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Re: How a Business Could Use Friendfeed For Collaboration

Dan — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:46:32 -0000

I have been using Friendfeed to collaborate with my writing students. I have incorporated it into a research and writing dashboard which can be viewed here: http://tinyurl.com/timedwriter . You can find FriendFeed tabs at the bottom of the center column (scroll down).

Re: How a Business Could Use Friendfeed For Collaboration

rachel — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:58:25 -0000

extremely valuable in todays market

Re: How a Business Could Use Friendfeed For Collaboration

Gonzalo Arzuaga — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:01:23 -0000

Hey Rob,

IÂ´d love to get to peek your thesis whenever it's available. Would you be kind enough to send it over to me? When do you expect to release it? A big thanks to you Rob!

Re: How a Business Could Use Friendfeed For Collaboration

chrisbrogan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:13:48 -0000

@n_m- I'm just saying that business users could probably start using it today and not need changes for a year or so.

Re: How a Business Could Use Friendfeed For Collaboration

netwurker mez — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:56:38 -0000

makes absolute sense. + glad 2 read u do enjoy a good o' fashioned comment-stream immersion, chris [yay!]. i'm chronically amazed @ the fact so many "professional" soc_netters view comments as nothing more than an unavoidable blipvertish adjunct 2 the "primary" [ie parent] message/stream. so old skool.

+ interesting re scoble's opinion = bleeding edge. i tend 2 agree with him in terms of the _FF_ filter factor [revamp ftw!] but am unsure as 2 any degenerative _FF_ progression. i tend 2 think the core _FF_ user-base will fluctuate according 2 the usefulness of any successive modifications or emergence of viable competitor services/start-ups.

regarding ur healthy projection for _FF_'s business users, can u define a workable definition of "long duration"? thx.

Re: How a Business Could Use Friendfeed For Collaboration

chrisbrogan — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:51:32 -0000

@netwurker mez - of course I read the comments. I love comments. It's 75% of why I blog.

I think Robert's point of view is a bleeding edge point of view, and makes sense for what Robert values in the product.

For the business user, I think FriendFeed will be just fine as-is for a long duration. I write most of my stuff to point towards business people looking to try out social web tools.

To Robert's point, however, it's time for FF to do something more. One idea is that they've mastered getting lots of data IN, but they haven't built tools for us to do something with it OUT. Meaning, maybe we can mush it up, slice off some parts, and output something interesting. Make sense?

Make sen

Re: How a Business Could Use Friendfeed For Collaboration

Nic Avery — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:24:03 -0000

I am relatively new to friend feed, and am part of a team that has a private group to share information on a current project. We have found it to work very effectively.

Re: How a Business Could Use Friendfeed For Collaboration

netwurker mez — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:24:55 -0000

hullo chris.

interesting 2 c u posting here @ mashable. in my typical lateral style, i'm gonna throw u a curve-ball [+ also keen 2 c if u actually read the comments;)] + ask u ur take on Scobel's opinion of Friendfeed's popularity going all screwy:

"I'm not that tired of it, but growth has definitely slowed in FriendFeed. Keep in mind, I love noise, but everyone I show it to pushes back. My wife says "I don't get it." That's because FriendFeed hasn't improved its choices for how things get delivered to you. It hasn't given us any new noise filtering mechanisms. I hear they are working on rebuilding the back end, so I'll be patient, but in the meantime FriendFeed's growth has stalled and it won't improve until they give us some real improvements."

Re: How a Business Could Use Friendfeed For Collaboration

Zack Perry — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:27:50 -0000

I can say this is extremely valuable in today's market. The ability to suck multiple data sources together to create this picture of something is awesome. I know one of the biggest troubles we have is behind/ outside the firewall tools. Outside the firewalls tools are developing so much faster than inside. For example, I use Google reader as my rss reader but I can't get internal feeds. It's something I've learned to live with since the internal tools blow or don't work.

Re: How a Business Could Use Friendfeed For Collaboration

Brandon Watts — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:58:22 -0000

Chris,

I think we're just starting to scratch the surface of what's possible with FriendFeed. I never even thought of using it in this way, but after reading your thoughts, it makes so much sense.

Re: How a Business Could Use Friendfeed For Collaboration

Rob van Alphen — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:48:43 -0000

Nice post Chris.

I'm particularly interested because I'm going to do my thesis on the matter: "Use of social media in corporate communication".

I'm going to focus primarily on management communication & organizational comm. (investor relations, public affairs,..). So not on the more "common" customer relations.
These are fields that are practically NOT examined so far (try to find 5 blogs doing this!), but imho will be a big market in the future. Agree?

Re: How a Business Could Use Friendfeed For Collaboration

Steve Olson — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:35:40 -0000

Chris,

No doubt FriendFeed could be the way to manage teams and projects over distance, culture, and time. The problem is getting people out of analog and into digital mode. We are working on it and when it comes it will be a beautiful thing. I'm working it hard with my family and friends. And I'm getting results. Now I just need to get my 78 yo dad on board. He is the (OG) the original geek.

Re: How a Business Could Use Friendfeed For Collaboration

Rob — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:29:01 -0000

It makes sense and I would go as far as saying that we need it in my company, where sales portals and intranets are lacking. And sharepoint deployment is poor, although this is all the stuff a user should be able to simply set up in SP

Access control would be an issue to resolve, our corporation would want it linked to the corporate domain to manage hires and fires.