From the course: Yammer 2018 Essential Training

Explore the Yammer home page

From the course: Yammer 2018 Essential Training

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Explore the Yammer home page

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- [Instructor] When you login to Yammer you end up right here on the homepage. Let's take a quick tour because you'll see this on a regular basis. This page has three zones. On the left, we have an area that has navigation. In the center we have our activity feed, conversations. And on the right-hand side we have information that is specific to our context, but it's not posts, it's not an activity feed. The area on the left doesn't change. No matter where we go in Yammer, you will still see this bar that includes a button to get home, a button for your inbox, a button for your notifications, and a settings or gear button which gives you access to other things that you can do. This is really the bulk of our commands in Yammer. Below this we have a search box. By default it searches throughout Yammer. Below the search box we have groups. I am a member of three and only three groups. They are listed here, but there are many other groups that are available in my organization. If I wanted to see them I could Discover more groups. Some of them are recommended for me. I can go to All Groups and I can search for specific groups. I also have the ability to create a new group. Either of these plus buttons will do that. Before I would create a new group, I should discover and make sure that the group I want to create hasn't already been created by someone else. There's a lot of empty space here because that's capacity for more groups. At the bottom on the left-hand side I have private messages that I have received, and the ability to send private messages. Private messages are like direct messaging and Twitter, or chat in many other applications. They go to a specific person or people. In the center we have our activity feed, and our activity feed is information that we are providing or receiving from lots of people. By default, if I post here, I'm posting to the group All Company. That is the default group for the home page. I could choose a different group if I wished, but normally if I want to post to a specific group I would first go to that group. So I might go to Engineering and Manufacturing, and if I do that, something I post here is being shared with this group. Something that I post here by default on the homepage will go to All Company. In addition to posting an update I can take a poll, I can praise someone, I can make an announcement, and the feed below shows me either all of the information, information on people or topics I'm following. Discovery shows me new information and that's information that's coming from my entire network. Notice that it tells me this is coming from All Company for example as opposed to a specific group. If I want to know what group something's in, I look. That's from All Company, this is from the Exec Team. If I look at the right-hand pane, at the top I'll have information that's coming from Yammer, and an invitation to invite other people, a reminder to download the mobile apps and so on. Below that my organization has chosen to post a network usage policy. Below that I see recent activity, an app directory, and so on. The information in the right pane is based on a context. This is what it looks like from the homepage. If I go to a group, like the All Company group, I see information that's specific to that group. If I go to the Exec Team on the right-hand side I have a different set of choices including Office 365 Resources. If I want to leave Yammer and go elsewhere, I can simply go to the waffle and choose a different app. If I want to close Yammer I can simply close my browser, but I'll still be logged in. Because I'm using Yammer as part of Office 365, if I want to logout of Yammer, I actually need to sign out of Office.

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