{"id":71,"date":"2008-10-15T13:03:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T12:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/?p=71"},"modified":"2008-10-15T13:16:21","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T12:16:21","slug":"huggers-yammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/10\/15\/huggers-yammers\/","title":{"rendered":"Huggers yammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yammer.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73\" title=\"Yammer update page\" src=\"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/yammer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/yammer.jpg 406w, https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/yammer-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re trying out <a href=\"http:\/\/yammer.com\">Yammer<\/a> at the BBC. Yammer&#8217;s a kind of Twitter-clone for use within organisations. It runs secure (SSL) and provides a simple email-based authentication scheme to keep the outsiders out (if you can&#8217;t receive an email to your BBC address you can&#8217;t join). It&#8217;s growing like topsy here, not least because the Corporation&#8217;s new technology boss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/bbcinternet\/erik_huggers\/\">Erik Huggers<\/a> is using it. He prompted a flood of new registrations on Monday when he posted a link in a video contribution to the BBC&#8217;s intranet.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s interesting is how he&#8217;s using it: his two posts so far have been simple questions about big, strategically important technology issues\u2014he&#8217;s got plenty of replies and they&#8217;re all visible to other Yammer users. This strikes me as a very powerful application of Twitter-style group interaction: the network is closed enough to permit the discussion of &#8216;sensitive&#8217; issues while open enough to encourage contributions from all over the organisation. Neat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re trying out Yammer at the BBC. Yammer&#8217;s a kind of Twitter-clone for use within organisations. It runs secure (SSL) and provides a simple email-based authentication scheme to keep the outsiders out (if you can&#8217;t receive an email to your BBC address you can&#8217;t join). It&#8217;s growing like topsy here, not least because the Corporation&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,8,53,52,18,57,55,56,54],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bbc","tag-commonplatform","tag-erik-huggers","tag-fmt","tag-openness","tag-social-network","tag-twitter","tag-update","tag-yammer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}