Having trouble selling Yammer to your coworkers or management team? We’ve raved about how they won the Tech Crunch 50 this year and how much we like the service, but maybe that’s not enough.
If you can at least get your team inside the app and get them to start playing with it, chances are they will come around. If you’re still having trouble, send them to Lee Aase’s (@leeaase) Social Media University, Global for a free series of posts on the basics of Yammer.
Lee walks through everything from ‘Yammer for the Enterprise‘ and ‘Getting Started with Yammer‘ to ‘Making Yammering Effortless‘ and ‘Avoiding Yammer Email Overload‘. Each series of posts breaks things down very simply and makes it easy to understand, which might be just the thing you need to get your team on board.
Rob is one of the founders of Microblink. His interests include how people are using microblogs and the community growing around them.
Mike writes and edits for Microblink day-in and day-out. He is known as the marketing guy and handles most of the microblogging accounts.
Mark writes development-oriented posts as well as news items. He's not afraid to dive headfirst into technical topics for the sake of the team.
Thanks for the post, Mike. I think getting hands-on experience with these tools is the way to encourage people to see their potential. And the great thing they all seem to have in common is that they’re free, at least to start. Then you can decide whether there is enough value for you to pay.
We at Yammer, are very grateful for Lee Aase taking the time to create the Yammer curriculum. There have been many instances where our users need a breakdown of how certain features work and we direct them to Lee’s posts. If you haven’t already, we encourage you to check it out. The curriculum does a great job of providing a sense of just how rich the Yammer product is. Thanks Lee and Microblink.
Regards,
Keith
The Yammer Team