Yammer is evolving to Viva Engage

There has been a lot of news this month about the plans that Microsoft has for converting its current Yammer platform over to Viva Engage.

Starting in March 2023, we should start seeing updates to the Communities app for Outlook and Yammer mobile apps for iOS and android. Other than branding changes, there are no changes to the features or capabilities. Microsoft states that they will continue to build new capabilities and realize the power of community, corporate communications at the organizational scale, and knowledge sharing. They are excited about how this change will create a unified Viva Engage experience throughout the web, mobile, and other endpoints and bring consistency for Yammer and Viva users.

New experiences rolling out for Viva engage

Leadership Corner provides a space for leaders to connect with employees, showcase employee resource groups, and foster culture through discussions, storyline posts, events, and more a new selection of intuitive dashboards track metrics and employee sentiment to help leadership teams keep a pulse on conversations and guide the discussion with their employees.

There is a new leadership corner event style in Viva engage called Ask Me Anything (AMA) Events to further drive engagement. AMA events create a town hall experience through up voting, Q&A, and engaging discussion features like GIFs and images. If your organization covers a wide territory than, this will help everyone to get an opportunity to ask questions, upvote others' questions, and get responses from their leaders.

Leaders in your organization can now create campaigns to drive key initiatives that support business goals or objectives. These campaigns are automatically pulled into Leadership Corner and include a dedicated campaign page, a Goal Tracker that will measure progress, and the ability to showcase key sponsors and recognize top contributors.

Hope is to make it easier for employees to be able to understand and see information in the corporate environment of the new Microsoft Viva and help people to see, evaluate and understand information being provided to match employee questions and answers from experts, bringing a collective knowledge to work for everyone.

There has been a lot of news this month about the plans that Microsoft has for converting its current Yammer platform over to Viva Engage.
Starting in March 2023, we should start seeing updates to the Communities app for Outlook and Yammer mobile apps for iOS and android. Other than branding changes, there are no changes to the features or capabilities. Microsoft states that they will continue to build new capabilities and realize the power of community, corporate communications at the organizational scale, and knowledge sharing. They are excited about how this change will create a unified Viva Engage experience throughout the web, mobile, and other endpoints and bring consistency for Yammer and Viva users.
New experiences rolling out for Viva Engage Leadership Corner provides a space for leaders to connect with employees, showcase employee resource groups, and foster culture through discussions, storyline posts, events, and more a new selection of intuitive dashboards track metrics and employee sentiment to help leadership teams keep a pulse on conversations and guide the discussion with their employees.There is a new leadership corner event style in Viva engage called Ask Me Anything (AMA) Events to further drive engagement. AMA events create a town hall experience through up voting, Q&A, and engaging discussion features like GIFs and images. If your organization covers a wide territory than, this will help everyone to get an opportunity to ask questions, upvote others' questions, and get responses from their leaders.Leaders in your organization can now create campaigns to drive key initiatives that support business goals or objectives. These campaigns are automatically pulled into Leadership Corner and include a dedicated campaign page, a Goal Tracker that will measure progress, and the ability to showcase key sponsors and recognize top contributors.Hope is to make it easier for employees to be able to understand and see information in the corporate environment of the new Microsoft Viva and help people to see, evaluate and understand information being provided to match employee questions and answers from experts, bringing a collective knowledge to work for everyone.