Business Twitter
by Volker Weber
Yammer has a simple and elegant idea. Provide a Twitter clone, where you can only see people from your own company. I wonder how well that works for two reasons:
- You are telling Yammer what's going on at your company. Generally not a smart idea if you look at your contract.
- They are matching @yourcompany.com. I wonder how well that works with subdomains.
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They are matching @yourcompany.com. I wonder how well that works with subdomains
That might even work, but how about different brands. I don't see how this could work without a primary key.
As IBMer you don't need it - there's BlueTwit. ;-)
@Martin - BlueTwit? You jest? At least I do hope that's made up.
The problem with abbreviating twitter to twit, for English English speakers anyway, is that twit already carries a connotation with which most people would not wish to be associated.
Twit is an abbreviation of nitwit which, in turn, is a word used to describe a person of low intelligence. Nit signifies something very small, and wit should require no further explanation.
That would make a bluetwit a melancholy fool?
Well, yammer means in German "to moan, lament" - and there seems to be a simple meaning in jiddish, see Urban Dictionary for yammer .
So they want you to moan and lament all the time about your work?
No, that's crap. ESME is what you want (shown live today for the first time at SAP TechEd DemoJam): http://www.gadgetguy.de/2008/08/04/esme-the-enterprise-social-media-experiment/
"But he had heard that employees spend 70% of their online time with gossip about their bosses. So it's nice that Yammers makes that more efficient."
(This is not an actual quote, just a quick G->E translation from a quick E->G translation from this report.)
I'm serious, Chris. The abbreviation was for sure the idea of an US colleague. However I will not comment your "translation" ... ;-)
