Comments on: Twitter Clones Will Be A Common Feature of Collaboration Platforms … http://www.theappgap.com/twitter-clones-will-be-a-common-feature-of-collaboration-platforms.html Apps, Strategies, and Best Practices for Web-based work Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:56:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Martin Lindeskog http://www.theappgap.com/twitter-clones-will-be-a-common-feature-of-collaboration-platforms.html/comment-page-1#comment-30964 Martin Lindeskog Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:42:14 +0000 http://www.theappgap.com/twitter-clones-will-be-a-common-feature-of-collaboration-platforms.html#comment-30964 Jon Husband, Thanks for the information. Jon Husband,

Thanks for the information.

]]> By: Jon Husband http://www.theappgap.com/twitter-clones-will-be-a-common-feature-of-collaboration-platforms.html/comment-page-1#comment-30801 Jon Husband Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:03:07 +0000 http://www.theappgap.com/twitter-clones-will-be-a-common-feature-of-collaboration-platforms.html#comment-30801 Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: "What are you working on?". Socialtext is a full-blown collaboration plaform ... Socialtext Workspace is the core collaboration platform, with unlimited wiki workspaces, personal dashboards for users, and weblogs for ongoing collaborative conversations. Additional features / functionality includes Socialtext People for social networking, and Socialtext Signals for microblogging-based information sharing. It also plugs into the major Microsoft SharePoint and Lotus Connections platforms. Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: “What are you working on?”.

Socialtext is a full-blown collaboration plaform … Socialtext Workspace is the core collaboration platform, with unlimited wiki workspaces, personal dashboards for users, and weblogs for ongoing collaborative conversations. Additional features / functionality includes Socialtext People for social networking, and Socialtext Signals for microblogging-based information sharing. It also plugs into the major Microsoft SharePoint and Lotus Connections platforms.

]]> By: Martin Lindeskog http://www.theappgap.com/twitter-clones-will-be-a-common-feature-of-collaboration-platforms.html/comment-page-1#comment-30800 Martin Lindeskog Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:49:32 +0000 http://www.theappgap.com/twitter-clones-will-be-a-common-feature-of-collaboration-platforms.html#comment-30800 I have recently started to use Yammer in order to have a good communication on a new online business venture. How would you compare and contrast Yammer with Socialtext? I have recently started to use Yammer in order to have a good communication on a new online business venture. How would you compare and contrast Yammer with Socialtext?

]]> By: Jon Husband http://www.theappgap.com/twitter-clones-will-be-a-common-feature-of-collaboration-platforms.html/comment-page-1#comment-30708 Jon Husband Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:24:38 +0000 http://www.theappgap.com/twitter-clones-will-be-a-common-feature-of-collaboration-platforms.html#comment-30708 Hi, Bill. Yes, great indeed to have some hang time with you and our other friends in LV a couple of weeks ago. I did read your post .. I agree with you .. and as I think you know, there are a number of major collaboration platforms that are beginning to have some form of group IM / one to many many to one notification capabilities embedded in the layer where real-time or near-real-time collaboration activities take place. I think (and I think you agree) that it is a very "natural" way to connect and exchange about issues when working online. I suspect, as noted above, that we will see a lot more of it in the next couple of years, and that "it" will be a part of all workplaces within 5 to 10 years. Kinda like memo technology (pens, pencils and post-it notes) 20 years ago, maybe ? Hi, Bill. Yes, great indeed to have some hang time with you and our other friends in LV a couple of weeks ago.

I did read your post .. I agree with you .. and as I think you know, there are a number of major collaboration platforms that are beginning to have some form of group IM / one to many many to one notification capabilities embedded in the layer where real-time or near-real-time collaboration activities take place.

I think (and I think you agree) that it is a very “natural” way to connect and exchange about issues when working online. I suspect, as noted above, that we will see a lot more of it in the next couple of years, and that “it” will be a part of all workplaces within 5 to 10 years. Kinda like memo technology (pens, pencils and post-it notes) 20 years ago, maybe ?

]]> By: Bill Ives http://www.theappgap.com/twitter-clones-will-be-a-common-feature-of-collaboration-platforms.html/comment-page-1#comment-30699 Bill Ives Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:23:47 +0000 http://www.theappgap.com/twitter-clones-will-be-a-common-feature-of-collaboration-platforms.html#comment-30699 Jon - I agree and I think within the enterprise Twitter like features integrated with a platform works better than stand alone. See my post just before you for a reference to another example -Traction Software. Great to see you again in Vegas. Bill Jon – I agree and I think within the enterprise Twitter like features integrated with a platform works better than stand alone. See my post just before you for a reference to another example -Traction Software. Great to see you again in Vegas. Bill

]]> By: Library clips :: Twitter 3 years on, and why it’s the killer app! :: March :: 2009 http://www.theappgap.com/twitter-clones-will-be-a-common-feature-of-collaboration-platforms.html/comment-page-1#comment-30673 Library clips :: Twitter 3 years on, and why it’s the killer app! :: March :: 2009 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:30:02 +0000 http://www.theappgap.com/twitter-clones-will-be-a-common-feature-of-collaboration-platforms.html#comment-30673 [...] are using it as a tool to monitor, promote and support, and all the enterprise versions that it has influenced. There are even books, how-to’s, songs, video, plus breaking news, natural disasters, [...] [...] are using it as a tool to monitor, promote and support, and all the enterprise versions that it has influenced. There are even books, how-to’s, songs, video, plus breaking news, natural disasters, [...]

]]> By: Jon Husband http://www.theappgap.com/twitter-clones-will-be-a-common-feature-of-collaboration-platforms.html/comment-page-1#comment-30630 Jon Husband Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:51:39 +0000 http://www.theappgap.com/twitter-clones-will-be-a-common-feature-of-collaboration-platforms.html#comment-30630 I suspect you're right, Dorothy. People are people, and the more software and interconnectedness can ensure they ape existing or latent social impulses and behaviour, the more likely any given application will find users, utility and uptake. I suspect you’re right, Dorothy.

People are people, and the more software and interconnectedness can ensure they ape existing or latent social impulses and behaviour, the more likely any given application will find users, utility and uptake.

]]> By: Dorothy Briggs Mead http://www.theappgap.com/twitter-clones-will-be-a-common-feature-of-collaboration-platforms.html/comment-page-1#comment-30591 Dorothy Briggs Mead Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:07:20 +0000 http://www.theappgap.com/twitter-clones-will-be-a-common-feature-of-collaboration-platforms.html#comment-30591 Glad to see that this feature is being considered as an important part of collaboration. We built status updates into our enterprise collaboration product from the start and in testing (we go commercial this week!) it's been a hugely popular feature. Why is this? Users just seem to like to communicate activity across a business - and when the business is geographically disparate it provides that instant insight that would never be achieved by formal channels by the time it's happened it's almost too late. And we know that it's this sort of insight which can kickstart project action and productivity. The 'business' likes it because it is 'within the boundaries', and when it's a 10 second update there can be no claims that it's a productivity-sapper. Perhaps it's this type of tool that will make 'social' acceptable in the enterprise. Quick, easy, effective. Glad to see that this feature is being considered as an important part of collaboration. We built status updates into our enterprise collaboration product from the start and in testing (we go commercial this week!) it’s been a hugely popular feature. Why is this? Users just seem to like to communicate activity across a business – and when the business is geographically disparate it provides that instant insight that would never be achieved by formal channels by the time it’s happened it’s almost too late. And we know that it’s this sort of insight which can kickstart project action and productivity. The ‘business’ likes it because it is ‘within the boundaries’, and when it’s a 10 second update there can be no claims that it’s a productivity-sapper. Perhaps it’s this type of tool that will make ’social’ acceptable in the enterprise. Quick, easy, effective.

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