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Quick Start Guide to Yammer.
New to Yammer? Use this guide to learn the basics.
Yammer Quick Start Guide:
Connect and engage across your organisation and tap into the knowledge of others. Sign in to your Microsoft 365 subscription and select Yammer from the App launcher.
- Tabs: Home, messages, notifications.
- Personalize your profile: Edit your profile and notification settings.
- Discover conversations: Select Discovery (selected relevant conversations) All, or Following.
- Start a conversation: Post an Update, Poll or Praise. Use Hashtags (#) for relevant topics.
- Join a conversation: You can Like, Reply or Share a post. Use @mention to include a specific person.
- Recent activity: See what’s been happening in your network.
- Have a private conversation: Send a private message directly to someone’s inbox.
- Find an existing group: Keep up with a topic or project. Some groups require approval to join.
- Create a new group: You can make a group open to members from outside your organization.
- Search for answers: Find files, conversation and people.
Edit your Yammer Profile:
Select Settings > Edit Settings > Profile to update your profile picture and information. The more complete your profile, the easier it is for others on the network to find you.
Discover conversations:
After selecting the Yammer home tab on the left rail, select a feed tab (Discovery, All or Following) to see the newest info available. Discovery suggests relevant conversations based on your Yammer subscriptions and interactions.
Set Notifications:
Go to Settings > Edit Settings > Notification to receive a daily or weekly email summarizing when specific activities happened in your network.
Search for answers:
Type keywords into the search bar to find files, conversations, groups and people. Select See all search results to see more detail and to filter the results.
Join a group:
Select Discover more groups, then browse or select Search to find groups. Select +Join to join the group. If the group is private, the group administrator will need to approve your join request.
Like and Reply to a post:
Select Like to quickly agree with or acknowledge a post. Select Reply to compose a response. Use #mentions or Notify more people to bring others into the conversation.
Create a group:
Select + in the left navigation pane. Your group can allow members from outside your organization, and can be made private so new members will need to be granted access.
Post an update:
Select Update and Enter a message into the What are you working on box to start a new conversation or ask a question. You can use hashtags (#) for relevant topics, attach files and @mention specific people.
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