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8. Year One of Yammer

JP Silva1  
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Toronto, ON, Canada
 
Yammer (www.yammer.com) is an online enterprise social networking service used for private communication within organizations (Figure 8-1). It was founded by David Sacks and Adam Pisoni. In June 2012, when it was sold to Microsoft for $1.2 billion, it had close to 8 million end-users.

A screenshot of the yammer home page with the highlighted text work smarter, work together and sign in details, as well as the corresponding information about yammer.

Figure 8-1

Screenshot of the landing page of yammer.com as of February ...

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