structure doesn't break in the future? Where should I start, what should I study and what solutions should I search so I can manage this network correctly? Thank you for the atention and for the help.Corp Comms Community Discussion - Feb
Ever feel overloaded with communications? Remember a particular communication, but can't remember who sent it, if it was in email or someplace else or even how to get back to it? These are common issues that many people deal with on a daily basis. If this is you, please join the discussion as Laurel Dzneladze from LinkedIn leads to help people engage. February 28- 10 am Central/8 am PST Microsoft Teams Need help? Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 229 659 043 693 Passcode: hZuei6 Dial-in by phone +1 323-849-4874,,855711920# United States, Los Angeles Find a local number Phone conference ID: 855 711 920# Microsoft Teams Need help? Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 229 659 043 693 Passcode: hZuei6 Dial-in by phone +1 323-849-4874,,855711920# United States, Los Angeles Find a local number Phone conference ID: 855 711 920#Can not view the report grouped by location in Viva Amplify
Hi Liz, I wanted to thank you for your ongoing support of the Viva Amplify community. I have a question regarding the detailed report section and was hoping you could help me out. Specifically, I'm trying to view the report grouped by location. Is this a feature that needs to be configured by our IT admin? If so, could you please provide me with some steps on how to enable it? Thank you in advance for your assistance. Best regards, ShohelLearn Viva Amplify: 8 lesson walk through
Hey communicators. With the release of Viva Amplify I recorded a 1 hour walk through to help us all get started. Or help organisations considering using Amplify to see what it's like. Whether it's your full-time role or one of the functions of your position, Amplify provides a way for us to create, coordinate, publish and report on our communications across multiple channels. As first release, it's quite functional. It makes smart use of a team for your campaign, the Amplify app for creating and coauthoring publications. The distribution channels help us reach our audiences where they are. We can only publish to the places we have access to. Reporting gives us views and some information about how people have responded to, reacted to, or promoted the publication. If you have access to Amplify, what do you think of it? Share your first impressions. If you are interested in seeing the walk-through, you'll find a playlist with 8 lessons to step through in your own timing.
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