- [Instructor] Most organizations that use Yammer,
allow employees to create new communities.
And with this great freedom comes great responsibility.
Because there's an interest in having communities
that are vital. What does this mean?
Well, first it means I shouldn't create a community
that already exists.
I shouldn't create a community
that's even close to a community that already exists.
So I need to do a little research first.
Next, I shouldn't create a community
unless I think there'll be some interest in the community.
And not just because I'm interested,
but because there are other passionate people
who would care to join the community.
And finally, if I don't have time to administer a community,
I probably shouldn't create one.
But with those caveats in place,
let's walk through the process of creating a new community.
I want to create a community for people
who would like to walk during lunch.
So first I'm going to click on discover communities
here in Yammer and see if that type
of a community already exists.
Because if it does, I should join it, not create a new one.
Discover communities opens and it has two tabs
and a search box.
The first tab is some communities
that are being recommended to me.
There are a lot of kind of cool communities here.
There's a KinetEco Water Cooler, Operations,
Friday info gathering.
This is not the list of all communities though.
If I wanted to click all communities,
I could scroll down and see if I see a community
that has walking in it, or I could search.
I could search for walk. Nothing.
I could search for lunch.
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Nothing. I could search for fit.
Checked everywhere, there aren't any groups quite like
the one you're looking for.
So now I could click create a group,
same button here, create a new community.
It's the same thing.
Now, before I would create a new community,
I would actually talk to a few people
who are out walking during lunch and say,
hey, how about if we create a community in Yammer?
And if they say, no, I'm not really interested,
then I probably should find somebody else who's interested
before I would come in here
and create a new community or group.
Note that I can create an internal
or an external group.
Your organization may not allow external communities,
and this is going to be
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Lunchtime Walkers.
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And I'm actually going to add a couple of people
because Jodean has told me that she is interested
in joining this group.
And Charles has told me he has some interests.
And this is going to be publicly accessible,
anybody can join this new community.
And so now I click create
and I'm taken to my new community, Lunchtime Walkers,
listed under my communities.
I can favorite this if I wish,
then we'll add it to my list of favorites.
We can see it has three members.
I can edit the info in the section
and provide some information about this particular group.
Where will that information show up?
It will show up when anybody is discovering communities.
So I do want to take the time to do this.
Click the edit button.
You have access to some rich text editing tools.
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If you're interested in walking
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for fitness or simply some fresh air
(keyboard clacking)
during lunchtime,
(keyboard clacking)
this is your community.
If we wished we could add links here,
but this is enough for this group right now.
Nobody's going to read an incredibly long description,
one or two sentences, something pithy that's descriptive.
And now I can click to go back
and note that here on the right-hand side,
we see the information that I've provided.
There are some other things that I could do
to modify this landing page for our community.
This is customizable.
I can modify the cover photo,
maybe a photo of some of us out walking for example.
I could replace LW with an icon
or some other photo that I would upload.
And because I've started this community,
it's a good practice for me to do an initial post,
which could be a question that I ask people,
or could be a poll or simple post welcoming people
to the new community.