1. READY to Try Yammer?
Yammer is our company’s internal social network, a private and secure online environment for communication and
coordination. It’s here to help you get your work done and to support teamwork and collaboration across our company.
WHY YAMMER?
Have you ever...
...Yammer lets you
1. had a question and didn’t
know who to ask?
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FIND ANSWERS FASTER
tap into the network to see who can help, might have
worked on something similar or knows where else to look
2. thought of a great idea to
build on our success?
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BRAINSTORM WITH ANYONE IN THE COMPANY
you might find inspiration from an intern, the CEO or your
counterpart overseas
3. wanted to know more about
where we’re headed?
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STAY INFORMED ON COMPANY DIRECTION
follow our progress and better understand how what you
do helps us reach our goals
All while helping our company build a pool of knowledge that’s instantly accessible by any employee at any time, from any
device with an internet connection.
YOU CAN USE YAMMER TO
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meet co-workers who share your interests
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coordinate work for projects and teams
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find the expert help you need to complete a task
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gain visibility into what’s happening where
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share important news with those who need to know
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introduce new hires and get them up to speed
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discuss major decisions and manage change
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discover valuable information to inform your work
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gather opinions and ideas from across the company
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communicate real-time, while you’re on the go
DON’T WAIT, JOIN OUR NETWORK TODAY!
Visit www.yammer.com and enter your work email address. You’ll receive a confirmation email to activate your account.
Accept the Usage Policy and you’re in!
QUESTIONS?
Contact your Network Admin or visit help.yammer.com
© Yammer 2011
www.yammer.com | info@yammer-inc.com

2. SET Up Your Account for Success
Congratulations on joining Yammer!
Let’s get your account set up so you can start to use Yammer to communicate, collaborate and share information.
COMPLETE YOUR PROFILE
Your Yammer Profile helps your co-workers learn more about you, your background and your work experience, while
letting them put a face to a name. Here’s how to set it up:
1.
In browser, click on your name at the top
5.
Add your job title, department, location, contact
right corner of the screen
information and any other details, including links to
2.
Select to Edit Account
your profiles on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
3.
Upload a headshot
4.
On left side bar, click on Profile
6.
Click Save
MANAGE YOUR NOTIFICATIONS
By default, Yammer will send you a daily email activity summary. You can change this notification to weekly or never.
Here’s how to manage your email settings:
1.
In browser, click on your name at the top
2.
Select Edit Account then select
3.
right corner of the screen
Specify when you would like to receive email
notifications by checking or unchecking the boxes
next to the list of Email me when options
Notifications from the menu on the left
4.
Click “Subscribe to feeds in real time” to expand
section. Select desired notification settings
5.
Click Save
MAKE YAMMER YOUR OWN
Customizing your Yammer experience begins by joining Groups and following co-workers and Topics of interest to you.
Yammer will always deliver relevant conversations to your My Feed, and you can access Groups and Topics directly.
Join Groups
1.
Click on Groups in the left
Follow Co-Workers
1.
navigation
2.
Browse Groups, then click
Click on Members in the
1.
left navigation
2.
Browse the list and click
+Join next to those you find
you’d like to follow
If membership approval is
required, request admission
3.
Don’t see a colleague?
Click on Topics in the left
navigation
2.
Follow next to who
interesting
3.
Follow Topics
Browse the list, select the
Topic of interest, then click
Follow
3.
Don’t see a Topic? Create
Invite them to the
one or apply one to a
network
conversation
You can also join and access
You can also follow users by
You can also follow Topics as
groups from your My Feed and by
hovering over their thumbnail
applied to conversations or by
viewing your Activity Stream
headshot and clicking Follow on
viewing your Activity Stream
their hover card
QUESTIONS?
Contact your Network Admin or visit help.yammer.com
© Yammer 2011
www.yammer.com | info@yammer-inc.com

3. GO Forth and Use Yammer!
It’s time to take advantage of Yammer’s many features and apps, which are designed to help you find answers faster, invite
great ideas, create and access your company’s knowledge base and be more productive. Yammer: join the conversation.
WAYS TO USE YAMMER
Feed and Groups to see what’s going on
PRAISE a co-worker: recognize a job well done
and efforts that go above and beyond
View other PROFILES: get to know your
Create a GROUP: support collaboration for a
co-workers’ background and expertise
team, department or a common interest
LIKE a comment: show that you appreciate
@MENTION colleague or add them to the cc
or agree with what someone shared
bar: draw their attention to the conversation
Share a helpful LINK: post timely articles
Send a PRIVATE MESSAGE: discuss a sensitive
and relevant news so others can benefit
issue and keep matters discreet
REPLY to a message post: provide
Conduct a SEARCH: view related conversations
answers, insights or suggestions
and files, find people who know the context
Post an UPDATE: use the Publisher to start
Collaborate on a File: follow, share, and discuss
a conversation or find what you need
files to any message for others to preview and
Browse conversations: access your My
comment
Take a POLL: gather opinions and feedback
for other to edit and provide comments
Promote an EVENT: use an Event to build
Share a CONVERSATION across groups:
awareness about an upcoming activity
+
Create a PAGE: co-author content to publish
from others to help inform your decision
share existing conversations in a group with
others, in a private message or in another group
Email a FILE or PAGE: simply and securely
share a file or Page with external parties
Ask a QUESTION: collect answers and help
from anywhere, anytime
others benefit from collective wisdom
These are just some of many ways Yammer helps you communicate and collaborate with co-workers to get more done.
D ON’T F ORG ET!
You can also access Yammer from any mobile device using its apps for the iPad, iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone.
Visit https://www.yammer.com/about/applications for more details.
QUESTIONS?
Contact your Network Admin or visit help.yammer.com
© Yammer 2011
www.yammer.com | info@yammer-inc.com