Tweet tweet, I'm here
Since signing up for twitter, along with the rest of the world, to see what it was like, I haven't thought of many genuinely useful things to do with it. It could, of course, be a way to alert people to things happening at home for AlertMe. But there are many other ways to do that, too.
We used to use a whiteboard in the office as an IN/OUT board, and this worked well when there were three of us there on most days. Now there are 18! In addition, we now have phones, which ring when people aren't at their desks, leaving one wondering where they've got to. The solution is clearly that we all use twitter for our current status/location, and that we have a CamVine screen showing the latest tweet for each of us on the office wall. This means at-a-glance where people are information, and it can even be updated remotely using SMS.
It's a great idea, only partially marred by the unreliability of twitter. As I thought of it earlier, and explained to my Instant Messaging but untwittering colleagues, twitter's IM interface was down, again.
We used to use a whiteboard in the office as an IN/OUT board, and this worked well when there were three of us there on most days. Now there are 18! In addition, we now have phones, which ring when people aren't at their desks, leaving one wondering where they've got to. The solution is clearly that we all use twitter for our current status/location, and that we have a CamVine screen showing the latest tweet for each of us on the office wall. This means at-a-glance where people are information, and it can even be updated remotely using SMS.
It's a great idea, only partially marred by the unreliability of twitter. As I thought of it earlier, and explained to my Instant Messaging but untwittering colleagues, twitter's IM interface was down, again.