Why should you use Yammer

Yammer for small businesses

In most small and medium sized companies, particularly those with offices in geaographically dispersed locations, communication has been a challenge. Most organizations have been striving for to find ways of simplifying it. Emails become too formal and ineffective when it comes to communicating across different teams, other means like newsletters are often way too slow and lack the interactivity of a real time medium.

To answer this need enterprise social networking is being adopted by an increasingly large number of small and medium sized businesses. The most significant of such solutions are Yammerand chatter, both having their own pros and cons. Sites like Twitter, LinkedIn and facebook have made most users familiar to the concept of social networking. Yammer adds another dimension to it by providing secure, stable and economical social networking capabilities to businesses over a Software as a Service(SaaS) model.

Benefits

Connect with Experts: Experts within your own organization can help you find the best way out of any problem that you might be having in handling any specific task.
Know your Team: Yammer promotes stronger bonding between team members by making work communication a little formal.
Share files: Files can be shared within the organization and saved at a given location for future reference.
Creating a knowledge base: This perhaps stands out as one of the biggest benefit, a lot of value is produced internally in a company every time ideas are shared. Hence ideas from every meeting, every workshop have to be made available to members who could not attend them, even more important for new members.
Reduce email clutter: Our inboxes are already cluttered with enough mails and contacts, it often gets tedious to find an important attachment a week later, the least companies can do is use Yammer where email isn’t necessary to reduce that burden and make important information accessible more easily.