Both pinning and closing conversations are only available to admins within the communities of which they are an admin. Conversations, comments, and replies can be reported by all users once the setting has been turned on by the network admin. For more information about how to enable conversation reporting, see Report a Yammer conversation overview.
Another common inquiry is “What is pinned post in Yammer?”.
Community admins can pin any type of post in their Yammer community. While this feature launched a few months ago, now Yammer will automatically collapse pinned posts after a user has seen the message. This can help with “pinned post” fatigue if they are a frequent visitor but keeps essential information easily accessible.
What are pinning posts and conversations?
A: Pinning posts and conversations are tools for community admins to shape the conversations in the communities they manage. It gives admins a way to bring focus to a key discussion, question or poll etc. Pinning conversations should be used to drive short-term focus to a conversation (recommended two to three days max).
What is a yammer conversation?
This article describes the Yammer Conversations and Yammer Highlights web parts that can be used to enhance collaboration on your modern, share Point in Microsoft 365 page. The Yammer Conversations web part has the latest new Yammer experiences including the ability to start a conversation with any type of post (Questions, Polls, Praise) and mark best answers directly from Share, and point.
When a conversation is featured: It gets a special visual treatment to call attention to the conversation. It shows at the top of Home feeds for all users until they view it. For users who may come to Yammer less frequently, it’s also included in the weekly digest email if a user hasn’t already seen it.
What does yammer do?
Yammer is an enterprise social collaboration tool – essentially like Facebook for businesses – that provides a portal where all employees can connect, message and work together.
The future of Yammer looks good as lots of organizations are using Yammer and Microsoft also planning to evolve Yammer to power social connection and engagement across the Office 365 suite. Yammer acting as a great platform for organization-wide employee engagement and communications for Microsoft 365 customers.
Another frequent query is “When did Yammer become a company?”.
It was hugely successful, and was later expanded to become both its own product and company that was launched in September of 2008. Yammer quickly caught the eyes of many eager buyers before it was ultimately acquired by Microsoft in 2012.
Microsoft Yammer Use Yammer Use Yammer Pin, close, and report conversations in Yammer Pin, close, and report conversations in Yammer More Less Note: This topic applies to new Yammer. Networks using new Yammer have access to new capabilities: pinning conversations, closing conversations, and reporting conversations.
How do I interact with people in my Yammer network?
Creating a poll, praising a coworker, making an announcement, or asking a question are all great ways for you to interact with people in your Yammer network. Create a poll Use polls to create a quick survey and get answers fast.
A frequent inquiry we ran across in our research was “How do I @mention someone on Yammer?”.
The best answer is select Reply to add your insights or to ask a question. @mention other people who can contribute to the conversation or would find it helpful. If you’re an active user on Yammer, you’ll receive the @mention as a message in your Yammer inbox.
This of course begs the inquiry “How do I use questions and answers in Yammer?”
Use questions and answers in Yammer to capture and disseminate knowledge in Yammer communities. You can post questions in a Yammer community, and the question poster or any community admin can mark the best answer to a question. The best answer shows up right under the question, making it easy to get right to the information people need.