Forum Discussion
Newsfeed together with Yammer?
jcgonzalezmartin, darrellaas, Ivan54, Brent Ellis, Dean_Gross and Mark-Kashman can I ask you about your opinion and experience?
While NewsFeed and Yammer won't conflict, i would try to stay away from Newsfeed and take advantage of the modern News web part, see this thread https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Blog/SharePoint-Online-team-news-begins-roll-out-to-Office-365-First/ba-p/22763 for some good discussion .
If you are starting a new project, i would look very strongly at MS Teams, it could be a good opportunity to test it out in your org.
Thanks, Dean and Brent. We are introducing Office 365 Groups and go with MS Teams in Preview.
However, we have one business team with some other requirements. They want to create a knowledge sharing community tool and have specific expectations. Yammer, Office 365 Groups or MS Teams are not enough. We are considering to built on SharePoint Community Portal with Community Sites and Newsfeed. We see some needed features but also limitations. I want to check the impact of these tools when the switch is on.- Writing has been on the wall for newsfeed for years. We have never utilized it in our organization, and I wouldn't recommend starting.
My advice is exactly the same as Dean. It's also gonna depend on how your organization wants to communicate.
We tried with Yammer for group-based discussions/announcements, did a decent job for a while, but now Yammer is being decimated because of Groups (better fits how our organization works). We use Yammer for more broader announcement (like public forums), and will probably be using SharePoint News for smaller group-based announcements. We haven't started with Teams yet, but honestly are having trouble really finding a place for it at this point in time.
