Yammer Gets iPhone Push Right

Posted on 06 October 2009, at 10:20 am, by Dan Cohen

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With so many Gear Diary Team members spread geographically throughout the world (who knew there were tech-o-holics in Australia!?!) we need the best communication method possible. Google Wave may be just what the doctor ordered, but it won’t be here for a bit. In the meantime, we have been using Yammer and it does a pretty good job of keeping us in touch.

For those of you not familiar with Yammer it,

is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: ‘What are you working on?’ As employees answer that question, a feed is created in one central location enabling co-workers to discuss ideas, post news, ask questions, and share links and other information. Yammer also serves as a company directory in which every employee has a profile and as a knowledge base where past conversations can be easily accessed and referenced.

A recent update to the Yammer iPhone app added some nice features. One, in particular, stands out…

The new version of the Yammer apps does far more than other push systems that merely allow you to turn sound, vibrate or visual indicator on or off.

First, it allow you to choose which of your feeds activate the notification system. Nice but not the feature I really like. No that on is this…

The updated Yammer app lets you automatically turn off notifications for specific hours each day,

For example, I have now set it to go silent at midnight and resume at 8am. It is a nice feature I would love to see in EVERY app that makes use of the notification system. Why? because it sure beats having to remember to turn off ALL notifications each night and then remember to turn them ALL back on in the morning.

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