Comments on: Don’t Hammer Yammer. Think Bigger

By: ray

ray — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:58:30 +0000

In reply to the post "Hold on there Mark, I have a great new messaging system for your employees, it’s called e-mail. I have digital messages practically coming out of my ears at this point."

You can't lurk and read all the other employees email. The power of the microblog…resistance is futile…

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Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:30:37 +0000

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Yammer adds groups | Tom Altman's Conversation — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:42:20 +0000

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By: Mark Skapinker

Mark Skapinker — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:09:48 +0000

Mark, I think you are absolutely correct when you suggest that “many people assailing Yammer haven’t used it”. In our office, we have been using our own, similar technology to internally communicate and it has been an amazing tool to keep our team in sync with open communication beyond email and instant messaging. It has led to team cohesiveness, respect for co-workers and high levels of cooperation.
Probably the same critics assailed Geni (the founders of Yammer) when it came out as “yet another genealogy product” before it changed the marketplace.
Products like Yammer may not fit old-school corporations but are great examples of Web 2.0 product that add great value!

By: Denis

Denis — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:21:16 +0000

You can just ask your employees to keep an mIRC window open if you want to talk about what kind of pizza to order.

By: JimAtJaxtr

JimAtJaxtr — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:23:28 +0000

Mark, I tend to agree with you on the business model issue. How much corporations and companies will be willing to adopt this communications tool remains to be seen. I was having a similar conversation with a co-worker, here at jaxtr. A bunch of us are playing with the tool already, but in the bigger companies (where there’s lots of money), there can be a lot of resistance to adopting something like this. Many corps don’t even allow IM. So, I agree that Yammer has staked out a smart position. Now it’ll be more interesting to see if they can sell it.

By: YahooFanBoy

YahooFanBoy — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:25:26 +0000

It is not so much Yammer per se, but the devious manipulation between Yammer’s founders, TC organizers, and the VC community. It was obvious that Yammer had a conflict of interest with all that money at TC50+2. So that coupled with a lack of innovation was the real issue.

So I feel MOST sorry for the demo pit folks. No wi-fi for the first day (this IS an Internet conference), relagated to gaming on the voting, and so many other issues. Basically the lowly demo pit folks paid for the VC’s favorites who pulled strings to get their companies on stage. After all how does TC50 suddenly add 2 more companies? Personal favors.

So congrats TC, you have officially been demolished by DEMO.

By: Eric Rice

Eric Rice — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:20:02 +0000

After getting barraged with SO MANY Twitter-apps, Yammer getting a ‘best in show’ award (which hey– not their fault), makes it look like our little web space can’t innovate worth a damn– considering all the other apps that were actually amazing.

And did no one judging even remotely consider (or ever worked in a corporate environment) how a corporation would view this? Great, there’s a business model. Go sell that to territorial dept. managers.

So, great, it’s a nice app. It has no identity, it has Twitter (you are as good as your competitors) and was given the best in show by one of the ‘leaders’ in the space that makes or breaks startups.

That should depress all of us. Greatly.

By: dax

dax — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:39:59 +0000

Search is constantly evolving why can’t a service such as twitter? Yes twitter was near first to market but that certainly doesn’t entitle them to be the last in market too. There are an incredible amount of micro blogging business applications, Yammer is just one of the first companies to build out an actual business plan. Three cheers. More twitter bolt on’s in three two one…

By: Yammer: Yet Another Messaging Service

Yammer: Yet Another Messaging Service — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:33:06 +0000

[...] Mark Evans cries “Don’t Hammer Yammer!” and goes on to explain that “it’s easy to use and could be an effective communications tool if employees need and want a Twitter-like instant messaging tool.” Hold on there Mark, I have a great new messaging system for your employees, it’s called e-mail. I have digital messages practically coming out of my ears at this point. [...]