What is Yammer

Yammer is a private social network that allows you to get connected to the fellow  fellow educators and students, share information across teams and organize around projects so you can go further – faster.

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• Discovering people across the organization who are working on the same content as you are.
• Create stimulating discussions or thought explorations within a group of people.
• Discussing and refining projects, initiatives, and plans.
• Share documents with one another.