Yammer

Avantages

I use Yammer to link to fellow employees of Transcribeme. So far, Yammer has been extremely easy to navigate and I have not seen any glitches during my two years working with it. Yammer uses columns to organize your different feeds which helps with clarity. In a quick sweep of my feed, I can see the app directory, any new activity in all my groups, suggested managment or key team members to follow on Yammer, etc. It allows me to get live updates fast and easy so that I always know what is happening with the company I freelance transcribe for.

I like that Yammer allows each company to tailor it's virtual work atmosphere to it's own needs. When I became a freelance transcriptionist, I was really worried about the isolation that comes with the online work. Yammer, though, seems to have completely changed that for me and the rest of the Transcribeme team, I think. Easy information share and very socially oriented, Yammer is a great app for the work-at-home crowd.

Inconvénients

All the positives said, I think Yammer could work on it's design. Maybe it needs some modern touches and perhaps more social features. An amazing app that brings work-at-home people together could always do with more social features ie. a live-chat feature, customizable themes, more inviting interface because it's really important to catch the attention of freelancers so that they are more apt to frequent the site.

Avantages

Yammer is like a social media tool for workers in my company to interact with each other. We tried it out in 2016 and we never looked back. Company update can be sent to all members just like using an email, while documents, images and videos can be shared within it. It is cheap, sign up is free and have good customer support. You can easily join a group or create a group depending on what you want.
Yammer helped me find information and get help by reading articles that were written by experts on difficult jobs within the organization. I only have to search for it.
Yammer made me more productive with timely useful conversations and interaction from my colleague across the company best hands. I could also easily see what is happening within the organization at all times because of the synchronized updates. I can use yammer even when am out of the office because of their Android app.
Additionally, Yammer works very well with office 365 which is not a surprise since it is built by Microsoft.

Inconvénients

Yammer is too strict on 3rd party adverts within their platform.
It is not widely popular and people just tend to disregard it.
The learning curve for yammer use to be very low but recent additions and innovations somehow made it a bit steep for newbies.
yammer work more like a social media platform rather a corporate tool with the many innovations been added to it
The interface is too rigid for my liking. (personal dislike but my colleagues absolutely loved it)

Avantages

Its effectiveness as a platform of collaboration for companies is its greatest benefit, from my experience as a continuous user I can take advantage to improve communication in the dedication of teamwork and bi-directional communication, I really like the structure and mechanism of its interface since it works with very simple methods similar to a traditional social network which favors its usability in the corporate area, undoubtedly being able to conduct surveys and talk in groups is a way to improve the exchange of information in the company.

Inconvénients

It presents some functional limitations to make more dynamic the user experience in the area of ​​looking for information quickly and generate an interjection to send it to another colleague, or to follow specific groups or relevant information so it is difficult to filter only the information of interest to share it quickly.

Avantages

Its integration in the organization seems perfect to me, it uses social network methods that have allowed me to adapt very quickly to its functioning and available communication resources, its most important factor is its ability to establish connections between the work teams for the fluid exchange of information. information and documents without any interruption, its free and direct functioning seems to me great since it allows to connect with work colleagues quickly and send the necessary information to correct works and improve decision making.

Inconvénients

It lacks tools for editing and personalization of its interface to make the user create a dynamic board with its social network under a much more dynamic method that allows it to have organized according to their interests the structure of the corporate social network, they could improve security controls to strengthen trust.

Avantages

My organization has been using this product for a few years now. It's a great communication tool for the company as a whole and within each department. As part of the Learning & Development department, we use Yammer to communicate training results and also send out quizzes to each department to test their knowledge.

The tool is really easy to use, it reminds me a lot of Facebook in that it has a feed that you can scroll through daily to get updates.

You can also create different pages and make them public or private depending on your need, which I find really useful. My team has created their own page and made it private. We use it to recognize people within the department on achievements, our manager sends out monthly stats and we also use it communicate information to each other.

I really like the GIF feature, it definitely brings the humor to some situations!

Inconvénients

It is sometimes hard to keep up with everything going on, especially if you are a member of many groups/pages. And if you put your notifications on so you get an email every time something is posted, it can be overwhelming at times.