The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said. — Peter Drucker

Yammer is a web app that lets you “connect and share with the people in your company or organization”. It’s basically Twitter for your intranet.

We use it to fire off quick messages about the progress we’ve made and the challenges we’re facing on our projects. Using the Yammer API we’ve been able to tie Git into the system so that notifications are sent out after each commit which contain the commiter, the commit message, and a hash tag associating the Yammer message with the git repository name. (more…)