Communities Designed Around Shared Needs
Employee communities work best when members understand why the space exists and where each conversation belongs. Social Squared lets you create forum groups and topics for departments, locations, employee networks, interests, onboarding or strategic initiatives.
Templates make new communities consistent while Microsoft 365 permissions help control who can view and participate.
- Build communities for functions, locations or employee groups
- Organise conversations into clear forums and topics
- Use templates to launch consistent community spaces
- Embed the experience in SharePoint or Microsoft Teams
- Apply existing Microsoft 365 access controls
- Scale from a focused expert group to organisation-wide participation
Give Employees Better Ways to Contribute
Structured topics keep conversations focused and make it easier for employees to join in. Threaded and quoted replies preserve context, while subscriptions, ratings and helpful voting reward useful participation.
Moderation tools support respectful, relevant communities without placing every task on one central administrator.
- Reply in context with threads and quotations
- Subscribe to communities and individual topics
- Vote for helpful contributions and rate topics
- Recognise accepted answers where a question is resolved
- Distribute moderation to trusted community owners
- Keep conversations accessible after the initial activity
Understand What Your Communities Need
Activity data helps community owners see what members discuss, which topics generate engagement and where contributions are missing. Social Squared analytics provide evidence for improving prompts, events, content and community ownership.
Searchable archives also help new employees learn from earlier conversations instead of starting from zero.
- Review participation and engagement trends
- Identify popular themes and unanswered questions
- Use insights to guide future community content
- Help new starters explore previous discussions
- Preserve knowledge through organisational change
- Use Copilot-assisted summaries for lengthy topics
Create Employee Communities that Strengthen Microsoft 365
Give people an organised, inclusive place to share experience, ask questions and build knowledge together.