Yammer is often unfairly compared to being an “internal Facebook”. This can bring with it several negative connotations such as it being for internal use only, or a place to post cat pictures and items for sale. This post is not so much to extoll the values of enterprise social networking, but more so to…… Continue reading Comparing Yammer external participants, groups and networks
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Microsoft axes its Yammer / Office 365 CSMs: a change in strategy or simple cost cutting?
Last week the global team Office 365 Customer Success Managers (CSMs) were given their marching orders which has raised a lot of speculation and concern about Yammer’s future. So let’s look at this with business-coloured glasses on. You can read a couple of takes on the Microsoft decision here: http://www.cmswire.com/social-business/so-now-microsoft-axes-the-yammer-community-team/ and here: https://byresearch.wordpress.com/2016/01/24/microsoft-and-yammer-a-misunderstanding/ One of…… Continue reading Microsoft axes its Yammer / Office 365 CSMs: a change in strategy or simple cost cutting?