{"id":738,"date":"2008-01-03T00:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/?p=522"},"modified":"2008-01-03T00:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T00:58:00","slug":"alphadawgs-itgeek-twitter-group-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/archives\/738","title":{"rendered":"AlphaDawg's ITGeek Twitter Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

AlphaDawg's ITGeek Twitter Group<\/a><\/p>\n

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*Preliminary Draft – I’m still working on the thuds; not sure this will fly at all!*<\/font> BenTrem 21:24Z 2JAN08<\/p>\n

Please, join in to create the group feed; follow ITGeek<\/a>!
\nThe “group feed” should appear at twitter.com\/ITGeek\/with_friends<\/a><\/p>\n

With the arrival of David Sifry’s “Announcing Hoosgot”<\/a> service on twitter (see also Doc Searles’ “Y Hoosgot?”<\/a>) folk have started talking about the whole #tagging and grouping thang<\/i> again (Not ignoring HashTags<\/a>, another dandy service) … and this really deserves to be talked through.<\/p>\n

These two posts pretty much capture the state of things in the summer of ’07: “Groups for Twitter; or A Proposal for Twitter Tag Channels<\/a>” and, at ITtoolbox, ELSUA’s “Groups for Twitter; or a Proposal for Twitter Tag Channels and on the Importance of Listening to Your End-Users<\/a>” – As a starter, people keep coming up with some pretty impressive blog posts that clearly detail how Twitter could be used on a business environment to help you stay connected with other knowledge workers while in a distributed world.<\/p>\n

Looking at how folk use Twitter got me remembering group dynamics in PowWow. (You had to be there; systems in-form transaction, yes? This system truly enabled friendly fun camp-fire style exchanges.)<\/p>\n

I’ve been chewing on this for a few days … reading posts that link to this one hear … letting it simmer a while.<\/p>\n

I think I’ve got a model that would work. It doesn’t use tags, it would be by subscription. Sort of. It’s so simple it’s sort of embarrassing.<\/p>\n

You know how many different view we have now. “Recent” (http:\/\/twitter.com\/home) of course shows yours and everyone you’re following. Then “Archive”, your past tweets … again self-evident. And “Replies”, which is awefull nice … most everyone misses @ traffic now and again. Then there’s “Direct Messages” … gotta luv systems that have simple PM Function.<\/p>\n

And, equally obvious, you can go to anyone else’ page to see their past tweets. Not their “Direct” of course, nor their “Replies” … common decency.
\nPut here’s the curve: “With Others” … ok, I can see my buddies’ view of his transaction … not so interesting.<\/p>\n

Ah-Ha! – a group could congregate on a single account! If folk “Follow” that “group user”, then they would see it and all others subscribed to it<\/b><\/i>.
\nWhat’s interesting is that the plumbing imposes open-ness … not tweets can be directed to only that group, and non-members are perfectly capable of viewing the whole record. But “viewers” can not contribute to that stream; an individual isn’t “voiced” until\/unless the group user Follows them<\/b>!<\/i> And, of course, an individual can be de-voiced. (Yes, of course “with cause” … having tools doesn’t mean we shed all the problematics of the human experience!<\/p>\n

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The “group feed” should appear at twitter.com\/ITGeek\/with_friends”>ITGeek w\/Friends<\/a><\/p>\n

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Addendum<\/b>: I was wondering >> ITGeek: “Hoosgot insight for “advantage to actually following” me? My Follows already create the group. To what use my “Followers” list?”
\nI got it: By “Following” ITGreek, a person promotes their own Tweets, i.e. that gesture signals a request to have feed added to group view!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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