WhatsApp has been a popular instant messaging app and an easy and useful place for posting micro-content to a targeted group of people. However, with changes to Facebook’s privacy policy, people are moving to other apps including Signal. In an Guardian article (24 January 2021, Kate O’Flaherty asks Is it time to leave WhatsApp – and is Signal the answer?

“Does Signal have all the features I am used to and why is it more private?

Yes, Signal has most of the features you are used to on WhatsApp, such as stickers and emojis. You can set up and name groups, and it’s easy to send a message: just bring up the pen sign in the right-hand corner. Signal has a desktop app, and you can voice and video chat with up to eight people. Like WhatsApp, Signal uses your phone number as your identity, something that has concerned some privacy and security advocates. However, the company has introduced pin codes in the hope of moving to a more secure and private way of identifying users in the future … Signal is privacy focused and has no desire to analyse, share or profit from users’ private information, says Jake Moore, cybersecurity specialist at ESET”

Signal is therefore a secure platform to use for group conversations and sharing, and a good place to set up a private group for targeted micro-training.

QUESTION:
Do you make use of WhatsApp or Signal groups to share micro-content or provide micro-training?
If not, what opportunities are there for you to offer WhatsApp or Signal groups to a team or other group of people?

FIND OUT MORE:
In Section 3 – Deliver micro-training – of MWL 2021 we look at how to set up both WhatsApp and Signal group to offer micro-training.