Opiniones de Blink

una gran herramienta para la comunicación intraempresarial.Las opciones que se nos presentan para crear grupos de los diferentes departamentos donde en ellos se compartan noticias, boletines o simplemente cambios o actualizaciones relativas a nuestra área, hacen de la aplicación un fijo cada día para cualquiera de nosotros.

Aún no esta bien desarrollado en cuanto a la capacidad de mensajería instantanea o chat.Hay algunas lagunas que se deberían revisar, como los grandes tiempos de carga....

The ability to allow users to express themselves via the newsfeed, whilst also being able to filter to reach out to certain departments via groups has been great for users needing support from a certain department, or simply sharing a post they want everyone to see. This has led to the company being able to share posts for the entire company as a priority and needing users to acknowledge the posts, which means we can assure users have read important posts. It also has a community feel to it and also can help with boosting morale as we have been able to post about achievements in different depots across the company.
What is also great is the ability to create a hub, with useful links that the entire company uses, which makes it a fully working intranet for us.

We had teething issues to start regarding invites, where someone will try to join but will be stuck in an endless loop. This hasn't happened recently and can be solved using an invite code rather than an invite link. During this time Blink support did quickly help us out with the issue.

I really like the concept of feed to allow official communication in the same tool than chat, without sending email. It create a community feeling.

- Searching some discussion with someone is not easy (What we discussed 4 days ago on the chat ?)
- I haven't capability to mark a discussion as "unread" (I open the discussion on my phone, see somthing I will have to analyse before answering, I have to send email to me to think about that)
- When I do some mistake on a sentence, I have to click on edit, so use the mouse, instead of just use the up arrow, like in softwares like discord, that is very simplest to edit.
- For integration with a tool, I need administrator to allow me to do something (i.e jira) so I'm not free to use all capabilities of Blink.
- If I join files in a discussion, I can't arrange them, so theorically we have to create one different chat for each subject, but to search a chat from people name, I have always to click on "see all chats", so use the mouse, that is break the user experience from my point of view.

Customizable communication tool. Holds all colleagues contacts and can be used as a single point of contact. Very useful and used even more since Covid and has not become a critical point of my daily

Uploads are cumbersome. The platform is good for basic communication but cannot handle large campaigns or file sharing.

The Feed has provided an excellent platform for colleagues as well as our Comms team to share company news. We are able to measure via Analytics how this has improved engagement via Likes and Comments.
Users familiar with SM platforms feel immediately at home.

The Hub delivers a major part of what we wanted to achieve in terms of sharing material across our multi national offices and has become our single source of truth. The ease of use is such that little or no user instruction has been required.

As an Admin there is virtually no learning curve when setting up users, or populating content.

Having multiple methods of signing users up is useful where colleagues are factory/office/home based.

We would like more flexibility in the Directory in terms of displaying multiple contact numbers i.e internal phone extension, mobile and direct dial numbers.

A calendar with room booking functionality would be good.

We have yet to integrate with company systems so cannot comment at this time.

It's super easy to set up and use. The team at Blink are always quick to respond, listen to feedback and suggestions for future features.
Integration with some business applications have been useful for daily updates.

Now that they've allowed multiple photo uploads and direct video posts I can't think of much else. Permission levels could do with more rejigging as most things if you're not admin you can't control perhaps there could be something inbetween admin and user.
Also if you're not part of a team you can't post to that news feed - however there are times when someone from one team might want to post something to only a couple of teams but not the whole company and that's not easily achieveble. Perhaps "team admins" can post to other team news feeds and just not see any of the feed other than their own post?
Perhaps business collaboration tools could be more advanced?

This app makes other apps like slack look like a joke. It channels, feeds, documents, integrations. So much more for less.

On occasion we have to refresh the app. Not the end of the world by any means and I feel confident they'll work through random bugs!

The ability to communicate, connect, engage and share content is as simple as possible using Blink! We love the engagement we get from staff through likes, comments and acknowledgements which are vital to to us.

Three file maximum upload to posts can be a nightmare when we are doing big campaigns to staff especially around COVID since we are a health care company. Additionally, the 250mb max upload is again a hurdle due to us having to upload various videos which we have to upload via youtube and link it through due to size restrictions.

As a fast-growing company, Blink allowed us to create a single point of internal communication to reach outside of the traditional email and messaging platforms. We were able to share company news, team or individual kudos in no time and share the exciting news.

I would like to have pdfs upload with a screenshot rather than an icon

Function, user friendly and the team at Blink. They understand the business we are and what the objective was to deliver to the frontline workers.

We need understand further before we can express any con's at the moment.

After a workplace change to work from home, an application like this link your workers together and keep them updated on each thing with one click away

Integrated calendar from email could be better, for example, send in notifications

Blink is a really good business communications tool, some pros of the platform are:
- Good, customisable interface
- You can now filter and search posts by person
- Directory of colleagues

There's some areas Blink could improve by thinking about functionality for the user and the needs of big organisations e.g.
- You can't disable notifications from specific people
- You can't disable notifications by day of the week, only by time - get posts on weekends
- As our company is so big it can get really messy and flooded, more filter options could be beneficial

This is more than just a messaging app, a great one at that, It enables teams of staff to interact and collaborate with each other enabling a variety of benefits to arise. Some of these benefits include a growth in culture amongst teams and the business, the ability to contact others regardless of time, location or device and the simple yet effective layout of the App has made it more appealing and enjoyable to use. The App allows people to contact all teams during emergency situations. This proves effective during unprecedented events such as the recent 'Beast from the East'. Mostly we like the ceiling of the product. Many products in their early days are plagued with bugs and developmental issues, however, this software has had very few, this is a huge positive as this is rarely the case for new software, this puts the software in a league of its own.

Blink is a good way of getting information out to colleagues across different areas of the business.

Would be nice to be able to post in different styles of font. Bold/italic etc.

Sometimes users have issues opening attachments.

I like that the data included keeps the entire company aware of things that are going on.

Having to keep the app open to get status and updates. it takes up space and I feel I miss things if I don't have it opened on my desktop.

I like the Hub and quick/direct links to our firm platform portals. Blink is also been a great tool to use and publish timely announcement and feature articles. I like being able to post as either myself or part of the Communications Team and the ability to view post analytics. It would be interesting and perhaps useful to connect/align Blink posts with Slack and/or Microsoft Teams since the majority of our employees also use those tools to communicate and collaborate with each other.

I am not sure if many others within my organization use the Chats feature since there are already so many other tools and applications that provide that functionality for us.

I like the very easy way to create a new channel with colleagues.
Always ontop on one screen (an APP)

lack of integration with gtools suite (email/agenda) in both direction.

We have 25 depots around the UK. There was a time when we didn't know what was happening in the other depots but now all employees from other depots post their comments, feedback and other things on Blink so now we don't miss anything :)

There is nothing to dislike about Blink :)

Easy communication with team and other members of the organisation

see info that is unnecessary to me. Not being able to see relevant info due to the ammount of info on there

Able to chat to people quickly and easily without disrupting them. More efficient than emails and less formal. Promotes a more friendly environment in the workplace. I like the tea round and gifs! Also like that you can share attachments and images.

Sometimes inappropriate gifs (racist, sexual content etc) I also don't like that it tracks your usage but does not make that clear from the outset and doesn't appear to have an option to switch that off. In general I am not clear on what information others can see about my messages and activity so I would like more clarity on that.

Excellent way to communicate between employees on a one to one basis and also public posts for a whole group to see

If you add an image into a reply you can't also comment on the image in the same reply.

Blink has a very easy-to-use interface and our company has included important links for the users.

Unfortunately, I don't use Blink enough to have a say on what can be improved. I just read it to catch up on company information.

I like that it keeps team members in the know and able to post awards and recognition for one another and people to see events / announcements.

I like all features so far, it's a nice platform.

The ease of the communication and use and easy to set users up on

it doesnt have more functionalities in which we can work with

It's easy to use and performs like other popular private social media sites.

There is nothing i don't like at the moment