<p>Microsoft recently announced its phased approach for integrating Yammer with SharePoint 2013, so it will be much later this year before we see any meaningful work completed to bring the two platforms together. But in the meantime, users can look forward to easier access to Yammer from within Office 365 and SharePoint Online.</p><p>Let's take a look at some of the really nice features Yammer offers today, the kind of stuff SharePoint users can start looking forward to. Here are our top five favorite Yammer features right now. 1. Inbox</p><p>The Yammer Inbox is a place where you can see all of your messages in one single place. It isn't a separate email service, more a filtered view of all existing conversations but it is a really nice and easy way to focus the mind on your own communications. SharePoint has never really had its own "messaging" system, so the Yammer Inbox fills a real gap. 2. Groups</p><p>Groups are lists of users so far, so obvious. But Yammer makes it really easy to post to a group, target messages at them, or share files and notes with them. SharePoint users will be thinking "team sites do all that" right now. Well sort of. Groups sit at a lower level, and you could think of multiple groups in an activity feed operating within a SharePoint site. 3. Polls</p><p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/five-yammer-features-that-sharepoint-users-are-going-to-love-020339.php">Keep reading...</a></p>