Tag Archives: microblogging

Yammer 106: Yammer Groups

By Lee Aase | Published: October 31, 2008
Yammer Groups are a powerful addition to its micro-blogging service, particularly for larger companies. It’s great to have a Twitter-like service limited only to your company, but in a large organization there are frankly discussions (particularly frank ones) that should be kept to a smaller group. Otherwise, if any employee can have access to any [...]
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Yammer 105: Making Yammering Effortless

By Lee Aase | Published: October 23, 2008
I have found that when we introduce new electronic tools to the workplace, the adoption and usage varies inversely with the amount of effort required. There also is a significant direct relationship to the perceived benefit, but the basic questions are: How difficult is this going to be? How much do I need to change [...]
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Yammer 104: Yammer as GTD General Reference File

By Lee Aase | Published: October 23, 2008
In this post I wrote about how a blog can be the ultimate personal electronic “general reference” filing system that is consistent with David Allen’s Getting Things Done, or GTD, approach to life organization. I still think a blog can be useful for general reference. I often use the SMUG blog in that way. I [...]
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Yammer 103: Coordinating Media Relations Idea Gathering

By Lee Aase | Published: October 22, 2008
Among the benefits of Yammer is the ability to subscribe to, or “follow,” conversations or “tags” that you find interesting. So instead of a mass e-mail going to 100 people in your department, you can Yammer with a tag, and only those people who are following that tag will get the e-mail. Then they can [...]
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Yammer Time(s)

By Lee Aase | Published: October 22, 2008
Yammer, which I have been featuring in a new curriculum offering, was featured significantly today in the New York Times and its Technology blog. Here’s an excerpt from the article: Successes like YouTube, the online video site sold to Google for $1.65 billion in 2006, convinced some venture investors that building a Web site with [...]
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