How to Share an Update?

One of the first things that you might want to do in Yammer is tell people what you are working on at the moment or ask a question. To do this you will Share an Update. At the top of the Yammer.com page click on the text "What are you working on?" enter your question or information here. Now select a group of people who you wish to target this information at, for example below Sales and HR groups. There is no approval process so your post is immediately visible to other users in you Yammer network.
Similar to # tags in SharePoint, hash tags can also be created in updates to group related content so that it can be found in future using Yammer search.
Like SharePoint's @ mentions, in Yammer you can also mention colleagues. It does not, however, it does not require the @ character to prefix the colleagues name. As you start to type your colleagues name a match will be presented. To submit an update in Yammer, follow these steps:

1. From SharePoint, click on Yammer from the suite bar and enter your password if required
2. Click on the box labelled What are you working on? and enter your message
• To mention a colleague simply type their name and select the correct choice
• To create a # Tag type in a # character followed by a word
3. Click on Post when ready

For updates, the More category offers the options to Stop Following, View Conversation, Add Topics, Bookmark, Email Me and Delete your updates.

• Stop Following - Stop receiving notifications about this update
• View Conversation - View the entire conversation on a separate page
• Add Topics - Tag this update with additional topics (#Tags)
• Bookmark - Bookmarks an update which can be accessed from More on your profile page which can be unbookmarked by clicking the button again
• Email Me - Sends this update or reply to your company inbox
• Delete - If this is your update or reply you may choose to delete it