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Yammer 105: Making Yammering Effortless
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 [...]
Yammer 104: Yammer as GTD General Reference File
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 [...]
Posted in Productivity, Tools, Uncategorized Also tagged blog, Blogging, David Allen, General Reference, Getting Things Done, GTD, Reference, Twitter, Yammer 11 Comments
Yammer 103: Coordinating Media Relations Idea Gathering
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 [...]
Posted in Blogging, Productivity, Tools Also tagged Blogging, DIY, Howto, media relations, PR, Yammer 4 Comments
Yammer Time(s)
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 [...]
Posted in Blogging, Productivity Also tagged Blogging, David Sacks, Dennis McDonald, IT, Microsoft, New York Times, Productivity, Sharepoint, Twitter, Yammer 1 Comment
Yammer 106: Yammer Groups