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Facebook Is Preparing to Launch Facebook at Work

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34 pointsAmorymeltzer21 comments

But I already use facebook when I'm supposed to be working.

I'm surprised Twitter has not made a move into the enterprise space.

I don't use Facebook, but Facebook at Work sounds interesting from what I've heard from Facebook employees using it. You can follow people, teams, and interest groups which would be useful for matrix organizations that have fluid or cross-functional teams.

We have been using this at Hootsuite, and it's been a really smooth experience, especially when compared to Yammer.

wonder if this will flop like yammer. wonder how many firewalls will need to be updated to allow facebook links.

Yeah, last thing I want on my network is Facebook and all the shit that comes from it.

Has Yammer flopped?

I mean, I don't think it's great, and I pretty much avoid it. But people (or - more importantly? - companies) seem to use it..

> I mean, I don't think it's great, and I pretty much avoid it.

If you have that opinion after trying to use it, chances are that a lot of other people think the same.

My company also supposedly uses Yammer, yet no one really seems to use it.

I think there are two distinct questions here, viz. is Social useful at Work and will Facebook at Work "fail" like Yammer or crush/be-crushed-by Slack et al. The reason these are distinct questions is that Facebook at Work is likely to be much more than just a Social Network and intrude heavily into Slack-like territory with Group chats etc. We wrote an article on this recently that explores this issue: https://tmail21.com/blog/is-social-the-future-of-work/

LinkedIn will be thrilled about this. Im glad someone is finally going to challenge the LinkedIn-space but Im bummed it's Facebook that is doing it.

It's an intra-company communication solution, a not professional network. I think you should compare it w/ slack/yammer/google apps/office suite.

What is linkedin-space?

I think they would expand it to be a network of work colleagues very quickly though. It will start like Yammer and slowly roll into inter-company/inter-industry networking tool. If I were LinkedIn, Id be worried.

That is pretty much how Facebook evolved initially as well—initially, there wasn't much interaction outside of your own college network.

    > What is linkedin-space?

I read that as "the space (as in market) in which LinkedIn operates"

what is linkedin-space?

It's kind of like the nullspace of a linear combination of social networking platforms. I think ;)

The last thing on earth I would use for business

Any Facebook for Work users here who we can reach out to? We build a cloud-based security solution and would love to get access to FbW so that we can make any necessary updates in time for launch. Any help / intros really appreciated!

Facebook might be able to give you more info if you contact them directly.

Slack (and on-premises open source variants like Rocket Chat and Mattermost) are much better for this kind of communication I think. I think chat will eat Facebook at Work, Yammer and all the other tools.

I don't know that Yammer has a problem with "training cost", it is after all, basically "Facebook but for work"..

How does FB@Work compare to Yammer and Jive?

What are some of the use cases?

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