Posts Tagged ‘Yammer’

Yammer adds groups

Yammer t-shirt and more...

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I posted about a week or so ago at how I really thing a tool like Yammeris a good replacement for email.  And no Yammer has added groups.  These can be private or public groups – but allows people to further whittle down the amount of people who recieve a message.

This is really good – now people can “opt-in” to certain relms of communication.  It allows some channels to form, yet not boxing people in like email tends to do.  Yammer is reall getting some attention – I really like it.

A couple more Yammer feature request:

  1. Direct Messages – I think Yammer may be holding off here.  I think DM would be good, but only as my personal mission of replacing email.  I can see why they might not have it on their radar.
  2. Multiple Domain Aggregation – woah, I didn’t know what else to call it.  But we have 3 companies within our parent company.  Some people don’t have the same domain/email address.  I’d like to be able to combine more than one “company” or “email domain” into one account.  This way – we could all colab together.
  3. Attachments – this is a BIG request…we can still use links in the mean time – but it would be cool to allow companies to setup a file server which could be registered with Yammer to post to.  This way the Yammer doesn’t have to worry about storage and security of the files and the company feels comfortable the Yammer  doesn’t have have confidential documents on Yammer’s servers.
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WordPress as…whatever you want!

One man band

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I’ve been tracking BuddyPress for a couple of months now – I came across a post on Mashable today that was called “The 7 Weirdest and Wackiest Uses for WordPress“.  I really liked a few of them and a couple were just…wierd.

I’m not saying WordPress is a one-man-band, but it certainly seems to be shaping up to be more than JUST a blog tool.

I have already spoke about BuddyPress, the social plugins for WordPress.  But they mentioned an email newsletter plugin.  That looks cool – the biggest issue for that is a corporate policy at my employer regarding the use of a single system they have.  The big “feature” with WordPress seems to be the idea that you setup a category “newsletter – then things can be sent automatically…very cool.

Funny – they have one as the wordplace chat room – by using a theme called Prologue…I just had a discussion the other day with my co-worker why Yammer is silly and Twitter is a better option.  After review – Yammer is OK…I just have issue with them winning the TechCrunch prize by slightly modifiying a current companies plan.

My big plus for using WordPress as a platform – it just cuts down the clutter of applications, if it can truly handle the job.

So take a peek at the others and let me know if there are any Mashable missed.

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