TheSocialWhat.com

Practical, tactical advice for your social business

  • Sales
  • Management
  • Marketing
  • HR
  • Operations
  • IT
You are here: Home / Archives for business value

Before Creating a Yammer Group, Answer These 3 Questions First.

May 25, 2012 by Joel Marans

Before Creating a Yammer Group, Answer These 3 Questions First.

This post is for leaders within organizations who provide Yammer guidance & best practices. If you’re unfamiliar with the enterprise social network, read my post 5 ways to use Yammer for a decent primer.

Groups are arguably the best way to get instant business value out of collaboration tools like Yammer. They reduce the “noise” people see in their main feed by focusing messages around specific, affinity-based topics. For example, you might see groups for people to collaborate on key projects or company initiatives. You might also see groups designed to share best practices in a specific industry vertical. At Softchoice, we have a number of private groups used by departments to reduce the amount of email amongst teammates, while improving the conversational tone of the exchange.

Since a Yammer network “belongs” to all employees, each person has the ability to create a group. But just because someone can, doesn’t mean they should. Before people create a group, ask them to answer 3 questions:

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Communications Tagged With: 3 Questions, best practices, business value, chatter, Coaching People, collaboration, Create A Group, Creating Conversations, Group, groups, how to use yammer, jive, social media, yammer, yammer help

Search

Joel Marans
 
TheSocialWhat.com provides practical, tactical advice to organizations looking to get the most out of social media.

It's written and curated by Joel Marans. He's a creative technologist, a digital marketer and visual raconteur. He's also a husband, a daddy, and a geek. More about Joel.
 
About.MeLinkedinTwitterGoogle+

Tweet Tweet

Tweets by @schnitzelboy

Recent Posts

  • For business leaders, using social media part-time is a full-time job
  • Facebook’s big privacy change: What you need to know (and do) right now
  • Another story of baggage handlers caught on camera. Except this one’s different.
  • 5 Ways to Build A Network of Trust Through Social Media
  • The Problem With LinkedIn Endorsements – And 6 Quick Fixes
  • 5 Ways For IT To Put Social Media To Work (At Work)
  • 4 ways to avoid a Twitter PR disaster
  • Why I Won’t Connect With You On LinkedIn

Popular Tags

B2B best practices CEO collaboration content marketing ebook endorsements Executives facebook Google Google Search Results governance guidelines guides linkedin managing a personal brand measurement onboarding personal brand popluence presentation presentations Professional Social Protecting Employees Recommendations relating research sales senior leaders Social social business social crm social media social media strategy Social Media Tools social networking Social Savvy solution selling Tips training triage Twitter Using Social Media yammer yammer help

Copyright © 2022 · Metro Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in