What is Microsoft Viva Engage?
Viva Engage is essentially a social networking service platform from Microsoft designed for organisations. Using Viva Engage, you can create communities to keep employees up to date and share knowledge.
Is Viva Engage just Yammer?
Yes. In Summer 2023, Microsoft began rebranding Yammer as Viva Engage. There is no difference between Viva Engage and Yammer as they are the same platform.
How to use Viva Engage
Viva Engage can be used as a way to communicate and share knowledge within your organisation.
You create communities, which are pages where you can add updates. Employees can be added to or join as they please.
Each community can have its own community image, header image, description, and you can add files and resources related to the community for easy access. You can also label members as ‘community experts’. Experts are labelled with a badge next to their name to let others know they may have specialised knowledge on the particular community.
When posting in a community, you have four options:
- Discussion: general, text-based posts
- Question: highlight an important question to gather responses
- Praise: highlight some good feedback or work by a colleague
- Poll: create a poll to get votes on a topic
We created a video demo (back when Viva Engage was Yammer) to show you more about the platform. Whilst some things have changed, the platform generally remains very similar. In this video, you’ll learn what Viva Engage networks and communities are, as well as how to use Viva Engage within your organisation.
This video was recorded in September 2021. Some of the features and functionality of Yammer may have changed since then.
