100 ways to use Yammer

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Because it’s the 100th blog post for Yammer we decided to crowdsource this blog post with our guest bloggers via Yammer to come up with 100 ways to use Yammer. Check it out!

Or read our list below!

1. Ask a question about the vacation policy
2. Post a link to an event that you attended and feedback if you want to go to that event again next year
3. Share a blog post that one of our customers wrote
4. Post a photo from the leadership summit and key takeaways
5. Ask the status of a feature request to the product team
6. Follow up with a request about shipping materials for an upcoming conference
7. Read a post from a recent debate about something shared at a leadership Q&A
8. Announce the updated resources, guides for sales teams to use with potential customers
9. Share the progress on the presentation and agenda for a customer meeting
10. Reply to a conversation with opinions and past experiences
11. Use it with your department to have conversations
12. Create team meeting agenda's and share useful info related to upcoming events, meetings
13. Use hashtags on conversations, easier to find them later
14. Have executives give regular and specific updates
15. Shout outs to employees that go above and beyond
16. Inspirational quote/photo of the day
17. Reviews Yammer feeds for potential intranet stories
18. Create a Yammer group for “how do I” questions
19. Help on an error message from your expense systems
20. Yammer is helping to connect the different apps in Microsoft 365 - Stream, Teams and others
21. Share Stream videos to Yammer
22. Use Flow to highlight Yammer group conversations to certain Teams
23. Connect with teams before or after the visit to their office
24. Let the organization know about new and interesting Yammer and M365 features
25. Create a poll for what to on what to have for lunch during a conference
26. Vote on the next book to read for book club
27. Ask a question to spark discussion
28. Share links to interesting news articles
29. Let people know about birthdays, weddings, babies and pets
30. Share photos from team and corporate events
31. Post quick videos about important or interesting updates
32. Idea generation and brainstorming
33. Praise people when they get new deals or hit sales targets
34. Orient new employees with a new to <Company Name > group
35. Announce org changes
36. Connect with people across the organization with a similar area of discipline and form a community of practice
37. Build support to rally behind an idea and further develop it
38. Create a poll to keep a pulse on the organization thoughts around specific initiatives
39. Host a Yamjam to enable employees to connect with leaders
40. Post pictures from different teams and areas of your company
41. View content in other public groups to see what other parts of the organization are working on
42. Hold a contest or competition to show what teams have done to improve the customer experience, reduce costs or increase sales
43. Post a potentially brilliant idea you have no idea how to progress forward
44. Crowdsource tech support
45. Give a voice to the traditionally voiceless
46. Have ‘water cooler’ conversations with people in different locations
47. Respond to the CEO
48. Run AMA sessions about a specific topic and include subject matter experts
49. Post charity fundraising activities, helps raise awareness of disabilities, illnesses, good causes etc
50. Make communities more visible, such as LGBT workers
51. Plan an offsite event
52. Share examples of a winning in-store promotion
53. Talk about your dogs
54. Find an expert in a niche subject, like a Russian-speaking seismologist
55. Get a sense-check when you're not 100% confident, bounce ideas off of others
56. Coordinate your meeting with a diverse global customer
57. Give introverts a voice if they prefer not to speak out in all-hands meetings
58. Replace phone calls for people who aren't' comfortable speaking in a second language with employees using Yammer in their native tongue and others using the translate feature
59. Embed Yammer in SharePoint to have conversations about reference materials
60. Run a ‘live preview’ of an interesting job sharing live updates and live Q&A during a ride-along night shift at one of the field operations
61. Check-in channel for smaller teams or orgs: I.e. where you’re working from that day or that you arrived safely at a destination
62. Photography group - either holiday snaps or the view from your location that day
63. Share learning and materials from a course
64. Create a Yammer champions hub
65. Share screenshots for troubleshooting (e.g. anyone seen this XYZ warning message before?)
66. Share an updated quick start guide to the field sales team during a product launch
67. Post a link to a tweet that needs some follow up
68. Plan a t-shirt design contest for an upcoming event
69. Confirm about brand guidelines for a specific post for social media
70. Call for content for your organization’s blog
71. Plan customer meet ups
72. Share product updates, releases, announcements with customers
73. Ask for feedback about a specific process or program
74. Post how to tips using animated GIFs to show members who how to complete a task
75. Use Live Events to broadcast a company meeting
76. Ask a question during a live event or townhall
77. Vote on a t-shirt design for the upcoming event/conference/team building
78. Share a recipe that was amazing in the Foodies and Cooks group
79. Ask clarification questions for a new program releases or how it will work with the current program in place
80. Announce planned outages, upgrades and new releases that will impact end users
81.  Share what your competition is doing and how the organization is combating it.
82. Welcome and introduce the interns
83. Share the first draft of blog post and ask for feedback and additional stories to add
84. Share last words before leaving to go to another position or organization
85. Share what’s on our roadmap for upcoming product releases
86. Discuss what the policy and opportunity for recycling and renewable energies
87. Ask questions about rewards and recognition and seek opportunities for improvement on the current process
88. Post a message to see if ergonomic equipment is available for your desk or workspace
89. Discuss the upcoming move to the new office building and location
90. Share the problems with the current parking / traffic situation that surrounds the office
91. Discuss about a work-from-home policy and what that might entail for the organization
92. Brainstorm ways to improve on the recruiting and hiring process
93. Find and showcase new success stories of customers using the products
94. Brainstorm ways to off-board employees when they are moving on to their next role, position, company
95. Share a picture if something is above expectations or share if it is not up to standards to get fixed via a facilities request form
96. Mark best answer when the subject matter expert clarifies a question
97. Post about an upcoming training opportunities for new managers
98. Share the lessons you learned from the last product release and what you would differently next time around
99. Ask leaders how they go to their current role and what their big goals and objectives are for the next quarter
100. Celebrate a huge milestone or accomplishment

Try a few of these with your Yammer network or share the ones we've missed below! 

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