READY to Try Yammer?
QUESTIONS? © Yammer 2011
Contact your Network Admin or visit help.yammer.com www.yammer.com | [email protected]
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 | [email protected]
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 | [email protected]
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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