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Mention a person in a post

Mention a person in a post

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Mention a person in a post

- [Narrator] If I would like to loop someone into a conversation, the easiest way I can do that in Yammer is simply to mention them. For example, in the Engineering and Manufacturing Group, Charles has posted some information. Now this group has five members, and it does not include Robert Molina, who I believe would love to know something about this particular conversation that we're having. The research paper is only part of it. So, I'm going to right here post to Rob, and I can use the @ sign first and search for results and start typing Robert Molina, but if I simply start with typing the name, Yammer is looking for everybody who's in our active directory, so I can say Robert Molina, I think you could add a lot to the current conversation in the Engineering and Manufacturing Group, which is actually called the E&M Group. This is going to be posted in this group, but notice that Robert will also be notified. That's the point of my mentioning or calling him out. Click Post. There it…

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