- Recent
- Popular
- Tags (0)
- Subscribers (5)
- DimDim - easy online meetings for those not brightYesterday
-
With the numerous enterprise meeting applications out there, from Webex to Lotus Sametime, all companies are looking for a way to streamline the ability to have good quality online meetings. Now I am not saying that DimDim is the answer for everyone, but a recent move they made makes them a smart choice.
I tested DimDim some time ago, and the personal account remains free (up to 20 attendees) now that they are not in beta. DimDim provides all the features you want:- screen sharing
- video
- broadcasting
- VOIP
- multiple presenters
- private and public chat
- recording and archiving
- this list really goes on....
Here is the kicker to the whole thing. While you can buy an enterprise hosted model. they decided to also release an open source version you can install on your own servers and manage in house. Tap that on with Claroline, an open source education tool, and you can stick this product into any company or school for a winning result.
I have used it now a few times with great success and to see an open source model really strikes against items like Lotus Sametime and it's - Virtual Gratification Syndrome (VGS) - new Repetitive Posting Syndrome (RPS)December 1
-
A subset of VGS has surfaced in the wild of social networking recently. Be warned, no known cures exist today!!! But I have the medical definition already written out. As the title of the posting suggests, it is Repetitive Posting Syndrome (RPS), a new part of VGS.
Some new services like Ping.fm and Hellotxt.com now offer the ability to submit the same content and postings to multiple sites. Instead of creating a simple flow between them (such as the ability to submit RSS to Twitter or have your Twitter postings show on Facebook, etc etc etc). You write a post once and then have it show up at every social network you define. Between the two sample I listed, that covers over 20 different sites and networks. This ability to submit to all at once enhances the feeling and empowers the person cursed with VGS.
So far, the only know way to force temporary remission, not a cure, is direct combating of RPS from the followers of the person afflicted. I have seen interventions take place where followers band together and 'unfollow' the poor RPS sufferer. What they do not realize is that by simply making noise about not following that person, they have wreaked havoc with the VGS. Services like Qwitter, t - My micro-community is better than your social networkNovember 24
-
In a discussion today in a group chat (that is based around an upcoming conference) it was brought up how to effectively communicate and locate each other when there will be upwards of 8,000 people there, in person. How do you quickly sort through a large Twitter stream, or how do you build a location awareness service around conference rooms spread across 3 hotels and open areas? Without making your own tools, it adds a high level of complexity. Services like Brightkite are not really made for that type of location service, even with the awesome ability to upload pictures.
What soon came to mind was that this little micro-community, far exceeds the benefit of posting and weeding through the larger macro-community. That is why sites such as Ning as so popular. You can build a smaller, manageable community that deeply serves the needs of the users, instead of being trapped in function based on large scale deployments. I whipped this ugly drawing up quickly.
Examples of any micro-community is one built around your blog for starters. You are the core - Social Media and Real EstateNovember 20
-
I attended a conference on Tuesday from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) put on by their Center for Realtor Technology. Here are some interesting statistics from a room with almost 300 people, all in the surrounding area of St Louis, MO. Keep in mind anytime you see the number of people saying yes, that would include me raising my hand.
- Who has a blog - 12
- Who has used Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn or the like - 30
- Who has kids that have used those - 100
- Who has used Twitter - 3
- Who reads RSS feeds - 2
- Who uses instant messaging - 100
As more people search first on the Internet for homes (see the new service coming from Dwellicious) they spend less time have agents randomly look for homes. It is not surprising when a call is received with the prospect stating, I want to see a specific list of houses I have already gathered, shall I email or fax it. That should have been the first sign - Virtual Gratification Syndrome (VGS) - the publisher aka Minutia-streamingNovember 17
-
It has been a couple months since I had another VGS posting in the series, I need to address all the publisher's of random content just to blog, serve a feed or tweek a twitter. With the introduction of both aggregation and lifestreaming (definitions here Link ) sites that pop up like a high schooler's acne, we are drawn to learn every infinitesimal detail about someone. People that start strong with business purpose and a particular topic in mind are soon flung into VGS where they must tell us when they wake, how many times they put spoon to mouth with cereal and then how bad traffic is. I am not saying that for extreme and funny stories this is not appropriate, but everyday? When do you realize that you are no longer lifestreaming and are minutia-streaming? I don't need to know you cat took a nap (mine does), I don't need to know how long it took you to drive to work today (34 minutes), I don't need to know how many spoonfuls of cereal you had (large spoon and half bowl so I guess 35?) nor do I want to know your location information on every block corner as you walk to lunch (10th and Washington).
How much time do you now lose daily not only putting out as much content as you can, but sucking it down from others like it is the life giving superstitious water only found in movies. Can you quantify the return you get from the amount you