Adding Members to Groups in Yammer
www.office.com/setup Blogs: We use Yammer as a broadcasting tool, like a Twitter, but private to our company. Yammer allows you to create groups, so that you can broadcast some messages to subsets of your team. For example, at Webucator we have a Trainers group for messages that are only relevant to trainers.
In general, their help is pretty good, but the Yammer’s documentation on groups doesn’t address how to add members to a group and, oddly enough, it’s not very intuitive in the admin interface. Follow these steps to add a member:
- Click on the Groups tab.
- Click on the group name (e.g, Trainers).
- Click on the Invite Members tab.
- Add email addresses for those people you would like to invite.
- If you would prefer to just add the members, rather than invite them to join, check the Add these members without an invitation checkbox.
- Click Invite.
Easy enough, once you know how to do it. It’d be nice if they would allow you to add the member to a group through the member’s profile page, sort of like you can with the Gmail administration.
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