Social, net, work.
By Lauren Tosi
Putting social networking to work...literally.
Yammer is a simple way for employees to connect and share by posting messages. As more employees participate, it becomes a corporate social network, discussion board and knowledge base. Yammer is like a combination of Facebook and Twitter. Your company can create a profile that mimics the look of Facebook: picture, wall posts/messages, an information page, etc. Your company also has a “network.” And the Yammer is protected, permitting only people from your company to join by requiring your company’s domain (@yourcompany.com). The homepage resembles Twitter — members of your company can post messages about what they’re working on or post questions to coworkers.
But what happens when employees start spending more and more time chatting on Yammer? Will it be a time-waster? Or a morale-booster? Only time will tell.
Posted on 01-11-10, By Lauren Tosi
Just like any other social site, employees have to use good judgement on managing their time. Time guidelines should be announced by management prior to opening up the can of worms. Will be checking out Yammer shortly -thanks for the great post.