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- [Instructor] Most organizations that use Yammer,

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allow employees to create new communities.

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And with this great freedom comes great responsibility.

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Because there's an interest in having communities

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that are vital. What does this mean?

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Well, first it means I shouldn't create a community

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that already exists.

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I shouldn't create a community

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that's even close to a community that already exists.

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So I need to do a little research first.

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Next, I shouldn't create a community

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unless I think there'll be some interest in the community.

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And not just because I'm interested,

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but because there are other passionate people

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who would care to join the community.

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And finally, if I don't have time to administer a community,

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I probably shouldn't create one.

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But with those caveats in place,

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let's walk through the process of creating a new community.

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I want to create a community for people

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who would like to walk during lunch.

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So first I'm going to click on discover communities

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here in Yammer and see if that type

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of a community already exists.

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Because if it does, I should join it, not create a new one.

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Discover communities opens and it has two tabs

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and a search box.

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The first tab is some communities

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that are being recommended to me.

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There are a lot of kind of cool communities here.

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There's a KinetEco Water Cooler, Operations,

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Friday info gathering.

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This is not the list of all communities though.

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If I wanted to click all communities,

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I could scroll down and see if I see a community

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that has walking in it, or I could search.

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I could search for walk. Nothing.

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I could search for lunch.

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(keyboard clacking)

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Nothing. I could search for fit.

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Checked everywhere, there aren't any groups quite like

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the one you're looking for.

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So now I could click create a group,

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same button here, create a new community.

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It's the same thing.

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Now, before I would create a new community,

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I would actually talk to a few people

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who are out walking during lunch and say,

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hey, how about if we create a community in Yammer?

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And if they say, no, I'm not really interested,

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then I probably should find somebody else who's interested

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before I would come in here

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and create a new community or group.

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Note that I can create an internal

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or an external group.

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Your organization may not allow external communities,

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and this is going to be

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(keyboard clacking)

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Lunchtime Walkers.

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(keyboard clacking)

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And I'm actually going to add a couple of people

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because Jodean has told me that she is interested

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in joining this group.

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And Charles has told me he has some interests.

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And this is going to be publicly accessible,

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anybody can join this new community.

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And so now I click create

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and I'm taken to my new community, Lunchtime Walkers,

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listed under my communities.

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I can favorite this if I wish,

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then we'll add it to my list of favorites.

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We can see it has three members.

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I can edit the info in the section

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and provide some information about this particular group.

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Where will that information show up?

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It will show up when anybody is discovering communities.

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So I do want to take the time to do this.

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Click the edit button.

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You have access to some rich text editing tools.

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(keyboard clacking)

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If you're interested in walking

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(keyboard clacking)

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for fitness or simply some fresh air

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(keyboard clacking)

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during lunchtime,

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(keyboard clacking)

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this is your community.

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If we wished we could add links here,

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but this is enough for this group right now.

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Nobody's going to read an incredibly long description,

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one or two sentences, something pithy that's descriptive.

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And now I can click to go back

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and note that here on the right-hand side,

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we see the information that I've provided.

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There are some other things that I could do

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to modify this landing page for our community.

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This is customizable.

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I can modify the cover photo,

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maybe a photo of some of us out walking for example.

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I could replace LW with an icon

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or some other photo that I would upload.

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And because I've started this community,

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it's a good practice for me to do an initial post,

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which could be a question that I ask people,

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or could be a poll or simple post welcoming people

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to the new community.