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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

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Post by benevol »

heydenberk wrote: post #5
spicyj wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Workplace" accounts are completely separate, with the exception of an optional link to your personal account to make it easier to log in. To my knowledge, no other data is shared. Your employer owns the data, not Facebook. See https://workplace.fb.com/trust/ .

Sorry you're being downvoted. This is useful information that allays some of my concerns. Thanks.

> Your employer owns the data, not Facebook.

No worries, Facebook only owns the meta data it generates from your business data. /s

Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

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Post by sp332 »

bhaumik wrote: post #6

No thanks. Slack is distracting enough as is. Why would I want the rest of my social circle affecting my productivity?

Companies probably wouldn't allow it in if it involved being distracted by your social "circle". That's why it doesn't. It's a completely separate account.

Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

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Post by lettergram »

benevol wrote: post #12

So now employers are being told to have their employees put business data (potentially even sensitive or secret) on US servers that are "owned" by the US government (see PRISM, etc.), while everybody today knows that NSA surveillance data is being used to gain economic advantages for the country. How stupid do you think the rest of the world is?

You'd be surprised.

Google recently bought API.ai for the exact same reason, albeit API.ai has raw data and Workplace would be companies internal interaction data.

Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

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Post by DamnYuppie »

theuri wrote: post #7

Is 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 cumbersome to hash out with them via messaging we would, god forbid, pick up the phone and have a chat.

Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

I 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 thousands of users.

Overall this seems like a great tool for a workplace. Trouble is it has to compete with Slack and, arguably, things like Confluence.

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Post by dangoor »

benevol wrote: post #12

So now employers are being told to have their employees put business data (potentially even sensitive or secret) on US servers that are "owned" by the US government (see PRISM, etc.), while everybody today knows that NSA surveillance data is being used to gain economic advantages for the country. How stupid do you think the rest of the world is?

Google Apps for your Domain (G Suite now, I guess) is already like this, right?

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Post by prostoalex »

benevol wrote: post #12

So now employers are being told to have their employees put business data (potentially even sensitive or secret) on US servers that are "owned" by the US government (see PRISM, etc.), while everybody today knows that NSA surveillance data is being used to gain economic advantages for the country. How stupid do you think the rest of the world is?

Considering that the door was wide open with Google Docs (err, Suite), Microsoft Office 365, respective e-mail offerings (Google Apps, Microsoft Outlook), Yammer, Github, Box, Dropbox and Slack, I don't know if "now" is an appropriate term to use.

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Post by matwood »

timanglade wrote: post #17

Considering 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 guess I do not really understand the backlash at Slack. I think it is more of highlighting broken company cultures. If someone expects an immediate response for any communication does it matter if it is Slack, the phone, your office, your email (plus follow up email and/or phone call)?

For me Slack has cut down immensely on people randomly showing up in my office. Just forcing someone to write something down, and think about needing an immediate response cuts down frivolous questions. The biggest plus between it and email is that Slack pushes using public chats. I like this because I can go through during my work mental downtime and stay aware of other things going on.

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