More Yammer, less Twitter

We’ve now been using Yammer at Photojojo for three months, and it’s been a really useful tool for ambient office communication.

For those of you who don’t know, Yammer’s basically a private, company-specific version of Twitter. Even in a real office (we’re usually sitting just a few feet away from each other) and with a small team (we’re just three people — p.s. we’re hiring) it’s been really cool to know what people are working on, what they’re noticing, etc. There’s a lot of things that just don’t merit a verbal or email interruption but are still worth putting out there. Yammer fits the bill.

In addition to sending a quick note about we’re working on, we also end up using yammer as a semi-live chat space… the Air app is usually open on each of our laptops, and it’s taken the place of IM.

As a side note, I’ve noticed myself twittering a lot less since we started using Yammer in September. I’m averaging 10-12 yammer messages a day, but only 2-3 twitter messages.

p.s. I also talked briefly about our Yammer usage on a PSFK panel last month.