The ever popular social network for business, Yammer, launched in September 2008, recently announced that it is extending its platform across the network by unveiling Yammer Connect.
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Yammer and Netsuite Socialize Business Data and Activity
This integration marks the debut of Yammer Activity Streams, which are intended to aggregate activity stories across a wide variety of enterprise applications. By importing content from NetSuite, Yammer Activity Streams can provide users with an instant snapshot of NetSuite activity inside Yammer, where they can easily share and discuss with colleagues.
How To Use Yammer… And Why You Should Be Using It At Your Business
The basic set up is free, easy to use, and, perhaps, most importantly, it provides a private, manageable, and secure online space for businesses to communicate. If your board room created a social networking site, this is what it would look like.
6 Things You Can’t Do at Your Office Without Yammer
Nobody likes meetings. It’s true, and no matter what type of company you’re working for – a startup or a Fortune 500 – it’s a drain for everybody to have to take time away from actual work to sit down and ‘yammer’ on about it. We at Social Times thought about it, did our research and implemented Yammer, and a year later it’s been one of the best decisions we’ve made. I explain 6 things we just couldn’t do without Yammer after the jump.
This Week in Consumer Web – Marketing is the New Social Media
This week Kleiner Perkins opens up a new $250MM fund for social media related companies, Get Satisfaction teams up with GoodData, Conversation Monitor launches new features listening in on the Twitter conversations around brands, and emails turn into CRM tickets with ContactMe…
Report: Your New Facebook Friend Stalks You More Than Others
500 million users on Facebook. More than two billion tweets per month on Twitter. 100 billion views on YouTube. The launch of Foursquare and re-launches of MySpace and Yammer, versions 2.0. All signs of a flourishing social media industry, right? New research from Forrester says, not so much, at least in terms of content. While online social networks grow, the percentage of users uploading new content to the sites has “platueaued” worldwide.
RotorBlog Podcast #8:Yammer, the TechCrunch50 Winner
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Covering the launch of Google Chrome, Yammer – the TechCrunch50 winner, the next phase of Jott and 39 social networking apps for iPhone. Check out the podcast for more!
Yammer: Yet Another Messaging Service
Not long ago an interesting phenomenon was sweeping Silicon Valley: the yet another social network (YASN) phenomenon. There’s a new phenomenon sweeping the Valley: the yet another messaging service (YASM) phenomenon. As soon as one popular service launches a whole slew of copycats typically follow. Some of these businesses obtain funding and at least one of them ends up getting acquired typically.
Yesterday all of the buzz was about one of these new messaging services: Yammer. It ended up receiving the award of winner of Techcrunch 50. A pretty user interface and a great presentation was all it took to impress the judges. Honestly, Techcrunch did themselves a disservice by awarding this company best in show. It’s essentially a Twitter for the enterprise.
Mark Evans cries “Don’t Hammer Yammer!” and goes on to explain that “it’s easy to use and could be an effective communications tool if employees need and want a Twitter-like instant messaging tool.” Hold on there Mark, I have a great new messaging system for your employees, it’s called e-mail. I have digital messages practically coming out of my ears at this point.
From instant messages to emails to direct messages on Twitter to messages on Facebook, it’s unmanageable. Now Yammer things that they have the great idea of throwing another messaging service my way. Their solution for cleaning out my inbox? Go use another messaging service! Are they serious? The key to efficiency is not building more nonsensical systems and pile them on top of inefficient systems.
You still have an inefficient system at the core (email). So if you are going to sing praise of Yammer, keep it out of the comments. Every comment on my blogs ends up as an email and the last message I need to be replying to at this point is one about Yammer.
Twitter Goes to the Corporate World as Yammer
If you were following TechCrunch50, an annual event which TC has started last year, whereby startups are given to demo their product to a panel of judges and whoever gets to pass on certain criteria gets to bring home with the plum. Whereas last year’s winner, MINT is an uber cool startup with its innovative features, this year’s winner though was a mere copycat of Twitter – it’s a Twitter-like service called Yawner, er Yammer. Read more
