{"id":1078,"date":"2017-01-30T23:38:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T12:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2017-01-30T23:38:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T12:38:24","slug":"buddypress-in-a-sea-of-social-networks-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"BuddyPress in a sea of social networks for business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late last year Facebook made splash with the announcement of <a href=\"https:\/\/workplace.fb.com\/\">Workplace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Social networks for business are nothing new of course, but when <em>The Book<\/em> puts its weight behind the concept you know something&#8217;s up. Enterprise social network software vendors have tried to carve out a niche with collaborative portals for years &#8211; all with limited success.<\/p>\n<p>Will Facebook dominate the space? From first glance it looks like it has a compelling story to tell compared with both traditional enterprise software companies and the likes of Google, Twitter and LinkedIn (Microsoft). Facebook is a familiar interface and many people use it to collaborate every day.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the biggest challenge for Facebook is whether people will actually use it for productive tasks instead of simply a social space for coworkers.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the alternative?<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of commercial and open source social enterprise options so Facebook hasn&#8217;t captured all your data yet. One that stands out is <a href=\"https:\/\/buddypress.org\/\">BuddyPress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BuddyPress is private, feature-rich, open source and based on WordPress, the familiar content system used by millions. Given the ubiquity of WordPress, BuddyPress could be the little social network that could provide a viable alternative to cloud-only options.<\/p>\n<p>An easy way to collaborate with coworkers using WordPress? That is worth sharing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last year Facebook made splash with the announcement of Workplace. Social networks for business are nothing new of course, but when The Book&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,27,33,34],"tags":[191,194,187,195,192,193,196,42],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-open-source","category-the-internet","category-the-media","tag-buddypress","tag-collaboration","tag-facebook","tag-linkedin","tag-socialmedia","tag-socialnetworking","tag-twitter","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}