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