Learn how to customize your employee's celebration messages.
Personalizing the Celebration Message for Birthdays and Work Anniversaries
When event announcements are enabled, employee celebrations (birthdays + anniversaries) are automatically posted to the Newsfeed.
However, it's important to note that the default messages posted to the Newsfeed are not personalized. In other words, every employee in the company will receive the same message.
Pro Tip: We strongly recommend personalizing your program's celebrations messages. Recognition is always more meaningful when it's personal.
It is possible to personalize the default message for all employees celebrating special events, or you can tailor it even further for a particular employee.
Option 1: Customize general celebration messages
Customize the default message posted to the Newsfeed for employees' birthdays and work anniversaries. Note, this affects the standard default message that every employee will see on the Newsfeed for their birthday or work anniversary.
To customize general messages, navigate to Settings>Customizations
Under the "Birthdays" tab in the "Custom Newsfeed Post" field, you can customize the default celebration message for birthdays.
Under the "Celebration Messages" tab in the "Custom Newsfeed Post" field, you can customize the default celebration message for work anniversaries.
Option 2: Customize per employee
You can take customization a step further, and customize the default celebration post for a specific employee for their birthday or work anniversary.
This new message will override the standard default message that every employee receives. Managers can do this on the fly, a few days before the event is automatically announced on the Newsfeed.
To write your personalized message, navigate to Settings>Customizations
Search and select the employee you are looking to recognize for either their birthday or work anniversary, and write your customized Newsfeed post or email.
The personalized message will appear on the Newsfeed when Applauz automatically posts the birthday or work anniversary announcement on the day of the event.
Note: If you do not see the "Program" or "Customization" menus, you may not have permission to access them. Please ask your Program Administrator to modify permissions for your Role.