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- EmilyPerina
Community Manager
That’s a wrap! Thank you for joining our Viva Engage & Yammer Rebranding – What’s next! event today!
We appreciate all the great questions and hope you learned something new! I'll be locking this event to new questions, but our experts will still be able to respond to any unanswered questions. Stay tuned for more Microsoft Viva Engage news!
For any other questions about Viva Engage, head to the Viva Engage Community.
- Can you please share the links (internal Microsoft case study) that was mentioned earlier when talking about the opportunity to introduce the rebranding to senior leadership as not only a rebranding but the added benefits and value that Viva Engage brings to the org?
- AllisonMichels
Microsoft
I think this was the blog post that was referenced https://www.microsoft.com/insidetrack/blog/transforming-employee-engagement-at-microsoft-with-microsoft-viva-engage/
- Is there going to be an enhancement to how Engage surfaces into a SharePoint page? right now it takes up so much real estate on the page.
- AllisonMichelsGreat question - answered around the 51:00 min mark. Thanks
- what about timing for accessibility options for videos...ie controlling of captions, translations for captions etc?
- AllisonMichelsAnswered around the 49 min mark. Thanks for your question!
Is there already a filter available to easily see a list of only all official communities? Maybe we missed that but that would be great to be able to easily identify those to see which ones you want to join. We have a huge number of communities in VE, so this would really be great to have. Maybe it has already arrived and we just missed it.
- Definitely not here today but I know many customers would really appreciate the ability to filter on Official communities.
- Road map for yammer external networks?
- AllisonMichelsSteve starts to answer this around the 52 min mark. Thanks for your question!
- To help keep people engaged and adoption levels up, will non-premium end users ever have an opportunity to personalize their profile photo? When will general availability of Stories be available to everyone?
- AllisonMichelsAnswered around 46:00 mark and beyond -- let us know if you need more details.
- As far as asking folks what their favorite communities are... will there be an option in the future to effectively @ mention communities that pulls in the name and URL of the community? Right now, users have to copy-paste the URL of a community, which does not display the name of the community.
This question was not quite answered on the Q&A. I wasn't talking about an announcement feature or anything like that. Steve had mentioned, as an engagement opportunity, to post a question in your network to ask what are people's favorite communities and they could reply with their answers. Right now, our users would simply type the name in plain text and it would not link to the community, because there's no way to @ mention a community in a comment. When writing a comment, I wish I could type @ and as I start typing the name of a community, it would appear as a drop down option that I could choose from. That way, there would be a link to the community in my comment that others could then click on and be taken directly to that community. I think we'd see a lot more community traffic if we had this kind of functionality. Right now, if users do actually take the time to pull in a link to a community in a comment, we see, "Come check out the knitting community: https: //web . yammer . com..." which is not nearly as engaging. It would be so much better to see "Come check out The Knitting Corner" where "The Knitting Corner" is hyperlinked to the community. Obviously that's possible now by highlighting the text and hyperlinking it, but it's a lot of manual steps that users don't bother with. I hope that makes sense!
- AllisonMichelsThanks for the clarification @theresa! I will ping Steve to see if he can shed a bit more light on this. But it's not something I think that we are diving into deeply at the moment from what you've explained.
- Is it planned to ever launch Viva engage special features (Leadership corner, etc) available as a basic package? For a large company of 8000 users, at a cost of 8-9 dollars per user per month, this would add up to 700 000 USD, which couldnt be a justified cost, but the features would be useful to promote the use of Viva engage in the comapany.
- Hi, is it 8-9 dollars per user per month or 12? As shown on this pricing page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-ww/microsoft-viva/pricing?market=af ?
- AllisonMichelsFeel free to work with your account teams for more details on specific licensing questions. Here's a link to enroll in a trial of the Viva Engage premium capabilities if you have interest in that. https://aka.ms/vivaengage/premiumtrial The team starts to answer this question around min 34:00ish
- I think I missed it - will Microsoft support yammer.com URLs redirection permanently, even when engage.com is in place?
- espnguyenYes, they will redirect for some indefinite period of time.
