"hey guys, Facebook is banned on our intranet, but you can replace it with this..." Nope, not gonna happen.
Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses
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Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses
#52I don't get the negativity. This is kinda awesome! News feeds will be good to monitor what's going on across many groups / teams, groups can help your team post and communicate across various topics (same with messaging). Honestly the live video streams on demand is kinda huge; this isn't always something easy for companies to do especially large companies but Facebook can pull this off and make it look great for tho…
Microsoft, Google and Facebook are totally Lost haha. They seem to be converging to the same point, all of them as laggards.
Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses
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Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses
#54Considering the backlash against Slack [0], it’ll be interesting to see if Messenger’s model of more “atomic” conversations will create less interruptions. Slack (much like IRC) really contributes to an expectation of continuous conversation throughout the day/night (although not all people deal with it that way). In comparison, Messenger (and other chat apps like WhatsApp, iMessage, etc.) seem to be more designed to…
I appreciate that slack by default mutes all conversations after like 6 pm. Creating an opt-in model sets a much better expectation.
Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses
#55Is this driven by the digital collaboration at work trend started by Slack, or intended to be an entirely different beast?
I find it hard to believe that people believe Slack started the trend. There have been countless such services in the past. Back in the terrible dark ages of the internet, pre-2000, we used AIM to have those type of discussions. Was very valuable as we had development teams all over the country and was a quick way to determine who the expert was for a given question and get them into a conversation. If it was too cum…
IRC and a wiki used to be the tools of the trade.
Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses
#56I don't get the negativity. This is kinda awesome! News feeds will be good to monitor what's going on across many groups / teams, groups can help your team post and communicate across various topics (same with messaging). Honestly the live video streams on demand is kinda huge; this isn't always something easy for companies to do especially large companies but Facebook can pull this off and make it look great for tho…
I think people have largely gotten the message that companies which thrive on collecting and selling user data, are poison to be avoided at all costs.
Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses
#57I don't get the negativity. This is kinda awesome! News feeds will be good to monitor what's going on across many groups / teams, groups can help your team post and communicate across various topics (same with messaging). Honestly the live video streams on demand is kinda huge; this isn't always something easy for companies to do especially large companies but Facebook can pull this off and make it look great for tho…
The last place I want to have work related conversations stored is FB servers.
I work in an European company.
I doubt this will get any traction outside of US.
Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses
#58I don't get the negativity. This is kinda awesome! News feeds will be good to monitor what's going on across many groups / teams, groups can help your team post and communicate across various topics (same with messaging). Honestly the live video streams on demand is kinda huge; this isn't always something easy for companies to do especially large companies but Facebook can pull this off and make it look great for tho…
The last place I want to have work related conversations stored is FB servers.
I don't understand your concern. Could you expand here?
Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses
#59(Throwaway because this includes inside baseball theory and it's not appropriate to comment as my usual self) The technical document https://developers.facebook.com/docs/workplace/account-manag... includes an example to create a new user via an authenticated POST request. Previously facebook had a party line that each human had at most one facebook account (which was in contrast to its competitors where some humans h…
I think each workplace by facebook will have seperate users and separate domains, so the user-count of facebook-proper will not be affected by companies have bulk access to account creation.
This should also keep facebook proper blockable.
I didn't catch the baseball theory part of your comment advertised in the beginning.
Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses
#60Yes, just what I want... more crap from Facebook. I've been so very satisfied with how much of my personal data they sell to marketers thus far, I really want them to start tracking me at work too. Hopefully they will pair the launch with an aggressive sales campaign targeted at people in HR so I won't get a say in the matter and it'll just be rolled out for my coworkers without our input. That would be just swell.
Are you from the future?
Facebook seems like exactly the company we want to trust with SSO and performance reviews and internal corporate communications. It's coming and it's going to be amazing!
Would you like to know more?