Whoa, it had been so long since I saw a social network pivot into the business space that I'd forgotten how desperate and overused a strategy that had become
Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work
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Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work
#12I feel bad for Yammer.
If it makes you feel any better for them they sold for 1.2 billion to Microsoft in 2012
Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work
#13I feel bad for Yammer.
My first thought was, "So Facebook released Yammer?"
But after some thought...
It will be interesting to see how this will be differentiated from Yammer. Yammer may actually benefit from this ... companies that are considering workplace social networks may evaluate all options, and then realize that Yammer has been out for quite some time and touts over 200,000 corporate customers.
Many companies have Facebook restrictions in place, and I don't see that trend reversing due to this announcement. Yammer, separate and distinct from Facebook, may see a bump due to more companies "being interested" in work place social networks.
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#14It took them 8 years to figure out there's a market in Enterprise? I hope they make it easy to convert from private FB Groups to 'Work' accounts because any company I know who would use FB for work is already doing so using that option.
Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work
#15I feel bad for Yammer.
My first thought was, "So Facebook released Yammer?" But after some thought... It will be interesting to see how this will be differentiated from Yammer. Yammer may actually benefit from this ... companies that are considering workplace social networks may evaluate all options, and then realize that Yammer has been out for quite some time and touts over 200,000 corporate customers. Many companies have Facebook restri…
Agreed. I've used Yammer before and it's pretty decent.
If I was a company looking to use a "Social Network for Work" I would prefer a separate product like Yammer instead of Facebook.
Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work
#16I think they should change the name. "Facebook at Work" has gotten many people fired. It might reduce friction to adoption, but maybe that's not the goal.
Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work
#17I wonder what it would take to get a passable OSS substitute to Facebook going in this space. You could host it on your own server(s) the same way you can host your own internal wiki that looks/feels just like Wikipedia. Why don't we have this already?
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#18It's 2008 all over again, when freemium enterprise social networking was still hot.
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#19Has anyone seen a work social network that wasn't a joke? We have one, and the only use is that your director/VP asks their org to follow them, and then posts various strategic stuff they want you to see. There's zero peer-to-peer usage at all.
Jive Software is used successfully by the majority of Fortune 500s.
Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work
#20Facebook is no where near being a true technology company like Google. So facebook copied MySpace and is now copying LinkedIn. Neat.