Yammer Success Guide

Yammer success guide

A collection of best practices, tips, and examples to make your Yammer community launch a success.

Using Yammer to transform your business

Before you plan your launch, think about how you want to use Yammer and what you want it to do for your organization. Yammer is much more than a social tool for your organization--set up your Yammer network for the maximum impact on your organization by focusing on activities that drive business transformation.

Social outlet for status and photos

To connect around social interests

YamJams and top-down broadcasts

Posting to All Company/Newsfeed

Vanity metrics and social badges

Drive employee morale

Transform your business

Replace existing processes and tools

To connect around common objectives

Meaningful multi-way collaboration

Using Groups for functional and project teams

Measuring for business outcomes

Roadmap to success

Congratulations on choosing Yammer to connect your company! Getting started can be daunting, but we've been helping organizations connect since 2008 and have learned a few things along the way. We want you to be successful, so here is a roadmap to help you make a successful and thriving network.

Getting started A great network starts with a great plan. Follow these five steps to make sure you're ready for launch.

Introducing Yammer to your organization Starting with your pilot users and champions, all the way up to the leadership team, get everyone on board and excited to use Yammer in four simple phases.

Keeping the conversations going Now that you've launched, check out three ways to provide support for your Yammer network and continue to optimize for greatness.

Getting started

Master the technology Develop your vision Identify your team Get executive buy-in Set policies and guidance

Master the technology

Start by working in partnership with your IT department to establish technical needs like mobile access and network support. You can learn to administer your network like a pro with the Yammer admin guide. We walk through confirming system requirements, setting admin privileges, and how to understand your network.

Resources: Use the Technical readiness checklist to ensure your network is ready for launch Learn more at Yammer admin help

Pro tip:

In order to enjoy the full experience of Yammer integrated with the rest of Office 365, ask your Office administrator to enforce Office 365 identity and connect your Yammer network to the Office 365 groups service.

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