I am a changed man. I had never seen anything like it before, and by the time I returned home, I hardly knew myself. Microsoft Ignite 2016 was the biggest conference I had ever attended. After a week of endless walking, swag collection and techy conversation, I was dizzy. I returned home, collected my thoughts, … Continue reading Nine Answers I Hope to Get to Nine Questions at Microsoft Ignite 2017
Enterprise Networks
Whoops, I Made a Mistake, That’s All!
I was embarrassed. I wanted to bury my head in the sand. A song from my childhood ran through my head all day. Trying to find a moment of rationalization, or maybe justification, the lyrics made me feel better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB3fi7opDBc I had just made a post on a site for Yammer network administrators. Using Yammer … Continue reading Whoops, I Made a Mistake, That’s All!
Top 5 Ways to Create a Yammer Habit
When I sit down at my desk each day, I check email, Facebook, Twitter, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Backstreets, CNN and Rollingstone.com. Make fun of my website choices if you must, but this is my routine. This is my habit. I became keenly aware of the habits we create for ourselves when rolling out a Yammer enterprise … Continue reading Top 5 Ways to Create a Yammer Habit
5 Easy Rules of Yammer Replies
Silence and stillness provide empty space. Space for us to wonder, space for us to question, space for us to make our own assumptions. Sometimes, silence exists, sometimes it is created. In our connected world of email, phone calls and social networks, that rarest sense of silence and stillness is created when replies to messages … Continue reading 5 Easy Rules of Yammer Replies
3 Effective Ways to Bring a Smile in Yammer
GIF's are not a sophisticated means of communication, they are short animated images that many people find annoying, cringe worthy and sometimes seizure inducing. They can be bright, flashy and loud, even though there is no sound. Enterprise Social Networking platform Yammer recently introduced the ability to include GIF images in posts. In an earlier … Continue reading 3 Effective Ways to Bring a Smile in Yammer
Yammer: Feature Rich or Distraction Heavy
Much to their credit, the developers at Yammer continue to add new functionality and features to its enterprise social network platform. Since acquired by Microsoft in 2012, it has slowly become more integrated with Office 365 functionality offering its users true collaboration functionality in a feature rich environment. When a Word (or Excel or PowerPoint … Continue reading Yammer: Feature Rich or Distraction Heavy
Collaboration and Yammer Access
There is no organization, be it a suburban household or a multi-billion dollar international corporation, that does not want to find ways to collaborate more effectively. Though collaboration may be a bit simpler in a household (shopping list on the refrigerator, Sunday night planning meeting for the week ahead), most every organization, large or small, … Continue reading Collaboration and Yammer Access
Yammer and the Light Switch Mentality
The light switch is one of the most simple pieces of technology we use in any given day. One piece of plastic. There is a clear, embedded display to indicate the status of the light, and changing the lights' status is as easy as...well...flicking a switch. We see the tool, and know what to do … Continue reading Yammer and the Light Switch Mentality
Yammer and Working Out Loud: A Mobius Strip of Mission and Functionality
It was probably during a Junior High School algebra class I first learned about the Mobius strip concept, a surface with one side and no boundry. A Mobius strip can easily be created by connecting both ends of a strip of paper together, after giving it a half turn twist. The effect is an object that before … Continue reading Yammer and Working Out Loud: A Mobius Strip of Mission and Functionality
Top 10 ways to go BIG with Yammer
Yammer users are often looking for ways to find the specific information they are looking for amidst a sea of resources and posts. They are looking for ways to make Yammer feel small...except when they're not. Sometimes, people look to Yammer to expand beyond their team and what they already know and who they are … Continue reading Top 10 ways to go BIG with Yammer
