Pretty competitive market, many are attacking it from all different ways. Platforms like Beekeeper (www.Beekeeper.io) are going after this market as well. Yammer would be competition in my opinion. Slack does a completely different purpose.
@as_austin I agree with you, slack is a chat tool and this is ESN. Finally they have entered into more competitive market where there are established players like Yammer (www.yammer.com) , zyncro(www.zyncro.com), Zoho Connect (www.zoho.com/connect) to name a few.
@gopuhemanth very true. I think you would also find many of those competitors have volatile user adoption statistics ranging from complete inactivity to cluster hyperactivity.
I think, the next evolution is to share knowledge more freely even across organizational boundaries where organizations are more comfortable letting content in & and using SaaS services.
Usually, the benefits require behavioral changes. Slack did great work. Lets see how Facebook will be a great fit for all kinds of companies.
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If you are working for a company that has multiple topics at the same time running in the one department/team thinking about a feed based collaboration could be a good option.
With Workplace you can organise your team in groups and discuss projects/topics via the comments on a post. This could help your team stay on topic and don't get distracted by another random comment in your chat history.
The (news) feed based way of communicating (FB) can work well for slow moving tasks or project overviews. I feel like a company with more than 50ppl could start to make real use of this kind of work.
The FB messenger really isn't on par with any of the major business chat's out their. So don't switch to FB if you really just wanna chat with your guys. You could, however, use it to supplement your Slack usage with some company feeds. But then you should save the money and use G+ which comes free with your G Suite subscription.
The pricing however is attractive. Starting at a about a dollar a month and employee it's way below industry average.
Pros:
Great, familiar design and use for your team. If you into feed based collaboration you should check it out
Cons:
The chat feature needs to ramp up it's features quickly to get on par with industry standards.
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Seems Facebook is taking a page from the Google playbook-- build corporate versions of apps that employees love by having familiar features and UI with added access and security controls.
I am curious to see the adoption due to cross profile use. Slack has the benefit of keeping your profile very isolated to a work only type of environment. The idea of mixing my personal facebook with a work facebook is very unsettling.
@hoandesign Thanks for clarification. I do think though that just the thought that they are both on Facebook (at first glance) in general, feels wrong for some reason. I can imagine this being a turn off for many people. Almost wish this was a completely separate product. Will check it out more and see if they intermingle at all.
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@tofslie yeah the post use the old logo too. The new logo is a W not a F.
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I have a hard time seeing people actually use this based on the "concept" of what Facebook is too people. A "private" social network more Twitter in it's demographic usage than for business-oriented ventures. People like their labels, and I would rather Facebook focus on improving it's advertising and social platform more than diluting it with side projects.
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thanks but our company is sticking to slack
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Looks and feels nothing like Slack. Doesn't seem very useful to be honest.
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If you are working for a company that has multiple topics at the same time running in the one department/team thinking about a feed based collaboration could be a good option.
With Workplace you can organise your team in groups and discuss projects/topics via the comments on a post. This could help your team stay on topic and don't get distracted by another random comment in your chat history.
The (news) feed based way of communicating (FB) can work well for slow moving tasks or project overviews. I feel like a company with more than 50ppl could start to make real use of this kind of work.
The FB messenger really isn't on par with any of the major business chat's out their. So don't switch to FB if you really just wanna chat with your guys. You could, however, use it to supplement your Slack usage with some company feeds. But then you should save the money and use G+ which comes free with your G Suite subscription.
The pricing however is attractive. Starting at a about a dollar a month and employee it's way below industry average.
Pros:Great, familiar design and use for your team. If you into feed based collaboration you should check it out
Cons:The chat feature needs to ramp up it's features quickly to get on par with industry standards.
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