Welcome to the Stony Brook University Yammer Network. The goal of this network is to provide a collaborative environment to connect with people from across the University community and share meaningful information. Our Yammer network is open to all current Stony Brook faculty, staff, and students. We encourage you to use this community to help with your work, develop working relationships, connect with like-minded colleagues, and reach out for help when you need it. We ask that you remain respectful and follow some simple guidelines.

1. Accountability: Take responsibility for your postings, clearly differentiating opinions from fact. By posting content, you agree that you are solely responsible for the content you create. Neither the content you post, nor the links to other websites are screened, approved, reviewed or endorsed by Stony Brook University.

2. Accuracy and Transparency: The text and other material posted are the opinion of the specific author and are not statements of advice or information of Stony Brook University. Use your real name and a real photograph of you in your profile so it is easier to know who you are.

3. Common Courtesy: Don’t do anything that will reflect negatively on you or your colleagues.

4. Policy: By joining the Stony Brook Yammer network, you are agreeing to abide by Stony Brook policy for the acceptable use of information technology described at http://it.stonybrook.edu/policies/p109. Violation of the policy may result in suspension of network access or other information service privileges, disciplinary action, and legal proceedings.

5. Be Social: Try to engage the network in productive discourse and work to follow the Stony Brook social media guidelines at http://mobile.cc.stonybrook.edu/sb/social/guidelines/

1. Once you have joined the Stony Brook Yammer Network, reference tips in the Stony Brook Network Yammer Users Group. Join groups you’re interested in. Post messages. Interact with colleagues. Share your successes. Collaborate.

2. Start by watching the Yammer Tutorial Videos, which make it easy to understand how Yammer works.

3. When you first join, select the colleagues you want to follow. Posts from these colleagues will appear in your My Feed. To see all company posts, select Company Feed.

4. Fill out your Profile information. Complete the Expertise and Education sections and be sure to add a Profile picture!

5. Customize your email preferences in the Notifications section.

6. Before asking a question, search the Questions app and explore the Topics feed to explore existing content. This will help limit repetitive messages.

7. Browse the Group directory and join Groups that you find important. If a specific Group does not exist, start a new one and invite members of your team to contribute messages. For best results, use Groups as a replacement for mass emails and listservs.

8. Use the Yammer FAQs and How-To-Guide to help clarify common concerns.

9. Take time to explore Yammer. You will get the hang of it! If not, consider attending a DoIT Training Session.

• Yammer isn’t a record-keeping system and shouldn’t be used as such. As soon as postings on Yammer become something that needs to be formally recorded (e.g. discussion leading to a business decision), then additional records must be created and stored outside of Yammer. It is important that staff create full and accurate records which adequately document business activities, significant events, decisions and the basis for making those decisions.

• Yammer is hosted on a multi-tenanted public cloud storage facility, located in the United States. Therefore, do not use Yammer to share confidential, personal or commercial information about Stony Brook, its students, its alumni or staff.

• For more information, please contact our Yammer Community Manager, Nichole Gladky at (631) 632-9800 or doit_training@stonybrook.edu