While the VAIRKKO Platform offers many different ways for you to communicate with your staff choosing the correct tool may sometimes be half the work. This article explains in detail the differences between these features and examples as to why you may wish to use one over another for various scenarios.
Memos:
- Advantages
- Aggressively tracked when employees view/acknowledge the memo
- Key word search-able
- Printable
- May contain unlimited documents as attachments
- May contain unlimited related links
- May be published to groups of your employees, locations, user classes, etc.
- Employee may reply to the author of the memo with ease
- Disadvantages
- Cannot "FORCE" an employee to read/acknowledge memos
- Cannot be sent to an employees email or eBox
eBox Messaging Center:
- Advantages
- Can be used to "FORCE" an employee to read/acknowledge content upon employee login to the system
- Employees may reply to the author with ease
- May be published to groups of your employees, locations, user classes, etc.
- Can be used as an internal messaging system between management and staff (similar to email)
- Disadvantages
- Cannot contain documents or links as attachments
Special Site Messages:
- Advantages:
- Can be configured to appear below the menu system within the VAIRKKO Platform
- Can be configured to be eye catching with bright colors, large fonts, etc
- Employees will see this message on every page within the VAIRKKO Platform
- Disadvantages:
- The VAIRKKO Platform does not directly track if the employee view/reads the message
- Can only have one "masthead" message display at one time
News and Announcements:
- Advantages
- Key word search-able
- Printable
- May contain unlimited documents as attachments
- May contain unlimited related links
- May be published to groups of your employees, locations, user classes, etc.
- Employee may reply to the author of the memo with ease
- Disadvantages
- Not tracked when employees view/acknowledge the article
- Cannot "FORCE" an employee to read/acknowledge memos
- Cannot be sent to an employees email or eBox