Until (not very long ago), when someone among the people dealing with Office 365 talked about Yammer, there was at most a pity smile. To be honest, I was one of them myself for a long time. But it turns out that there are some clearly particular situations when this solution is ideal for use. In my previous post “Modern IT Department” I wrote about Office 365 as a platform that can really bring great added value. Especially for a company that starts its business and the money must be spent in a way that is reasonable and shows good judgment.
I think that the simplest term will be: “Facebook for companies”. A good start will be a look at the official site. Yammer gives us the opportunity to build community and internal forums in the company. I will give you a simple example. Well, because of the unfortunate widespread disease in my company was a lot of discussion about the organization of online meetings. And while inside the company all the meetings are in Teams, it was obvious with outsiders that it wasn’t.
It turned out that many people do not know about the possibility of inviting people from outside. And there are no restrictions on the (raised, flat supporting surface) or licensing. In a quite simple way, we created a thread in which one could get answers to all problems related to external communication. It was a hot topic.
In fact, the matter is quite simple. Go to the Yammer site in an organization and you can start publishing. At the beginning you will see the group “All company”. This is the default group for everyone in our company. Of course, nothing prevents you from creating more, dedicated to different goals of the group. It is also worth noting that in July Yammer will undergo a facelift and get a fresh look. It will be much better with the “modern experience” at SharePoint or OneDrive. For this purpose, Microsoft uses Fluent Design System. They created it from scratch. If you are interested in enabling it, you can do it now. In the administrator options find the option: “Bring the New Yammer (Preview) to your Organization”, as in the picture below.
The answer to this question will determine the success or failure of this project. Because, as you will see, implementing and running the application is not a difficult matter. But convincing people to use it is something completely different. And whether you can convince your colleagues to use the application will determine the success of the project.
It’s powerful tool. Many of us work from home because of quarantine and especially those days you can really benefit when you use it.
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Can you plan meetings in Yammer? Like Teams or is it more like a chat room.
For us it works as forum when we exchange ideas or solutions. For example IT team shows new features in Office 365.