Comments on: Yammer: Twitter for the Enterprise

By: PaulaCTC

PaulaCTC — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:31:50 +0000

Yammer has said that it can reduce email overload, but I don’t think so! Here’s why (blog post): http://poprl.com/K1a. It’s value will be in the collaboration/knowledge sharing space, not in email/info reduction.

We’re a software company and larger, especially listed companies we work with are all very concerned about privacy, information security, and information archiving and access. They have related auditor requirements which have to be met. (Our company is also in internal comms technology – very different to Yammer tho, as we’re focused on transforming traditional push messaging into visual/multimedia messaging).

But I wonder how Legal or IT are going to STOP employees from signing up on Yammer and sharing company information between themselves. All they can do is sign up too, pay to monitor, and set up a code of conduct, I guess.

So I think they’ve got a very powerful business model, building take up from the ground up and really obliging companies to pay in order to monitor it. Are there any companies upset about this??

I wonder if we’ll see Yammer replacing other social media software (like forums & Q&As). It’s so fluid and easy to create new tags/conversations/interest groups.

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By: leeaase

leeaase — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:45:15 +0000

Yammer has a desktop widget and apps for iPhone and Blackberry. And I would expect Twhirl will support it soon, which would let you have both Twitter and Yammer updates in a single desktop client.

By: Sheena

Sheena — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:38:48 +0000

Our office just started using yammer this week and it is really catching on. We are a small PR agency that just began the teleworking process so yammer is a great place for us to brainstorm and discuss. The desktop application is perfect I only wish there was a way to set a sound for the updates. That way if I am away from my work area, I will know if someone is sending a “tweet.” We are also trying to get away from AIM since it is unreliable at times. Since you cannot direct message on yammer (yet), we haven’t found a suitable alternative.

By: Kevin Cimring

Kevin Cimring — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:15:39 +0000

Hi, I introduced Yammer into my start-up Internet business to test its efficacy and acceptance rate in the workplace. Whilst I like the concept, it hasn’t found much traction amongst our guys who are too busy working to bother thinking about watching ‘tweets’ on Yammer. We are still small enough that a quick email exchange or IM chat works well; and internal communication has never been a problem. Yammer may find greater acceptance in larger multi-national companies.

In any event, perhaps I can suggest to the folks at Yammer the introduction of a desktop widget so that users don’t need to navigate away from current projects onto the Yammer website in order to participate (maybe this is available already).

Kind regards
Kevin Cimring