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Dr SWOOP is now live on your SWOOP Analytics dashboards, ready to supply you with instant answers to just about all your digital workplace questions, and give you proven tips and ideas to boost communication and collaboration across your organisation.
We compare Microsoft’s out-of-the-box analytics with SWOOP Analytics for SharePoint intranet in an easy-to-see table.
Microsoft’s out-of-the-box analytics will give you numbers that may not carry a lot of meaning, whereas SWOOP Analytics gives you insights into your employees’ behaviours, and shows you how your people are using, accessing and reading the intranet.
The latest update to your SWOOP Analytics dashboard can predict which posts on Viva Engage or Workplace from Meta are likely to go viral.
We can tell you, with about a 99% accuracy rating, which posts are likely to get high levels of engagement across your organisation.
We’ve been busting myths to help you better understand your intranet statistics! The latest myth busted relates to the time people spend editing intranet pages, and whether that time spent editing pages influences the average read time for each page.
When does “news” on your intranet become “old news”? SWOOP Analytics’ benchmarking of SharePoint intranet data found it’s about a week before news starts to decay. So, what do you do with this “old” news?
We explore the critical role internal communications play in aligning employees with strategic goals, what happens when you don’t, how to get it right, and how to measure it.
As a leader or executive, have you ever stopped to think about the best communication channel to reach your employees? Not your personally preferred channel, but the channel that will deliver the best outcome for your purpose and that of your employees.
How long should an intranet news article be?
500 words! That’s the sweet spot for the length of an intranet news article. And longer is better than shorter.
Surprised? We were! Still, it’s hard to argue with real life data.
Email just won’t go away! So how do internal communicators use it amongst a suite of other communications platforms on offer in the digital workplace?
We have the key to driving engagement and innovation in the workplace. It sounds simple, but its impact is powerful.
This key is curiosity.
Four years after the world was plunged into enforced remote working, what lessons have we learned about online meetings? What new work practices are working well for us, now we’re in a hybrid working environment? What hasn’t worked?
Do you spend time designing your intranet to be accessible to employees on their phones and mobile devices?
If so, it seems you’re probably wasting your time!
Blog Archive
Book Review: “Networked: The New Social Operating System” – Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman
Having spent considerable time researching in field of Social Network Analysis (SNA), Barry Wellman was well known to me. We have never met face-to-face but I had met up with a number of his Netlab colleagues at a couple of INSA Sunbelt conferences. My first recollection of Wellman’s work goes back to some of his early pre-Internet research on electronically facilitated communications and the social network.
Social Physics: Oxymoron or Big 'Social' Data Tipping Point?
I’ve long been a fan of Sandy Pentland’s work at the MIT media lab. Pentland is perhaps best known for his ‘social tags’ used for monitoring individual human interactions to identify those interaction most associated with productive teams. When his new book “Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread – Lessons from a New Science” coincided with the Easter holiday break, what better way to spend the break than to consume another Pentland tome?