Pixel Handler

One thing I really enjoy about Twitter is the conversations that happen during an event. So, while attending An Event Apart this week, I took most of my notes on my iPhone. My powerbook is 7 years old, and I refused to take my PC to this event. Surprisingly, the iphone worked out great. At times the wireless was faulty; but the iPhone fell back on the edge network. I spent two days of tweeting while marking clever, funny and informative comments as favorites (generated by the crowd, on twitter.com). At the finish of the conference I ended up with 278 noteworthy entries [ twitter hashtag: #aea09 ]. I viewed the favorites on twitter and copied the ordered list (source) into an HTML presentation (S5) template by Eric Meyer. Check out the presentation at aea09.pixelhandler.com. Much of the conversation was centered around the topic of User Experience (UX).

Update (5/10/09) – I added an iPhone CSS stylesheet to the presentation to make it mobile friendly for Apple enthusiasts.

Check out my #aea09 conference notes, I used twitter’s favorite star to group think my note-taking. Then I copied the html and pasted into Eric Meyer’s S5 HTML presentation template.

Also, my pics and the AEA group pics on flickr.

I would suggest that businesses seriously consider self hosted wiki/forums or other web-based application for collaboration among teams and also to support a positive company coulture. When employees are plugged-in often this generates a sense of belonging and ownership. I also believe that using an internal server to run a chat service along the lines of twitter would also help the team share their passion for business.

It may even be fun! imagine an organization where for the most part employees are engaged within the organization and having fun at work day-in and day-out. People may even get more involved and become more dedicated. Could tools like this cause team members miss being at work when actually home, sick?

July 3, 2008 – Business email will eventually be replaced by more accessible forms of communication like Twitter and company wikis. – Inspired by Alex Iskold
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