1. Africa RISING yammer guide Tsehay Gashaw, East and Southern Africa Project 3 rd Review and Planning Meeting 9-12 September, 2014

2. Yammer Yammer is a microblogging service like Twitter, it allows users to post updates of their activities, follow others' updates, tag content, etc... Unlike Twitter, Yammer focuses on businesses, and only individuals with the same email domain can join a given network.

3. Why is it important? Quickly get connected and collaborate with CGIAR colleagues Cut down on email traffic Get help or find answers for some of your questions Find out about project activities and updates Share, learn and get more from yammer Key actions Join with your institution email (ex. cgiar.org, etc.) Update profile Set notifications (manage your emails!)

4. Customizing your yammer setting Key Elements FOLLOWING Select who you follow in the cgiar.org yammer Select all colleagues in a community or network Select groups to join, and follow NOTIFICATIONS Which messages to get from Yammer Frequency of messages from Yammer

5. Yammer (https://www.yammer.com/africa-rising/) Adjust setting

6. Areas to Modify 1 2 3

7. People 1 Follow colleagues in a network

8. Edit profile 2

9. Adjust notification 3

10. Select the Network to Adjust 3

11. When should I get mail 3 3.1 3.2

12. What messages do I want 3 3.2 Adjust here

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