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HAROLD JARCHE | MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 Social tools or tools that are social? But even Microsoft is offering a separate collaboration platform, Yammer, in support of Office365. As Microsoft moves its services to the cloud and starts combining SharePoint, Yammer and Office 365, we still don’t really know what this all will look like by the end of 2013. The logic of business simply dictates it. CMS Wire. -
CHIEFTECH | MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013 Infor launches Ming.le - focusing on a social user experience for enterprise systems And we may also eventually find that Microsoft has plans to integrate Yammer''s capabilities further with its Dynamics suite. 'A late entrant to the enterprise social software market, last year enterprise software company Infor launched Infor10 SocialSpaces. Without getting hands on access to Ming.le -
CHIEFTECH | MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013 Does IT matter… in Australian supermarkets? Microsoft Yammer as their enterprise social network (how they use this with Google+ isn''t clear). My memories of interactions with Woolworths in the past was a company with very strict information security policies, so either an IT changing of the guard has taken place or they are confident that Google (and Yammer) can meet their standards. -
HAROLD JARCHE | MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013 Cooperation in the networked workplace Yammer is one such platform, and Jared Spataro , at the Microsoft Office Division, has this to say about Yammer’s place in their business model: What should I do? Yammer or the SharePoint newsfeed?” ” My answer has been clear: Go Yammer! Yammer would be one tool to help with that engineering. -
CHIEFTECH | THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013 Picking the right tool for the job: SharePoint vs Wordpress Meanwhile, Yammer and Skype also use Wordpress. 'SharePoint is a sophisticated platform that supports a whole range of functionality, although it is perhaps best thought of as a Web content management system or document collaboration platform. This doesn''t mean it is always the best platform out of the box for specific contexts or use cases.
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CHIEFTECH | MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2013 Further reading on the Yammer + SharePoint roadmap If you are still trying to get your head around the deeper implications of the Yammer & SharePoint roadmap announcement , here is some further reading: Hold tight - its just a bump in the road. What will win out of Yammer Groups and SharePoint Communities? What about Yammer? The analyst's view. -
CHIEFTECH | TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2013 Google Apps-based intranet: Ahold case study Since then I've shared some interesting case studies about companies using Salesforce Chatter and Microsoft Yammer. Back in October last year I asked, can you run your intranet using just Google Apps or Salesforce Chatter? Gmail, Calendar, etc). Hat tip Samuel -
HAROLD JARCHE | SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 2013 From hierarchies to wirearchies For example, here is how Yammer builds its products, according to Kris Gale, VP of Engineering: Yammer’s biggest rule of thumb is 2 to 10 people, 2 to 10 weeks – which means they generally don’t do projects that are larger or more complicated. Each project at Yammer is a probe. Both are required. Communities Wirearchy -
CHIEFTECH | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2013 Tyco International case study - replacing your intranet with Yammer Unlike most of the Yammer case studies I've seen, Tyco International set out with the deliberate objective of replacing their traditional static intranet with Yammer, in order to create a social intranet. This might sound surprising in a Yammer rollout, but clearly Tyco were trying to deal with a number of constraints (i.e. -
CHIEFTECH | MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2013 Case study: The Hub by SAS That is, Socialcast was deployed on premise (unlike Yammer and similar solutions, which offer a cloud-only deployment model). SAS launched The Hub, based on Socialcast , in 2011. Socialcast’s Reach extension allowed a two-way integration with their intranet. SAS on "The HUB" from Socialcast on Vimeo -
CHIEFTECH | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2013 Comparing the usability of page creation: SharePoint 2013 versus other social intranets Then again, if you looked at an enterprise microblogging platform like Yammer or Socialcast , then you would find that the user interface is optimised around status updates, not 'page' or 'wiki' content. While each product performs well overall, each also addresses the user experience quite differently. -
CHIEFTECH | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2013 PwC Jive Software case study A detailed backgrounder on PwC's global deployment of Jive , called Spark, reports: 80% of the frequent users think that Spark increases both their efficiency and effectiveness. Some systems with a similar scope used on a national level have already been partly or fully replaced by Spark, directly saving cost. KPMG was piloting tibbr in Australia. -
PORTALS AND KM | FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 2013 Moxie Integrates with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Consistent with this trend, Yammer recently announced an integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM bringing internal collaboration to Dynamics. They now have announced a partnership with Microsoft Corp. to pursue a joint, go-to-market strategy offering Spaces by Moxie™ within Microsoft Dynamics CRM. -
CHIEFTECH | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2012 Senubo - heavy industry software influenced by social software Yammer), none of these have a particular industry or process focus. While you may already be familiar with some of the leading enterprise microblogging platforms (e.g. Senubo on the other hand is "an online, mobile communications platform for heavy industry.". I'm actually reminded slightly of the KPI reporting features in National Field. -
CHIEFTECH | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2012 Integrate cloud app activity streams to improve productivity: Hojoki, Busy Flow However, enterprise products typically provide more than just integration - for example, Microsoft Yammer offers a variety of app integrations but also provides a range of features outside the activity stream too. But another approach is to integrate all the different cloud apps you are using into a single activity stream. Hojoki. Busy Flow. -
TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2012 Why microblogging has moved to the heart of enterprise social initiatives The most prominent players are Yammer , now part of Microsoft, and Salesforce.com’s Chatter , and each have built out from that core to wider functionality. Of all the social media platforms microblogging is the most akin to conversation,” he said. Email is not going to die, but it is reducing,” he said. The rise of microblogging. - How to make friends with and influence Sydney’s entrepreneurial and self-employed community
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CHIEFTECH | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012 Two new Australian case studies from Microsoft NSC Group - Using a free Yammer network. Some interesting adoption facts from NSC Group: Yammer was introduced by an employee who had used it in an another organisation. Approximately 78% of staff (180 out of 230 staff located across Australia and New Zealand) are using Yammer. It was introduced about 18 months ago. -
CHIEFTECH | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012 Can we use email to achieve interoperability between enterprise social networks? If we don't achieve this through leveraging email, then either Wave or perhaps Yammer's external networks will need to be utilised to create interoperability between enterprise users and networks. want to explore a little further about what I mean by the possible future relationship between email and enterprise social software. -
PORTALS AND KM | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012 Results from 2012 SharePoint Study: Value is a Work in Progress The most widely used additional tools are Yammer at 19%, Newsgator at 10% and Jive at 4%. Vizit , maker of SharePoint. collaboration and search tools, recently conducted a study: SharePoint Study: Insights into Content Use and Collaboration. There were 1100 participants who were responsible for SharePoint in their organizations. -
COLUMN TWO | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2012 Send in “hit teams” to ensure SharePoint delivers value So whether it’s implementing Yammer, Chatter, SocialText or wikis, the BA/coach role is critical. Step Two was at the SHARE conference in Melbourne this week, keeping in touch with what’s happening in the world of SharePoint. One of the key themes at the conference was how to deliver business value from SharePoint. -
COLUMN TWO | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2012 “Traditional” vs “social” intranets: the war is over without a shot being fired Social tools, such as Yammer, Chatter, Tibbr, SocialText, ThoughtFarmer (to name just a few) have all been adding content management capabilities. Over the last few years, social and collaboration become a big topic, with active interst in many organisations, as well as in the wider community. It’s a war! Perhaps not. Vendor trends. -
CHIEFTECH | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2012 SharePoint and Office (heart) Yammer An announcement about the Yammer roadmap, now part of the Microsoft family, was anticipated in the lead up to the SharePoint Conference 2012. No surprises that Yammer and the SharePoint & Office suite will work together more closely - this is API-based, through the Yammer Open Graph. Putting Social to Work. Game changing? -
CHIEFTECH | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2012 Upcoming events in Melbourne: Connected Enterprise 2012 and From Liking to Leading IBM, Jive, Newsgator and Yammer are sponsors). I'm really pleased that in a few weeks time I'm going to be back in Melbourne again, participating in the following events: Connected Enterprise 2012 - 21-22 Nov. Visit the Connected Enterprise event site for more information. Register for this event on the IBM event site. One other event TBC. -
CHIEFTECH | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2012 Kai Riemer: Introduction to enterprise microblogging His presentation is based on his research into how people are using Yammer in large companies. This video of Kai Riemer , from the University of Sydney, is a great introduction to enterprise microblogging and the emergent properties of enterprise social software. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2012 OpenCoSF – A New Kind of Event Companies hosting OpenCo sessions include leaders like Twitter, Salesforce, Zynga, Yammer, Adobe, Jawbone, and Google, as well as well known startups such as airbnb, Hipmunk, HotelTonight, Nextdoor, Cloudera, and scores more. The post OpenCoSF – A New Kind of Event appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. So what is OpenCo? -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2012 OpenCoSF – A New Kind of Event Companies hosting OpenCo sessions include leaders like Twitter, Salesforce, Zynga, Yammer, Adobe, Jawbone, and Google, as well as well known startups such as airbnb, Hipmunk, HotelTonight, Nextdoor, Cloudera, and scores more. Registration is free and open to anyone who’s interested in innovation in the Bay area. You can sign up here. -
CHIEFTECH | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 Notes and observations about the 2012 intranet innovation award winners The same team from NSW Department of Education has presented at both of Step Two's intranet conferences - first about Yammer (although they eventually they moved to Socialtext ) and this year about their portal (which is based on LifeRay ). Another year has passed and Step Two have released their annual intranet award winners. The rest. -
CHIEFTECH | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2012 Yammer's trump card - the external networks? I've been looking for this slide since I saw it presented at a Yammer event earlier in the year. remember thinking at the time, forget the features of Yammer itself but look at what they are actually building with their external networks. wonder if Yammer and Microsoft really realise what they are sitting on with external networks? -
COLUMN TWO | SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2012 Tips and considerations for a successful social intranet There are many pitfalls to avoid and decisions to make, so it’s not simply a matter of enabling the commenting capability on a CMS (though that’s a good start), or starting a Yammer network. ‘Social’ is now standard in the world of intranets, yet success with social intranets isn’t quite so common. Intranets -
CHIEFTECH | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 A short history of intranets and what's next with social, mobile and cloud Ultimately the influence of this Internet technology innovation on intranets has been unavoidable - for example, Yammer was launched in 2008 , with the simply question: "What are you working on?". Yammer was acquired this year by Microsoft , who are building out a similar strategy with SharePoint itself. What is an intranet? What next? -
CHIEFTECH | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 A short history of intranets and what next with social, mobile and cloud Ultimately the influence of this Internet technology innovation on intranets has been unavoidable - for example, Yammer was launched in 2008 , with the simply question: "What are you working on?". Yammer was acquired this year by Microsoft , who are building out a similar strategy with SharePoint itself. Where did intranets comes from? -
PORTALS AND KM | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 Spigit Provides ICON as a Free Crowdsourcing Platform They have also announced a Yammer integration. For Yammer users looking to take advantage of ICON, Spigit utilized Yammer’s open APIs to build this integration, which publishes activity stories such as new ideas, challenges, votes and comments in Yammer’s Ticker in real-time. Innovation Through Market Games ). -
CHIEFTECH | FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 2012 Google+ for Apps preview - First impressions This is an important move for Google, as it adds another features to compete against Microsoft's Office 365 (with a possible combination with Skype & Yammer) and others such as IBM Smart Cloud and Zoho. This week, Google announced they had moved Google+ for Apps into what they call "full preview mode". Games haven't been disabled. -
CHIEFTECH | TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2012 Should you replace your intranet with an enterprise social network? In almost every company I encounter, someone is dabbling with some kind of enterprise social network (often Yammer, as this is the most well known). In some instances these organisations have yet to progress beyond simply experimentation, but others are making great progress. Cross-posted from the Headshift Asia Pacific blog -
WWW.CLOUDAVE.COM | MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2012 REVEALED: The Secret To Accenture’s Social Business Adoption Success (Hint: It’s Gamification) Yammer for microblogging. About. Contact. CloudAve. Software in Business. The Business of Software. Business. Analysis. Entrepreneurship. Marketing. Strategy. Small business. Technology. Application Software. Infrastructure. Open Source. Mobile. Platforms. Product reviews. Security. Design. Just for fun. Trends & Concepts. Sponsors. -
CHIEFTECH | FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 2012 No free lunches on Twitter The alternative is that they sign up for a service like identi.ca (open source, aka Status.Net), Yammer (perfect for professional interest groups) or join the new subscription based app.net (US$50 per year). Twitter’s new rules for third-party developers have spurred an online uproar. Via the NYT's Bits blog. Should we care about the changes? -
PORTALS AND KM | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2012 Social Software Market Keeps Growing A number of large and small companies are making big bets on social business through acquisitions like Microsft’s purchase of Yammer and IBM’s extensive acquisition strategy (see IBM's Mike Rhodin on the Convergence of Social Business, Analytics and Commerce ). Rounding out the top 10 were Mzinga, Lithium, Yammer, NewsGator, and VMware. -
PORTALS AND KM | FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2012 Beware: BYOA May Rival BYOD as IT Issue Yammer got some its early users this way. There has been a lot of discussion about the BYOD movement (Bring Your Own Device) where people are getting their own smart phone and/or tablet. Well, I think the complementary to that may be just as big. This opinion is not based on any research, just a number of conversations I have had recently. -
MIKEBOOGAARD.COM | TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2012 Lonely at the top: how a CEO drives employee engagement | Mike Boogaard – Microsoft and Yammer. Mike Boogaard. My digital experiences… Skip to content. Home About me Get in touch. ← The workplace is becoming an ‘i’-mocracy. Lonely at the top: how a CEO drives employee engagement. Posted on July 25, 2012 by mikeboogaard. In fact, employees were mistreated and mistrusted. The result? -
BLOG.YAMMER.COM | MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 2012 Rewire How Information is Shared and Consumed in Your Organization with Yammer Groups | Yammer Blog Yammer Events. Rewire How Information is Shared and Consumed in Your Organization with Yammer Groups. Yammer Groups provide a natural platform that allow you to share, learn and collaborate with the right colleagues in just a few basic steps. At Yammer, we highly encourage the use of public groups. Yammer Events. -
BLOG.YAMMER.COM | MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 2012 Rewire How Information is Shared and Consumed in Your Organization with Yammer Groups | Yammer Blog Yammer Events. Rewire How Information is Shared and Consumed in Your Organization with Yammer Groups. Yammer Groups provide a natural platform that allow you to share, learn and collaborate with the right colleagues in just a few basic steps. At Yammer, we highly encourage the use of public groups. Yammer Events. -
PORTALS AND KM | MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 2012 Badgeville Integrates with IBM Connections He gave the example of a large consulting company that implemented Yammer to break down silos. Through the Badgeville for Yammer integration, those achievements were then published into the Yammer stream. Everyone could see that Yammer participation was valued by management, so even the hold-outs jumped in as well. -
BYRESEARCH.WORDPRESS.COM | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2012 Welcome to the Panopticon! « bbr [backed by research] christoph we've mainly looked into Yammer, where following is not as crucial as group membership. Yammer. bbr [backed by research]. Kai Riemer's blog. About. Posted by: karisyd | December 15, 2010. Welcome to the Panopticon! Hierarchy and the public nature of E2.0. In wide parts of the E2.0 community the view is held that E2.0 -
BYRESEARCH.WORDPRESS.COM | TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2012 Want instant E2.0 adoption? Try co-evolution! « bbr [backed by research] Decision makers had to be convinced, a project was established, finally, after long discussions, a platform was selected (depending on the flavour one of the following might be a typical suspect: Socialcast, Yammer etc.). Yammer. bbr [backed by research]. Kai Riemer's blog. About. Posted by: karisyd | November 2, 2010. adoption? -
BYRESEARCH.WORDPRESS.COM | TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2012 Nutzungsoffenheit (part 1) – What it is and how it shows itself « bbr [backed by research] Yammer. bbr [backed by research]. Kai Riemer's blog. About. Posted by: karisyd | October 31, 2010. Nutzungsoffenheit (part 1) – What it is and how it shows itself. The recent Enterprise 2.0 summit in Frankfurt has yielded an interesting discussion on the openness of E2.0 technologies, captured in the German term Nutzungsoffenheit. users. -
BYRESEARCH.WORDPRESS.COM | TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2012 No “real work” in ESN? « bbr [backed by research] In response to our Yammer study at Deloitte , I have been asked why there is so little “real work” being done on Yammer in that case, even though it is such a mature network? working on a content object or task coordination), is not despite , but because they are a mature Yammer network! Yammer. About. Cancel. -
BYRESEARCH.WORDPRESS.COM | TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2012 Social vs work – where does the tension come from? « bbr [backed by research] Now, it is easy to see how the introduction of social technologies into the workplace creates tensions: ESN technologies such as Yammer, Jive or Socialcast structure their user experience around public social technologies such as Facebook and Twitter. Yammer. bbr [backed by research]. Kai Riemer's blog. About. behaviour. Website. -
BLOG.YAMMER.COM | SUNDAY, JULY 22, 2012 Cupcakes, Contests and Education Launch Yammer At Hall & Wilcox | Yammer Blog Yammer Events. Hall & Wilcox Launches Yammer Memorably: With Cupcakes, Contests and Education. An example of a really creative launch came to my attention, and I just had to get to know the company that made its own Yammer shirts (and sent me one!), and baked Yammer cupcakes. MO: How did you discover Yammer? -
CHIEFTECH | SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2012 Crossing the streams with Newsgator & Yammer I’m sure some users would get plenty of value from just being able to see updates happening in Yammer along with all the other data that [Newsgator] Social Sites can bring together (and we have some very cool features coming that make it extremely powerful to aggregate all the social data in one spot). via blogs.newsgator.com. Permalink. -
KNOWLEDGE JOLT WITH JACK | THURSDAY, JULY 12, 2012 Seeder questions for knowledge management Yammer uses, "What are you working on?" Nick Milton suggests that the Yammer question isn't the only one - or even a good one for knowledge management and collaboration. knowledge+management collaboration facebook nickmilton twitter yammerTwitter classically asks, "What's happening?" when it gives you the new tweet window. -
CHIEFTECH | WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 2012 7 ways to get value from enterprise social software I talked to some corporate Yammer , Chatter and Jive users, all of whom claimed measurable gains from these tools in a variety of areas. Here are seven ways they derive value from social enterprise applications. via blog.softwareadvice.com. Ashley Furness identifies seven usage patterns for enterprise social software tools. Permalink. -
CHIEFTECH | MONDAY, JULY 9, 2012 Yammer case study: Hall & Wilcox, a law firm in Melbourne, Australia An example of a really creative launch came to my attention, and I just had to get to know the company that made its own Yammer shirts (and sent me one!), and baked Yammer cupcakes. caught up with Yammer champions Josephine Murfey and Chris Warburton at Hall & Wilcox, and this is what we talked about. via blog.yammer.com. -
ELEARNMAG.ACM.ORG | SUNDAY, JULY 8, 2012 elearn Magazine: How to Fail When Using Internal Social Media Yammer, for example, allows anyone to start a company account for free. recently surveyed drivers of Yammer use in the corporate sector ([link] and I arrived at similar conclusions. Sign In. To leave a comment you must sign in. Please login or create a Web Account. Web Account. Password. Forgot your username or password? SIGN IN. -
CHIEFTECH | FRIDAY, JULY 6, 2012 Social business is more than adding a social layer: A banking example On reflection, NAB’s use of social internally looks relatively unsophisticated although Yammer and Salesforce Chatter (at a fundamental level, not feature set) serve the same purpose: So does this mean that movements like Enterprise 2.0 How much is social business playing a part in this competition? Permalink. Leave a comment » -
PORTALS AND KM | FRIDAY, JULY 6, 2012 Badgeville Integrates with IBM Connections He gave the example of a large consulting company that implemented Yammer to break down silos. Through the Badgeville for Yammer integration, those achievements were then published into the Yammer stream. Everyone could see that Yammer participation was valued by management, so even the hold-outs jumped in as well. -
CHIEFTECH | MONDAY, JULY 2, 2012 My comment on Delimiter about the Yammer acquisition by Microsoft The acquisition is unlikely to have much impact in the short term, although it may give Yammer an advantage when negotiating with some enterprise buyers through their new link to Microsoft. There is also the small detail of Yammer being a cloud-based solution too. via delimiter.com.au. Permalink. Leave a comment » -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 2012 Asana tries to end email frustration with Inbox “We don’t really see things like Yammer, SocialCast and Chatter as competitors but we also don’t see them as particularly useful. Uncategorized asana Dustin Moskovitz Facebook Justin Rosenstein Lotus Notes Socialcast software as a service YammerAnd it’s doing so with a new feature ironically called Inbox. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 2012 Asana tries to end email frustration with Inbox “We don’t really see things like Yammer, SocialCast and Chatter as competitors but we also don’t see them as particularly useful. asana Dustin Moskovitz Facebook Justin Rosenstein Lotus Notes Socialcast software as a service YammerAnd it’s doing so with a new feature ironically called Inbox. is an Asana advisor. -
WWW.MACWORLD.COM | TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 2012 Stop using email for everything | Macworld Yammer is one such offering. They must provide an email with a company domain name—and then can interact only with other Yammer users who have the same company email domain. When enough employees sign up, Yammer CEO David Sacks said, those companies often pay to administer and support the service. And Yammer’s really good.”. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 2012 The social recruiting start-up wars heat up With Microsoft’s billion-dollar acquisition of Yammer , it’s clear that even the stodgiest corners of the business world are starting to come to terms with the idea that social has arrived and organizations need to find ways to leverage personal networks in innovative ways. social recruiting TalentBin Yammerand Bright. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 2012 The social recruiting start-up wars heat up With Microsoft’s billion-dollar acquisition of Yammer , it’s clear that even the stodgiest corners of the business world are starting to come to terms with the idea that social has arrived and organizations need to find ways to leverage personal networks in innovative ways. social recruiting TalentBin Yammerand Bright. -
BLOG.YAMMER.COM | MONDAY, JUNE 25, 2012 Deploying a Successful Enterprise Social Network: Best Practices From the Field | Yammer Blog Yammer Events. With the proliferation of social media tools in the consumer space, most users find it very easy to understand Yammer and how to use it. Over the many successful deployments of Yammer, we have gained insights into the ingredients for success. Please email me if you get a chance: maria (at) yammer-inc (dot) com. -
WWW.RACHMILLER.COM | MONDAY, JUNE 25, 2012 It adds up: How accountants use Yammer | Diary of an internal communicator Home > > Communications > > It adds up: How accountants use Yammer. It adds up: How accountants use Yammer. Well if you’re Internal Comms Manager Suzanne Masters, you have Yammer to add to your mix of comms channels. Interestingly, Yammer was not rolled out from the internal comms team. yammer. Contact. -
PORTALS AND KM | MONDAY, JUNE 25, 2012 Boston E20 Notes: Designing Social Applications It brings in Yammer, Google apps and other tools. I am pleased to be back for my sixth Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. Here is a link to a summary of last year’s notes. This is another of my notes for this year. There will be more to follow. attended session - Designing Social Applications " a panel session led by David F. -
PORTALS AND KM | THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2012 Boston E20 Notes: The Post-2.0 Era: Social in the Context of My Work The vendors see this as the potential to provide a consolidated activity stream across the enterprise (such as Microsoft’s interest in Yammer). I am pleased to be back for my sixth Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. Here is a link to a summary of last year’s notes. This is another of my notes for this year. was introduced in 2006. -
PORTALS AND KM | THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2012 Boston E20 Notes: Social as a Layer, Not a Place: Are We There Yet? He said you have enterprise platforms like IBM Microsoft, Oracle; social platforms like Jive, Telligent; social layers like Newsgator, Yammer. I am pleased to be back for my sixth Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. Here is a link to a summary of last year’s notes. This is another of my notes for this year. would agree. -
CHIEFTECH | TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 2012 You do need a strategy for your enterprise social network, says Yammer great post from Stephen Danelutti at Yammer explaining why even if you use viral adoption as a catalyst to get started, you still need a strategy: "The ease of use and virality of a platform like Yammer can be deceivingly simple and lead people to think that a deliberate strategy is not necessary. via blog.yammer.com. Permalink. -
BLOG.YAMMER.COM | TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 2012 This Is Not Your Parents' Software Training | Yammer Blog Yammer Events. Tweet Many of our customers ask us: “What type of training should I do for Yammer?” On the one hand, software like Yammer is easy-to-use and really intuitive, but on the other hand, education and training are still important because your success is determined by how you use it. Yammer Events. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2012 Is Yammer worth $1B? Microsoft’s reported $1 billion deal to buy Yammer isn’t done yet, but the move — despite what many see as a too-hefty price tag — could make sense. Pairing the Office with Yammer makes sense, as Forrester Research analyst Rob Koplowitz wrote in Forbes. Or it could do both and put Yammer everywhere. Right -
CHIEFTECH | SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 2012 The social life of email at Enron - a new study Looking at Kai's research into how enterprise social networks (in this case, Yammer) are used in large companies we see patterns that appear to exclude gossip (as defined above). recent study [PDF] used this data to look at 'gossip'. Now hang on for a second before you jump to conclusions, lets define what we mean here. Permalink. -
COLLABORATION 2.0 | FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2012 Microsoft to marry Yammer The old guard are marrying off upstart competitors into their product portfolios. is he battle for supremacy among Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle still relevant — and has it scarred long-term relationships with customers -
CHIEFTECH | THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 2012 The view from San Francisco used some of my time there to catch up with some people from Netvibes, SAP, Socialcast and Yammer and over on the Headshift Asia Pacific blog I've written up my observations about that visit. via headshift.com.au. was in San Francisco a few weeks ago for the excellent Atlassian Summit. Permalink. Leave a comment » -
GREG2DOT0.COM | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2012 For Enterprise Social Networks, how much adoption is enough? | @Greg2dot0's Blog Originally posted on the Yammer Blog , I wanted to share here for people that might not follow that blog. @Greg2dot0's Blog. …this I believe. Search. Main menu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Home About Disclaimer. Post navigation. ← Previous. Posted on January 5, 2012 by Greg Lowe. The ROI of Adoption. -
GREG2DOT0.COM | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2012 Ok, I’m convinced it’s ‘Enterprise 2.0? | @Greg2dot0's Blog Full Disclosure : I was a Jive customer in 2010 and now work for Yammer as a strategist. @Greg2dot0's Blog. …this I believe. Search. Main menu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Home About Disclaimer. Post navigation. ← Previous. Next → Ok, I’m convinced it’s ‘Enterprise 2.0′ -
CHIEFTECH | MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012 Genre analysis of how Yammer is used within Deloitte Australia Our case investigates emerging communicative work practices on the ESN platform Yammer within Deloitte Australia. We perform a genre analysis of actual communication data captured on the Yammer platform. But beware - this isn't a blueprint for Yammer or any other enterprise social network. via ses.library.usyd.edu.au. Permalink. -
HAROLD JARCHE | MONDAY, MAY 14, 2012 Learning in the workplace If you don’t have any private social networks, try some out, like Yammer or Socialcast. Jane Hart asked readers “ how regularly are you “learning” in the workplace? Notice that these are all informal. The more formal methods, like courses, ranked much lower on the survey results. Email (keeping up to date inside the organization). -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2012 Squadmail drags email into the collaborative age They are also very inefficient, which is why services such as Yammer do so well, but email’s extreme standardization makes it ubiquitous, so those are the tools we use. Berlin Collaboration Email Europe Germany Philipp Mayer Squadmail YammerForwards and CCs are the mechanisms that make email suitable for many-party conversations. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2012 Sparqlight aims to save enterprise users from boring recurring tasks “There’s people at the bottom of the market that have products like Do.com , online to-do lists, and they’re useful but they don’t have automation. They don’t have analytics. “Those [tools] are for companies with rigid industrial processes and everything that could possibly happen is built into the system. -
FUTURE OF WORK | SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2012 The Future of. (May 2012) The Future of Work (on Yammer: The Blog). This thoughtful, extended blog post by Maria Ogneva (Head of Community at Yammer) focuses on work as the intersection of customer, company, and employee. Here is a small sample of the stories and developments we are paying attention to these days. The Workforce of the 50s and Today. Share It! -
CHIEFTECH | THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012 If Yammer fails, who is to blame? Writing in local Aussie IT news site, Delimiter , Renai LeMay reports on an article in The Register about Yammer trials by local government in Australia being abandoned. If you look carefully at Yammer, you will also see that the emphasis is now on supporting their premium paying customers to make the use of their tools more successful. -
LIBRARY CLIPS | MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012 Microblogging or Macroblogging…or simply messages Coming back to my example above; if your work had Yammer, Newsgator, Socialcast, Podio, Tibbr you would of had to resort to email. Why do I like Google+. …cause I can make little or big email-like posts and @mention people…and the interface is so clean and simple. …is this an #epicfail or not, what do you think? Related. -
HAROLD JARCHE | THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2012 Using social media for onboarding Any initial mistakes were corrected and now these FAQ are on a Yammer page for easy access. Using social media (Yammer) for peer to peer learning, completely eliminated the need for any formal training of the sales force. Two actions that can begin even before a formal offer is made: Providing access to an online knowledge base. Tweet. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2012 The case for manager as urban planner Yammer’s blog recently suggested another consequence of this shift , one that should sound familiar to regular GigaOM readers. What do you think of Gray and Yammer’s vision of the organization of the future as more like a city of empowered citizens than a machine? machine typically has the following characteristics: 1. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012 Social business and the valley of disinterest host of business-specific collaboration offerings from Yammer to Rypple are aiming to capture the interest of firms, while nearly every business is trying to figure out how to best utilize the likes of Facebook and Twitter. But are all companies equally engaged in figuring out how to do social? percent. 1,000-5,000 employees: 13.6 percent. - Yammer and why activity streams are a key foundation for integrated applications and organizations
I caught up with some of the Yammer team this morning, including Chief Customer Officer David Obrand, while they are in town for the Yammer on Tour series. . was particularly interested in talking with them about Yammer’s shift to activity streams. Collaboration Enterprise 2.0 -
WEB WORKER DAILY | THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2012 Social networking goes to work The premise of these workplace-oriented social tools — things like Yammer, Socialcast and features and functions in IBM Sametime and Microsoft(msft) SharePoin t, is that they help workgroups and departments work together better, know where everyone is, and cut down on telephone and e-mail tag. What do companies really want? -
WEB WORKER DAILY | THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012 Tracky wants to be your one-stop collaboration shop Tracky and its investors are no doubt banking on the fast-growing market for social business software and the wide variety of players (Jive, Salesforce.com, Yammer, Basecamp, Microsoft, Google, Socialcast, etc.) CNN cloud services Collaboration Jive Software social media Socialcast SuperNAP Tracky YammerSign up for a free trial. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012 Enterprise social tools are garbage, says Red Hat CEO But as hot a topic as the likes of Jive , Yammer and Asana are, not everyone is a fan of the concept. CNN asana collaboration tools enterprise social tools enterprise-social-networking Jim Whitehurst Jive Red Hat social-networking-tools YammerAll of that is garbage … collaboration is a culture. It’s not a set of tools. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2012 PRO: Personal tools lead to practical business file sharing file storage Google harvest IBM iOS Jive lotus connections MailChimp Microsoft Microsoft Outlook productivity apps Research in Motion sharefile social business socialtext SugarSync Yammer YouSendItMuch of business communication activity still happens in email, but in this day and age that presents a problem. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012 3 popular ways to screw up enterprise social When I spoke with Yammer CEO David Sacks a few weeks ago, he suggested that companies often go wrong by “trying to bolt that on to some existing tool, because if the tool isn’t built from the ground up to be social, it’s not going to have the level of usability that’s required.” YammerWhat’s the result? -
LIBRARY CLIPS | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2012 Teams in organisations need both Online pages and Online groups Facebook page is similar to a group but designed for a different purpose…a group has “members”, whereas a “page” is “liked” Only it wouldn’t be Facebook, it would be IBM Connections or Jive or Socialcast or Yammer (yikes Yammer already called their docs/wiki, “pages”). -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012 Yammer time: Collaboration from the heart For a three year-old enterprise social network, Yammer has a sophisticated understanding of how customers come to value their tools. A freemium product like Yammer often enters an organization through individual employees who have started using the free version as an informal part of their work. Images courtesy of Yammer. -
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HAROLD JARCHE | TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012 Narration of Work Hans de Zwart discusses a narrating-your-work experiment that had a 17 member team use Yammer to share daily experiences with colleagues. Tweet I see three major principles for working smarter in networked organizations : Transparency. Narration of Work. Distribution of Power. We need to think about how we can move towards that culture. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2012 Convore is reborn as Grove.io, a chat service for businesses Yammer is probably Grove’s most visible competitor in the enterprise communication tool space, but Culver says the products are fundamentally different. “Yammer may be fine for a company’s management or business teams, but we’ve found that often the developers want to talk to each other on something like Grove. -
WWW.ALANLEPOFSKY.NET | SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2012 In The Next Version - Enterprise Collaboration Vendors I’m Currently Tracking Saba SelectMinds Socialtext Telligent + Leverage (external) ThoughtFarmer Traction Attini Beezy Blue Rooster NewsGator Nexocial SnapworkSocial Convofy Eureka Streams Flowr Neudesic Pulse Presently Salesforce (Chatter) SAP (StreamWork) SocialCast (VMware) Tibco (Tibbr) Yammer AgileZen Any.Do In The Next Version. About. Add/Read Comments [5]. -
BLOG.YAMMER.COM | THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2012 Benefits Of Enterprise Social Networks Align With CEO Priorities | Yammer Blog Yammer Events. Let’s take a closer look at how enterprise social networks like Yammer can help CEOs reach these challenging goals. platform like Yammer can be really critical in helping businesses accelerate their rate of growth in a variety of ways. Head of Community at Yammer. Yammer Events. yammer. -
LIBRARY CLIPS | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2012 Do you get recognised for moonlighting in your organisation? Yammer and a few others. Yammer is different than Rypple, but they do have a few overlapping features. Read and watch the video on Yammer Praise. …this is my reference to Twitter, Facebook, Yammer and the like. wonder if instead these functions will be incorporated as new features in existing tools. Coaching. -
WWW.ALANLEPOFSKY.NET | SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2011 In The Next Version - A Look Back At 2011 In Social Software Here are some more examples of money flowing in 2011: Telligent acquired Leverage, Spigit and GetSatisfaction both raised $10M, Yammer raised $17M and Kaltura (they make open source video products used in several E2.0 In The Next Version. Alan Lepofskys blog about technology, travel and the occasional golf post. About. Add/Read Comments [0]. | |