Yammer and Teams are most often used for internal communications. Consequently, their user bases are more or less similar. Both Yammer and Teams have people with subscribers ranging from small and medium businesses to large enterprises. Both applications group their conversations in serial order.
Yammer and Teams differ in the ways they are used for communication. Microsoft suggests the use of Yammer for “outer loop” communication while Teams for the “inner loop”. The loop is the reference to the number of people typically involved in a communication.
What can Yammer and Microsoft Teams do together?
When synced, Yammer and Microsoft Teams can help ease collaboration across the entire Office 365 platform, simplify workflow, and make sure that everyone is on the same page . Let’s see what’s new!
What are Yammer communities in Microsoft Teams?
Yammer communities enable you to share knowledge and build relationships across your organization. You can pin the Communities app to the left side of Teams, enabling you to engage with leaders, watch live events, ask questions, get answers, and stay up-to-date with news and announcements from within Teams.
The next thing we asked ourselves was, why create a self-help Yammer community for it project teams?
When new software rolls out to your organization, change can be hard. Employees have questions about efficiency and productivity. IT Project teams have been successful in creating self-help Yammer communities to support these rollouts and changes.
Is Yammer a better fit for your business?
Rather than giant Teams meetings, if you need to connect 20,000 people, a live event in Microsoft Stream with the conversation in Yammer — or just creating the right Yammer communities — is going to deliver a better experience . Organisations with tens or hundreds of thousands of employees tend to see the value of Yammer because of their scale.
Another thing we asked ourselves was: what is Yammer and how does it work?
Yammer is your organization’s social networking service. Think of Yammer as a way to collaborate and get to know colleagues beyond your Teams teams., and make sense? The Yammer fundamentals are: Yammer is built on communities of people. Users can post messages to communities. You can send private messages in Yammer.
Who can access a Yammer group?
Access: Anyone in the company can tune into the conversation on Yammer or join the discussion if someone sends them a link. Even if you’re not a member of a specific Yammer group, you can still view the messages in it and add a comment or question.
What’s new in Yammer?
But at this year’s Ignite conference, Microsoft launched Yammer into the spotlight, revealing an updated version outfitted with some exciting new features and improved integrations with Share. Point, Outlook, and Teams.
Also, is Yammer still available?
Some believe that Yammer is still available as a web page and a mobile client app, but if people are spending their time in Teams or in Outlook or Share. Point, they can access Yammer there too.