Comments on: Musings on micro-blogging

By: Ambient intimacy | The Equity Kicker

Ambient intimacy | The Equity Kicker — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:52:50 +0000

[...] to learn about areas of their lives he might otherwise never hear about. I have attempted to describe this before, and I think Malcolm Gladwell’s concept of weak ties explains a lot of the power of Twitter [...]

By: Jack Vinson

Jack Vinson — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:36:55 +0000

Nancy White has started a wiki to collect some Twitter Collaboration Stories: http://onlinefacilitation.wikispaces.com/Twitter+Collaboration+Stories

A little different than the focus of this article, but it works in the same vein. People become aware of the need for help or assistance by listening to the pulse of the conversations around them. Those could be the coffee station at work, or it could be Facebook statuses / Twitter / Jaiku…

By: Jack Vinson

Jack Vinson — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:36:00 +0000

Nancy White has started a wiki to collect some Twitter Collaboration Stories: http://onlinefacilitation.wikispaces.com/Twitter+Collaboration+Stories

By: nic

nic — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:30:29 +0000

thanks guys.

Paul – thanks for this. I have had some conversations with Ken in the past. He has some very interesting ideas.

Ian – most of the ‘microblogs’ I read are Twitters and status updates from my Facebook friends. 99% of them are from professional rather than personal contacts.

This is another area in which there is an increasing need for a way of splitting work friends from other friends, but I think the argument works for both.

By: nic

nic — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:30:00 +0000

thanks guys.

Paul – thanks for this. I have had some conversations with Ken in the past. He has some very interesting ideas.

Ian – most of the ‘microblogs’ I read are Twitters and status updates from my Facebook friends. 99% of them are from professional rather than personal contacts.

This is another area in which there is an increasing need for a way of splitting work friends from other friends, but I think the argument works for both.

By: Ian Delaney

Ian Delaney — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:03:54 +0000

There’s a slight assumption here that your microblogging friends are potential or real business contacts. I would assume that the contrary is normally the case.

I don’t have a problem with that – I think networking on a social and business basis, all of the time, is enormously healthy.

I like your point, nonetheless, about learning people’s inclinations, moods, methods and habits by watching is very valuable.

By: Ian Delaney

Ian Delaney — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:03:00 +0000

There’s a slight assumption here that your microblogging friends are potential or real business contacts. I would assume that the contrary is normally the case.

I don’t have a problem with that – I think networking on a social and business basis, all of the time, is enormously healthy.

I like your point, nonetheless, about learning people’s inclinations, moods, methods and habits by watching is very valuable.

By: PaulSweeney

PaulSweeney — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:59:26 +0000

Nic, super useful insight here. My friend Ken Thompson over at swarmteams (www.swarm-it.com) has been plowing this furrow for about two years now at http://www.bioteams.com/ and launched an app at about the same time as twitter. I think he would have a few articles that would interest you. (he also has around 14,000 readers I think!).

By: PaulSweeney

PaulSweeney — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:59:00 +0000

By: Nicola Mattina

Nicola Mattina — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:25:02 +0000

That’s a very interesting point of view: I did not think about microblogging in that terms yet. I’ll immediatly start a little experiment in my company with my collaborators and partners. Thanks for the musings Nicola