Yet another exciting part of the Office 365 family is ‘Yammer’. What is Yammer, you might ask? Well it is perhaps best described as a social media platform reflecting the widely known Facebook format. Unlike Facebook, however, Yammer is devised with the purpose of being an internal communication system.

For companies in particular, that stretch across the country and even the globe, Yammer can help colleagues and team members stay connected and basically ‘in the loop’ with the daily running of the company and with all important work interactions.

When all is said and done, there are many elements of Yammer that users can widely benefit from. Here are just some of the areas where Yammer can have a valuable impact in your work environment.

Cutting Down on Lengthy Email Chains

While you may be used to sifting through endless amounts of group emails – with Yammer, you won’t have to endure this anymore. Just as Facebook allows account users to navigate messages and responses in a real-time news feed, without having the responses pile up – Yammer also offers this type of communication through a concise messaging system. With Yammer you can say good-bye to a cluttered email box and, if you are the one asking the questions this can also allow you to receive support in a more efficient manner.

Enabling Simultaneous Conversations

Again, as messages can become overwhelming in an email format, with Yammer you can manage multiple conversations all at once. Regardless of whether you are the one asking for support or responding & contributing to other conversations, again you can view these conversations in a timely fashion as they are posted to the platform’s news feed timeline.

This also allows you to keep on top of messages – and you are a lot less likely to miss something important. Additionally, these messages and conversations remain in their place and position – so you can refer back to anything of importance whenever necessary.

Putting a Face to a Name

If Facebook has FaceTime, then Yammer a face to face option function of its own. Wherever you are in the world, even if you are in the same office building, you can converse with your team members and actually see them while you do. Being able to actually see the person you are speaking with can add to the quality of your interaction – by personalizing it or simply improving the understanding and meaning attacked to each side of the conversation.

Higher Collaboration with Team Members

Furthermore, there are also many ways that Yammer can add to the quality of our working environments.

Sharing: File Sharing and Storage options can open the channels of brainstorming, organizing, and team collaboration. With reports and projects on the go, Yammer can be enlisted to support your team work needs and lead to a higher degree of shared efforts by granting easy access to a shared folder and file section.

Internal Data Collection: through Yammer you can also go about generating polls and surveys to collect and analyze data sources on various topics and opinions. This can help the company to improve upon the quality of their collaboration and creativity, even.

Last, but not least – one final element that makes Yammer a useful internal communication tool is that is is compatible across a range of technology formats. It offers both a desktop and a mobile app option that can provide convenience and accessibility for its users. Just like other mobile applications, notifications and and new message alerts can be set up so you can stay connected to your projects and with your team-members as needed.

Oh – and did I mention it can be operated on your Desktop through Adobe Air? So this means it does not require that you open another browser to access. Instead, the Desktop App allows you to have your team’s Yammer network open at all times – without having it take up the web browser space.

So while this is just perhaps the tip of the iceberg that is Yammer – you can go on to learn more about the platform and explore it further and find out just what it has to offer that is unique to the needs of your work environment and what it can mean for how you and your team members can continue to collaborate and go about supporting one another.