Posts Tagged ‘Yammer’

Social, once dismissed as a consumer only trend, is starting to make a real dent into business.  Yammer, a social CRM product dedicated to providing a Twitter like stream of discussion for employees, just recently reported recorded revenues.  Now Jive, a public company and competitor to Yammer has reported their fourth quarter revenues have increased [...]

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Yammer, a favorite social productivity tool here at Social Times, has just announced their fantastic 2011 results with a large infographic.  We can see that they have 85% of the Fortune 500 as clients, and they’ve tripled their sales growth since the beginning of 2011.  Pretty crazy stuff, but not unbelievable considering the strength of [...]

I’ve been a long time fan of Yammer.  Months ago, I wrote up 6 things your company can’t do without Yammer, and I stand by that today.  I feel that most workplaces operate in a conversational manner, and Yammer’s stream service addresses that reality in its corporate solution — it allows employees and managers to [...]

TechCrunch is reporting that a group of investors including Mark Cuban, Jason Calacanis and Google Ventures are putting a lean $1M into Social CRM Startup Nimble.  Nimble, like Gist which was acquired by Research in Motion, is a software service that lets you unify all your customer contacts into one place so you can manage [...]

According to David Sacks, Yammer founder and CEO, the company really wanted to get Palihapitiya on board and raising the funds was part of that process. “Chamath is one of the most insightful people in tech and his experience at Facebook will prove invaluable to us as we scale Yammer in the years to come.”

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.

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.

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.

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 [...]

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…