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Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by bambax »

kriro wrote: post #165

I'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…

Upvoted for the positioning part: brand extension is almost always a mistake. In this case maybe they want to leverage the fact that almost everyone has fb, but in the mind of users fb is not associated with "work". And it's likely to hurt their main brand because it will drain more "coolness" out of it.

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by efes »

If I were facebook, I would have hid this page for a month or two. I sure hope this causes the most traditional of French mobilizations against finalizing a new data safe harbor given that the ramifications for workers who are essentially unable to object have never been dealt with.

I've found general software contracts to be a questionable thing to involve normal status employees in, cloud services (especially online tests and training) have muddied the water, and with social tool usage in the workplace, I have to wonder if there still is any water.

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

kriro wrote: post #165

I'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…

Slack's been incredibly successful of late. You might not think of it as a 'social network', but it does most of what Facebook at Work is advertising itself as.

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by Kiro »

droopybuns wrote: post #108

This is a product I would actively shun. For better of worse, my prejudice of facebook is that it is an outstanding source of the following types of content: Humblebrag b.s. instagram photos passive aggressive shitposting about politics I can use social networks at work- but if they actually brought facebook in and demanded that we used it, I might consider quitting. I'd probably write a python script to repost rando…

Your prejudice is wrong. I see nothing of that on my feed.

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by mattlutze »

kriro wrote: post #165

I'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…

I think it can be tough for folks to disrupt enterprise collaboration when they try to attack it with consumer social networking. Do I want to chat with coworkers all day and be bombarded by notifications? I like not being able to get to my personal Facebook when I'm at the office and we know that multitasking productively is a myth at best and may actively reduce our mental performance[1][2].

The thing is, the biggest component of enterprise collaboration is information and knowledge management. If Facebook is leveraging its existing information management feature set this platform would be a no-go for me, because their whole set-up is designed to push new information at you and bury anything else as soon as possible. As well, chat or groups without file/information/data management features is a quarter-measure.

1: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/august24/multitask-resear...

2: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brain-wise/201209/the-t...

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

sschueller wrote: post #169
kartan wrote: post #117

I 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?

I guess it depends on how sensitive they are. I'd warrant that 99% of communications aren't sensitive enough to bear in mind whatever risk you're implying. And really 'sensitive' communications probably shouldn't even take place by email, but face-to-face.

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by mattlutze »

droopybuns wrote: post #173
sk5t wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Suppose you had to choose between Facebook and Sharepoint? Or maybe a really field-besotted Jira.

The user experience of SharePoint is so bad that MS should consider pursuing a patent for "a method for shitposting deterrence."

You'll need to qualify that critique, because the SharePoint installs I've consulted on have ended up with quite a high acceptance and use rate and have seen employees self-elect (without forcing them) to stop using email and shared drives for file collaboration).

It's possible your experience with SharePoint was more an issue with who configured it. Or that you're thinking of SP2007?

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by tedmiston »

Has anyone experienced using an internal social network at a startup or small business?

My company has grown from 10 to 30 employees across 3 states, and the only communication tools used by everyone are Slack and Gmail.

I don't think this is something most people here would bother to actively use. Is there a minimum threshold where it becomes more commonplace? Maybe with 100 people?

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