I am currently reading the Facebook Effect book and am just amazed how a small idea that not many believed in turned into something as huge as Facebook is today. What I am even more surprised about is how many people copied it as they realized its potential. However, I was really amazed today when my firm sent us a notification today looking for pilot teams to collaborate on our client engagements using...Yammer!
Yammer is an enterprise social networking tool which was bought my Microsoft a year ago and is now used by approx. 8M users. This number represents an 55% growth over last year's user base. It enables users to collaborate on various levels from sharing of documents to internal and external messaging. It is also expected to become fully integrated with SharePoint and other tools offered by Microsoft to enhance its existing products.
It really amazes me that the company as conservative as mine (large consulting firm) would actually go for social networking tool as one of the options for us to internally communicate. We are a very conservative firm which takes some time to introduce new technology tools as they are revealed due to various safety testings we have to perform to ensure the confidentiality of our clients' data. Thus, the intro of Yammer was just shocking to me. However, it does sound promising and it just shows how social network really took over the world...
Read on for more:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/25/a-year-after-microsoft-bought-it-yammer-nears-8m-users-plans-for-deeper-integration-and-a-new-klout-partnership/
https://www.yammer.com
Yammer is an enterprise social networking tool which was bought my Microsoft a year ago and is now used by approx. 8M users. This number represents an 55% growth over last year's user base. It enables users to collaborate on various levels from sharing of documents to internal and external messaging. It is also expected to become fully integrated with SharePoint and other tools offered by Microsoft to enhance its existing products.
It really amazes me that the company as conservative as mine (large consulting firm) would actually go for social networking tool as one of the options for us to internally communicate. We are a very conservative firm which takes some time to introduce new technology tools as they are revealed due to various safety testings we have to perform to ensure the confidentiality of our clients' data. Thus, the intro of Yammer was just shocking to me. However, it does sound promising and it just shows how social network really took over the world...
Read on for more:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/25/a-year-after-microsoft-bought-it-yammer-nears-8m-users-plans-for-deeper-integration-and-a-new-klout-partnership/
https://www.yammer.com
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