Comments on: Huggers yammers http://commonplatform.co.uk/index.php/2008/10/15/huggers-yammers/ Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:32:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Steve Bowbrick http://commonplatform.co.uk/index.php/2008/10/15/huggers-yammers/comment-page-1/#comment-94 Steve Bowbrick Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:16:30 +0000 http://commonplatform.co.uk/?p=71#comment-94 I notice that the BBC's Head of Information Security and at least one of her Information Security Managers are now on Yammer. Could this be a prelude to shutting it down? I notice that the BBC’s Head of Information Security and at least one of her Information Security Managers are now on Yammer. Could this be a prelude to shutting it down?

]]> By: Roo Reynolds http://commonplatform.co.uk/index.php/2008/10/15/huggers-yammers/comment-page-1/#comment-84 Roo Reynolds Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:59:07 +0000 http://commonplatform.co.uk/?p=71#comment-84 I've been following (and joining in) the BBC experiment with Yammer, but I'm not convinced by it. For truly sensitive things we'd need something that doesn't run on third-party server. On the other hand, there are things we can talk about on an external server, so shouldn't we be doing that properly in the open (e.g. on Twitter, or similar)? For those sorts of discussions, we'd obviously get more ideas, opinions and responses by having the discussions in public than we do in a semi-private space like Yammer. Is there really a middle-ground which is addressed by Yammer? So far, I don't think so. I’ve been following (and joining in) the BBC experiment with Yammer, but I’m not convinced by it.

For truly sensitive things we’d need something that doesn’t run on third-party server.

On the other hand, there are things we can talk about on an external server, so shouldn’t we be doing that properly in the open (e.g. on Twitter, or similar)? For those sorts of discussions, we’d obviously get more ideas, opinions and responses by having the discussions in public than we do in a semi-private space like Yammer.

Is there really a middle-ground which is addressed by Yammer? So far, I don’t think so.

]]> By: Alex Murray http://commonplatform.co.uk/index.php/2008/10/15/huggers-yammers/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Alex Murray Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:48:01 +0000 http://commonplatform.co.uk/?p=71#comment-59 The problem with all that is that the first contact that almost everyone had with Erik's message was an email with a broken link in. Which they probably deleted once they'd clicked and got nothing. How many clicked out before they got 7 minutes into that piece of video? The cold truth is that for those few who've picked up things like yammer because it's in their role to do so, the vast majority of people who are affected by the issues raised remain totally indifferent to these sort of tools because they already spend the majority of the day in meetings discussing them. The problem with all that is that the first contact that almost everyone had with Erik’s message was an email with a broken link in. Which they probably deleted once they’d clicked and got nothing. How many clicked out before they got 7 minutes into that piece of video? The cold truth is that for those few who’ve picked up things like yammer because it’s in their role to do so, the vast majority of people who are affected by the issues raised remain totally indifferent to these sort of tools because they already spend the majority of the day in meetings discussing them.

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