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Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

New Motorcycle — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 01:25:26 -0000

Friendfeed can collect your status information, your presence, media from several sources, your bookmarks. thanks about this post

Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

youtube downloader — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:36:08 -0000

Most people use this as a way to share a more enriched experience with friends and colleagues. But I think there’s a business opportunity in using the tool for collaborative business. Remember, Friendfeed can collect your status information, your presence, media from several sources, your bookmarks.

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Sikiş izle — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:41:25 -0000

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Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

Dave Doolin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:26:01 -0000

This article is interesting, because it's one of the first results on Google search for Friendfeed that doesn't return a press release in some form.

FF could still have a lot of potential, I'm very curious what Facebook ends up doing with it.

As for business collaboration, I think Wave may turn out to be a better tool, although Google needs to clean up the Wave interface considerably.

Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

doruman — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:29:13 -0000

It`s very interesting to see an old post and some old comments who are confirmed in present. It seems as FriendFedd is indeed a huge sources of dates, with a lot of traffic (836 in Alexa, in increasing, weekly is 632) and every person who used it corectly can see quickly quality results.

Congratulations for your work from almost a year ago!

Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

atomservice — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:29:40 -0000

Very informative.
Thanks.
A.S.C./GrandVentures Inc.

Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

Adrian Bold — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:05:22 -0000

Thanks for this overview of FriendFeed Chris. I'm new to it but your guide has given me some useful ideas.

Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

Morgan Sully — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:55:32 -0000

I came here through Bill Johnston sharing this on Friendfeed. I used Friend feed to aggregate a real-time Twitter conversation across 4 time-zones around the hashtag/idea of #4change (using social media tools for social change). Twitter's Search page is great for pulling terms/hashtags in, but FriendFeed allowed folks to comment/share.

Here's our Squidoo page on the topic: http://www.squidoo.com/4change

Here's the FriendFeed thingy: http://www.friendfeed.com/4...

I also ran the Friendfeed RSS through a Wordle to do pseudo-conversation analysis: http://www.wordle.net/galle...

The trick is making SENSE of all these great streams and then TAKING ACTION on them (or not).

Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

nickboucart — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:42:04 -0000

I recognize what you write here. In my team (7 people, co-located) friendfeed has almost completely replace the traditional email to all. We have setup a private room with the 7 of us, and use that room to brainstorm, share links we think the rest of us needs, broadcast service announcements (like: trains will strike on Monday) and the like. We have spawned other private rooms with the goal of brainstorming on one specific topic. We also defined a delicious tag that was previously not used in the system,and we source in that rss so that we can all keep using delicious as our primary bookmarking service. All in all, we use friendfeed like this since May of June, and it proved extremely valuable for us.

Regards,
Nick.

http://friendfeed.com/NickB...

Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

Dali Burgado — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:45:36 -0000

Hi Chris,

FriendFeed is pretty cool. I think it is really great for masterminding with others in the same niche. If you follow too many people it can be noisy. I'm big on cutting down Information overload :-) I recently added a blog post with 3 ways online entrepreneurs can use FriendFeed.

I think it could be a nice tool add value for people with web-savvy clients too.

http://daliburgado.com/3-wa...

Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

Armando Alves — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:40:30 -0000

Your idea was at hand, and i suspect several useres were already playing with it.

For instance, a group of portuguese bloggers have setup a room, were content is bookmarked and feeds are imported:

http://friendfeed.com/rooms...

So, besides business collaboration, we'll have also grassroots movements, for example.

Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

Christopher H. — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:29:23 -0000

I like it, thanks for the great tips.

Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

larak — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:24:07 -0000

Chris, this is so cool. I've been using Friendfeed for a while now to aggregate all of my social media output into one convenient place, but it never occurred to me to use it for clients or my agency as well. I'm definitely going to try this out.

I love finding new business uses for exisiting social media tools. I generally start out using them personally to see how they work, and then try to figure out business applications. You've definitely given me a lot to work with here, as usual. Many thanks!

Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

Albert Willis — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:26:32 -0000

FriendFeed is a great general purpose aggregator. I recently showed FF at meeting with a client and she got very excited by what was possible.

Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

Patrick Cameron — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:33:26 -0000

Using Yahoo pipes or pulling 30 feeds into FriendFeed is still fairly complex geek stuff. For the rest of the world there is Filtrbox.

You give them search terms they track mentions across mainstream news, blogs or social media with Twitter and Friendfeed support.

Give it a shot and see if it works for you filtrbox.com

Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

sass — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:40:14 -0000

Totally unrelated to your great post above, a co-worker at Myxer just walked into my office to tell me he had set up a Friendfeed Room to aggregate mobile industry news and other stuff we like to discuss internally. I laughed and asked if he had read your blog post this morning. He said "Who's Chris Brogan?" LOL. Your impact goes beyond the reach of your readers! Hehe.

Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

Ami Chitwood — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:06:16 -0000

@Chris - Yes - my comments about education, training and getting folks to "see the light" and "want the light" are the necessary before social media or collaborative solutions are presented to folks - just wanting to make sure that these components don't get lost in the "hey this is cool" language we all use when trying something new. I've been learning this the hard way and wanted to make sure I shared with others :) Never underestimate the role of education with the change management process and the role the evangelists and early adopters need to play to get others on board the cluetrain. Thanks for generating an interesting discussion per usual.

Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

Chris Bucchere — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:49:03 -0000

@chrisbrogan Thanks for responding to my comments. I'm glad you're reading them and responding and not just writing in a vacuum like so many other A-list bloggers.

I'll concede the point about Yahoo! Pipes as it certainly is harder to use and not as pretty as FF. I guess if you want power and flexibility, you might have to sacrifice some of the user experience. As a developer, maybe my perspective is skewed, but I think any IT Admin could probably handle setting up a pipe for his or her less technical "knowledge worker" counterpart. But if you want the knowledge worker to set up his or her own aggregator, then FF *is* a better choice.

However, regarding your comment about internal vs. external sources: if I'm doing competitive intelligence research or anything else of a sensitive nature, I may not want the whole world knowing what I'm consuming online, even if it's from external sources. This is why I like Google Reader's "share" feature so much -- it keeps me in control of which articles I'm choosing to let others know that I'm reading. I live a highly transparent life online, but even if I'm consuming publicly available content, there are many cases where I don't want the rest of the world to know what content I'm reading/bookmarking/emailing to others/etc.

Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

David Brazeal — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:45:47 -0000

@Kyle No! It didn't even occur to me. Brilliant idea...I'll try that!

Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

Kyle — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:38:24 -0000

Great idea, Chris!

@David B., have you tried using FeedBurner to re-publish your FriendFeed?

Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

Jason Cormier — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:23:53 -0000

At Room 214, we spend a great deal of time not only setting up social networking strategies (and accounts) for our clients - but also on reporting on their engagement. For a while, we were relegated to a central collection of spreadsheets we would share within Google Docs as part of our reporting.

We found that Friendfeed was a quick and simple solution for giving the client a different view into their social media. In summary, I guess you could say we use it purely as a reporting tool.

Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

David Brazeal — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:29:34 -0000

Funny you should write about this today, Chris. I was just working with FriendFeed last night to pull together a single feed of all the new-media projects I'm working on for my company.

But I've hit a snag. Once those feeds are all in one place (I made them into an "imaginary friend"), what's the best way to publish that feed elsewhere? I tried using WidgetBox to create a widget, which I could then place on the side of my own blog, or on other sites. But WidgetBox doesn't seem to recognize RSS on the FriendFeed page. I must be doing something wrong. Any suggestions?

Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

Saravanan Sahadevan — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:18:26 -0000

Now I do get what you mean... Sorry I guess I interpreted what you said on the post wrongly.

Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

chrisbrogan — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:06:46 -0000

@Ami - my answer, with regards to the training, is that it doesn't discount my premise, but rather, that training and cultural indoctrination is something else entirely and needs attention. You're right. Not everyone does all the social good stuff. But should they? Well sure!

@Saravanan - my point is that you as a business leader instruct your company to make it part of where they gather news. If your company isn't helping people parse the web, they must not value the web.

@Chris B- you're right. Pipes does great stuff. I dare you to walk into a typical non-software business and get them to build their own pipes versus just poking a few buttons. You're thinking like a tech, not like a business process person. Pipes works great. Friendfeed works prettier. For businesses, do you think they want to learn even the Pipes syntax? I say no.

Your point about the data sharing is spot on *if* I was recommending that they share their internal data. I was mostly pointing to external sources.

I think @Chris Heuer makes a good point: maybe I should've been more clear to define the extranet, and not just a platform all amorphously.

Funny, two different comments about clouds. I've stopped thinking about that term as much directly. Instead, I'm trying to pluck benefits out of the soup.

Thanks, everyone for your thinking. I'm appreciating your perspectives.

Re: How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool

Roger — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:57:25 -0000

Great ideas Chris. This menu of items (or something similar) might be integrated into strategies we recommend to clients. But as the other commenters have alluded to, what does FF provide that other apps do not? There is an issue here, that I and others have discussed, related to consolidating social media to a point where standardization provides needed efficiencies. Until such a system comes along (or emerges from the morass of apps presently available - will it be FF?) I think it will be a challenge to justify the ROI of such approaches to business.