A few weeks ago Mujibor de Graaf wrote about Facebook at Work here . Now that Facebook has become uncool for young people – after all, that’s where your parents are – the social mia giant seems to want to make a virtue of necessity. If there are so many 30- and 40-somethings on Facebook, then those ‘oldies’ current trends and innovative tools in luxury content marketing will surely want to use that trust platform at work, Mark Zuckerberg must have thought. Facebook at Work was born.
Mujibor mention in his post a number of possible disadvantages of the business version of Facebook. For me, they can be divid into three V’s:
Security: Is your company data safe with Facebook, even on an American server (think Patriot Act)?
Confusion: How many drunk pictures will be accidentally post to coworkers – and how many strategic plans to friends?
Trust: What will Facebook do with your business data? They have to make money somehow, right?
Nice Slacking
Those cool kids themselves are on Slack by now , at least if they work at a young and hip company. Slack is a ‘workplace collaboration tool’, essentially a chat platform for work, with both group chat and one-on-one messaging. But what’s special about Slack is that it integrates with all sorts of other applications, such as Dropbox, Google Apps and JIRA. For example, you can find, read and comment on a document from your Dropbox in Slack, all without leaving the platform.
Slack is hot
While Slack was only launch early last year (by the founder of Flickr), it already claims to have 500,000 active users. internet users demand more police presence in digital spaceThe platform is hot: AirBnB uses it, Spotify, and even small companies with cool names like Zumobi and Crowdtap. But to be fair, it’s also us by teams within Apple, Amazon, and Google.
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Slack is very nicely and clearly design and clearly wants to set itself apart from the standard business software. For example, clean email Slack starts with a welcome message such as “What good shall I do this day?” The activation of the user also makes you happy: SlackBot asks you for your profile data in a simple chat session.
Organization-wide implementation often remains stuck in the IT departmentThe salvation for
Unlike Facebook at Work, the revenue model here is clear: if you want to use all the features, you pay a hefty $7 per user per month. In the free version, which most users use, you cannot view your entire archive and unfortunately you do not get those handy integrations either.
