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Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by cptskippy »

skewart wrote: post #102
MiddleEndian wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the first time I've ever heard someone speak positively of Yammer.

Haha, I'm not entirely surprised. The UI is pretty dated, and overall it can be kind of janky sometimes. I'm curious though, what aspects of it do you usually hear people complaining about?

When the first rolled it out and signed everyone up at my office people complained all the time about the spam in their mailboxes. Then we figured out how to delete our accounts. Now the only people who use it are those that are trying to impress someone by giving the image of participation.

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by cptskippy »

jsn117 wrote: post #105
spdustin wrote: post #95

So... Yammer? FB Work: Groups help you make decisions and keep your team on the same page. Yammer: Organize all your team communication in one place with Yammer Groups. Create a single destination for your messages, files, and updates, where everyone has a view of what's going on without all the usual back-and-forth. FB Work: Get through to the people you need right away with Work Chat. Yammer: Spend less time crafti…

but I don't use Yammer

Neither do Yammer subscribers.

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by melted »

This ignores mountains of evidence that shows realtime, synchronous communication makes you less productive due to reducing (or eliminating) your ability to focus.

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by sk5t »

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…

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

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by kartan »

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 to share work content for a limited audience while using your private Facebook account in a more casual way.

The main problem is that people doesn't have so much interest in checking what's in there. We have already other communication methods like the old good mail. So "Facebook at Work" is just another one to add to the list.

If you add it to your phone - I have done that - you will get notifications as the usual app. One of the problems is that you also will get them on weekends or when on vacations. That is not ideal.

As any social tool it requires a lot of fine tuning and also to match the culture and preferences of the company. Probably it is a good move for Facebook taking into account cost/benefit, but it is never easy with social tools as Facebook competitors have seen in the past.

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by dkarapetyan »

Aeolun wrote: post #114

Because having all your work related communication on Facebook's servers is certainly something you want as a company.

First thing that came to mind. Some places require self-hosted products. That is why Atlassian products are so heavily used. Not because they're better but because they can live within company firewalls.

Re: Facebook at Work

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Post by bbradley406 »

greggman wrote: post #106
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…

Can I search my chat history in FB? I've wanted to do that many times but I couldn't find it in the UI

Yes, it's in the top right corner of full conversation mode (i.e. facebook.com/messages/)
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