
Explore Yammer, a Microsoft 365 integrated social tool for knowledge sharing and community building. Discover public conversations, transparent work, AI-powered search, and live events across browser, mobile, Teams, and SharePoint.
Log in to Yammer with your organizational or Microsoft 365 account, then navigate the Yammer interface—home, communities, and activity—using search, settings, and dark mode.
Discover how the home feed uses artificial intelligence to surface updates from communities, people, and trends, driven by your activity and your office profile.
Learn how Yammer communities organize conversations, join or leave groups, create new communities with descriptions and members, and manage favorites, home feed, and discovery.
Learn to search for people, communities, and content in Yammer, view profiles and emails, follow people, join private communities, and navigate conversations, files, and topics.
Explore how to interact on Yammer through liking, commenting, mentioning, editing posts, and adding links, gifs, and images, then share, private message, or delete conversations.
Learn how to follow a colleague on Yammer to prioritize their posts in your home feed, view related posts, and easily unfollow when desired.
Learn to create Yammer updates by posting in a community or from the home feed, add people, mention members, and like, comment, or delete posts.
Learn to edit posts in Yammer, enter edit mode, and save changes. You can edit your own posts or comments, but not others', and delete-recreate media if editing isn’t available.
Discover how to use tags and topics in Yammer to improve searchability by adding hashtags and topics, creating new topics, and following or unfollowing for tailored feeds.
Send private messages in Yammer from your inbox to individuals or groups, forming a private conversation tracked in the private message tab, for appropriate work-related discussions.
Explore Yammer on mobile by downloading the app, logging in, and using the home feed, communities, and inbox to post, message, and create communities with images, links, and bold formatting.
Explore how working out loud drives learning in Yammer through public communities, while private and external communities manage access, visibility, and collaboration within and across organizations.
Praise a colleague in Yammer by using the praise feature in the Bio organic group, mention teammates, and optionally attach images, GIFs, or files to highlight noteworthy contributions.
Learn to create polls in Yammer by asking a question, adding options such as technology, sales, refinance, supervision, or other, and publishing for votes; edit text and attach files.
Demonstrate how to use the cushion feature to ask questions, collect answers, and designate the best answer with upvotes and badges, while filtering conversations and tracking unanswered questions.
Move a conversation from one Yammer community to another by selecting move, choosing the target community, and preserving access for participants while keeping files in the original location.
Explore the events discovery page for live events hosted on Microsoft Teams and streamed via Microsoft Stream, accessible to everyone, with join links from the event history page on Yammer.
Learn how to attach and upload a file to a Yammer post within a community, then access it in the community files section and return to the home feed.
Navigate to the files tab, upload and describe files and images, view owners and upload times, download or delete, and edit online with Word Online and co-authoring.
Assess potential members’ interest and confirm you can manage a new Yammer community. Prepare engaging content and resources, and configure internal or external and public settings to invite participation.
Promote a second administrator to ensure coverage during breaks or emergencies, then add admins from the community list or by inviting new members, and revoke admin when needed.
Learn to customize Yammer communities by uploading cover and profile photos, editing names and descriptions, choosing public or private settings, and managing details in classic and new modes.
Discover how to create announcements in Yammer as a community admin, add updates and images, and notify all members with an announcement badge.
Yammer is an enterprise social network that helps organizations connect, communicate, and collaborate across teams and locations. This course is designed to guide you step by step through using Yammer effectively within your organization. Whether you are completely new to Yammer or already have some experience, you will find clear explanations and practical examples to help you build confidence and develop your skills.
Inside this course, you will explore how Yammer fits into the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and why so many companies use it to encourage open dialogue and knowledge sharing. You will see how to create communities where employees can engage, ask questions, share ideas, and stay informed. The course explains how to navigate the interface, post messages, participate in discussions, and manage notifications to stay up to date without feeling overwhelmed.
You will also discover ways to promote collaboration, build a positive culture, and encourage participation from different teams. We cover best practices for creating posts, using announcements, and organizing content so everyone can easily find what they need. This course is suitable for professionals in any industry who want to improve internal communication and create a sense of community within their workplace.
By the end, you will feel more confident using Yammer as a central hub for connection and engagement, helping your organization benefit from better collaboration and shared knowledge. Join us to get started with Yammer and see how it can make a positive impact on your work environment.