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Viva Engage & Yammer Rebranding – What’s next!
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- theresa_muehlbauerJul 13, 2023Iron Contributor
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!
- AllisonMichelsJul 13, 2023
Microsoft
Thanks 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.