Division of Information Technology

Complete Your Profile

Your Yammer Profile helps your co-workers learn more about you, your background and your work experience, while letting them put a face to a name.

Here’s how to set it up:

• At the top right of your screen, click on the Cog (gear)
• Select Edit Settings
  
• Fill out some information about yourself and upload a picture by clicking the Browse button in the Basics section
• Add your job title, department, location, expertise, contact information and any other details, including links to your profiles on Facebook and LinkedIn
• Click Save

Manage Your Notifications

By default, Yammer will send you a daily email activity summary. You can change this notification to weekly or never.

Here’s how to manage your email settings:

• Near the top left of your screen, click on the Cog (gear)
• Select Edit Settings
• Then click Notifications 
  
• Click the Stony Brook University network to expand it (if necessary)
• In the “Activity Digest” section, choose whether you’d like an email digest Daily, Weekly or Never.
• In the “Email me when…” section, specify when you would like to receive email notifications by checking or unchecking the boxes
• Next, select which groups you’d like to receive email when there is new activity
• Click Save

Join Groups

• Click on the Cog (gear) on the top right of your screen
• Click on Groups
  
• Then click Join next to those you find interesting or click the magnifying glass to search for groups to join.
• If membership approval is required, you’ll see your request “Pending”

Follow Co-Workers

• Click on the Cog (gear) on the top right of your screen
• Click People
  
• Then click Follow next to who you’d like to follow
• Don’t see a colleague? Invite them to the network

You can also follow users by hovering over their picture in the news feed and clicking Follow on their hover card

Following Topics

• Click on the Cog (gear) on the top right of your screen
• Click Apps
  
• Scroll towards the bottom to My Apps and then click Topics
  
• Browse the list, select the Topic of interest, then click Follow

You can also follow Topics as applied to conversations in the Newsfeed (middle section of the Yammer page)