Category: Social

When we focus on Social in a Microsoft context, we are talking about SharePoint, Teams, Teamwork and Yammer. Social can be a private network that helps employees collaborate across departments, locations and even business apps, it can be your company’s private network, your Facebook and Twitter handle, however various other applications are used to help you and your  team stay on top of it all. With SharePoint and other Microsoft technologies, this is a broad subject which is constantly evolving.

Therefore, the Social category is broad too, many different subjects are touched upon and this section is full of handy tips, tricks and advise. Check out some of the Step by Step blogs or learn with our eBooks, How To videos and Webinars.

Getting Instant Productivity out of Yammer
Getting Instant Productivity out of Yammer
Webinars

Start getting instant Productivity out of Yammer. Wondering where to begin with Yammer, and what steps you can take to quickly realize its business benefits? This fast-paced and informative session will walk through the 10 tips and tricks you need to know for getting the most out of Yammer. We’ll provide several powerful use cases… READ MORE

8 Ways to Prepare Your Move to Yammer [Infographic]
8 Ways to Prepare Your Move to Yammer [Infographic]
Blog Posts

Recently on the Office 365 Technical Network, a place where everyone is invited to join in on Office 365 conversations and share their experiences, a YamJam was held. What is it? Well, experts from the field shared their knowledge through a series of questions that had been prepared. One of these questions was about how to prepare to move to Yammer.

Lync & Yammer in Office 365
Lync & Yammer in Office 365
Blog Posts

If Exchange and SharePoint are the heart and soul of Office 365 then Lync and Yammer are the nervous system providing connections and inputs for all Office 365 users. Lync is probably the most unsung feature amongst Small Business users as it is poorly understood by most small business owners.

How to Achieve Business Value through Social
Webinars

Start achieving Business Value through Social today. Download the slides from How to Achieve Business Value through Social To start, end users want business tools that more closely match their personal online experience, but many businesses struggle to understand how these tools will actually provide business benefit. Furthermore, the goal of this session is to… READ MORE

Approaching Social with Purpose
Approaching Social with Purpose
Blog Posts

At the SharePoint Connect 2014 conference (#SPcon14) in Amsterdam this month, I gave a keynote presentation on the very difficult proposition of integrating social into an organization. It’s a topic that I find myself writing about and talking with customers about more and more as organizations begin to seriously consider the implications of moving forward with some of Microsoft’s latest technology (Delve, Groups, inline social) being released within SharePoint Online and across the Office365 platform.

Business Value of Social Computing (III)
Business Value of Social Computing (III)
Blog Posts

Welcome to the third instalment of the business value of social computing post series. You can review the first and the second post of the series, if you haven’t already done so. In this post I will highlight two main problems with the social computing today.

Business Value of Social Computing (II)
Business Value of Social Computing (II)
Blog Posts

In the first post I have defined what social is and what components it has. In this post I will explain why social is used in the companies. As always, a certain technology is not used because it’s brightest and shiniest thing out there (a strategy which works well with techno-addicts). It is used in companies because it helps to achieve a desired goal that has nothing to do with the technology.

Badgeville Comes to SharePoint
Badgeville Comes to SharePoint
Blog Posts

The gamification options available to the SharePoint community have just been expanded. In a press release this morning, the announcement of Badgeville for SharePoint went public, giving organizations an additional toolset to add to their end user adoption strategies. The company is a recognized brand in the community primarily for the work they’ve done with Yammer, but this new offering was designed specifically for SharePoint 2013 – both on-premises and SharePoint Online (part of Office 365) – and it fully integrates into their existing tools for Yammer.