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Neither do Yammer subscribers.
Neither does anyone at Microsoft
I work at MS, I use Yammer daily for archival style conversations
Facebook at Work
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Re: Facebook at Work
#162I 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.
I'd argue that they consciously make it work for them internally, despite lots of pain points solved by other tools better suited for the job.
For example, Zuck says he runs the company via Messenger - but a chat tool without selective muting/@mentions (or equivalent) is bound to be messy at the scale at which he's working. Similarly, Facebook's group chat isn't the best archival tool, nor does it support features like merging posts or transferring them from one group to another.
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Ha! Nice theory! No seriously, that's pretty brilliant.
Except that it's on a different domain and won't affect the facebook block.
In fact, this would actually force people to block FB. The worst thing to happen would be for someone to post important information related to company on their personal feed by mistake. If they can login to both the accounts, this is very much possible. Unless, of course, FB for work looks dramatically different from original FB. I don't know, I never tried.
Re: Facebook at Work
#164We've used "Facebook for Work" at work. It is highly distracting in IMO. One of the best productivity hacks is to never log into Facebook or any social accounts when at work. Now, we are working on it which keeps sending you notifications all day long and especially over the weekend. You like or comment saying - "Awesome, well deserved." The 100 people are going to do the same too. It's super annoying. This and the f…
I'd thought FB for work is at least siloed from your personal FB. You get notifications from the personal account as well? Well now I know why they made it this way, since it'll drive the FB usage - even at work!
Disgusting.
Re: Facebook at Work
#165I've seen a couple of the "let's bring social networks to the workplace" products and quite frankly none have impressed me so far. The real problem is not providing great technology but actually getting people in corporate environments to use it in a meaningful way. These projects usually end in the same manner...network is rolled out, used for a couple of weeks and fades into obscurity rarely used (and often leaving an extra attack vector).
Or in other words...most lose the battle to good old email.
That being said...this is potentially scary news for companies that are in the HR 2.0 business for lack of a better word. Typically their solutions have alumni management, stay in contact etc. that they tout. Well if your company has FB work and they later add the option to integrate private FB accounts of ex employees or something that's interesting. I know they say for now those are separate but I wouldn't be shocked if that changes eventually.
Edit: If they want to segment this they should have given it an entirely different name imo. I'm sure there are marketing people at FB that are way more brilliant than me but this seems like a typical positioning mistake. You think you need to rely on your powerful main brand when you really want to create a new brand because you're attacking a different positioning slot in customer's heads. Don't have my Ries/Trout book at hand but it sounds familiar enough that I'll browse through it at home.
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#166I'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…
I agree! Although, I am curious about some of the privacy concerns that are being raised. To further your point, I think Facebook's timeline dynamic complements Slack quite nicely. Slack is great for broad, real-time communication, whereas Facebook posts can be much more hyper-focused and the conversation can revolve around the specific topic over a long period of time. For example, we have a development channel in o…
What if some features of Google Wave are added to slack so that threaded conversations can take place.
Re: Facebook at Work
#167We have Slack/HipChat and emails, why Facebook At Work? I just don't see the value to post everything at work in a news feed style, does it provide any value?
It doesn't provide value for the customer, but for Facebook. It's their existing monetization model.
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#168Not sure how this will affect Jive, Tibbr and the likes.
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#169I have been trying "Facebook at Work" at work. As we already had a Facebook group for the company it made sense. This is not a tool to compete with LinkedIn. It is a tool that competes with e-mail/mail lists. Somethings now make much more sense. From a security point of view, in a company over one thousand employees, it is easier to add or remove employees as they are hired or they left the company. Also it is easier…
So now the idea is to do your sensitive internal communications via facebook?
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I actively block Facebook at work with /etc/hosts and I would continue to do so if my workplace installed this.
And so do I, along with Reddit and a few other sites. Should probably add HN to the list as well.
two recommendations:
- Momentum for Google Chrome fixes the 'new tab' page so that it shows you what you want to focus on today rather than what you frequently get distracted by. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/momentum/laookkfkn...
- SelfControl for OSX blocks sites for a specified period of time. https://selfcontrolapp.com/