Yammer in a Business Environment

Yammer, as the name implies is a private social network that helps employees collaborate across

departments, locations and even business apps. Similar to your company’s private social network like your

Facebook and Twitter handle, yammer helps you and your team stay on top of it all in terms of using social

engineering concept and business ethical values. The solution aids team members to collaborate on files,

and organize company projects so that work can be done faster and in a more efficient way.

The solution offers a wide variety of team collaboration tools to help to easily connect with others in your

organization. Bring all your work into one place, to enable conversation sharing, document collaboration

and better work environment promoting efficiency.

Yammer overview

Acquired by Microsoft in June 2012

• Continued integration with SharePoint and Office 365

• Great social application for the enterprise; similar to other social networks

• Available as a standalone product or part of Office 365 suite

• Yammer is used for private communication within organizations and is an example of

enterprise social software.

• The tool was originally developed as an internal communication system for the

genealogy website Geni.

• Access to a Yammer network is determined by a user's Internet domain so that only

individuals with appropriate email addresses may join their respective networks.

Before we move further I will like to look at the factors of efficient and effective communication

in any team build and take a look at the way a good team works.

Let’s look at what a communication equation usually looks like:

From the picture above we can clearly see that for good team building, communication is a key

factor and each of human sense has a role to play;

The Ear attributes to 40% of the interpretation of message you get or communicate

among team members, so that your voice perception, the vocal clarity and verbal

expressions determine what message you pass to your follow team member.

The Eye attributes to 50% of the communication among team member resulting to your

ability to understand the facial expression, dress and grooming, posture, eye contact,

touch and gesture also influences the message and articulates the reason behind the

message.

Words only attribute to 10% of communication between team members.

Microsoft’s vision of building a solution to enhance good team collaboration engineered a

solution that can help to combine the characters necessary for good team work and introduced

Yammer.

In business environments, solutions like Facebook and Twitter had similar potential but it is

bounded by the need to electrify socialism and bring people of various races in one common

front through pictures and information.

Although, in recent times, these tools have been used for Marketing and business branding but

the collaboration in any business environment is still far from achievable.

Furthermore I want to talk about teamwork because it a basic tool in every collaboration

process.

What is Teamwork? Andrew Carnegie defines as follows:

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.

The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives

It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

Based on this definition, it can be inferred that to have a team is to bring more than 2 people

together.

Yammer brings teams together and increases effectiveness, brings people together and

improves efficiency.

How does Yammer work?

Yammer helps teams to collaborate by connecting, collaborating and delivering high

performance teamwork, then it engages by attracting and retaining employees’ connection

within and outside the office environment and finally it innovates by facilitating idea sharing and

rapid innovation within the team.

As part of its adaptation, Yammer can work on any devices in the market whether it is a

Windows device or an Android or even a Mac device. YAMMER IS STILL VERY FREEEEEE…

For more on yammer, you can check this video link:

1. Transform the Way You Work with Yammer 2. Yammer!!!!!

Advantages of Adapting Yammer for a business environment:

I. Bring your team together; Yammer makes it easy to quickly bring your team together so

they can have conversations, collaborate on files, and more…

II. Work smarter and faster in teams

III. Scale your impact across teams

Future for Yammer

Deeper integration with Office 365

Wrap up the foundational identity work with Azure Active Directory so that Yammer can

leverage Office Graph signals for better people and group suggestions

Use Office Online for multi-user co-authoring in Yammer

Hook into the Office 365 Groups service to enable cross-workload scenarios with One Drive,

Outlook, OneNote and Skype

Deliver on external groups promise, which lets users invite outside participants into their

Yammer groups

For any question on Yammer kindly direct your Q&A to me see my details below:

For any question on Yammer kindly direct your Q&A to me see my details below:

Name: Oluwaseyi Oluwawumiju

Email: soluwawumiju@convenanttechnologies.com

Twitter: @soluwawumiju

Linkedin: https://ng.linkedin.com/pub/seyi-oluwawumiju-mct-fiimafrica-itil/27/36a/129

Website: http://www.convenanttechnologies.com

Blog: https://seyioluwawumiju.wordpress.com/

About the Writer

Oluwawumiju Oluwaseyi is a Technical consultant with Convenant

Technologies and Also IT Manager of ILF Engineers Nigeria Limited. Convenant Technologies is a

Certified Partner with Microsoft in Lagos, Nigeria. He is a senior consulting partner for Covenant

Technologies on Microsoft infrastructure with over 16 years’ experience and also he is fellow of

the institute of information Management Africa one of the highest honor for Management of

data. Prior to joining Convenant Technologies, Seyi was a senior technical consultant and support

manager for 1st Intellit solution, where he led outsourcing team development and new client

systems. It is in view of the evolving market for IT in Africa, that he deemed it highly necessary

honing his traditional product knowledge expertise to meet this current trend. Suffice it is to say,

that championing campaign for SharePoint strictly from value point of view in medium and large

organizations is the mainstay of his business interest in WECA and the response as well as

prospect from the Nigerian marketplace for instance, is no doubt a boost for his business outlook

in Africa. He is also a certified Microsoft Trainer and Microsoft Certified Trainer, MCT Regional

Lead for Nigeria, Speaker and Technical Instructor.

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