Status Logs Basics
Social presence can also be a powerful yet simple way for the organization to keep in touch with its employees. Its a truism that people waste a ton of time "checking in" with one another either in person, via e-mail or phone.
Status logs allow users to send brief messages or updates to communicate with colleagues, without the cumbersome process of constantly sending "what have you been working on lately" types of emails. Users can inform the system what they are doing, thus creating a social presence and notifying others of their activity.
The "right now" aspect of status logs plays a big role in increasing interactivity between users. The 140 character limit enables you to get to the point of your message quickly and in a succinct way. It works as another channel for keeping people in the loop about day-to-day stuff.
Use of Status Logs in the Enterprise
"I am on my way to meet the purchase head at Acme Steel" Imagine if you had to phone 500 people from your organization prior to the meeting, to know if anyone has worked with him before!
Microblogging creates a broadcast type of a communication channel keeping you up to date with all the details on who's been where, done what and why etc. It enables to create a context around your colleagues making you aware of daily developments in your organization as they happen. So with a microblogging tool, you would just type out the above message and it would be sent across to everyone in the organization. Anyone with useful feedback can reply back instantly. The immediacy and informal nature of the medium is the key here.
Apart from keeping all employees in sync and creating transparency towards business activity, the power of microblogging can be leveraged to:
- One-to-One conversations
- Notifications about changed information
- Talk to customers and partners
- Collaborate with colleagues around projects / content
- Document discussions and decisions
- Documented contextaul feedback on the micro-information - that normally get lost in email chains
- Build and support a creative and innovative environment
