Never heard of what Yammer is?
Well, Tech Aficionado brings you an amazing article on what is Yammer and how can you use it.
The main objective of this platform is to provide a platform for internal communications between the people working in an organization. It enterprise social network that works with Teams and other Microsoft 365 apps. Yammer was created by a company called Geni with the sole purpose of helping employees connect and communicate across their organization. It was hugely successful and was later expanded to become both its own product and company that was launched in September of 2008.
Yammer quickly caught the eyes of many eager buyers before it was ultimately acquired by Microsoft in 2012. Microsoft rolled the new product into their Office 365 suite in 2014, and today it is used by 85% of fortune 500 companies worldwide.
This platform is only available to those who are linked to an organization or an institution. You can only log in to "Yammer" if you've got an organization ID or a student email ID. Under no circumstances, you will be able to log in with your personal email. It is sort of a mixed version of Facebook and LinkedIn. Basically a professional Facebook. Using Yammer, you can easily create and host town halls, company meetings, and training. It helps in sharing rich communications with events for up to 20,000 attendees. You can invite people to view and engage with video and discussions across the web and mobile apps. It is available on the web as well in the form of an application.
What else can it do?
Teams Meetings for up to 250 participants
Live events for up to 20,000 attendees through Microsoft Teams, Stream, and Yammer*
Live events for up to 100,000 attendees in Stream when planned through live events assistance program
On-demand recordings for unlimited numbers of viewers so anyone who could not participate during the live event, doesn’t miss out.
You can start a discussion, ask a question. make a poll about anything. Suppose you're the head and you want to make some changes and you want whether it is in favor of employee or not so you can easily take a poll and understand what employees want.
You will be posting on your feed and the post will reach your followers. You also have an option to follow people in Yammer. It allows teams to showcase departmental innovations and achievements. It helps departments react to and build on the latest achievements of others, and lets employees feel recognized for doing something good. It incorporates transparency within the organization.
You have an option to create a community within your organization as well as public. The community of a particular department within a company can be created for easy collaboration. In the public community people working in the same domain can connect and interact to each other.
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