Don’t miss it!

It’s great to have reached this milestone and be able to now publically discuss what has kept us busy for a while, a lot more to come, stay tune!

Work Like A Network!

• How Red Robin Transformed Its Business With Yammer, Giving a voice to entry-level employees is a powerful new way to improve your business. Here is how one company is doing it. Fast Company, February 2014
• How Teach for America gets the most out of Yammer on a shoestring budget, Cite World, February 2014
• Celine Schillinger on Enterprise 2.0: “my transformative journey towards leading change”, The Mashazine, February 2014
• HK firm creates idea melting pot for 4,000 employees, IDG January 2014
• LexisNexis found that employees who use Yammer are way happier, Cite World, December 2013
• Switching to Yammer let this company slash helpdesk calls and save $1.5 million a year, Cite World, October 2013

See you next month at SharePoint Conference 2014!

The new version is now 1.0.0.5, additional information can be found here Yammer App for SharePoint: Add a Yammer feed to a SharePoint page & see you at SharePoint Conference 2014 next month for a historical conference!

Yes more are in the pipeline, in the meantime REGISTER and see you soon!

Product

• SPC246   Knowledge Management with SharePoint and Yammer - Jan Skjoy
• SPC248   Yammer External Networks: Engaging Customers and Partners - Rich Wood   
• SPC282   Microsoft's roadmap for Enterprise Social  - Christophe Fiessinger, Juliet Wei
• SPC392   Measuring Business Value and taking action with Yammer  - Chris Gideon
• SPC284   Harnessing social technologies with Microsoft Dynamics CRM  - Girish Raja
• SPC368   Overview of configuring Yammer SSO & Directory Sync  - Brian Lyttle
• SPC3991 Yammer mining - dig in and "listen" to what your big *social* data is saying  - Richard diZerega

Journey/Adoption

• SPC239  Real-world, best practices for making enterprise social successful Steve Nguyen
• SPC247   Successful team collaboration with Yammer & SharePoint  - Steve Hopkins , Angus Florance
• SPC263   Engaging with Front Line Workers  - Angus Florance
• SPC264   Best practices for breaking down organizational barriers using Yammer - Allison Michels, Steve Nguyen
• SPC266   Driving enterprise social from the bottom up  - Virpi Oinonen  
• SPC275   How to become a Yammer Power User in 75 minutes  - Allison Michels
• SPC280   Microsoft: Our Enterprise Social Journey  - Chris Slemp, Ethan Gu-resh

Developer

• SPC332   Overview of Yammer app development - Brian Lyttle
• SPC371   Building RESTful Yammer Apps in SharePoint using Open Grap - Chris Johnson
• SPC378   Integrating SharePoint Portals with Yammer and Search  - Runar Olsen, Thomas Molbach
• SPC380   Integrating Yammer and SharePoint using .NET - Steve Peschka, Cameron Askew
• SPC405   Futuristic Search applications using Kinect and Yammer! - Chris Givens

• SPC104   A responsive organization stays ahead of the competition - Adam Pisoni
• SPC112   Work like a network: The power of Enterprise Social  - Jared Spataro
• SPC2017 The Shift From Simple Sharing To Purposeful Collaboration – Alan Lepofsky

Customers

• SPC311  Nationwide: Building a World-Renowned Intranet with SharePoint 2013 and Yammer – Jeff Schuman
• SPC386  Trek Bikes: pedaling past complex collaboration problems in the enterprise - Steve Novoselac
• SPC295  Cargill: Real-world challenges and value in introducing enterprise social - Melanie Hohertz
• SPC221  Amdocs: using SharePoint and Yammer as emergency response tools – Tomer Simon

I’m really looking forward to co-deliver the following session at Project Conference 2014 next February with Andrew Lavinsky: Enhance Value Through Socializing Your PMO: Yammer for Project Management 

Focusing on project delivery is necessary, but not sufficient. The project manager must actively engage all stakeholders throughout the project to be agile and to innovate. To truly unleash the potential of your project team or organization, you need to develop a shared sense of values and purpose. You need to better enable communication. It's through communication that you demonstrate value and respond to risk.

In this session you will learn how Microsoft’s Enterprise Social Networking solution (Office 365 & Yammer) improves project collaboration by capturing knowledge and building ambient awareness of project activities from inception through delivery.

There are many reasons why I’m passionate about this topic and looking forward to an awesome duet with Andrew, but in summary when I see the transformation and value Enterprise Social Networking can deliver to customers there are great opportunities to take your PMO to the next level!

In addition to tons of valuable content around Project Portfolio Management delivered by industry experts, I was want to call out this other Enterprise Social related session from Dux Raymond Sy Lead The Enterprise Social Revolution: How to Drive Sustainable Adoption.

For a list of sessions go here to the conference site, and in the meantime don’t wait any longer and REGISTER!

See you soon in Anaheim!

• Upgrade your network to Yammer Enterprise
• Yammer activation guide
• Information on Yammer
• Synchronize and authenticate users from your on-premises Active Directory to Yammer and Office 365
• Yammer Customer Engagement Partner Program
• Yammer renewals FAQ
• Yammer Support

Happy Yammer Enterprise activation and usage, as a reminder we will have tons of exciting Enterprise Social sessions at SharePoint Conference 2014 next March in Las Vegas with a full “Social” track so register today!

See you in New York next week for the Working Social Tour.

Transform Your Workplace, Enable Innovation - November 7 – 8am & 6pm PST

• Join us for a live session with industry thought leaders and special guests to hear firsthand how Microsoft Office 365 has helped companies harness employee ideas, embrace new workplace cultures and technologies, and spark innovation and spontaneous collaboration in the workplace to accelerate business: getting it done, anywhere
• Luke Williams: Professor of Innovation at NYU Stern School of Business, Executive Director, Berkley Entrepreneurship Center at NYU; Fellow, Global Innovation at Frog Design; and International Bestselling Author, Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business, talks about how disruption in the workplace can lead to innovation.
• Adam Pisoni: Cofounder and CTO of Yammer and Microsoft GM of Engineering, talks about what makes a responsive organization.
• John Case: Microsoft CVP, Office, wraps up with a summary of how big ideas combined with technology like Microsoft Office 365 can help transform your workplace and enable innovation.
• Register

Yammer: How to Spark Engagement - November 7, 2013 - 9am PST/5pm UTC

• How to identify and remove potential barriers for engagement
• Specific and easy tricks to increase participation and engagement on your Yammer network
• Learn how other customers have successfully sparked engagement on their networks
• Register

Executives Engagement: Can leaders really be social and transparent? - November 14, 2013 - 10:30am PST/6:30pm UTC

• Hear from two of our customers as they share stories on what has and hasn't worked, and how their executives have engaged on Yammer
• The YES (Yammer Education Services) Team will provide insight from working with executive teams across all industries
• Discover best practices around getting your own executives engaged on Yammer
• Register

Responsive Organization with Adam Pisoni & Mike Grafham - November 19, 2013 - 9am PST/5pm UTC

• Why organizations are realizing they have to rethink how they work and communicate to stay competitive, becoming more responsive to this changed environment and their customers.
• How innovative companies are able to rethink their understanding of the workplace and capitalize on this open
• How to encourage employees to think beyond their job descriptions, and empower these individuals to respond creatively and collaboratively to non-routine work.
• How your company can maintain a competitive edge in this new era of business.
• Register

Additional good reads:

• Switching to Yammer let this company slash helpdesk calls and save $1.5 million a year
• British Airways,  Global Airline Uses Enterprise Social and Online Communication Tools to Improve Service