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Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by RobbyMcCullough »

samstave wrote: post #8

Uh... Is this an attack on Slack? I have so many things to say about this but the last time I said anything anti-F B on H N I got lawyers against me. Please god people don't use this. Edit: I'm going to qualify my sentiment. FB thinks that "making the world more connected" is a good thing (TM) -- and in an utopian sense that may be true... But FB is not utopian. See the fucking onion article. You all know the one. Th…

In all seriousness, I don't know the onion article you're referencing and I am wildly curious now...?

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by encoderer »

jdoliner wrote: post #11

I clicked this hopeful that Facebook had made a new product tailored to the needs of an office. Instead it seems like they recently decided that their existing product just happens to already be the perfect product for the office and rebranded it. I don't buy this at all, teams don't actually collaborate by sending each other green giraffe stickers.

Facebook actually uses Facebook heavily internally. Groups, calendars, etc. It's certainly not a mandate, it's used because it works for them.

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by nashashmi »

I didn't bother checking this out, but I feel like this is round 2. I remember when facebook was only limited to schools and then workplaces before being available to all. At the time, they optimized their "modules" to better facilitate "work/study" environments.

If this is indeed round 2, this is great!

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by hmahncke »

pcurve wrote: post #66

I wonder if this product was conceived in a Utopian vacuum by FB employees where they think all other companies operate in a similar fashion as theirs, where everyone is brilliant, motivated, young, high-tech, and are always aiming at the apex of the Maslow's pyramid; and have similar pain points. I'm not being sarcastic (to the down voter). If you're an "A" talent, and are always used to working in certain type of e…

I saw an interesting article [1] talking about Facebook at work adoption at Club Med, making the point that all their minimum wage workers were already familiar with Facebook on mobile devices, so adoption/training was easy for them, compared to learning a new interface for a workplace chat/collaboration product.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/09/facebook-for-works-pitch-t...

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by rgovind »

What I really want is a "linkedin at work" kind of product. In large cross functional organziations, it is often not easy to find who is the right person to talk to. For example, in a ecommerce firm, if you item description is wrong, you do not necessarily know whom to contact. I would like a product, internal to a company, where people write about all things they work on, in linkedin style summaries. Hopefully, this will have similar features in future.

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by dchuk »

untog wrote: post #53
benatkin wrote: post #40

I'm pretty sure this is going to be big. I think Slack is so successful not just because of the chat interface and the integrations, but because people reliably receive notifications, messages can contain attachments that are presented in a helpful way, and because it has good ways of organizing groups. Facebook has everything but the chat interface and the integrations. I don't see any reason for them not to add the…

But Slack is a chat service. I'm struggling to imagine what I would ever want to see in my Work News Feed.

It appears that this Facebook Work thing also includes a private work chat system somewhat comparable to Slack.

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by skewart »

untog wrote: post #53
benatkin wrote: post #40

I'm pretty sure this is going to be big. I think Slack is so successful not just because of the chat interface and the integrations, but because people reliably receive notifications, messages can contain attachments that are presented in a helpful way, and because it has good ways of organizing groups. Facebook has everything but the chat interface and the integrations. I don't see any reason for them not to add the…

But Slack is a chat service. I'm struggling to imagine what I would ever want to see in my Work News Feed.

I take it you've never used Yammer, which was created as "Facebook for work" seven years ago. The Yammer news feed is actually a great way to stay generally aware of what's going on in your company across lots of different groups or functions. I'm an engineer and its nice to see what sales and customer support are worried about from time to time and occasionally chimein when I can be helpful. At my company we use chat for quick, immediate conversations, and Yammer for bigger, more in depth conversations about product or architecture or various business tactics.

I imagine Facebook for Work would happily fill a very similar role to Yammer, sitting comfortably alongside chat. Of course, they'll probably have a much easier time with distribution given the brand recognition.

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