@ William Brail: Twitter is fun when your friends are using it. I was on
Twitter for about a year before my colleagues and friends got in, and it's
gotten a lot more fun after that. I like having a balance of colleagues,
friends and IXDA'ers on my list.
@Niklas: lots of languages are spoken on Twitter. It's really just a matter
of connecting with the people you're interested in. My Norwegian friends
post in a mix of Norwegian and English, depending on the intended audience
for that particular message.
Like many others on this list I use a wide variety of conversation tools to
keep tabs on what's going on, to share what I'm doing/planning and to ask
questions.
Here's my list:
- mailing lists via Gmail for IXDA, etc
- forums for all sorts of other topics
- Flickr for image-driven discussions
- Campfire for discussing loosely work-related things with the others in my
unit at work
- Forums for discussing/sharing/asking the rest of the company stuff
- Wikis for, well, lots of things
- A blog for longer musings on design-ish topics
- Yammer to talk with colleagues about less formal stuff in semi real-time
(more real-time than forums, anyway), but we could be using Twitter for this
if there was some private setting you could add ("work only")
- Facebook for all sorts of casual conversations, especially with people I
don't talk to that often
- my tweets are duplicated as Facebook status messages
- Dopplr for where I'm going
- IM (via various clients, including Facebook) for a variety of discussions
Almost all of my messages are in text form. The variables are length, reach,
display method, a/synchronicity, persistence (attention-wise),
intended audience and to some degree privacy, all of which combine to create
a long list of tools for conversing.
If anyone's sitting on a nice visualization of the different conversation
tools – their contexts and components – I hope they'll share them here.
- Fredrik
(@movito)
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