Talkwheel Hopes To Facilitate Easier Conversations At The Workplace

Instant messaging is a pretty good way to communicate when you can’t meet in person, but can an online platform actually improve conversations? That’s the mission of Talkwheel, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2009 by Jeff Harris. Like Yammer, HipChat and Salesforce Chatter, Talkwheel is an instant messaging service for companies and other groups, but the layout is designed to make these discussions easier to see. In a recent phone interview, Talkwheel representative Patrick Randolph gave mbStartups a tour of the interface and discussed the future possibilities for the service.

This is a guest post from Devon Glenn, mediabistro’s startup guru.

Instant messaging is a pretty good way to communicate when you can’t meet in person, but can an online platform actually improve conversations?  That’s the mission of Talkwheel, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2009 by Jeff Harris.  Like Yammer, HipChat and Salesforce Chatter, Talkwheel is an instant messaging service for companies and other groups, but the layout is designed to make these discussions easier to see.

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