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It’s Yammer Time!

An introduction to the RETAzens Yammer Network. It’s Yammer Time!. No… Not MC Hammer time!. Just Yammer Time. What is Yammer?. Yammer is a fun, easy, quick way to communicate with your RETA professional learning community.

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It’s Yammer Time!

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  1. An introduction to the RETAzens Yammer Network It’s Yammer Time!

  2. No… Not MC Hammer time! Just Yammer Time

  3. What is Yammer? • Yammer is a fun, easy, quick way to communicate with your RETA professional learning community. • RETA is hosting a private Yammer community only for RETAzens. If you are in a RETA related program you are a RETAzen!

  4. What is Yammer for? • Collaborating to solve problems • Discussing projects within Groups (i.e. C21CL, PVIA, & BeBOLD) • Sharing news and links • Sharing event outcomes and highlights • Connecting geographically distributed teams • Finding local subject‐matter experts • Find answers to previously asked questions • File or photo sharing • Help new employees get up‐to‐speed • Reduce email inbox overload • Much more…

  5. Resources for Yammerfrom RETA Wikis RETApedia has some of the Yammer information shared in this presentation. • http://retapedia.pbworks.com/Yammer Every RETA program’s wiki has a Yammer page. • C21CL - http://c21cl.pbworks.com/yammer • BeBOLD - http://beboldnm.pbworks.com/Yammer • PVIA -

  6. Three ways to get help • Click on ‘help’ in lower right hand corner. • Check with your RETA Instructor and fellow team members to see if they can help. • Contact your project’s Yammer admin. You can even contact us through Yammer! • C21CL & PVIA – Holly (hollyrae@nmsu.edu) • BeBOLD – Julia (juparra@nmsu.edu)

  7. How to Yam • You will be invited to join. Follow the link. • You are immediately able to Yammer, go ahead and create your first post. Step 2: Click Update Step 1: Type your post here.

  8. Update Your Profile • Click Profile in the Menu, next to Home • Click Edit Profile, fill out what you are comfortable sharing • Click Picture and consider adding a real picture or familiar avatar of yourself

  9. Join Your Group • Click Groups and click the Join button by your group • One of theseshould bestdescribe you  • PVIA • C21CL • BeBold

  10. Where do you want to post? I want this post to go to all RETA folks. Select where you want the post to appear here. • ‘My Colleagues’ goes to everyone in the RETAzens Yammer community. • Choosing your group name means the post only goes the group. I only want this post to go to my group.

  11. Use this box to viewdifferent types of Yams Each of these filters your network in a different way. For example My Feed = Updates from people and feeds you have decided to follow

  12. Choose your Settings • Click on settings to access your control panels. • Choose if and how you want get updates for features like • text (SMS) • instant messaging (IM) • email

  13. Yammer With Desktop App • Use the Desktop application to stay connected without going to website. • Click the Applications link at the bottom of Yammer, download & install.

  14. Yammer With Your Cell Phone • To use your cell phone, go to Profile> Edit Profile > SMS and follow the directions.

  15. So what should I do next? • Log in • Complete your profile • Join your group • Post a short introduction

  16. A great online community is like a dance floor. Everyone has to shake a little to make it happen. Share a little with your RETAzens today! Animated GIF from RedDragon575 http://media.photobucket.com/image/animated%20mc%20hammer%20gif/RedDragon575/MC-Hammer.gif

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