The Yammer Blog tackles a couple recurring problems: how to successfully migrate organizations to successful enterprise social when they’re moving from multiple Yammer networks or pre-existing enterprise social tools.
The blog post suggests three tips:
1. Choose a network design that is suited to your end business goals. Enterprise Social provides an opportunity for your organization to do work differently and it’s important to consider how you might want to design your Yammer network. This may include using independent networks – one per email domain – to suit the way your organization wishes to collaborate. If your objective is broader cross-company collaboration, consider creating one central network, to which all company domains have access.
2. Start fresh with content. Technical migrations of content are not generally recommended, as information on Yammer tends to be more ephemeral in nature – not necessarily needed as material for future reference.
3. Migrate organization behaviors to the new design. Make sure to understand how people have been using each network that you are migrating away from. Work with key people involved in groups and topics to understand what the target behavior might look like in the new network.
Check out how you can configure Yammer Network Architecture to suit your organization’s needs and read more about successful migrations on The Yammer Blog. Yammer Support can help with your network migration.
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