Microsoft Yammer is coming this month (February)

Yammer, a Microsoft 365 communications tool, is being launched to all staff this month.

About Yammer

Yammer is a workplace based social network, similar to Facebook, where friends are colleagues. You’ll see workplace reminders instead of advertisements, and updates are linked to University news, events, and questions or thoughts shared by colleagues.

It will offer us an informal open staff communications channel, where you’ll be able to:

• Interact with University news by liking and commenting on posts
• Follow other members of staff
• Create or join community groups: these can anything from sports and leisure interest groups such as ‘walking group’ or ‘book-club community’, to groups based on work-related topics and themes. Groups can be open for anyone to join, or private, where requests to join need to be approved

Yammer is part of Microsoft 365. Where Microsoft Teams lets us set up formal collaborative online workspaces with access restricted to members only, Yammer will be open to everyone, and is envisaged to be a more informal communications tool.

What’s next

When we release Yammer, you will be able to access it via office.com or the Yammer mobile app, and we will be releasing further tips for using Yammer in the summer. Yammer is an optional, open, communications tool, and not something that you will need to check on a regular basis, unless you want to!

When you access Yammer, you can search for communities that interest you, and if one doesn’t exist, create one and start having conversations with like-minded colleagues across the University. If you want to find out more about Yammer please take a look at Microsoft Yammer for staff.

Yammer will email you with the latest updates from communities you follow, but you can unsubscribe from these emails if you wish.

If you have any questions, please get in touch.

Best wishes, 

Information Services 
University of Kent 
helpdesk@kent.ac.uk
01227 82 4888