Within HRWize, we find that a great tool to encourage Employee Engagement is the Social Stream. 

Not only can users log in and post messages, which in turn can be liked and replied to by others, but the social stream can also be used to post announcements internally. Automated messages can be set up to display messages of the following types:

New Social Recognition

New Starter Welcome

Job Change

New Job Requisition

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Message Automation 

To automate these messages, go to:

Administration > Company > Settings > Social > Social Settings

From here, you can input the text that will be displayed as part of the automated messages.

In order to personalize these messages, the system recognizes tags that relate directly to various fields of data that have been populated in the system. The following tags can be used within the social stream:

Please Note - You MUST include the square brackets before and after the tag - otherwise, the system will not correctly display the message.

Social Recognition tags

These tags/placeholders are used when recognizing a single employee.

• [rec_firstname] – recipient’s first name
• [rec_surname] – recipient’s surname
• [sender_firstname] – sender’s first name
• [sender_surname] – sender’s surname
• [citation] – citation entered by the sender

Example Message:

[rec_firstname] [rec_surname] has beeen recognized by [sender_firstname] [sender_surname] for: [citation]

Multiple Social Recognition Tags

This is used when recognizing multiple employees which require these specific set of tags/placeholders.

• [sender_firstname] – sender’s first name
• [sender_surname] – sender’s surname
• [rec_names] – recipient’s names
• [citation] – citation entered by the sender

New Starter tags

• [firstname] – new starters first name
• [surname] – new starters surname
• [manager] - new starter's manager name
• [department] - new starter's department
• [job_role] - new starter's job role
• [site] - new starter's site

Example Message:

Please say hello to [firstname] [surname] who started with us today

Job Change Tags

[firstname] – new starters firstname
[surname] – new starters surname
[new_job_role] – new job role name

Example Message:

Congratulations to [firstname] [surname] on their promotion to [new_job_role] 

New Requisition Tags

[role] – job role requisition is for
[contact] – contact person dealing with the role

Example Message: 

New job requisition added for [role] - please contact [contact] for further details

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The Link Company Values to Social Recognition checkbox allows you to link values to social recognition entries. Check out the Social Recognition support article to view how to create these entries.

Social Recognition can now optionally be posted to a public Slack channel if you have enabled our Slack integration. Click here for more information on using Slack with HRWize.