Comments on: Yammer Helps Your Company Create More Edges and Flows

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:17:00 +0000

We have been using Yammer for about 5 months and found it to be very important in our organization. Our company have integrated Yammer into our Akeni Social Networking Software. The Yammer microblogging is much easier to use than the built-in one of the Akeni Software.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:41:26 +0000

Yammer, Cube Tree and SocialText are missing out on a key feature, or three - IM, voice and integration. With MangoTalk you can move from a Status update, to a IM conversation (1-to-1 or group) and strait into a voice call. Let's see any of those three do that, seemlessly AND archive the whole conversation in a searchable manner without hashtags.

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By: David Sacks

David Sacks — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:02:38 +0000

Can't speak for Tweetdeck or Seesmic. We are open to the conversation. Keep in mind, however, that Yammer content is private whereas Twitter's is not, and therefore a single inbox for both types of content may not be the right solution.

There should be a notice on our site that enterprises and large organizations (e.g. hundreds of members) should contact us for pricing.

By: tacanderson

tacanderson — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:27:50 +0000

Why do you think Tweetdeck and Seesmic haven't integrated Yammer into their products yet? Have you talked with them? Having an API is great, hopefully they'll take advantage of it.

I couldn't find any reference to your enterprise pricing options. Did I miss it on your site anywhere?

Anyway, thanks for the comment David.

By: tacanderson

tacanderson — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:24:14 +0000

Integration is key but my only comment would be to reemphasize your point: “to fully integrate it into everything they do”. Into the tools we actually use and need. How many existing intranet tools do we not use or not really need? I think we need far less than we think.

By: Alan Lepofsky

Alan Lepofsky — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:02:28 +0000

“to be successful I think a company needs to fully integrate it into everything they do” I could not agree more, and that is the approach Socialtext has taken. [Yes, I work there ]

By: David Sacks

David Sacks — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:23:00 +0000

Tac-

You hit the nail on the head with respect to Yammer Communities' potential to replace extranets. Not only is the interface easier to use and more social, users can collect all of their communities / extranets in one place and easily toggle between them. Counters conveniently alert users when they have unread messages in each community.

With respect to Tweetdeck or Seesmic integration, Yammer has already published all of the APIs necessary for them to do this. These are the same APIs that our own desktop application uses. It's up to third-party developers to decide whether they want to integrate.

With respect to pricing, we have special pricing for large organizations and enterprises.

Regards,

David Sacks
CEO, Yammer Inc.

By: lasandrabrill

lasandrabrill — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:38:49 +0000

I think you make some good points, integration with Tweetdeck like tools will help but I also think that for the enterprise they need something more than just Yammer. I personally like CubeTree's approach but to be successful I think a company needs to fully integrate it into everything they do. It should become the intranet that is tied to Active Directory when you go to your employee directory you should automatically see their feed and what they've been up to and some 'updates' need to be done automatically (like Facebook) everytime you upload a document or comment on an internal blog. Otherwise there is too much change management required to truly make Yammer alone successful and valuable inside an enterprise. Just my $0.02. =)