YamJam Vs YamChat?
May be you have came across YamJam and YamChat terms so lets shed some light about those terms.
Yam stands for Yammer which we have discussed in our previous posts:
So what is the difference between YamJam and YamChat?
YamJam is sort of brainstorming session around 30 minutes to 1 hour for topic over Yammer, where the organizer created a group or use a dedicated group and post a question/point for discussion and then attendees share their thoughts in replies.
While YamChat is a Q&A session for subject matter exert or company CEO/CTO/CIO or manager. Questions can be collected a head of the session or can be adhoc if the policy of the session allows
How YamChat and YamJam are organized?
Organizer sends invitations in Yammer group/email campaigns to the needed audience.
Moderator/leader at the start of session writes introduction in the group and then can post the rules for the session.
A single conversation covers an entire YamJam. For each
Q&A on a YamChat, a different conversation gets created.
Participants may use @mention to reply to a specific participant’s post.
For both YamJam and YamChat it is highly recommended to have leaders/moderators to make sure that conversation is not drifting from the purpose and moderators can send private messages to members who are posting irrelevant messages.
More about Yammer:
How to bookmark Yammer Conversation
