Blink

Pros

The product is easy to use. The possibility to create group is very interesting, as group can be done with the right persons to talk a specific subject. The global feed allows to share general information about the company.

Cons

The copy / paste option is working only in the blink feed. No possibility to copy directly to a Google Mail by example.

Pros

The ease of communication with the team.

Cons

I don't have anything bad to say about Blink.

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Reasons for Choosing Blink

Switched From

Reasons for Switching to Blink

Pros

Everything about it working great and easy to use

Cons

Nothing at all works great and does great

Pros

It attempts to play in the space of Slack.

Cons

It does everything other chat apps do in a worse manner or is poorly implemented.
I sent multiple bugs back to the company and none were interpreted correctly or I was told the issue I was facing in one platform was fixed in another platform.

Pros

The security that Blink provides is unmatched

Cons

Sometimes it takes a little long to load

Pros

- free for up to 20 users
- great alternative to a company intranet / communication portal for the micro businesses who want to share their management system documentation with field staff and don't want to fork out expensive licences with Microsoft for similar products like yammer / SharePoint.
- if you are IT savvy and know how to build microapps feature will draw your attention.
- Can download on android and iOS devices
- Has a desktop app for windows and iOS devices

Cons

- you have to purchase the premier package at a monthly cost per user to do branding. It would be good if there was a fixed fee per month for up to 10 users for the small companies e.g. £20 plus VAT.

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Reasons for Switching to Blink

Pros

I love that Blink pulls everything together. Everything you need all in one spot!

Cons

I haven't found anything I least like about Blink. So far so great!

Pros

It is very intuitive and easy to use. The workflows are generated easily and it allows you to effectively communicate with your team members and even with contacts outside of your organization. I like that we can also have private conversations so it makes it simpler and better to use than conventional tools like emails.

Cons

Something to improve would be to find a way to reduce the crowd on the feed. It might become a lot to see at first and sometimes depending on the kind of messages you see, it may be negative too.

Pros

Easy navigation with user-friendly interface.

Cons

There could be a test window where we can see what customisations will look like with the UI on top. Instead it just shows the background image and logo as a preview.

Pros

The ease of the product set up and daily usage.

Cons

No major cons with the program. It did have a slight learning curve but once a good understanding is gained it’s perfect.

Pros

Blink is awesome for:
Internal communications & Employee communication

Cons

The only thing I can think of is that Forms are a bit of a struggle to pull off correctly.

Pros

Since Blink was introduced into our company it has changed the way we communicate. Prior to it's introduction we had no central communication hub. We have over 100 care homes, very many staff and customers all over the UK, so we are very remote from each other.

Since Blink was introduced, we can now see posts from other services showing their activities and milestone celebrations. It connects central services to our homes and each home with each other making us feel part of the wider company rather than just a lone care home. This has been particularly important during the isolation of Covid in the past year and a half.

We also have all of our policies and procedures in one place on the Blink Hub.

Cons

A bit like Facebook - once a post has gone down the feed it is sometimes hard to find again if you need to refer to it again, this is especially difficult if the post is important information - say new rules regarding Covid.

Sometimes it is hard to find a particular Policy or Procedure in the Hub - but that might be more about how and where it is uploaded - I am not sure?

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Pros

Makes to passage of information across large amounts of staff seamless and easy.

Cons

Only issue I have is not being able to do admin on a mobile.

Pros

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

Cons

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!

Pros

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 :)

Cons

There is nothing to dislike about Blink :)

Pros

Since working from home Blink has been invaluable to our team as it allows us to communicate throughout the work day as if we were in the office.

Cons

Sometimes news feed is hard to filter and important information can sometimes be missed

Pros

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

Cons

There is nothing i don't like at the moment

Pros

The product is really user friendly. Admin functions are straight forward and nothing is too many clicks away.

Cons

Occasionally when posting pics into the feed, they display as a link as opposed to the picture but with some fiddling i can usually solve this issue.

Pros

Easy to use
Quick feedback
Fun
Good platform

Cons

No out of office facility
Hard to find previous comms

Pros

Ease of use - no training on basics required. Very intuitive

Cons

some of the search facilities could do with fine tuning

Pros

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

Cons

it doesnt have more functionalities in which we can work with

Pros

Extremely intuitive software and makes it incredible easy to update employees instantaneously! (Especially when you have so many!)

Cons

Nothing of note - I know that some employees have had problems with sending posts to specific teams but I think admins need to update their access as opposed to it being a system fault

Pros

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.

Cons

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

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Reasons for Switching to Blink

Pros

We use Blink to post what is going on around the business. I use it to ensure all staff receive appropriate information that they require to do their roles.

Cons

None at this time. We are still developing the functionality