The company has decided to introduce Yammer as a collaborative tool for us. I see this move as a positive move to bring all staffs 'closer' virtually. With so many staffs in a company from various departments, it is a good channel to get to know each other and share opinions on certain topics.
What we need to do is to promote Yammer not only as a tool to improve productivity and efficiency but also to achieve it in a more fun waY! Yes! The Yammer WaY! Since they are a lot of users who are working outside of office, with the cloud solution, they can still keep track of what is happening in the company and still collaborate with the rest of their team members. Yammer client can be installed in all major smartphones, Blackberry, Iphone, Android, so we can always contribute in Yammer from anywhere.
The 2 challenges that I see now are:
** The level of maturity across all the users
It is not easy when some users are more internet-savvy than the rest. They can differentiate the usage of a corporate social media channel like Yammer as compared to personal social media channel like Facebook. So, Yammer tips and tricks in both English and Malay will need to be written to, hopefully, educate all users.
** The corporate readiness
Policies are to not established yet so users are confuse on the usage of Yammer in the workplace. First step is always to introduce, next step: need to outline policies of what are the Do's and Dont's within Yammer networks.
I am excited about Yammer in the company but at the same time, concerned that something good like Yammer will just 'die' off if nothing is done to promote it for work purpose. So, a note to self, first step is to dig up some good reading materials from the Net on how to get Yammer working as a productive tool and then share slowly with the hope to guide all users to see the benefits of Yammer and then eventually, get positive buy-in from top management :D
So, to Yammer or not to Yammer? Definitely, Yammer all the way! :D
Till my next posting, peace to you all out there!
My company started using Yammer, when I joined only a fraction of the company had signed up. After making some light hearted jokes on Yammer, my boss told me to delete the comments. So I deleted my account. F them. Now my comments can't be deleted and the admin has to clean them up. Before my posts, the only activity was boring sales/promotions from the high echelon because nobody had the balls to write anything else. Yammer could be a very creative outlet for employees that don't get to make decisions in their daily duties. So I tried to shake things up a bit? So what? Nobody was using it beyond a broadcast system from the top down anyway.
ReplyDeleteOk, it depends what you have said and how 'sensitive' your management is though. I hope that we can make this work as an internal communication tool instead of emailing. I wish that my mailbox contains only what I really need to action on instead of those for info only. That would definitely save my time and of course, productivity.
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