When explaining why we use Yammer for our internal social network, especially when explaining it to non-technophiles, I emphasise that we use it for a variety of reasons and say something along the lines of "it's for things like where you can find out what you've missed if you've been out of town, if we're closing for the upcoming holiday, and to celebrate each other's successes, so be sure to post what you're working on, how we can help, and what you're celebrating so that we can celebrate along with you".
Once I started phrasing it sort of like that, the uptake for new members drastically increased. I positioned it not only such that it is where vital info and updates reside (even though we also have other ways and places to get that info, including verbal updates while we're catching up in the morning over tea), but also to encourage them to be an active participant on it in a very not scary way and prop themselves up. It worked for us. r. *____________________ rachel young *[email protected] *We're now at 2241 Dundas St W, 3rd floor* *(between Bloor and Roncesvalles)* *Toronto, ON M6R 1X6* *See details at http://bit.ly/MovingToRoncy.* *Find us online:* Website/blog <http://camaraderie.ca> and Newsletter<http://bit.ly/camaraderienewsletter> Google+ <http://bit.ly/CamaraderiePlus>, Twitter<http://twitter.com/camaraderie> , Facebook <http://bit.ly/9zv3Fx>, and LinkedIn<http://bit.ly/CamaraderieGroup> We're a proud member of CoworkingToronto <http://www.coworkingtoronto.ca/>, CoworkingOntario<http://coworkingontario.ca/> , and CoworkingCanada <http://www.coworkingcanada.ca/>! On 17 September 2013 16:22, Alex Hillman <[email protected]>wrote: > I've been a Zoho customer for their invoicing tool for a while. It's > pretty good, and well priced. Zoho's support is also generally quite good. > > The problem I see with Zoho Pulse, though, is the same issue as every > other "social" tool: it's only good if people actually use it, and for > people to use it they need to want to go there. Realtime & social tools > like Pulse, Yammer, and even chat rooms, seem to work a lot better in a > context that you can "mandate" that people use it (which is also why > they're priced the way they are). Compared to our discussion email list, > our chat room has ~20-25 active members on a given month, whereas the > discussion list has over 4x that - and that's *active* participants. Chat > room conversation is lost on most people, whereas over 80% of our community > actually reads the discussion list in some capacity. > > Most non-technophile normal people don't get excited about adding a new > app to their arsenal. So in my experience, success is a lot less about what > the app can do and more about if/how you can get people using the app. > > > > -- > > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:41 AM, Daniel Heron > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Like everyone else we are looking for a social intranet/communication >> tool for our Ranchers (coworkers) >> Wanted to know about your thoughts about zoho pulse >> http://www.zoho.com/pulse/ >> >> -- >> Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Coworking" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
