Announced earlier today on the company blog, Yammer has released two new features to its enterprise microblogging solution: a visual organization chart and a link bookmarklet.
Visualize your Coworkers
Remember when you first joined Yammer and it asked for your reports and your superiors? Now Yammer can take that information and organize it into a visual organization chart for your company. The org chart for Microblink isn’t very impressive, as its just the three of us with nobody reporting to anyone. If you’ve got a large group on Yammer and would like to share a graphic (with faces/names blurred of course), please let us know.
Bookmarklet for Links
In addition to the org chart, Yammer has also made it much easier to share links and articles with your corporate network. Bookmarklets have existed in the regular microblogging world for some time, acting as bookmarking shortcuts for specific applications or websites.
The new Yammer bookmarklet allows you to quickly post any page (or highlighted text) you are looking at to your colleagues on Yammer. This saves you time because you don’t need copy the link, open an application, paste the information in, etc. Just click the bookmark, post and go.
It’s exciting to see Yammer continuing to grow and always adding new features as requested by their users.
Found another tool for creating org charts online. http://orgchart.orgplus.com
Reply · PermalinkThat looks to be an interesting tool for building org charts, but the relevance of the Yammer org chart feature is that it is built into an enterprise microblogging platform, thus minimizing the number of tools you need to get the same features. Thanks for the link though.
Reply · PermalinkGood article
Reply · PermalinkThanks cool news...
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