Getting started ready, set, go! By Yammer

READY to Try Yammer?

QUESTIONS? © Yammer 2011

Contact your Network Admin or visit help.yammer.com     www.yammer.com | info@yammer-inc.com

Yammer is our company’s internal social network, a private and secure online environment for communication and

coordination. It’s here to help you get your work done and to support teamwork and collaboration across our company.

WHY YAMMER?

Have you ever...

1. had a question and didn’t know who to ask?

2. thought of a great idea to build on our success?

3. wanted to know more about where we’re headed?

...Yammer lets you

¬ FIND ANSWERS FASTER tap into the network to see who can help, might have worked on something similar or knows where else to look

¬ BRAINSTORM WITH ANYONE IN THE COMPANY you might find inspiration from an intern, the CEO or your counterpart overseas

¬ STAY INFORMED ON COMPANY DIRECTION follow our progress and better understand how what you do helps us reach our goals

All while helping our company build a pool of knowledge that’s instantly accessible by any employee at any time, from any

device with an internet connection.

YOU CAN USE YAMMER TO

› meet co-workers who share your interests

› find the expert help you need to complete a task

› share important news with those who need to know

› discuss major decisions and manage change

› gather opinions and ideas from across the company

› coordinate work for projects and teams

› gain visibility into what’s happening where

› introduce new hires and get them up to speed

› discover valuable information to inform your work

› communicate real-time, while you’re on the go

DON’T WAIT, JOIN OUR NETWORK TODAY!

Visit www.yammer.com and enter your work email address. You’ll receive a confirmation email to activate your account.

Accept the Usage Policy and you’re in!

SET Up Your Account for Success

QUESTIONS? © Yammer 2011

Contact your Network Admin or visit help.yammer.com     www.yammer.com | info@yammer-inc.com

Congratulations on joining Yammer!

Let’s get your account set up so you can start to use Yammer to communicate, collaborate and share information.

COMPLETE YOUR PROFILE

Your Yammer Profile helps your co-workers learn more about you, your background and your work experience, while

letting them put a face to a name. Here’s how to set it up:

1. In browser, click on your name at the top

right corner of the screen

2. Select to Edit Account

3. Upload a headshot

4. On left side bar, click on Profile

5. Add your job title, department, location, contact

information and any other details, including links to

your profiles on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn

6. Click Save

MANAGE YOUR NOTIFICATIONS

By default, Yammer will send you a daily email activity summary. You can change this notification to weekly or never.

Here’s how to manage your email settings:

1. In browser, click on your name at the top

right corner of the screen

2. Select Edit Account then select

Notifications from the menu on the left

3. Specify when you would like to receive email

notifications by checking or unchecking the boxes

next to the list of Email me when options

4. Click “Subscribe to feeds in real time” to expand

section. Select desired notification settings

5. Click Save

MAKE YAMMER YOUR OWN

Customizing your Yammer experience begins by joining Groups and following co-workers and Topics of interest to you.

Yammer will always deliver relevant conversations to your My Feed, and you can access Groups and Topics directly.

Join Groups

Follow Co-Workers

Follow Topics

1. Click on Groups in the left

navigation 2. Browse Groups, then click

+Join next to those you find

interesting 3. If membership approval is

required, request admission

1. Click on Members in the

left navigation

2. Browse the list and click

Follow next to who

you’d like to follow

3. Don’t see a colleague?

Invite them to the

network

1. Click on Topics in the left

navigation 2. Browse the list, select the

Topic of interest, then click

Follow 3. Don’t see a Topic? Create

one or apply one to a

conversation

You can also join and access

groups from your My Feed and by

viewing your Activity Stream

You can also follow users by

hovering over their thumbnail

headshot and clicking Follow on

their hover card

You can also follow Topics as

applied to conversations or by

viewing your Activity Stream

GO Forth and Use Yammer!

QUESTIONS? © Yammer 2011

Contact your Network Admin or visit help.yammer.com     www.yammer.com | info@yammer-inc.com

It’s time to take advantage of Yammer’s many features and apps, which are designed to help you find answers faster, invite

great ideas, create and access your company’s knowledge base and be more productive. Yammer: join the conversation.

WAYS TO USE YAMMER

Browse conversations: access your My

Feed and Groups to see what’s going on

View other PROFILES: get to know your

co-workers’ background and expertise

LIKE a comment: show that you appreciate

or agree with what someone shared

Share a helpful LINK: post timely articles

and relevant news so others can benefit

REPLY to a message post: provide

answers, insights or suggestions

Post an UPDATE: use the Publisher to start

a conversation or find what you need

Take a POLL: gather opinions and feedback

from others to help inform your decision

Promote an EVENT: use an Event to build

awareness about an upcoming activity

Email a FILE or PAGE: simply and securely

share a file or Page with external parties

from anywhere, anytime

PRAISE a co-worker: recognize a job well done and efforts that go above and beyond

Create a GROUP: support collaboration for a

team, department or a common interest

@MENTION colleague or add them to the cc

bar: draw their attention to the conversation

Send a PRIVATE MESSAGE: discuss a sensitive

issue and keep matters discreet

Conduct a SEARCH: view related conversations

and files, find people who know the context

Collaborate on a File: follow, share, and discuss

files to any message for others to preview and

comment

Create a PAGE: co-author content to publish

for other to edit and provide comments

Share a CONVERSATION across groups:

share existing conversations in a group with

others, in a private message or in another group

Ask a QUESTION: collect answers and help

others benefit from collective wisdom

These are just some of many ways Yammer helps you communicate and collaborate with co-workers to get more done.

DON’T FORGET! You can also access Yammer from any mobile device using its apps for the iPad, iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone. Visit https://www.yammer.com/about/applications for more details.

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