{"id":162091,"date":"2015-08-13T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/?p=162091"},"modified":"2025-02-19T15:59:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T23:59:46","slug":"optimizing-yammer-for-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2015\/08\/13\/optimizing-yammer-for-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimizing Yammer for teams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Today\u2019s post was written by Juliet Wei, senior product marketing manager for the Yammer team.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n When we first set out to create Yammer, we started with the simple idea that information is more valuable when it\u2019s shared. As an enterprise social network, Yammer revolutionized information sharing in the workplace by giving millions of people a platform to make their voices heard and discover what others across the company are working on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently we announced Yammer\u2019s on a mission to bring the benefits of open collaboration to teamwork. Since then, we\u2019ve introduced Office Online integration for better document collaboration in Yammer; external messaging, which lets teams easily connect with people outside their company; and Yammer for Apple Watch to enable a whole new way of staying connected with your team. Today we\u2019re unveiling another set of exciting changes to Yammer, including a fresh new look and feel that\u2019s designed for teamwork from the ground up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As teams spin up around a project or initiative, they need a way to filter out the noise and focus on the task at hand. Yammer groups provide a great setting for teamwork by empowering people to share and collaborate within the right context and with the right set of people. However, the default experience in Yammer to date has been the home feeds which were intended for broad network-wide sharing. To encourage teams to make Yammer groups their go-to destination, we\u2019re delivering a number of UI enhancements and improving the experience inside groups. Some of the changes we\u2019re delivering on the web include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Discovery feed surfaces group conversations you\u2019re missing out on and makes it easy for you to navigate to and join groups from the feed. Group activity shows up in real time in the left-hand navigation pane.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Groups have a greater sense of place and are more engaging. The Next Group notification prompts you to move on after you\u2019ve viewed the new conversations in a group.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019re also taking major steps to reorient Yammer\u2019s mobile apps around groups to meet the needs of fast-moving teams. Over the coming months, you\u2019ll see significant changes to your mobile experience, including a better way to get through your group content and new capabilities that boost mobile team collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Group Updates feed provides a simple workflow on mobile, enabling you to quickly catch up on your groups and easily navigate between the feed and your groups.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Translate images into action by marking up photos with your finger and sharing them with your team.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n All of these experiences take place against a backdrop of continual improvements in Yammer, such as a new responsive design optimized for larger screen sizes and faster performance on web and mobile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Up next in 2016: deeper integration with Office 365 to open up even more possibilities for teams. We\u2019re working on wrapping up the foundational identity work with Azure Active Directory, leveraging Office Graph signals for better people and group suggestions; using Office Online for multi-user coauthoring in Yammer; and hooking into the Office 365 Groups service to enable cross-workload scenarios with OneDrive, Outlook, OneNote and Skype. And to improve collaboration with extended team members, we\u2019ll also be delivering external groups, which lets users invite outside participants into their Yammer groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019re excited about taking teamwork to the next level with these changes and hope you are too. Give your teams the gift of Yammer and start using Yammer groups for your projects and initiatives today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014Juliet Wei<\/p>\n\n\n\n Q.<\/strong> Where can I go to learn more about using Yammer for team collaboration?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A.<\/strong> If you\u2019d like to learn more about how Yammer helps improve teamwork, join our YamJam<\/strong>. On Wednesday, September 9, the Office 365 Network will host a YamJam from 9\u201310 a.m. PDT \/ 4\u20135 p.m. GMT. Members of the product engineering team will be on hand to answer your questions. For those unfamiliar with a YamJam, it is similar to a “TweetJam” on Twitter or an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) on Reddit, except it takes place on Yammer. It provides the opportunity for the community to ask questions and have a discussion with a panel of internal Microsoft experts on a particular topic. Here\u2019s how to participate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Q. When will these new features be available? Do I need to do anything to enable them in my Yammer network?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A.<\/strong> Yammer develops in short, iterative cycles and only ships features that are proven to increase engagement. While we\u2019ve already shipped many of these experiences on mobile and web to customers, we\u2019re still testing and refining others to ensure we deliver the best possible user experience. This means some users will see an early version of a new feature appear for a while in their Yammer experience while we are testing it, then disappear as we pull it back for further work and finalization. Our goal is to complete and ship the remaining team experiences outlined above to 100 percent of our customers by year end. Because Yammer is a multi-tenant cloud service, no action is required to enable these new capabilities. 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