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Yammer About?
by Stacey Iwinski
Stacey Iwinski has been a part of Rockwell Automation's Legal Department for four years. She supports three in-house attorneys in the practice areas of intellectual property and employment law. Stacey holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and a Certificate in Paralegal Studies. She can be reached at saiwinski@ra.rockwell.com.
What's All the
There is no doubt that technology has fundamentally changed the way we communicate. Many of us can think of at least one friend that might just "spontaneously combust" if he/she could not update Facebook or Twitter every hour. Social media sites invite users to express their "individual selves," but what about a forum where users can express their "work selves"? This is exactly what YammerTM
provides. Where
Twitter asks, "What are you doing?," Yammer asks, "What are you working on?" Introduced at the 2008 TechCrunch50
Conference, the initial purpose of Yammer was to allow co-workers to share project updates. Based on information on the Yammer website, it is now used by more than
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