What are Yammer communities?

Yammer communities enable you to share knowledge and build relationships across your organization. You can pin the Communities app to the left side of Teams, enabling you to engage with leaders, watch live events, ask questions, get answers, and stay up-to-date with news and announcements from within Teams.

What is Yammer used for?

Yammer connects leaders, communicators, and employees to build communities, share knowledge, and engage everyone. Use the Home feed to stay on top of what matters, tap into the knowledge of others, and build on existing work. Search for experts, conversations, and files.

Can anyone create a community in Yammer?

Members need approval. The admin of the Yammer community or any member can approve. Only the admin of the Yammer community can grant approvals. Members need approval.

What is the difference between a Yammer group and community?

A community is a group of people who have similar interests. These people may know and work with each other daily, however in many communities they are brought together by their interests and the community itself. Yammer is the place where employees' communities of all sizes gather online.

Is Yammer the same as communities?

Yammer communities are now available in Microsoft Teams via the Communities app. Yammer communities enable you to share knowledge and build relationships across your organization.

Microsoft Yammer communities overview

How do you create a community team?

On the left side of Teams, click Teams, at the bottom of the teams list, click Join or create a team, and then click Create a new team. Once you've created the team, invite people to join it. You can add individual users, groups, and even entire contact groups (formerly known as "distribution lists").

What are the advantages of Yammer?

Yammer enables knowledge workers to collaborate more effectively and share information more fluidly. With increased access to their colleagues, employees using Yammer are saving valuable time by reducing the time it takes to find information and complete tasks.

How does Yammer group work?

Groups in Yammer make it easy to work together on projects and events by providing a central place for your conversations, files, and updates. When you create a group, you automatically become an owner of the group. To learn how to manage your group, see Manage a group in Yammer.

How do I tag a community in Yammer?

Mentions in Yammer utilize the same @ functionality present in other social networks. By typing the @ symbol, a drop down list will appear with people and group names. This allows you to tag a person or group in your post.

Is Yammer discontinued?

You would be forgiven for thinking the platform had gone underground given the recent focus on Microsoft Teams and Viva. And in some ways Yammer has gone underground. It now acts as the engine room behind Viva Connections and increasingly is accessed through other Microsoft 365 tools like Outlook and Teams Channels.

What are the disadvantages of Yammer?

Disadvantages of Yammer

Yammer is not an integrated work environment for all office and communication tasks. It is easy to lose track of things through many different channels. Searching for specific topics can lead to confusing results.

How is Yammer different from Facebook?

Yammer is a private enterprise social networking solution that enables employees to collaborate securely across time and... Workplace from Facebook is a simple and secure way for people to share knowledge, work together and build connected communities.

Is Yammer considered social media?

Yammer is a social-networking platform designed for communication and collaboration within organizations. Originally launched in 2008 and purchased by Microsoft in 2012, Yammer is now a part of the Microsoft 365 enterprise suite.

What replaced Yammer?

Yammer as part of the Microsoft 365 super-team

Yammer profiles are now just Microsoft 365 profiles with the same People card interface.

What is the best way to use Yammer?

The best way to get executive buy-in is by aligning Yammer with their business goals. Ask them what they want to achieve, then demonstrate that it can be advanced through Yammer. Show them that time invested in Yammer will deliver benefits to them and their business. Use the Use Case Deep Dive to engage your leaders.

Is Yammer like slack?

The effective tools used for communication between the teammates are yammer and slack. Yammer is mostly employed for enterprise and social network, whereas slack is a messaging app to interact with teams.

What is a community site?

A community website is a standalone website that offers a destination for members of an online community to gather, communicate, and build relationships with each other.

How many channels can a team have?

You can create up to 200 channels over the life of a team. That number includes channels you create and later delete.

How do I add a group to my team?

Create a group

on the left, select the Chat dropdown at the top, and then select Contacts. Next, select Create a new contact group at the bottom. Name your group and select Create.

What is the difference between Yammer and SharePoint?

SharePoint social features are employed mostly at the team site level and within Office 365 groups while Yammer is used as a standalone social network for knowledge sharing, company announcements, and interest-based communities.

How do I get the link to a Yammer community?

Select the Yammer logo on the Create a Portal page and sign in with Yammer. Then, select the Source—the group you want to share. Now, send the Portal URL to someone on the other team and wait for them to connect.

Who actually uses Yammer?

Yammer quickly caught the eyes of many eager buyers before it was ultimately acquired by Microsoft in 2012. Microsoft rolled the new product into their Office 365 suite in 2014, and today it is used by 85% of fortune 500 companies worldwide. You can think of Yammer as being the Facebook of the corporate world.