Social work
November 21st, 2007 by Daniel Young | Filed under Social media, Technology.There is lot of talk about the abscence of professional tools and applications in the latest social networking sites. I have been thinking about applying the concept of ’social’ in the context of ’social media’ to the work place. This may have been discussed or it may be being discussed. It stemmed from a conference call in which I took actions and circulated them to the participants. Well actually, I sent them to my team mate to review and then asked her to circulate them. Now, if instead of circulating them she posted them to the Web and sent us a feed. We would then accept and they would go into a centralised To Do List, which collects the actions from all of your calls and meetings. Everyone can view everyone else’s actions. When one action is the first step before another, as many are, the team member that completed the first step would automatically initiate the action as ready in the To Do List of his colleague. With the same application, you would have a Twitter like application for teams to exchange pleasantries or share ideas and thoughts. And a status bar would broadcast a descriptive of your current project (if it is of significane and/or lengthy enough to require a status bar update). Imagine a team member is called into an urgent/unplanned meeting and unable to complete a must do task in his to do list before its deadline. This task would pop up on the screens of the team mates with an option for them to accept, delay or reject. If the action is rejected then an automatic chat room pops up for the team to discuss the resolution. Does anyone think there is something in this at least in distributed teams.
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