Microsoft Adoption

Yammer Adoption

Microsoft Yammer in Microsoft 365 was designed to help your network stay connected, by offering a reliable and secure way to share files, get updates, and build communities.

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Announcing Viva Engage

Viva Engage is an evolution of the Yammer Communities app that brings new capabilities and experiences to help people strengthen their work relationships, find and share knowledge, and feel included all within Microsoft Teams.

Meet Viva Engage

Microsoft Viva Engage will bring new capabilities to connect people, find and share knowledge, express yourself, and find belonging at work.

Get ready for Engage

Watch the recording of the in-depth product webinar with Q&A, download slides for your own communications, and learn how to prepare your organization.

Steps on your adoption journey

Get started

Let’s get started with Yammer. Yammer connects people and information across the organization. As part of Microsoft 365, Yammer helps leaders and employees engage, share knowledge, and create culture.

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Engage your org

Use Yammer to create a more effective corporate communications strategy. Yammer can drive employee engagement and open discussions to the entire organization by facilitating two-way conversations between leadership and the wider employee base.

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Train your org

So you’re ready to get started using Yammer but need a little training. Let’s find the right training to bring management and employees at all levels together to achieve organizational goals. Our Yammer training builds confidence and helps make sure everyone’s voice is heard.

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Connect with communities

Build or join a community to learn from peers and experts who can help streamline your adoption journey.

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Secure your environment

Yammer analytics are available to help you improve engagement and enhance communication in your organization.

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Yammer Resources

For Leaders & Communicators

For Admins

For Users

Leaders & Communicators

Yammer Best Practice Brainstorms

Join a virtual interactive roundtable or catch a recording of previous discussions.

How to host a Live Event in Yammer

A step-by-step playbook for best practices before, during, and after your Live Events in Yammer.

Yammer flipbook

Check out the brand-new guide to Yammer flipbook, including a variety of communication scenarios, editable resources, interactive content, and customer stories.

Yammer resources for leaders

Explore a new way for leaders to engage with employees by connecting with people through live events, sustained dialogue, and communications at scale.

Use cases & scenarios

Use case deep dive: Leadership engagement

Key strategies and tactics leaders can use to engage with employees across your organization using Yammer.

Use case deep dive: Communities of interests or practice

Includes overview, best practices, how to set up, conversation starters, engagement tactics, and example communities.

10 Yammer community suggestions

Sample community descriptions and ideas for each type of community, including tips and tricks.

Yammer campaign playbook

A guide for using Yammer in campaign management scenarios. Includes a list of campaign ideas and how they can be implemented.

Marketing and communications templates

Communication plan

Recommended communication plan, templates, and timeframes for launch. Edit as necessary.

Email template

Customize this email to share the new Yammer with your organization.

Yammer one-page flyer

Editable flyer that could be used for supplemental communication materials to help users get started with Yammer.

Yammer image and file sizing guide

Recommendations for sizes and orientation for visual content.

Community toolkit

Community manager toolkit

Resources to use with your Yammer networks regardless if you are brand new to community management, or have a had a Yammer community for years.

Yammer guide to community management

Overview of community management, along with best practices and tactics to help drive valuable engagement across your Yammer network.

Community admin guide and best practices

Best practices for managing communities in Yammer

Community owner agreement template

Editable checklist for your communities owners to keep accountable for creating and maintaining purposeful communities in Yammer.

Yammer cover photo preview

View your own photos with a template for the new cover photos in your Yammer community.

Events

How to host a Live Event in Yammer

A step-by-step playbook for best practices before, during, and after your Live Events in Yammer.

Live event resource center

Live events resources and assistance with hosting events.

Live Events in Yammer made easy

A guide to scheduling, producing, and managing live events in just a few clicks using your webcam and screensharing.

Yamjam playbook

A step-by-step guide about hosting a digital meet up – or ‘Yamjam’ – to create moments of engagement.

For Admins

Yammer adoption guide

Includes best practices and templates for governance, use case planning, launch events and communications, and change management.

Yammer admin guide

Resources to configure and customize Yammer, manage users and communities, and manage security and compliance.

Use Yammer to manage Microsoft 365 rollout

Guidance for best practices on how to use Yammer to support the launch of Microsoft 365 within your organization.

Viva Engage

Introducing Viva Engage

This blog post details the vision and strategy behind Microsoft Viva Engage.

Viva Engage Lookbook

Learn what’s possible with Viva Engage. See how Viva Engage empowers everyone from leadership to frontline workers through communities, conversations, events and expression tools that will inspire everyone to start sharing.

Admin Readiness for Viva Engage

Watch the recording of the in-depth product webinar with Q&A, download slides for your own communications, and learn how to prepare your organization.

Get Started with Viva Engage

Training guide for your end users. Edit as necessary for your organization.

Viva Engage FAQ – Editable

Edit and share this FAQ to communicate upcoming changes for Viva Engage.

Viva Engage Demo

Meet Viva Engage in this 60 second walkthrough video.

Storyline Playbook

Learn how to use storyline and stories in your organization.

New Yammer resources

What's new in Yammer

Learn what's new with community members, community admins, and network admins in the new Yammer.

New Yammer FAQ - editable

Edit and share this FAQ to communicate upcoming changes for the new Yammer.

New Yammer email template

Customize this email to share the new Yammer with your organization.

New Yammer tips and tricks

Includes sample text, new Yammer screenshots, and Yammer tip template for creating your own Yammer tips.

Yammer cover photo preview

View your own photos with a template for the new cover photos in your Yammer Community.

Sample community cover photos

Create your own or use one of the samples to get your community started.

Yammer image and file sizing guide

Recommendations for sizes and orientation for visual content.

For Users

End user training guide

Training guide for your end users. Edit as necessary for your organization.

New Yammer user checklist

Editable checklist for your users to use in their office space or to complete during training.

Yammer training videos

Short videos to help your users get started using Yammer.

Interactive Yammer click-through demos

Yammer demo

Experience the new Yammer firsthand with this click-through demo.

Yammer mobile demo

Experience the new Yammer mobile firsthand with this click-through demo.

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