The Tweet Stream [v2]

On June 3, 2009, In Comm, By Tac Anderson

Recent studies and observations have showed that 90% of tweets are made by 10% of the people which is closer to the user behavior of Wikipedia than Facebook (see links at the bottom of the post). One of the primary uses of Twitter by working professionals (the major demographic on Twitter) is for link sharing.

While some felt early on that Twitter would kill blogging I’ve always thought of it as a resource for my blogging. I primarily find and share links via the Tweet Stream. In order to help me explain that to others I created a simple graphic (because I’m not capable of anything else) and I thought I’d share it with you. Feel free to use it yourself. Although if you have any artistic capabilities I suggest you improve on the concept. If you do, please share it back out.

UPDATE: I suck so bad at design that this little project was beyond my grasp. Version one is here, I’ve replaced it with version 2 which ads the arrow at the bottom (signifying the flow of the Twitter stream) and the “Links” so people get that people post blogs and news stories, share the links, which people find via the “Twitter Stream” and that spawns new posts. Yeah, anyway I’m a dork.

Tweet Stream v2

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Could the Internet move back to an AOL model?

On May 4, 2009, In New, By Tac Anderson

Could the Internet move back to an AOL model?

This article got me thinking, Is there only one internet?

First I wondered, how many “Internets” would there be if you tracked individual usage? We tend to visit the same sites or the same type of sites. Kind of like our real world communities.

Then I thought about the “Dark Web“, and all of the private communities out there.

Then I moved on to a reoccurring thought I’ve had about the future of “Private Internets”. What if to battle security and stability people started building private Internets, with their own infrastructure. Think AOL 2.0.

While rationally I could see this happening, I have a hard time realistically seeing it happening. It goes againts the nature of the Web. But a country like China could make it a possability. If that does happen then any chance of freedom in that country is lost.

Worse will come if, say, the Chinese government decides to set up its own root directory of Chinese domain names, held on its own computers and independent of the existing US-based directory. This could give the Chinese authorities control over which sites its citizens access, potentially giving it the power to largely isolate them from the rest of the net.

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Top 5 Web 2.0 Collaboration Tools

On May 9, 2007, In Comm, By Tac Anderson

#1 Blogs

This one was a no brainer really. Blogs have changed the way we communicate and share information. While blogs are more like someone giving a presentation, they at least provide a great opportunity for Q&A. It amazes me how such a light weight CMS has such a huge impact on our lives.

#2 Forums

Forums are one of the few remnants left over from the dot bomb. Much like tortoises escaping dino extinction, forums are a still a great medium for collaborating especially when you consider the potential for time shifted collaboration. A must have for a true collaborative forum is RSS

#3 Wikis

Wiki’s have a lot of interest from the enterprise, but many people aren’t sure how to use them. They can be intimidating for the non techies. Wiki’s are a lot like blogs in their versatility. I’ve even seen people use wiki’s as their personal website. I think the full power of the wiki is still yet to be seen. The must have for wiki adoption in your company is a good WYSIWYG editor (RSS doesn’t hurt either).

#4 IM/SMS

Have you ever sent an IM or SMS to someone who was sitting right next to you because it was easier than taking off your headphones? If you have, then I don’t have to tell you anymore. If you haven’t then there is only way to convince you: skype me. It is so much faster than sending an email or picking up the phone.

#5 Shared Bookmarking

This is quietly becoming a major new media trend. A company that institutes enterprise level bookmarking will never go without it again. If you want to get a taste for what it’s like, get your team to sign up for del.icio.us. Create a unique tag; for my company, we’d use menloprk because there is a very low chance someone would use that tag outside of our company. Now have your team subscribe the RSS feed for that unique tag. I promise it will change the way you share interesting articles.

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Who Killed E-Mail?

On April 16, 2007, In Comm, By Tac Anderson

We all did.

“I’ll just send him/her a quick e-mail .”
“Can you send that over in an e-mail?”

E-mail is very convenient. It’s simple, fast and quicker than picking up the phone. Unfortunately in most business settings, other than the phone, it is the only way people communicate.

This is a problem.

How many emails do you get a day? 100? 200? Sadly those numbers aren’t uncommon. Most of those emails had information that we did have to make available to the other person, but it didn’t have to go out in an e-mail. If companies used blogs, wiki’s and forums as a part of their intranets I’m willing to bet that 3/4 of the internal emails we send could be eliminated.

The e-mail channel is clogged because it is the only electronic channel we have.

E-mail sucks for collaboration. More on that later.

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