Yammer - 101

• Yammer a secure (private) social networking and collaboration tool for the corporate environment.

• Features and look/feel similar to Twitter and Facebook.

• Unlike Twitter, not limited to 140 characters for posts.

• Easy sign up and use.

So What is Yammer?

• More efficient work unit communication.• User friendly.• Improve efficiency in managing/sharing documents.• Help ease server space issues (being in “e-mail jail”).• Integrates with SharePoint.• Mobile friendly, there’s an app for that!• Can be set up to allow secure collaboration with

people external to your org.

Why Yammer?

• You must sign up using your work email address. • Unlike Twitter, only internal employees will see your postings.

• In addition to the entire company feed, there are public and private groups. • Messages in private groups cannot be seen by employees outside the

group.

• It is accessible anywhere (work or home), anytime (day or night or weekends).

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If your company is on yammer

This is your news feed. Keep scrolling down

• You can share a comment, document, image and/or a link with the entire Yammer community or with members of a specific group.

• Yammer users can “like” or reply to your comment.

• You can “follow” people.

• There is a search box that allows you to search for people, groups or topics.

Share information with colleagues.

Collaborate on projects.

Attach documents or images.

Share an article from a web site (internal or external).

Tag topics and/or colleagues (and then search by tags).

Give praise, ask a question, take a poll, share an event or make an announcement.

Like, Reply, Share ect.

Type name of someone you know into the Search Box (can also search for groups and documents in this box).

In the browser, hover on the name of the person in your feed you want to follow. In pop-up box, click “+ Follow.”

OR click the word “Follow” below the picture of the person you would like to follow.

Click your name in the upper left corner of the screen. This will take you to your profile.

when on your profile page, click “Edit Profile”

You can use other a photo (Quarterly or person) or an image.

Profiles without photos or images will appear like this:

To upload your photo, click on the “Browse” button in your profile to find a photo from your computer.

You can select to receive update emails (a.k.a. “digests”) updates never, daily or weekly. If you select daily or weekly, you will receive information about postings made to Yammer in a single message.

All groups you follow can also send you updates, choose the ones you want email notifications from when there is activity in that group.

Once you have completed checking or unchecking boxes, click “Save”.