We launched Facebook at Work today

Sounds rather unprofessional for them to mix in business with employees social lives.

It already seems to be a weekly occurrence that someone has bad mouthed an employer/other employee, or hasn't necessarily been off sick when they've claimed to be, with the end result in people being fired.

We had Yammer set up at work if people wanted to sign up for that, although i've not even bothered with that.
 
Sorry

I meant we have rolled out "facebook at work" at work rather than "facebook" at work. FaW is its own platform and has no ties to regular facebook.
 
I have never ever seen an example of a social platform of any kind work within an office/business.

From what I have seen over the years, people like their social and work lives to be split. So given the choice to have a social profile or any social means but for within "work" results in them not bothering with it. That's despite drives and prompts to make use of it, people just aren't interested in socialising in work terms with other people they work with.... The ones they do give that much of a **** about will be a part of their personal/external social media circles.

A work focused Facebook will just result in the ones with slightly more amounts of time than others to actually make small use of it, most of which will be to whine and moan about work with like-minded colleagues.

I hope your company hasn't spent much money introducing this?
Can I ask what kind of business it is you work in and who/why they wanted to give this to their staff?
 
Education, and it's free for us

Where I work is for a group company so this is rolled out across many sites / users

Basically, nobody talks to anyone here so management had the idea of faw
 
glen8 said:
Education, and it's free for us

Where I work is for a group company so this is rolled out across many sites / users

Basically, nobody talks to anyone here so management had the idea of faw
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It sounds all too familiar :D

Management had "an idea"..... Sweet jesus, HIDE!
 
Unless you go around and beat people with sticks you will never get them to collaborate using anything more advanced than email and a telephone.

We tried Yammer, didn't take off. Slack, same deal. I imagine it would be easier in an actual tech company but even then you'd still create a rift between the techs and say the people in accounts who wouldn't use it/
 
Caged said:
Unless you go around and beat people with sticks you will never get them to collaborate using anything more advanced than email and a telephone.

We tried Yammer, didn't take off. Slack, same deal. I imagine it would be easier in an actual tech company but even then you'd still create a rift between the techs and say the people in accounts who wouldn't use it/
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Yep, I hear you

They won't listen
 
Great, another tool for some CEO trying to make a mark for themselves yet it will just make communication even more fragmented!

We've also tried all the likes of Yammer/hipchat etc and the only consistently used beyond Outlook is Skype.

Though the fact its not MS may actually be a good thing as they seem intent on integrating everything into everything confusing everyone along the way.
 
There should be no such thing as social networks for business. We use chatter in Sales Force and it's one of the best I know today for communicating.

Any business implementing these features need to have a strict policy in place. If they are not happy they call in their manager to discuss not mouth off all over a platform in house. Disgusting !
 
I used to work somewhere that had its own internal IRC network which worked pretty well (clients were setup with bouncers so chat history was updated when someone logged back in), Yammer is used by some at work but there hasn't been any kind of proper procedure for rolling it out so its much less useful than it should be - most people just resort to sticky notes or email.
 
We have been using an internal business "social network" a la Facebook for a few years now (I'm not going to mention the name as I believe we do sell it to Customers as well).

The problem i have with it is that assumptions start to be made by various management areas that if they publish things to their public area that everyone will see it .... this means a lot of people miss a lot of information as they just don't have time to browse around on the system ... and it's telling to see the people who do. Searching for information is poor too.

It can be useful in certain areas, internal IT management are very good on it at getting things sorted out when the normal internal support processes have failed.
 
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