Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Gregory Culpin
“I’ve had a chance to be one of the early users of MicroPlaza and have come away very impressed. The site maps all links shared by the people you follow on Twitter and displays them by popularity (the number of times they have been retweeted) or by date in a Techeme-style link + sources view. MicroPlaza is great for a few reasons.” by Josh Catone
Read the full article at www.sitepoint.com
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
Scott Gavin
In addition to the 106 comments(!) these are the top 5 high value benefits identified:
1) Understanding the social circles in our industry
2) Valuable Business Relationships
3) Uncover Opportunities for Online Collaboration
4) Strengthen Existing Relationships
5) Daily nuggets of humor and fun
Read the full article at blog.mrtweet.net
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
Antoine Perdaens
This phenomenon is called microsharing and it refers to the act of individuals sharing pieces of content with others in a group who have similar interests or needs. Some common activities today that would constitute microsharing range from saving a link on del.icio.us to posting an interesting story or video on Digg. Tagging an existing piece of content or using a “send to a friend form” are also examples of this. The most interesting thing is that as the volume of content continues to increase, more and more people rely on this microsharing to get the information they need. It is the new editorial model, and the editor is each of us.
Read the full article at rohitbhargava.typepad.com
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Gregory Culpin
Laura Fitton from Pistachio relayed this short business use case story for Twitter written by Gary Koelling of Best Buy and Blue Shirt Nation fame.
Microblogging in a single room is the behaviour you’ll see at conferences nowadays, but I was thrilled to discover a company actually practicing this to manage all their meetings and presentations.
Whether you are 5 or 500 people, the ability to instantaneously share ideas and conversations without disrupting presentations almost sounds too wild to one day become common practice. My first impression is however that this could be slightly overkill for smaller groups/companies. Also the fewer the people, the closer the speaker and therefore the more potentially disturbing could microblogging become.
Should critical mass therefore be a requisit? Could we apply the same to web conference meetings and training sessions to dynamically gather feedback? Next step is now to convince the boss to try this out 
Read the full article at pistachioconsulting.com
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